Biography

Alina König Rannenberg will join the Soloist ensemble of the Opera Cologne starting with the 2026/27 season. Since the 2023/24 season, she has appeared in many productions of the Opera Cologne as a member of the ChildrenOpera Cologne. Among other roles, she has already performed there as Papagena (“The Magic Flute”), Barbarina (“The Marriage of Figaro”), Dorinda (“Orlando”), Frasquita (“Carmen”), the second niece (“Peter Grimes” ), the Sandman and Dew Fairy (“Hansel and Gretel”), as well as Ännchen in the children’s opera “Freikugeln” (based on “Der Freischütz”) in a co-production with the COMEDIA Theater, and the Queen of the Night in “The Magic Flute for Young and Old.” During the 2023–24 season, she portrayed, among other roles, one of the doppelgängers in the world premiere of “INES” by Ondřej Adámek. While still a student in November 2022, she made her house and role debut at Leipzig Opera's Musical Comedy as Daisy Gray in Leo Fall's "The Dollar Princess". Other guest engagements have brought her to the Staatstheater Meiningen and the Staatsoperette Dresden.