Vera-Lotte Boecker
Soprano
Soprano
Exciting debuts await Vera-Lotte Boecker in the 2025/26 season: she opened the season at the Hamburg State Opera as Peri in a new staged version of Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri (Paradise and the Peri) – under the musical direction of Omer Meir Wellber and in the first production by Tobias Kratzer as the new artistic director of the opera house. Orpheus Magazine wrote enthusiastically: “Vera-Lotte as Peri… truly heavenly.” It was a start that set both curiosity and standards for the upcoming premieres and engagements.
In the current season, Vera-Lotte Boecker will also take on two central new roles: her role debut in the title role in Janáček’s Das schlaue Füchslein (The Cunning Little Vixen) at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden (February 28, 2026) with Sir Simon Rattle conducting and Ted Huffman directing, and the world premiere of Brett Dean’s Of One Blood in Munich at the Bavarian State Opera (May 10, 2026) under the musical direction of Vladimir Jurowski. In this production, she will once again be working with Claus Guth, who staged the world premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’ Bluthaus in 2022, in which Vera-Lotte appeared as Nadja. For this performance, she was voted Singer of the Year by Opernwelt and awarded the German Theatre Prize DER FAUST 2023 as “Performer Musical Theatre”.
She is also making her mark in the concert hall. She will make her debut with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra on December 30/31, 2025, performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski, and will perform Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Chemnitz (March 11, 2026) under Benjamin Reiners. At the Kissinger Sommer Festival, she will also present a program ranging from Meyerbeer to Robert Stolz (June 19, 2026), impressively demonstrating her stylistic range.
Recent concert engagements have taken her to renowned orchestras and festivals: Schönberg’s Gurrelieder under Petr Popelka and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem under Dima Slobodeniouk with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 under Cornelius Meister with the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Rafael Payare with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal at the Festival de Lanaudière, Written on Skin by George Benjamin with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, and Zemlinsky’s Lyrische Sinfonie under Hannu Lintu with the Finnish National Opera Orchestra. Other highlights included Reimann’s Mignon with the Vogler Quartet and performances at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Kulturpalast Dresden, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, and the Musikverein Vienna.
Boecker recently made her mark on the opera stage in key roles from her repertoire: as Daphne in Strauss’ opera of the same name under Thomas Guggeis in Romeo Castellucci’s production at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, as Lulu under Maxime Pascal, and as Dorotka in Tobias Kratzer’s acclaimed Vienna production of Schwanda, der Dudelsackpfeifer under Petr Popelka. Other important roles include Nadja in the world premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’ Bluthaus under Titus Engel and Claus Guth at the Bavarian State Opera, and Fusako Kuroda in Henze’s Das verratene Meer at the Vienna State Opera – a production that has also been released on DVD.
In 2026, Capriccio will release a new recording of Hindemith’s Cardillac, in which Vera-Lotte Boecker will be heard alongside Tomasz Konieczny.
Vera-Lotte Boecker studied singing at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music, at the Operaakademiet of the Royal Danish Theatre (Copenhagen) and at the Berlin University of the Arts with Beatrice Niehoff.
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