Nina Tarandek, a member of Oper Frankfurt’s Opera Studio until 2011, joins our ensemble this season. Recent engagements have included her debuts at the Semper Opera in Dresden (Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas in 2012), the 2011 Klosterneuburg/Wien Festival (Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro) and Mercédès in Carmen at the 2012 St. Margarethe Summer Festival. New roles in Frankfurt this season are Waltraute in Die Walküre, Aloès in L’Étoile and Tebaldo in Don Carlo. She will also be taking part in concert performances of Maria Stuarda and Rienzi and repeats her wonderful portrayal of Cherubino. She made her debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2009/10, singing Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor. This was followed by the Second Maid in a new production of Daphne (which was awarded a 2010 FAUST Theatre Prize), concert performances of La Rondine in the Alte Oper, Cherubino, 2nd Lady (Die Zauberflöte) and the lead female role in Salvatore Sciarrino’s Luci mie traditrici in the Bockenheimer Depot – a role with which she enjoyed enormous success when the work was performed in Italy for the first time at the 2010 Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano (CD available/Stradivarius, DVD EuroArts-co-production with Oper Frankfurt). Other recent engagements have included the traditional New Year’s concert at the Kurhaus in Wiesbaden in 2011 with the hr-Sinfonieorchester, performances at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna Volksoper and the Theatro Teresa Carreno in Caracas. Prizes she has won include First Prize at the 2006 Fidelio Competition in Vienna.