NINA
BEZU
About...
Berlin-born Nina Bezu ‘has an elegant, even sophisticated, queenly soprano voice’ (Oper! Das Magazin). ‘As a lyric-dramatic soprano with a soft, well-controlled voice, she combines vocal talent with impressive stage presence’ (OperaLibera).
In the current 2025/26 season, she will appear as Hanna Glawari in the new production of Die lustige Witwe at the Theater Baden, will be heard with the Dresden Philharmonic under Sir Donald Runnicles in Richard Strauss' Elektra, before taking on the title role in the new production of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki.
Salome
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In the 2023/24 season, she made her debut at the Hanover State Opera as the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro). She has also performed Verdi's Messa da Requiem, Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem and Mendelssohn's Paulus repeatedly at the Herkulessaal in Munich, as well as in gala concerts at the Auditorio de Zaragoza with the Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Zaragoza, at the Theater Kempten with the Smetana Philharmonic Prague and most recently with the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra at the Türk Telekom Opera Hall. With the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire under the baton of Sascha Goetzel, she sang Verdi's Messa da Requiem in Angers and Nantes, together with René Pape, among others.
La traviata
During the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons, she was a member of the ensemble at Theater Vorpommern. There she appeared as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, as Dido in Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, and as Brigomeïde and Minna in Detlev Glanert's Die drei Wasserspiele. She had already made guest appearances at Theater Vorpommern as the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte) in the 2018/19 season, even before she was accepted into the opera ensemble.
Guest performances in previous seasons have taken Nina Bezu to the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Schloss Glatt Opera Festival, the Teatro Principal de Zaragoza, the Auditorium Zaragoza and others.
Drei Wasserspiele - Glanert
Die lustige Witwe
Nina Bezu recently celebrated a series of significant debuts, including the title role in Strauss' Salome and Elisabetta in Davide Livermore's new production of Verdi's Don Carlo, both at the Finnish National Opera under Hannu Lintu, during the 2024/25 season. In another house debut, she returned to Salome at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo and was hailed by audiences and press alike as ‘the great discovery of the evening’ (OperaLibera). She ends her season with her role debut as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus at the Wertinger Festspiele.
In February 2025, her debut album ‘Überweltlich / Apparition’ was released on the Schweizer Fonogramm label, on which she interprets art songs by George Crumb, Richard Strauss and Franz Schubert together with pianist Matthias Alteheld.
Don Carlo
In 2022/23, she made her role debut as Violetta (La Traviata) at the Schloss Glatt Opera Festival, returned to Cottbus as the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, and made her house debut at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples as Gerhilde (Die Walküre) alongside Jonas Kaufmann and under the baton of Dan Ettinger. She could be heard in Dvořák's Stabat Mater at Munich's Herkulessaal.
In the 2021/22 season, she made her debuts at the Leipzig Opera as Mariana in Wagner's Das Liebesverbot, as the First Lady (Die Zauberflöte) and as soprano soloist in Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, as well as the Countess in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Staatstheater Cottbus.
Il trovatore
The soprano was invited by UEFA to sing at the opening ceremony of the 24th Champions League Final in 2015 at Berlin's Olympic Stadium.
She is the winner of the Elizabeth Connell Prize - International Singing Competition for Dramatic Sopranos, the Schloss Rheinsberg Singing Competition, finalist of the Concurso Internacional Alfredo Kraus, the International Wagner Voice Competition in Karlsruhe, the New York International Vocal Competition, is a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association Braunschweig and, since 2023, a scholarship holder of the Olga Forrai Foundation.
Nina Bezu studied at the University of the Arts with Robert Gambill and Carola Höhn, where she completed her master's degree with distinction. She received further artistic inspiration in masterclasses with Christiane Iven, Thomas Quasthoff, Norma Sharp and Teresa Berganza.
Out now!
In February 2025, the debut album by Nina Bezu and Matthias Alteheld (piano) was released on the Schweizer Fonogramm label. In her very personal and stringently conceived album, the German soprano complements George Crumb's emblematic song cycle Apparition (1929) on poems by Walt Whitman with a selection of songs by Richard Strauss and Franz Schubert. What all three composers have in common is that they dealt with existential human experiences with otherworldly phenomena. Although they come from different eras, the selected songs each play on the close relationship between man, nature, consciousness and metaphysics in a specific way. Soprano Nina Bezu comments: “This recording is an invitation to embark on a journey that takes us through momentary narratives of borderline experiences. I hope that when you listen to the music of Crumb, Strauss and Schubert, you will experience the same deep connection that inspired me to realize this project.” The album will be available on all major music streaming services from March 4, 2025.
1 - The Night in Silence under Many a Star
George Crumb - Apparition
13 - Geduld op. 10 Nr. 5 (Hermann von Gilm)
Richard Strauss
18 - Die junge Nonne D 8282
Franz Schubert
Listen & Watch
Richard Wagner - Tannhäuser - Elisabeth - Dich teure Halle
Puccini - La bohème - Mi chiamano Mimì
Rusalka - Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém
Rossini - Stabat mater - Inflammatus et accensus
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