Idunnu Münch – Artista International

Idunnu Münch brought an emotionally exciting performance …, giving us tenderness, regret and fire in equal portions. Her flexible voice – plenty of rich power in the lower register, syrupy opulence in the mid range, and steely solidity at the top – fitted the role superbly. musicomh.com, May 2024

In 2025, Idunnu Münch was a guest in a new productions at Luzerner Theater as well as at Staatsoper Hannover. 2024 saw the mezzo-soprano’s debuts at Grand Théâtre de Genève [world premiere of Parra’s Justice], Tangente St. Pölten, as well as at the Bregenz Festival [world premiere of Brennan’s Hold Your Breath]. During the 2025/26 season, she will make her debuts with Opera Vlaanderen, Nederlandse Reiseopera, and Manchester Camerata.

In 2022, Idunnu Münch made her debuts at The Royal Opera in London, Leeds Opera Festival and Grange Park Opera. She made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2013 and returned for a new production of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier in 2014. Debuts followed at Verbier Festival in 2017 (Strauss’ Elektra and Salome) and at the BBC Proms (2019); she performed Smaragd in Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini at Opéra national du rhin and Teatro alla Scala in Milan during the 2017/18 season, and Nimbavati in Handel’s Poros at Komische Oper Berlin (2019 – and returned for a new production of Henze’s Das Floß der Medusa in 2023); at Longborough Festival Opera she has sung Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte (2021) and returned as Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen (2022).

2018 saw Idunnu Münch’s first engagement at English National Opera London. She has since returned to the ENO for several new productions as a Harewood Artist: Dvořák’s Rusalka, Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life, Tesori’s Blue and Wagner’s The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie. She made her London debut as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in 2018. Before, Idunnu Münch was a member of Stuttgart Opera Studio (2015 to 2017). She has worked with directors including Anthony Almeida, Sam Brown, Tinuke Craig, Tatjana Gürbaca, Richard Jones, Daniel Kramer, Tobias Kratzer, Harry Kupfer, Mathilde López, Henry Mason, David Pountney, Milo Rau, Emma Rice, James Robinson, Kirill Serebrenikov, Lydia Steier, and Jossie Wieler.

Idunnu Münch’s concert repertoire includes cantatas by Bach and works by Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Haydn, Knezek, Mahler and Mozart as well as Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos. The German mezzo-soprano has performed with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Camerata Salzburg, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Münchner Philharmoniker, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, and Wiener Philharmoniker and has sung under the baton of conductors including Ivor Bolton, Sylvain Cambreling, Charles Dutoit, Sian Edwards, Titus Engel, Antony Hermus, Fabio Luisi, Antonello Manacorda, Lee Reynolds, Yutaka Sado, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Franz Welser-Möst.

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Handel: Rinaldo
Rinaldo: “Or la tromba…”
Recording 2021