Biography
Alina König Rannenberg has been an ensemble member of the Opera Cologne Children Opera since the 2023/24 season. She is also a member of the soloist ensemble in other Cologne Opera productions: In the 2024/25 season as Dorinda in Händel's “Orlando” and as Frasquita in Bizet's “Carmen”. So far in the 2023/24 season, she has appeared in Britten's “Peter Grimes” as the second niece, Humperdinck's “Hansel and Gretel” as Sandman and Dew Fairy and 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. Alina König Rannenberg has already been generously supported by the Theo Adam Scholarship in the Deutschlandstipendium program and was a scholarship recipient of the Giovanni Omodeo Foundation.
The young soprano studied for her Master's degree in opera at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden with Prof. Hendrikje Wangemann. Before that she made her bachelor's degree in voice at the University of music in her hometown Nuremberg with Prof. Elisabeth Kovacs. There she gained her first experiences on the opera stage as Prima Sorella Cercatrice in Puccini's "Suor Angelica" as well as Cupido in Offenbach's "Orpheus in der Unterwelt", with which she also made guest appearances at the Parktheater in the Kurhaus Göggingen. In addition, she was part of the ensemble in Enno Poppe's "IQ", in the Bluebox of the Nuremberg State Theater. She received further musical impulses through master classes with Petra Lang, Juliane Banse, Klesie Kelly, Daniel Heide und Christoph Prégardien.
Alina König Rannenberg has also performed the roles of Zerlina (Mozart's "Don Giovanni), Ännchen (Weber's "Der Freischütz"), The Widow (Dominick Argento's "The boor") and Mrs. Fiorentino (Kurt Weill's "Street Scene") as well as the solo soprano in Joseph Haydn's Stabat Mater, W.A. Mozart's "Exsultate, Jubilate", J.S. Bach's St. John Passion and many other Bach cantatas including BWV51 ("Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen").
