Biography

Young Italian-German soprano Alessia Schumacher enjoyed a very musical upbringing. She completed her voice studies at the Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ in Berlin and at Conservatori Superior del Liceu in Barcelona. 2018/19 she was a member of the excellency program Barock Vokal in Mainz. Alessia previously studied violin at the Conservatorio „Giuseppe Verdi“ in Como and holds degrees in History of Art and Musicology from the University of Vienna.

Alessia has been awarded a number of scholarships (Bernbeck Exzellenzstipendium, DAAD, Luzia-Loeser Kulturfonds), she is an alumni of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation „Live Music Now“ and received the prestigious Bayreuth scholarship in 2016. She is a prize winner of international competitions, a.a. the Concorso lirico internazionale „Piero Boni“ in Brescia (1st prize, 2017) and the Schloss Rheinsberg Festival competition (Michaela role debut 2017).

Still a student, she celebrated her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker (Menotti/The Telephone, 2015), giving her Konzerthaus Berlin debut as Gretel (Humperdinck/Hänsel und Gretel, 2016) soon after. She returned to Konzerthaus in 2018 as Mimì in La Bohème and in 2019 as the Narrator in the world premiere of Iván Fischer’s Der Grüffelo.

From 2019 to 2022, Alessia performed as Grilletta in Haydn’s Lo speziale with the Lautten Compagney Berlin under Wolfgang Katschner, appearing at Teatru Manoel in Malta as well as various theatres across Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, she reunited with the Berlin Philharmonic, singing the role of Cercatrice in Puccini’s Suor Angelica under Kirill Petrenko.

In 2021, Alessia celebrated her debut as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus at the Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen and portrayed Pamina in Die Zauberflöte reloaded in several theatres in Switzerland. She continued her collaboration with Lautten Compagney Berlin 2023 and 2024, singing the female lead in Cimarosa’s “L’impresario in angustie”.

In 2024, she toured Germany and Austria with the Flying Steps and Flying Hänsel und Gretel and made her role debut as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata in the summer.

Alongside her opera work, Alessia has a deep love for concert repertoire - her repertoire spanning from Haydn and Beethoven to the early and late romantics all the way to contemporary works. Recent highlights include Tippett’s A Child of Our Time and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Philharmonie Berlin in 2024. 2025 she will return to Philharmonie Berlin with Händel’s Messiah and to Filharmonia Pomorska for Kilar’s Missa pro pace.

Alessia is also passionate about art song and frequently performs in chamber music settings, collaborating with pianist Alissa Firsova, vibraphonist Hauke Renken, and clarinetist Bernhard Nusser (DSO).

Since meeting renowned artist Lee Mingwei in 2020 Alessia has performed his work Sonic Blossom with songs by Franz Schubert at the Gropius Bau in Berlin, the Villa Stuck in Munich, and the Museo d’Arte Orientale in Turin.

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