Sophie Rennert

The Austrian mezzo-soprano Sophie Rennert joined the Munich Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in the 2022-23 season to sing roles such as Dorabella (“Così fan tutte”), Charlotte (“Werther”) or Nicklausse (“The Tales of Hoffmann”. In the summer of 2023 she embodies the title role in “Juditha Triumphans” by Vidaldi at the Festival of Early Music in Innsbruck, sings Schumann’s “Paradise and the Peri” under Hartmut Haenchen in Utrecht and returns to the Schubertiade.

Recently, she also thrilled audiences in Rameau’s “Hippolyte et Aricie” under Bernhard Forck at the Nationaltheater Mannheim as “Phèdre, who sounds as passionate as broken, animated and then again rigid and icy cold.” (Mannheimer Morgen, 2.5.2021). In the summer of 2022 she performed at the Salzburg Festival as 2nd Lady in Mozart’s “Magic Flute”, at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music together with Claudio Osele and Le musiche nove or at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. with Helmut Deutsch and Graham Johnson.

Sophie Rennert has performed with Martin Haselböck in Grafenegg and the Vienna Musikverein, in the Vienna Konzerthaus, with Jordi Savall at the Styriarte, with Ottavio Dantone and the Accademia Bizantina, with Ruben Dubrovsky and the Bach Consort Vienna. She sang in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Orchestre de Monte-Carlo, or recitals at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall, Brucknerhaus Linz or the Zeist Festival.

In the recent past her repertoire spanned all epochs, styles and genres: from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Gothenburg to Mozart’s Requiem with the Orquesta Nacional de España in Madrid and the Missa Solemnis in Birmingham to the CD recording “Von den Göttern weiß ich nichts” with contemporary vocal works by Uli Rennert. She embodied the title role in Handel’s “Lotario” at the Göttingen Handel Festival, the part of Andronico in Vivaldi’s “Tamerlano” with the ensemble Les Accents in Dortmund, Piacere in Haendel’s “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” with the Accademia Bizantina, Idamante in Mozart’s “Idomeneo” at the Salzburg Landestheater, Angelina in Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and Blumenmädchen in Wagner’s “Parsifal” at the Bayreuth Festival to Harper Pitt in “Angels in America” by Peter Eötvös at the Neue Oper Wien.

In 2017/18, the young mezzo-soprano was selected for the “Great Talents” series of the Wiener Konzerthaus. From 2014 to 2016 she was a member of the ensemble of Konzert Theater Bern. In 2013 Sophie Rennert was a member of the “Young Singers Project” at the Salzburg Festival.

Sophie works with renowned orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg or the Bruckner Orchestra Linz under conductors such as David Afkham, Ivor Bolton, Semyon Bychkov, Laurence Cummings, Christian Curnyn, Ádám Fischer, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Hartmut Haenchen, Philippe Jordan, Alessandro de Marchi, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Mark Piollet or Andreas Spering.

Her discography includes, in addition to the aforementioned CD of contemporary vocal works, Leopold Mozart’s Missa Solemnis with the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic and Handel’s Lotario from Göttingen. A CD of Brahms songs accompanied by Graham Johnson was recently released on hyperion, as well as the recording of Vivaldi’s Tamerlano with the Accademia Bizantina under Ottavio Dantone on naïve classique.

Sophie Rennert is the winner of the 2nd prize and the audience prize of the 7th International Cesti Competition for Baroque Singing in Innsbruck 2016 and a prize winner of the International Mozart Competition Salzburg.

In addition to violin and piano lessons, Sophie Rennert began her vocal training with her mother, soprano and vocal coach Sigrid Rennert. In 2014, she graduated with honors from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Karlheinz Hanser, as well as Prof. Charles Spencer. She attended master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender, Ann Murray and Helmut Deutsch.