Wiebke Lehmkuhl

Born in Oldenburg, Wiebke Lehmkuhl studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. Her repertoire ranges from Monteverdi, Handel and Bach to Romantic oratorios, Mahler and Wagner. She is a regular guest with orchestras worldwide including the Berlin Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony and Orchestre de Paris, where she has worked with conductors including Kirill Petrenko, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Daniel Harding, Fabio Luisi and Riccardo Chailly. She has performed Erda (Das Rheingold, Siegfried) at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéra Bastille and the Royal Opera House. Engagements for 2025/26 include her Vienna State Opera debut and a tour with the Rotterdam Philharmonic under Nézet-Séguin. Concert engagements include Mahler’s Symphonies No. 2 (Basel), No. 3 (Rome, Vienna, St. Florian), and No. 8 (Copenhagen, Vienna), Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (Boston, Paris), Schumann’s Paradise and the Peri (Vienna, Paris) and a Lied recital in Cologne.