Lithuanian soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė has become one of the world’s most sought-after young dramatic sopranos.

In 2024, she made her highly anticipated debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Sieglinde in Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre. In the current 2024/25 season, she sings Marietta in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt at the Dvořák Festival in Prague, at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production under the direction of Loreno Viotti at the Zurich Opera. She also sings Salome at the Vienna State Opera, the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki and the Hamburg State Opera, Chrysothemis (Elektra) at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Senta (Der fliegende Holländer) at the International May Festival in Wiesbaden, Hanna Glawari (Die lustige Witwe) also in Zurich. She will make her US debut as Sieglinde in Wagner’s Die Walküre at the Santa Fe Opera House. In concert, she will appear with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Wagner’s Die Walküre at the Sydney Opera House and with the Berliner Philharmoniker in Wolfgang Rihm’s Gehege, both under the baton of Simone Young.

In the 2023/24 season, Vida Miknevičiūtė made her role debut as the Countess in Richard Strauss’ Capriccio at the Victorian Opera Melbourne. Further appearances have taken her to the Semperoper Dresden as Lisa (Pique Dame), to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden as Jenůfa, Chrysothemis (Elektra) and Elsa (Lohengrin) and to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Senta (Der fliegende Holländer). She will make her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker as Sieglinde (Die Walküre) under Kirill Petrenko in the Berlin Philharmonie and at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

In the 2022/23 season, she made her debut as Sieglinde in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new Ring production at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, sang the role again at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and made her acclaimed debut as Salome at La Scala in Milan and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. At the Bavarian State Opera, she sang Chrysothemis, Giuditta and Salome, among others. She also made her debut at the Semperoper Dresden as Lisa (Queen of Spades) and gave her Brünnhilde debut in Wagner’s Siegfried with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra.

In the 2019/20 – 2021/22 seasons, she celebrated significant successes, including her acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival as Chrysothemis under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst and numerous appearances at venues such as the Opéra national de Paris, the Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Royal Swedish Opera and the Bolshoi in Moscow, among others. For her acclaimed role debut as Salome at the Victorian Opera Melbourne she was awarded the Green Room Award.

Vida Miknevičiūtė has worked with conductors such as Simone Young, Daniel Barenboim, Adam Fischer, Valery Gergiev, Alexander Joel, Eun Sun Kim, Franz Welser-Möst, Peter Schneider, Kent Nagano, Christian Thielemann, Vladimir Jurowski, Gintaras Rinkevicius, Thomas Guggeis and Hermann Bäumer and with directors such as Lorenzo Fioroni, Katharina Thalbach, Johannes Schütz, Tilman Knabe, Harry Kupfer, Christof Nel, Christoph Loy, Calixto Bieto, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Tom Ryser and Vera Nemirova.

Vida Miknevičiūtė studied voice at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater in Kaunas and continued her studies in 2003 with an Erasmus scholarship at the University of Music in Leipzig. From 2005 to 2007, she was a member of the International Opera Studio at Zurich Opera House and at the same time had guest contracts with the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Theater Basel. She joined the opera studio of the Hamburg State Opera from 2008 to 2010, where she appeared in numerous roles. She has won prizes at several competitions, including the Robert Stolz Singing Competition in Hamburg.

Between 2011 and 2020, Vida Miknevičiūtė was a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater Mainz, where she appeared as as Elettra (Idomeneo), Natalie Princess of Orange (The Prince of Homburg), Tatjana (Eugene Onegin), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Margherita (Mefistofele), Violetta Valéry (La traviata), as Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Marguerite (Faust), Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites), Mimì (La bohème), Ursula (Mathis der Maler), as Elisabeth (Don Carlo), as Sieglinde in R. Wagner/Loriot (Der Ring an einem Abend) and as Maria Boccanegra (Simon Boccanegra). She was also guest at the Frankfurt Opera, the Stuttgart State Opera, the Leipzig Opera, the Kassel State Theater, the Wiesbaden State Theater and the Latvian National Opera in Riga.