Swiss soprano Gabriela Scherer is lauded for her exquisite portrayals of major roles in the dramatic soprano repertoire.

Highlights of the 2023/24 season include her house debuts at the Hamburg State Opera as Senta in Der fliegende Holländer under Ádám Fischer – which she will also perform in Düsseldorf – as well as her role debut as Leonore in Fidelio. This is followed by her role debuts as Chrysothemis in Strauss’ Elektra at the Semperoper Dresden and as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, where she also appeared as Elisabetta in Don Carlo at the beginning of the season.
This summer she will make her highly awaited debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Gutrune in Götterdämmerung as well as singing the role of Sieglinde in a Wagner Gala at the Schloßbergbühne in Graz, alongside Klaus Florian Vogt.

In the 2024/25 season, she will return to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf as Senta and will also sing the role at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg in Luxembourg and Brussels. She will return to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. Her concert appearances include Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the Stuttgart Philharmonic under Andrey Boreyko at the Festival international de musique Besançon and the title role in Liszt’s The Legend of St. Elisabeth with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra on tour in Vienna, Budapest, Amsterdam and Brussels. At the Teatro Real in Madrid, she will appear alongside Michael Volle as part of a Wagner Gala.

Recent high points in her career also include performances in the title role of Strauss’ Arabella in a new production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which also marked her house debut, followed by two new productions as Senta in Der fliegende Holländer, one at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and latterly at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon. Furthermore, Gabriela Scherer shone in Puccini’s Tosca in the title role at Theater Dortmund in 2021 and in the same season, she made her highly anticipated role debut as Elsa in a new production of Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Leipzig Opera, with Klaus Florian Vogt in the title role. In 2022, she sang the role of Freia in Das Rheingold at the Wagner Festival in Leipzig and made her house debut at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, stepping in at short notice to sing the title role in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos.

Past seasons have seen her in outstanding performances as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro and the title role in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride at the Semperoper Dresden, Arabella at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Ariadne auf Naxos at the Theater Lübeck and Agathe in Der Freischütz at the Leipzig Opera, as well as her role debut as Senta at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden. She is also a welcome guest at the Opéra national de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Theater Luzern, to name just a few important stages in her artistic career.

Gabriela Scherer regularly collaborates with renowned conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Kent Nagano, Simone Young, Marek Janowski, Thomas Hengelbrock, Asher Fisch, Ulf Schirmer, John Eliot Gardiner, Lawrence Foster and Christopher Hogwood, as well as leading directors such as Robert Carsen, Tobias Kratzer and Vasily Barkhatov.

Born in Zürich, Gabriela Scherer studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and furthered her training at the Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera as well as in masterclasses with Angelika Kirchschlager, Francisco Araiza and Bernarda Fink. At the beginning of her career, she was a member of the ensemble at the Leipzig Opera and later joined the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.