Karis Tucker

The American mezzo-soprano Karis Tucker is in her fifth season at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she began her first engagement as a scholarship holder in the 2019/2020 season as the winner of the Curt Engelhorn Scholarship from the New York-based Opera Foundation. In the 2023/2024 season, she will sing roles including Suzuki, Hänsel, Fenena, Smeton, Pauline, and Zweite Dame, as well as the mezzo-soprano solo in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in the choreography and staging by Christian Spuck for the Staatsballett Berlin. In the past season, she made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as well as with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in the role of Thurza in The Wreckers by Ethel Smyth. Raised and educated in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, she completed her vocal studies in the United States at the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati under the direction of soprano Amy Johnson. In 2018, she was a Gerdine Young Artist at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and in 2019 an Apprentice Artist at the Des Moines Metro Opera. She continues to study voice with the Romanian soprano Adina Nițescu.