One of the greatest sopranos of our time. And yet a kind of insider tip. The patient development of her vocal spectrum – from the "lighter" Mozart roles to Wagner's Isolde, in which she made a spectacular role debut in 2023 – has always been more important to Dorothea Röschmann than the limelight of the classical music jet set. It is hardly a coincidence that Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the meticulous score exegete who helped her to her international breakthrough as "Figaro" Susanna in Salzburg in 1995, was her most important mentor. Röschmann's singing sounds wise and loud at the same time. Her recitals are great moments of cleverly dosed, truly human expressiveness.

Röschmann changed the programme for her Heidelberg debut concert at short notice, with Robert Schumann's song cycle "Frauenliebe und Leben" now at the heart of the concert. She and her piano partner will also be performing songs by Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms and Arnold Schönberg.