Born in Frankfurt am Main, coloratura soprano Alina Wunderlin has established herself as a versatile stage artist, renowned for her exceptional vocal brilliance and stylistic versatility. Her repertoire spans from Renaissance and Baroque works through the French and Italian traditions to contemporary music. She attracted international attention in the summer of 2024 when she stepped in at short notice as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Glyndebourne Festival.
In the 2025/26 season, Alina makes her house debut at the Theater an der Wien as Adele in a new production of Die Fledermaus (directed by Stefan Herheim, conducted by Petr Popelka). As the Queen of the Night, she will appear at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, the Semperoper Dresden, and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. On the concert stage, she will perform Berg’s Lulu Suite and Kurt Weill’s Der neue Orpheus at the Wiener Konzerthaus with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Ingo Metzmacher. She makes her role debut as Dorinda in Handel’s Orlando with Les Musiciens du Louvre under Marc Minkowski in Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées), Valencia (Palau de les Arts), and Barcelona (Liceu). In the summer of 2026, she returns to Glyndebourne as Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) in a new production by Laurent Pelly, conducted by Robin Ticciati.
She made her debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the 2024/25 season with Die Fledermaus.