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„Frau ohne Schatten“, Bayerische Staatsoper
Ricarda Merbeth’s Empress is noticeably more dramatic, her great final scene breathtakingly dense.
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Ricarda Merbeth is “a sensational Kundry” in Erl
On April 2 and 5, 2026, Ricarda Merbeth starred as Kundry in Richard Wagner’s Parsifal at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl. Following semi-staged performances with…
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In love with Wagner and Strauss
When Ricarda Merbeth became a member of one of the world’s leading opera houses, the Vienna State Opera, in the early 2000s, State Opera…
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Interview Ricarda Merbeth in Das Opernglas, Ausgabe 4/2018
Interview Ricarda Merbeth im Magazin Das Opernglas, Ausgabe 4/2018.
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Interview Ricarda Merbeth in Das Opernglas, Ausgabe 7-8/2013
Interview Ricarda Merbeth im Magazin Das Opernglas, Ausgabe 7-8/2013.
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Bayreuth Festival
This Senta is a good example that everything was not better in the past.
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Lohengrin, Deutsche Oper Berlin
Ricarda Merbeth, as Elsa, constantly increasing without ever losing the lyrical line, captivates with the intensity of her defenceless loveliness.
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The Flying Dutchman, Bayreuth Festival 2014
Soprano Ricarda Merbeth performs Senta with radiant clarity and is cheered by the audience.
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Rienzi konzertant
Ricarda Merbeth as Rienzi’s sister Irene is a real, fine, dramatic soprano whose precise and metallic shimmering tone points directly to Bayreuth’s hills, where…
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