Lena Sutor-Wernich

Career Trajectory

Trained rigorously in the German conservatory tradition, Lena Sutor-Wernich began her professional life as an ensemble member at Stuttgart's opera chorus before establishing herself as a soloist of considerable range and interpretive depth. Her voice—a mezzo-soprano and contralto of bronze warmth and technical security—has made her a natural interpreter of bel canto and baroque repertoire, while her intellectual curiosity has led her toward contemporary creation, most notably her co-composition of the Etty Hillesum-inspired "Das denkende Herz." Now in her second decade of professional work, she represents a new generation of German singers equally at home in the opera house, the concert hall, and the experimental stage.