Idunnu Münch

Mezzo-soprano

Idunnu Münch made her UK debut singing Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in 2018. Since, she is a regular at English National Opera and was named a Harewood Artist with the 2019/2020 season. In May 2022, she will make her debut with The Royal Opera at Linbury Theatre. She worked with producers Tatjana Gürbaca, Richard Jones, Daniel Kramer, Harry Kupfer, Henry Mason, David Pountney, Emma Rice, James Robinson, Kirill Serebrenikov and Jossie Wieler.

The German mezzo-soprano made her festival debuts at Salzburg in 2013 and Verbier in 2017. Idunnu Münch debuts at Opéra national du Rhin and Teatro alla Scala in Milan followed during the 2017/2018 season with Smaragdi in Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini and at Komische Oper Berlin with Nimbavati in Handel’s Poros in 2019. A member of the Stuttgart’s Opera Studio from 2015 to 2017, she performed Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Jewgeni Onegin and Mary in Wagner’s Der fliegende Hollander.

Idunnu Münch made her BBC Proms’ debut in 2019 and with Münchner Philharmoniker in 2021. She performed with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Münchner Philharmoniker, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano and Vienna Philharmonic and under the baton of conductors including Ivor Bolton, Charles Dutoit, Sian Edwards, Antony Hermus, Lothar Koenigs, Fabio Luisi, Antonello Manacorda, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Franz Welser-Möst.


Previously for Longborough: Mercedes/Carmen (2022), Dorabella/Così fan tutte (2021)