Judith Sauer

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The soprano was born in Vienna, the daughter of a lawyer and a pianist. As a result, she came into contact with music at an early age: she gained her first musical experience on the piano through her mother. At the age of 8, she joined the children’s choir of the Vienna State Opera, where she got her first taste of the stage. During her school years at the Neustiftgasse music high school, she received her first singing lessons at the age of 16 from the Swiss mezzo-soprano Heidi Brunner.

After graduating from high school, she trained as a primary school teacher and studied musicology. She has been studying singing with soprano Cornelia Horak since 2017. She is currently studying at the Joseph-Haydn-Privathochschule in Eisenstadt (singing) and at the Diözesankonservatorium Wien (Lied-Messe-Oratorium).

She has also attended numerous master classes with renowned singers: Luciana Serra (International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg), KS Robert Holl (Altenburger Musik Akademie), KS Kurt Equiluz, Malin Hartelius (Stift Ossiach), KS Birgid Steinberger, Linda Plech (Operetta Master Class Bad Ischl) as well as courses at the International Summer Academy Schloss Weikersheim (Germany).

In her first opera production – “The Magic Flute” at the Lehár Theater in Bad Ischl – she took on the double role of the Queen of the Night and Papagena. She appeared on stage with the Sternflammende Oper Wien in the role of Bastienne in the performance of the opera “Bastien und Bastienne”. Since 2021, she has also been a member of the ensemble of the Neue Oper Wien and thus also focuses on the performance of contemporary operas. In 2024, she made her debut as Despina in the Austrian premiere of “Der Schauspieldirektor – gibt den Figaro”, a new version of the well-known Mozart opera incorporating his operas “Le nozze di Figaro” and “Così fan tutte” at the Tillysburg Castle Summer Festival.

Numerous solo performances have taken her to the south of France (Grasse, Mougin, etc.) as well as to Italy (San Leo Festival), Hungary, the Czech Republic and Germany. In addition to opera roles, she also devotes herself to church music. As a soprano soloist, she has performed in two world premieres of masses by the composer Conrad Artmüller. Under the direction of Peter Lang, Michal Kucharko and other conductors, she also sang W. A. Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Spatzenmesse, as well as many other masses, including those by J. Haydn and F. Schubert.

In 2017, she founded the ensemble “Les Bohémiennes” together with the Spaniard Paula Ruiz Iglesias. Together with actor Helmut Frauenlob, they create different and varied programs ranging from opera and operetta to musicals and film music (“Les Bohémiennes – Lieben und Leben”, “Austria’s next Top-Diva”, “Diven Pandemie”, …).

Her wide-ranging repertoire also includes operettas, lieder and contemporary music. The composer Philipp Gutmann wrote a song cycle for her based on poems by Maja Haderlap.

She also performs regularly in various chamber music formations (trumpet, organ, clarinet, cello, string quartet etc.). As part of the summer concerts at Melk Abbey, she performed a song recital with organist and pianist Ines Schüttengruber with works by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Faure. In June 2023 she gave her debut in the Brahms Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, in 2024 she made her debut in the Mozart Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus.

After winning the prize at the Gustav Mahler Festival in Jihlava (Czech Republic), she will give a recital at this festival in 2025.