Marlene Metzger

The Berlin-born soprano studied her bachelor's degree at the Berlin University of the Arts and completed her master's degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. 

Since the season of 2023/24, she is part of the Royal Danish Opera's Young Artist Program and made her debut as Servilia in La clemenza di Tito, among other roles such as First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos and covering Merab in Händels Saul.
Her Servilia took her to Die hamburgische Staatsoper where she worked with Adam Fischer in 2024 and to the Tiroler Landestheater in 2025.
In October she was in the finals of NEUE STIMMEN 2024.
And in the summer she is looking forward to be part of the Young Singers Project of the Salzburger Festspiele 2025.
She is continuing her current season at the Royal Danish Opera singing Tebaldo in Don Carlos, covering Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, portraying two sisters in Sour Angelica and singing Ottone in Vivaldi's La Griselda.   

During her master's studies, she took on engagements singing Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, which took her to Lübeck, the Rheingau Music Festival, Lucerne Festival, the Bremen Music Festival. In 2022 she sang the female lead composed especially for her by Frank Schwemmer in a children's opera “Atlantis code” at the Luxembourg Philharmonie.

In Copenhagen she enjoyes working with the barock orchestra Concerto Copenhagen. 

In 2020, she was a finalist in the German Bundeswettbewerb Gesang.