Soprano CHEN REISS has established a strongly-acclaimed and distinctive career, enchanting audiences with “one of the most perfect Strauss voices one could wish for” (Classical Source), “a voice of silver brightness and clarity” (Bachtrack) with “immaculately produced and enticing tone matched by superb musicianship” (Opera News, USA). Born in Israel, she came to prominence as a member of the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera and a resident artist at the Vienna State Opera. She has also performed leading parts at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Netherlands Opera, Wiener Festwochen and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

Recent and future highlights include the title roles in Cavalli’s La Calisto at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and Mozart’s Zaide at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, her first performances of Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Strauss’s Four Last Songs and Mahler’s Das Klagende Lied, visits to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio Pappano, the Munich Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, the Berlin Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov, the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Lahav Shani. She has guested with distinguished ensembles and institutions and collaborated with such conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Daniel Harding, Manfred Honeck, Marek Janowski, Paavo Järvi, Adam Fischer, Omer Meir Wellber, Donald Runnicles, Christian Thielemann and Franz Welser-Möst. She has recorded a wide range of repertoire including Immortal Beloved a recording of Beethoven arias and scenas with the Academy of Ancient Music for Onyx Classics. Accompanied by the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle, she sang the soundtrack to Tom Tykwer’s film Perfume: the Story of a Murderer.