Clarissa Maria Undritz

Soprano Clarissa Maria Undritz has been a member of the Staatstheater Darmstadt ensemble since the 2026/27 season, with roles including Adele in Die Fledermaus, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte and a Niece in Peter Grimes.

From 2024 to 2026, Ms. Undritz was a member of the International Opera Studio at Staatstheater Nürnberg. Mozart featured prominently in her work there: she sang Papagena in Die Zauberflöte and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, followed in 2026 by Serpetta in Brigitte Fassbaender’s production of La finta giardiniera. Her wider repertoire included Sandmännchen and Taumännchen in Hänsel und Gretel, a Noble Orphan in Der Rosenkavalier and a Fifteen-Year-Old in Lulu, alongside appearances in the children’s operas Ein Fall für Figaro and Armide oder Schwein gehabt.

Further engagements include Franziska Cagliari in Johann Strauss’s Wiener Blut with Sommeroperette Heldritt in 2025. At the Dorf macht Oper festival in Klein Leppin, she sang Second Soprano in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen in 2024 and Galatea in Handel’s Acis and Galatea in 2022. During her studies, she performed Le Feu, La Princesse and Le Rossignol in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2023. Her earlier stage experience also includes appearances at Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and Julia in Britten’s Der kleine Schornsteinfeger with Opera Piccola at Hamburg State Opera.

Born in Hamburg in 1999, Ms. Undritz completed her bachelor’s degree in voice and master’s degree in opera at the Berlin University of the Arts with Deborah York. Her musical education began with the Hamburger Alsterspatzen children’s choir at Hamburg State Opera. She was a finalist in the 2024 Bundeswettbewerb Gesang and a prizewinner of the International Singing Competition of Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg that year. She has held a Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now scholarship since 2019 and received a First Federal Prize at Jugend musiziert in 2017.