German soprano Henriette Schein made her debut at Luzerner Theater as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in the 2025/26 season, following ensemble engagements at Theater Regensburg and Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Her repertoire brings together Mozart and German opera with operetta and contemporary music theatre.

During her 2024/25 season in Regensburg, Ms. Schein sang Echo and the Rose in Pierangelo Valtinoni’s Der kleine Prinz, Flamma in Offenbach’s Die Reise zum Mond and Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and appeared in Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along. In 2025, she also took part in the world premiere of Torsten Rasch’s Die wunderbaren Jahre.

Her ensemble work in Karlsruhe in 2023/24 included Isotta in Strauss’s Die schweigsame Frau, Despina in Così fan tutte, the Shepherd in Tannhäuser, the soprano part in Sophie Kassies’s music theatre work Schaf and a Flower Girl in Zemlinsky’s Der Kreidekreis. She had already appeared at the house as Lisa in Gräfin Mariza and a Slave in Salome in 2021/22, followed by Papagena in Die Zauberflöte and the Dew Fairy in Hänsel und Gretel. She also sang Gretel at the Wolfgang Rihm Forum in Karlsruhe and returned to Papagena at Theater Hof.

Operetta has been part of Ms. Schein’s stage work since those early Karlsruhe appearances. She sang Lisa as a guest at Theater Osnabrück and made her debut at the 25th Schönebecker Operettensommer in 2023 as Anna in Paul Burkhard’s Das Feuerwerk, conducted by Jan Michael Horstmann. Her roles during training included the First Boy in Die Zauberflöte at Oper Leipzig, the Princess in Cui’s Der gestiefelte Kater and Kornett von Richthofen in Millöcker’s Der Bettelstudent.

Born in Saxony-Anhalt, she completed a preparatory programme at the Georg Philipp Telemann Conservatory in Magdeburg before studying with Ilse-Christine Otto at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in 2021. She completed her master’s degree in opera with Christiane Libor and Stephan Klemm at the University of Music Karlsruhe in 2023, receiving additional instruction from Dorothea Röschmann. She also attended a Lied masterclass with Christoph Prégardien. In 2020, she was a finalist in the junior category of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin.