BIO
Martha Sotiriou is a versatile Greek mezzo-soprano, active in both Germany and Greece. Her engagements in 2026/2027 include Mozart’s Requiem in Berlin, and role debuts as Concepción (Ravel’s L'heure espagnole) and Miss Baggott (Britten’s The Little Sweep) in Athens.
After completing her studies at the “Carl Maria von Weber” Academy of Music in Dresden, Sotiriou began her professional career as a chorister at the Semperoper Dresden in 2018, but soon after decided to pursue a career as a freelance soloist. Her operatic repertoire includes lyric and coloratura roles, such as Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Antiope (N. Porpora's Arianna in Nasso), Hänsel (Hänsel and Gretel), Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), Princess Nicoletta (The Love for Three Oranges), Third Lady (The Magic Flute), Enrichetta di Francia (I Puritani), Seconda Ancella (Medea, David McVicar's Metropolitan Opera staging), Alexia (Innocence), the alto solo parts in oratorios such as Handel's Messiah and Mendelssohn's Elias, the demanding mezzo-soprano part in the Tongues of Fire by important avant-garde Greek composer Jani Christou, in what was the first ever performance of the work in Berlin (Volksbühne), Greek operettas and Lieder.
Sotiriou has worked with the Nuremberg State Opera, Kiel Theater, Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, Volksbühne Berlin, Görlitz Theater, Landesbühnen Sachsen, Greek National Opera, Athens State Orchestra, Eduard von Winterstein Theater, Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen, Luisenburg Festival, Dresden State Theater, Olympia Municipal Music Theatre Maria Callas, Kammersymphonie Berlin, Junge Kammerphilarmonie Berlin, City of Athens Symphony Orchestra and Choir, University of Stuttgart Orchestra and Choir, Syrreo Music Festival, Kamerata-Armonia Atenea Orchestra and the Megaron Athens Concert Hall, under the guidance of stage directors such as Georg Quander, Jens-Daniel Herzog, Barbara Beyer, Manuel Schöbel, Geertje Boeden, Solvejg Bauer, Christian Filips, Jonathon Loy, Dirk Schmeding, Anette Leistenschneider and conductors such as Roland Böer, Benjamin Reiners, Ekkehard Klemm, Kai-Uwe Jirka, George Petrou, Lukas Karytinos, Alphonse Cemin, Philippe Auguin, Yorgos Ziavras, Nikolas Nägele, Maurizio Colasanti, Alkis Baltas, Mihály Zeke, Michalis Economou, Andreas Tselikas, and Kornilios Michailidis.
Sotiriou is a prizewinner of the 2020 International Singing Competition of the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg. Thanks to her outstanding performance at the competition, she received a full scholarship to the 12th Lotte Lehmann Summer Academy. She was a semifinalist of the 2020 Cesti Competition.