Rebeca Olvera was born in Mexico. In 2006 she won the audience prize at the Belvedere Competition in Vienna and has subsequently become a member of the Zurich Opera ensemble, singing roles such as Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Norina (Don Pasquale), Despina (Così fan tutte) and Dorinda (Orlando). She is the first Mexican soprano to have appeared at the Salzburg Festival, alongside Cecilia Bartoil in Norma,and has recently made her UK and French debuts.
Mihoko Fujimura is a leading operatic mezzo, performing at the Wiener Staatsoper and Teatro alla Scala Milan, the Royal Opera House and Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. She has appeared notably at the Bayreuth Festival in five Wagner roles over nine seasons, and her repertoire also includes Carmen, Melisánde, Amneris, Eboli and Octavian. Her busy concert career includes appearances with Riccardo Chailly, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Simon Rattle
The two-time ECHO Award winner Ramón Ortega Quero is recognised around the world as one of the most outstanding musicians of his generation. Alongside his role as Principal Oboist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, he makes regular appearances internationally both as a chamber musician with partners such as Elena Bashkirova, Kit Armstrong, Mitsuko Uchida, Herbert Schuch and Sebastian Manz, and as a soloist with the major international concert orchestras.
Magdalena Hoffmann was appointed principal harpist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2018. In March 2021, she signed an exclusive agreement with Deutsche Grammophon. In high demand as a chamber musician, Magdalena has been invited to festivals such as the Davos Festival and the Harp Masters Festival in Switzerland. She has performed with renowned musicians such as Karl-Heinz Schütz, Andrea Lieberknecht and Aleksey Igudesman.
Thomas Erlank is a member of the ensemble at Opernhaus Zürich since 2020 after completing two years as a member of the International Opera Studio. The South African tenor made his house debut during the 2018/19 season with the premiere of Christian Spuck's ballet production of Hans Zender's composed interpretation of the Winterreise with hugs success. Recent roles include le Chevalier de la force in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, Lucano in Monteverdi's L`íncoronazione di Poppea, and Grimoaldo in Handel's Rodelinda. His plans include Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte & Stimme des Seemanns in Wagner´s Tristan und Isolde.
Mikayla Sager is drawn to the rich, multifaceted characters of Italian repertoire. Following her recent concert performance with San Francisco Opera, the San Francisco Chronicle declared her “an extraordinarily gifted young soprano... Sager delivered Desdemona’s arias with a combination of intensity and hushed majesty.” As the 2022 Maria Manetti-Shrem Prize winner, Sager appeared as Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore under the baton of Maestro Gemma New. She has previously appeared as Violetta (La Traviata), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito), Micaela (Carmen), and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), as well as Pamina (Die Zauberflote) and The Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen). An alumni of Manhattan School of Music, Sager was a winner of the 2021 Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonygne Foundation’s Elizabeth Connell Competition