I am Johanna Reithmeier, I am a classical singer, vocal coach, actress and speaker.

My goal as an artist is to create stories and reach a diverse audience through my work.

IMPORTANT STAGE EXPERIENCES

Dorabella in "Così Fan tutte" by W. A. Mozart, conductor Sigiswald Kuijken, stage direction Marie Kuijken, orchestra La petite Bande, December 2022 Concergebouw Amsterdam (NL), June 2022 Teatro communale di Canino (IT)

Soprano 1 in J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio, conductor Uwe Schüssler, Sinfonia O2, 2020 Stadtkirches Esslingen St. Dionys (DE)

Calisto in "Giove in Argo" by Antonio Lotti, conductor Enrique Gomez-Cabrero, stage direction Szymon Kormanicki, Lausitzer Barock Ensemble, 2020 Theater Görlitz (DE), 2020 Schloss Kliczkow (PL)

Soprano 2 in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Gewandhaus Orchestra, 2020 Gewandhaus Leipzig (DE)

Sandrina in "L'Infedelta delusa" by J. Haydn, conductor Sigiswald Kuijken, director Marie Kuijken, 2019 Summeracademy La petite Bande, Convento St. Andrea (IT)

As the grandchild of a singer, I grew up in a family that made a lot of music together.

As a teenager, choir and orchestra trips (as a violinist) became the highlights of my school year and my love for literature and theater continued to develop after I gained my first stage experiences in opera (witch in "Dido and Aeneas"), musical (devil in "Teufelswerk", Maria in "Westsidestory") and theater ("kaffeecom", "Julius Ceasar").

After graduating from high school, I attended the vocational school for music in Krumbach (Bavaria) and did a two-year training as a choir and ensemble director.

This was followed by four wonderful years of study at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in Leipzig in the classes of Prof. Carola Guber and Prof. Caroline Stein.

Having a special love for baroque opera, I met the Kuijken family in 2018 during La petite Bande Summeracademy.

Since then, I have been working closely musically with Marie and Sigiswald Kuijken, specializing in theatrical gestures related to Italian diction of the Settecento.

Through my participation in the excellence program "Barock Vokal" at the Musikhochschule Mainz I was able to expand my repertoire and attend fantastic master classes with e.g. Andreas Scholl and Tamar Halperin.

I finished my studies in Mainz 2022 with Prof. Claudia Eder.

Since becoming a freelancer, I am regularly taught by Neil Semer and enjoy (and sometimes curse) the never-ending journey of artistic creation.