With a voice described as “brilliant to its highest notes” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Greek coloratura soprano Danae Kontora is already a name of note in repertoire ranging from Classical to contemporary, with the role of Die Königin der Nacht (Die Zauberflöte) forming the backbone of recent seasons.  Since her first appearance in the role at Oper Leipzig, Kontora has subsequently performed Die Königin at Semperoper Dresden, Oper Frankfurt, Aalto Musiktheater Essen, Oper Stuttgart and in Barrie Kosky’s iconic production for the Komische Oper at their home in Berlin as well as on tour to  Beijing, Macao and Taiwan. During her seasons as a young artist in Oper Frankfurt’s Opernstudio, and as an ensemble member of Oper Leipzig, Danae Kontora built a varied operatic repertoire including Blondchen (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Marion Delorme in Gounod’s Cinq-Mars, Blumenmädchen I (Parsifal), Waldvogel (Siegfried) and Tigrane (Radamisto). Elsewhere on the opera stage, Danae sang her first Frasquita (Carmen) for Greek National Opera, Oscar (Un ballo in maschera) for Israeli Opera, Olympia (Les contes d’Hoffmann) for Theater Erfurt and made debuts as Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) at Finnish National Opera, at Wiener Staatsoper as Frantzi in Johannes Maria Staud’s Die Weiden and with Bayerische Staatsoper as Philippe in a new production of Penderecki‘s ‚Die Teufel von Loudun‘. On the concert stage, Kontora joined the Gewandhausorchester under Andris Nelsons as part of the orchestra’s 275th Anniversary Celebrations, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester for Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream under Mario Venzago, the Orchestra of Oper Frankfurt and Sebastian Weigle for Mendelssohn’s Elias, the Bamberger Symphoniker under Juraj Valcuha at Würzburg’s Mozartfest for Mozart’s Requiem and appeared at the Munich Biennale Festival of Contemporary Music in Claude Viviers’ Kopernikus. Following her debut at the Edinburgh International Festival as Waldvogel (Siegfried), Kontora was invited to return as Woglinde (Götterdämmerung) with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis and also made her BBC Proms debut with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Constantinos Carydis in a virtuosic programme of Mozart and Strauss. She also made her debut with Tapiola Sinfonietta at Espoo Cultural Centre in Finland singing Brett Dean’s And once I played Ophelia. Danae Kontora trained at Munich’s Hochschule für Musik und Theater and Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding, and was awarded the Bayerische Kunstförderpreis in 2015, the same year of her nomination for "Best Young Singer" by Opernwelt.