Born in Berlin, Gundula Hintz studied at the Berlin University of the Arts with Aribert Reimann and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, among others. She has made guest appearances as an opera and concert singer at numerous German and international houses (Berlin, Leipzig, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Naples, Venice, St. Gallen, London, Toronto), at the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, the Venice Biennale and the Berlin Festival . Gundula Hintz has worked with conductors such as Constantin Trinks, Gerd Albrecht, Ralf Weikert, Anna Skryleva, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Ulf Schirmer, Anthony Bramall, Josep Caballé Domenech, Patrick Lange and Jessica Cottis. After the first engagements with youthful and dramatic roles (among others the Baroness Liddy in the much acclaimed premiere of Detlev Glanert's opera "Scherz, Satire, Ironie und lower meaning"), Sieglinde in Die Walküre marked her entry into Wagner. In 2011 she made her debut as Fricka in Wagner's "Ring" at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. There she also embodied Herodias in Strauss' opera "Salome" in 2013. In the same year she sang the first alto part in Mahler's 8th symphony in the Berlin Philharmonic. From 2012 to 2015 Gundula Hintz was Fricka ("Rheingold" and "Walküre"), Waltraute/2. Norn ("Götterdämmerung") in the Ring tetralogy of the Halle and Ludwigshafen theaters. The Royal Opera House Covent Garden engaged her in August 2014 for Turnage's opera "Anna Nicole" in London. In the same season she made her Halle debut as Adelaide in Strauss' Arabella. In January 2015 she made her debut at the Leipzig Opera House as Fricka in "Rheingold", where she portrayed Demonia in Humperdinck's fairytale opera "Sleeping Beauty" in December 2015. In the summer of 2016, Gundula Hintz embodied Fräulein Schneider in Kander's musical "Cabaret" at the Staatstheater Augsburg on the open-air stage at the Roten Tor. In March 2017 she sang Mahler's "Lied von der Erde" in the Berlin Philharmonie. The mezzo-soprano made her North American debut in Toronto in autumn 2017. The Canadian Opera Company engaged her as Adelaide in Tim Albery's production of Strauss' Arabella. In June 2018 she performed the leading role of Esther in the premiere of Na'ama Zisser's opera "Mamzer/Bastard" at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London. In the 2018/19 season she made her debut as Zita in "Gianni Schicchi" at the Dresden State Operetta. The role of Kabanicha in Lydia Steier's new production of "Katia Kabanova" took her to the Staatstheater Mainz in January 2019. Numerous radio and television recordings document their successful work. A CD recording of Mozart trios was made with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and the woodwind section of the Berlin Philharmonic. In addition to her solo engagements, her singing studio in Berlin, where she coaches and supervises numerous professional opera singers, as well as international master classes in Bayreuth, Düsseldorf, Tallinn, London and New York are further focal points of her work.