Rachel Harnisch

Soprano Rachel Harnisch became known early in her career as one of Switzerland's top Mozart specialists. In the 2010s she has increasingly turned to contemporary repertory, often giving premieres of new works, and she is one of the most versatile sopranos on the contemporary scene anywhere. Harnisch was born August 1, 1973, in the Valais German-speaking town of Brig in the Swiss Alps. She studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany, with Beata Heuer-Christen as her teacher, and in 2000 made her debut as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in Bern, Switzerland, so...