Marlis Petersen

Soprano Marlis Petersen is an unusually versatile singer, whose repertory includes lieder, concert works, and contemporary opera as well as coloratura works. For some years, she was identified with the role of Lulu in Berg's opera of the same name. Petersen was born February 3, 1968, in Sindelfingen, near Stuttgart, and grew up mostly in Tuttlingen in far southwestern Germany. She took singing lessons at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and also jazz dance classes at the New York City Dance School there. Her first major engagement came in 1994 at the Städtische Bühnen in Nuremb...