Lena Sutor-Wernich
The alto Lena Sutor-Wernich combines a broad range of artistic creativity with a passion for the Baroque repertoire in her career. She completed her musical training at the Freiburg University of Music with Prof. Angela Nick. She also received valuable inspiration through masterclasses and private studies, among others with Elisabeth Glauser, Petra Lang, Ann Hallenberg, Sonia Prina, René Jacobs, and Kurt Widmer.
At the Göttingen Handel Festival, she appeared in 2025 as Solomon in Handel’s oratorio of the same name and in 2023 as Lichas in Hercules.
From 2011 to 2021, she participated in the complete performance of J.S. Bach’s vocal works at the Stiftskirche Stuttgart under the direction of Kay Johannsen. She has been highly praised for her musical and dramatic intensity and precision, for example in productions of Handel’s Lucrezia and Alcina, as well as Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice at the Darmstadt State Theatre.
Since the 2019/20 season, Sutor-Wernich has been engaged as a soloist at the Darmstadt State Theatre, where, in addition to the roles mentioned above, she has sung Angelina (La Cenerentola), Hänsel (Hänsel and Gretel), Dulcinée (Don Quichotte), and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. Since 2014, she has also worked as a freelance concert and opera singer in Germany and abroad.
Lena Sutor-Wernich regularly realizes her own artistic projects. The music theatre project Das denkende Herz (The Thinking Heart), which she co-conceived and co-composed based on the diaries of the Dutch Jewish woman Etty Hillesum, has been presented, among other places, in Berlin, Zurich, and Luxembourg.