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In summer 2022, Taxiarchoula Kanati debuted at the Salzburger Festspiele as Sibylle in Carl Orff´s “De Temporum Fine Comoedia,” conducted by Teodor Currentzis and directed by Romeo Castellucci.
Ms. Kanati has performed mezzo-soprano roles including Dido, Carmen, Charlotte, Composer, and Orlofsky.
She made her first appearance as a soprano in March 2024, singing Ortlinde in “Die Walküre” at the Greek National Opera, in a production conducted by Roland Kluttig.
In contemporary music, Ms. Kanati was invited by composer Jochen Neurath to perform the premiere of his song-cycle “Tears” at an event featuring Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder at the Richard-Wagner-Association in Bamberg. Additionally, she has participated in concerts throughout Europe.
For the 2025/2026 season, she is scheduled to perform Strauss’s “Vier letzte Lieder” and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Niederbayerische Philharmonie under Ektoras Tartanis. She will also be the principal singer in a new opera based on Thomas Mann’s “Felix Krull.”
Taxiarchoula Kanati was finalist of the National Competition 2016 in Berlin, awarded the “UNESCO Youth International Song – Orchestra Contest in the category of Classical Song” and as a finalist of the 28th International Competition “Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg 2018” she was awarded a role in the world premiere of a new Faust opera for the Chamber Opera Festival at Rheinsberg.
