Biographie

The German soprano Prisca Salib was born in Mainz and gave her first piano concerts at the age of nine. She studied classical ballet from a very young age and won multiple scholarships for the study of piano and voice. Besides she won with her warm timbre and her playful präsentation competitions like Hans-Gabor-Belvedere, Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and the Competizione dell' Opera. Salib made her opera debut in Bayreuth, Germany, performing the role of Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice. She studied voice at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg and has given numerous well-received recitals, concerts, and guest performances in Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna and Cairo.

In addition to an extensive range of songs by composers from Mozart, Bellini, and Schumann, through Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf, Prisca Salib's repertoire includes roles such as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, Lulu, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Gilda in Rigoletto, Amine in La Sonnambula, Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Musetta in La Bohème, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Norina in Don Pasquale, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Fiaker-Milli / Zdenka in Arabella, Woglinde in Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, Waldvogel in Siegfried, as well as Olympia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Galathee in Die schöne Galathee, and Adele in Die Fledermaus, to name a few.

In addition to contemporary works like 'Der Sonderermittler' by Constantin Bömers she performed Frau von Sittich, Salib has also performed a lot of other roles in following opera houses such as Landestheater Detmold (Blonde, Adele), at State theatre Cottbus (Queen of the Night, Musetta), at Komische Oper (Schwanhilde, Blonde), Cairo Opera (Bonde, Queen of the night, Musetta, Olympia), at Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern (Despina, Blonde, Norina, Ännchen), at State theatre Nürnberg (Blonde, Olympia, Queen of the night) and at Kammeroper Wien (Galathee, Blonde) as well at the State Opera of Hamburg (Blonde, Gretel for the opera for children). Her latest CD with Zerbinetta she made it with Jens Holzkamp of the German Opera Berlin.

Prisca Salib additionally studied theatre, music, and German studies at the University of Bayreuth, and in 2009 completed her doctoral thesis on Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's The Jewels of the Madonna, for which she received a scholarship from Her Highness Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis, through the Franz-Marie-Christinen-Foundation.

Salib has taken several master classes with Sylvia Geszty and Grace Bumbry. She has given numerous recitals and concerts in Berlin together with her accompanist of many years, Klaus Kirbach and Armin Thalheim, presenting repertoire from the baroque, classical, and romantic periods, and has worked with Daniel Barenboim, Sebastian Weigle and Wolfgang Wagner at the Festival of Richard Wagner and furthermore with Kazushi Ono, Ingo Metzmacher, Michael Temme and Rainer Schwarz.