Vera Schoenenberg

Schoenenberg has been a lecturer in singing at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 2009. She is married to the conductor Nikolaus Netzer.

Schoenenberg has performed as a guest, at the Theater Augsburg, Theater Basel (as La traviata), at the Gamle Logen in Oslo (as Angelica), and at Historisches Stadttheater Weißenhorn (as Bastienne in Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne). She appeared as Csárdásfürstin at the Seefestspiele Mörbisch (Mörbisch Lake Festival) in 2002, as Gräfin Mariza at the Landestheater Innsbruck from 2007, as Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at the Meiningen Court Theatre from 2008, and as Corilla Sartinecchi in Donizetti's Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali.

From 2001 to 2006, Schoenenberg was a member of the ensemble of the Theater Ulm. She first performed there in the title role of Verdi's La traviata. Other roles were Lisa in Lehár's Das Land des Lächelns, Eurydice in Offenbach's Orpheus in der Unterwelt, Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo, the title role in Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin, Jenny in Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Micaela in Bizet's Carmen, Josabeth in Handel's Athalia, Bianca in Zemlinsky's Eine florentinische Tragödie, and Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, among others.

Schoenenberg had her first engagement at the Junge Kammeroper Köln, where she made her stage debut in 1998 as First Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in a production presented in several cities in Germany. In 1999, she performed the title role in Puccini's Suor Angelica. She was awarded a scholarship at the Bayreuth Festival from the Richard-Wagner-Verband in 2000.

Born in Plettenberg, Schoenenberg studied school music at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln where she was in the voice class of Klesie Kelly. She then studied opera singing at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf from 1997 until 2000 with Ingeborg Reichelt. Schoenenberg took master classes in opera with Tamar Rachum [de], Richard Miller and Brigitte Fassbaender, and in oratorio with Ingeborg Danz.

Vera Schoenenberg (born 1973) is a German soprano in opera, operetta, Lied and oratorio, and a lecturer at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.