Soprano Jasmin Delfs was born in Eutin. At the age of 9, she began her first singing lessons with Eva Monar, and already during her school years, she became a scholarship holder of the SVA Schleswig-Holstein and was accepted as a junior student at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. She then studied there with Manuela Uhl, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in June 2021.
In the seasons 2021/22 and 2022/23, she was a member of the international opera studio of the Bavarian State Opera and appeared there as Najade (Ariadne auf Naxos), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), and Vespina in the new production of Haydn’s L’infedeltà delusa, among others. In the summer of 2022, Jasmin Delfs participated in the Young Singers Projects at the Salzburg Festival, where she made her debut as the Queen of the Night in the new production of Die Zauberflöte. Additionally, she performed as the 1st Flower Maiden in Parsifal at the Great Festival Hall with the Vienna Philharmonic under Daniel Barenboim and in the main hall of the Mozarteum with the Mozarteum Orchestra conducted by Adrian Kelly.
Further guest engagements have taken her, among others, to the Vienna State Opera, to perform in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko at the Berlin Philharmonie, to the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Isarphilharmonie Munich, and to the State Theatre Darmstadt.
Her repertoire also includes roles such as Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Linfea (in Cavalli’s La Calisto), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Viktoria (Viktoria und ihr Husar), Ajax (in Offenbach’s Die schöne Helena), as well as the leading role in the mono-opera Schub’rdy G’rdy by Vito Zuraj.
In the concert field, Jasmin Delfs has already been heard in Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate and Requiem, as well as in Haydn’s The Creation.
In the 2023/24 season, she made her debut as Blonde at La Scala in Milan, as Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea) at the Opéra de Toulon, as Max in Oliver Knussen’s Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen at the Theater an der Wien, and as the Queen of the Night at the Berlin State Opera. Concert engagements also took her to the Bavarian State Opera (Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 under Kirill Petrenko), the Berlin Philharmonie (Schoenberg’s Die Jakobsleiter under Kirill Petrenko), the Laeiszhalle Hamburg (Poulenc’s Gloria and Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang), and the Isarphilharmonie Munich (Orff’s Carmina Burana).
