Born in Feuchtwangen (Bavaria), soprano Christiane Karg studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Heiner Hopfner and in Wolfgang Holzmair's Lied class, and was awarded the Lilli Lehmann Medal for her master's degree in opera/musical theater. While still a student, she made her highly acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival and has been a welcome guest there ever since.
She can be heard all over the world in the great roles of her profession: In London at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Pamina, at the Lyric Opera Chicago and at the Met in New York as Susanna, at La Scala in Milan as Sophie and Euridice, at the Vienna State Opera as Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), at the Hamburg State Opera as Pamina, Mélisande, Daphne and Contessa, at the Staatsoper unter den Linden as Micaëla and at the Bavarian State Opera as Pamina, Blanche (Dialogue des Carmélites) and Fiordiligi.
The soprano is also in demand internationally for concert roles. Her musical partners include conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Daniel Harding, Christoph Eschenbach, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mariss Jansons, Semyon Bychkov, Herbert Blomstedt and Iván Fischer. She works with important orchestras all over the world.
Lieder recitals are especially close to the artist's heart. She is a regular guest at the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Wigmore Hall London, Pierre- Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg and Hohenems, the Salzburg Festival and the Mozart Week.
The soprano cultivates her passion for song and concert in a special way. In the current season, Christiane Karg is giving recitals in Berlin, Santiago and London, among other places. She is also singing Beethoven's 9th, with which she is very familiar, with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, Beethoven's Ah! Perfido! in Munich under Ivan Fischer, Mahler's Rückert Lieder with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under Petr Popelka in Hamburg, Lübeck and Wismar, and Haydn's Creation under Janowski in Dresden. She tours Europe with Wagner's Das Rheingold under Nezet-Seguin.
In addition to her numerous engagements, Christiane Karg conceives and is responsible for her own concert series in her hometown of Feuchtwangen as the artistic director of the KunstKlang festival, and is very committed to the project "be part of it! - Musik für Alle" (Music for All) project, Christiane Karg is committed to teaching music to children and young people. For her achievements, the artist was awarded the Bavarian Culture Prize in the category of art and recently the Brahms Prize of the Brahms Society of Schleswig-Holstein e.V..
In the fall of 2020, Christiane Karg released her CD "Erinnerung" with songs by Gustav Mahler on the Harmonia mundi label, which was highly praised by the press. Her recording of Le nozze di Figaro under Y. Nézet-Séguin, her CD Scene! with the Arcangelo Baroque Orchestra under Jonathan Cohen and her Lied CD Verwandlung - Lieder eines Jahres (piano: Burkhard Kehring) have received several awards.