American mezzo-soprano Karis Tucker is a young dramatic singer known for her rich, powerful voice. In the 2025/26 season she looks forward to her debut as Eboli in "Don Carlo" at Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as reprising Suzuki in "Madama Butterfly", Prinz Orlofsky in "Die Fledermaus", Hänsel in "Hänsel und Gretel", and Flosshilde, Rossweisse, Zweite Norn and Wellgunde in Wagner’s "Der Ring des Nibelungen".
Outside of Deutsche Oper, she debuts with the Korean National Opera as Princesse Clarice in Prokofiev's "L’amour des trois oranges" and Grand Teton Music Festival as Hänsel in "Hänsel und Gretel", while in concert, she debuts Wagner’s "Wesendonck Lieder" with Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, Duruflé’s Requiem with the Dresden Philharmonic, and as the alto soloist in Frank Martin's "Das Märchen vom Aschenbrödel" with Association L’Odyssée Frank Martin in Geneva.
Previous role debuts at Deutsche Oper Berlin include Fenena in "Nabucco", Polina in "Pique Dame", Smeton in "Anna Bolena", Hermia in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", Zweite Dame in "Die Zauberflöte", and the mezzo-soprano solo part in Verdi’s Requiem with Staatsballett Berlin. She has also made her debuts at Glyndebourne Festival, Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin, and Staatstheater Meiningen, all in the role of Thurza in "The Wreckers" by Ethel Smyth.
As the winner of the 2019 Curt Engelhorn Scholarship from the Opera Foundation in New York, she began the 2019/20 season as a scholarship holder in the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, followed by two seasons as a scholarship holder of the Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin, before being permanently accepted into the ensemble of the opera house in 2022/23. She was honored as a 2017 and 2018 Ohio District winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and was also the 2017 recipient of the Seybold-Russell Award in the CCM Opera Scholarship Competition.
Raised and educated in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, she completed her studies in the United States, earning her Master’s Degree at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of soprano Amy Johnson, where she also pursued her Artist Diploma for one year. She continues studying voice with Romanian soprano Adina Nițescu.