German mezzo-soprano Marie Henriette Reinhold was born in Leipzig. She completed a Bachelor’s degree in Musicology, and in 2011 began her vocal studies with Elvira Dreßen at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Leipzig, which she passed with distinction in 2020.
Marie Henriette Reinhold is in great demand as a soloist across Germany and abroad. She has appeared as a soloist e.g. with the Gaechinger Cantorey, the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, the Collegium Vocale Gent, the Münchener Bachchor, Concerto Köln, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Staatskapelle Halle, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Kölner Kammerorchester, the Windsbacher Knabenchor, the baroque orchestra La Scintilla, the Zürcher Sing-Akademie, and the Kammerchor Stuttgart.
She has sung under the baton of many renowned conductors, such as Hans-Christoph Rademann, Thomaskantor Andreas Reize, Kreuzkantor Martin Lehmann, Christoph Gedschold, Dima Slobodeniouk, Florian Helgath, Frieder Bernius, Philipp Herreweghe, Semyon Bychkov, Herbert Blomstedt, Paavo Järvi, Christian Thielemann et al.
She made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2019 as one of Klingsor’s Zaubermädchen in "Parsifal" under Semyon Bychkov. Since then, she has been a regular performer there: for example, in the summer of 2025 as Floßhilde in "Das Rheingold" and "Götterdämmerung" and as Grimgerde in "Die Walküre" under Simone Young, directed by Valentin Schwarz, as well as in the roles of Klingsor’s Zaubermädchen and the Voice from above in "Parsifal", directed by Jay Scheib and conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado. In the festival’s anniversary year of 2026, she continued to appear in the "Parsifal" production as well as in the roles of Floßhilde and Grimgerde in the "Ring" under Christian Thielemann.
Masterclasses with Jonathan Alder, Alexander Schmalcz, Götz Payer, Thilo Dahlmann and Peter Schreier provided valuable insights into lied interpretation. She was Junior Prize Winner of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin 2012, a Prize Winner of the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg in 2014, and was awarded a Richard Wagner scholarship in 2017.
Marie Henriette Reinhold has many CD recordings to her name on a variety of labels, including Max Reger’s Choral Cantatas and his Requiem (Op. 144b), Haydn’s Stabat Mater with the Kammerchor Stuttgart under Frieder Bernius, Friedrich Schneider’s oratorio "Das Weltgericht", a world premiere recording of Gustav Schreck’s oratorio "Christus, der Auferstandene", a live recording of J. S. Bach’s "St John Passion" in the St. Thomas Church Leipzig, under the direction of Peter Schreier, and Bach's "St Matthew Passion" and Magnificat under the baton of Hans-Christoph Rademann. Together with his Gaechinger Cantorey she is a significant part of the project "VISION.BACH" in which every cantata of the year 1732 will be recorded and released by Haenssler.