Christiane Iven

Christiane Iven (born 9 March 1965) is a German lied, concert and opera singer as well as a vocal teacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.

Iven was born in Hamburg as the youngest of three siblings of a North German merchant family.

She attended the old-language Gymnasium Christianeum until her Abitur in 1984. Afterwards, she studied singing and vocal pedagogy at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg, first with Hans Kagel and later with Judith Beckmann. She completed her education in Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's Lied class at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

In 1986, while still a student, Iven began her solo activities as a concert and lied singer and was also a permanent member of the NDR radio choir in Hamburg for several years.

From 1992 to 1996, she was engaged as lyric mezzo-soprano at the Theater Bremen and from 1996 to 2001, at the Nationaltheater Mannheim. From 2001 to 2006, she was a member of the Staatsoper Hannover ensemble, where she changed to soprano. This was followed by a permanent engagement at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, with which she remained associated until 2015. There and at various European opera houses, she sang roles like the Feldmarschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Marie (Wozzeck), Kundry (Parsifal), Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Elvira (Don Giovanni), Emilia Marty (The Makropulos Affair), Sieglinde (Die Walküre) and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde).