Loetzsch was born Christel Lötzsch in Annaberg-Buchholz in 1986, at the time still in the
German Democratic Republic. She began her music education at the age of 7, attended the Musik
gymnasium Helmholtz in
Karlsruhe, and studied singing at the
University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar starting in 2005. Loetzsch attended
master classes and lessons with
Brigitte Fassbaender,
Gwyneth Jones,
Manfred Jung and
Catherine Foster. In 2018 she earned her
Konzertexamen with Carola Guber at the
University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.
Career Loetzsch premiered Amalia in Ludger Vollmer's ''Schillers Räuber_Rap'n Breakdance Opera'' commissioned by the city of
Jena in 2009. In the same year she received a stipend from the Richard-Wagner-Verband Weimar to attend the Bayreuth Festival. In Bayreuth she took part in the Cantilena Competition held by the Junge Musikerstiftung, and received another stipend that enabled her to study at the
Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan in 2010 to improve her Italian. In Italy Loetzsch participated in the singing competition
"Giovani voci" Città di Magenta 2011, which led to a temporary engagement in the choir of the
Teatro alla Scala, where she met conductor
Nicola Luisotti who helped her to sign with a talent agency. This let to her debut in the
soprano role Zerlina in Mozart's
Don Giovanni at the
Verona Arena in July 2012 under
Daniel Oren, and to her engagement with the young artists ensemble of the
Semperoper in Dresden in August. In the Dresden young ensemble Loetzsch sang Tebaldo in Verdi's
Don Carlos, the Mother in
Stephen Oliver's one act opera
Mario und der Zauberer, Hänsel in
Hänsel und Gretel, Rosina in
The Barber of Seville, Cherubino in
The Marriage of Figaro, Oberto in
Alcina. She made her US debut as Dorabella in Mozart's
Così fan tutte at the
San Francisco Opera under Luisotti in the summer of 2013. In her second year in the Semperoper young ensemble in the 2013/14 season she began to replace the
umlaut ö in her last name (Lötzsch) with the
digraph oe (Loetzsch), and sang Amelia's maid in
Simon Boccanegra, and Ljusja in
Moscow, Cheryomushki. In 2015 Loetzsch joined the ensemble of Theater Altenburg Gera with debuts as Octavian in
Der Rosenkavalier, Maddalena in
Rigoletto, Nancy in
Martha, oder Der Markt zu Richmond, Lyubov in
Mazeppa (opera), Leokadja Begbick in
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Countess Viktoria in
Viktoria und ihr Husar, as well as Brigitte in Hans Sommer's
Rübezahl und der Sackpfeifer von Neiße. In 2019 she sang Fricka in Wagner's
Der Ring des Nibelungen at the
Landestheater Niederbayern. In the same year she sang one of the Three Weird Sisters in the world premiere of
Pascal Dusapin's
Macbeth Underworld at
La Monnaie Opera House in Brussels, staged by
Thomas Jolly, and conducted by
Alain Altinoglu In 2020 Loetzsch sang the title role in Dusapin's
Penthesilea in a concert performances at the
Philharmonie de Paris with the
Orchestre de Paris. With the same orchestra she sang the soprano cantata
Le Soleil des eaux by
Pierre Boulez under the baton of
Klaus Mäkelä in 2021. Also in 2021, she sang
Arnold Schoenberg's
Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21 with the
Dresden Philharmonic under
Marek Janowski. Loetzsch sang the Drummer in
Viktor Ullmann's
Der Kaiser von Atlantis with the
Munich Radio Orchestra under the baton of
Patrick Hahn, and jumped in as Fricka in
Bern. She sang the Nurse in
Richard Strauss'
Die Frau ohne Schatten at
Oper Frankfurt under
Sebastian Weigle, and the young Dante in the world premiere of Dusapin's
Il Viaggio, Dante under the baton of
Kent Nagano at the
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. In late 2022 she sang Floßhilde in Wagner's
Das Rheingold and
Götterdämmerung, and Schwertleite in his
Die Walküre in concert with the
Dresden Philharmonic under
Marek Janowski.
Teaching Loetzsch is a lecturer in singing at the
University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, and was granted a three year stipend aimed at preparing female artists for an artistic professorship in 2021. == Discography ==