Internationally acclaimed for the role of the Queen of the Night, the American coloratura soprano, Darlene Ann Dobisch, was born and brought up in Hardwick, MA. She graduated with honors in voice from Clark University, the University of Michigan, and the Luebeck Conservatory of Music.
She won the Robert P. Manero Music Prize, was a finalist for the Rolf Mares Prize in Hamburg, and has received numerous scholarships and grants which have fostered her career.
Ms. Dobisch has had engagements with the NDR Chorus, as a soubrette at Theater Neustrelitz, and as a guest at Volkstheater Rostock, among others. At Opernloft, Hamburg, she has sung numerous coloratura roles, such as “Olympia” in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann, or Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata. She has performed the Queen of the Night in various productions of Mozart’s “Magic Flute” over 300 times.
Through her long and productive collaboration with Berlin Conductor, Pianist, and Stage Director, Christoph Hagel, Ms. Dobisch has sung classical roles in the cutting edge Productions, Magic Flute Reloaded, with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and Breakin’ Mozart, with the DDC Breakdance Company. Performances have taken them to the Philharmonics of Berlin and Munich, the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, the Prince Regent Theater in Munich, or the Wurzburg Mozart Festival.
In Berlin, she performed with him as the Queen of the Night in the internationally acclaimed The Magic Flute in the Subway, Genio in Haydn’s Orpheus and Euridice, the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, and the soprano solos in staged versions of Haydn’s The Creation, and Bach’s St. John Passion, in the Berlin Cathedral.
Thanks to the support of the national private channel, ProSieben, Breakin’ Mozart will be going on tour Europe-wide for three years, starting in 2026.
Her repertoire includes a broad spectrum of Oratorio works and she is internationally in demand as a recital singer. An impassioned pedagogue, Darlene Ann Dobisch is a lecturer for vocal pedagogy and voice at the Johannes-Brahms-Conservatory in Hamburg, Germany, as a vocal instructor at various music schools, and conducts master classes and workshops internationally.