Bettina Ranch initially studied violin in her hometown Berlin and subsequently
changed to singing. Over the last years, she has given successful guest
performances at renowned opera houses such as the Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Hamburg State
Opera, the Aalto-Theater Essen, the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, and
the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, where she was engaged amongst others for
Mozart and Wagnerian roles as well as major roles in the different baroque operas by
Georg Friedrich Handel.
In the concert field, she sang in particular the masses by Mozart, the Bach Passions
and Mass in B minor, the Messiah, the Verdi-Requiem and Dvořák’s Stabat Mater but
also performed works such as Mahler’s symphonic cantata The Song of Mourning
(Das klagende Lied) and his 2nd symphony, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Franz Schmidt’s
The Book with Seven Seals, as well as Nono’s Il Canto sospeso at the Salzburg
Festival. On these occasions, she worked repeatedly with renowned ensembles and
orchestras such as the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the International Bach
Academy in Stuttgart, the Chamber Academy Potsdam, the Dresden
Philharmonic,SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Bremen Philharmonic, the Leipzig
Gewandhaus Orchestra, the RTVE Orchestra Madrid, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano
Giuseppe Verdi, the DSO Berlin, the RIAS Chamber Choir, and the Mozarteum
Orchestra Salzburg and under prominent conductors such as Hartmut Haenchen,
Markus Poschner, Simone Young, Helmuth Rilling, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Paul
Goodwin, Peter Rundel, and Ivor Bolton.
Before she can be heard in the premieres of Mozart’s’ La finta giardiniera, Donizetti’s’
Lucia di Lammermoor, Purcells’ Dido and Aeneas, Puccini’s’ Il Trittico and Strauss’
Arabella, at the Aalto- Theater Essen again, she brings the season to a close with
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Milan together with the Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro
Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi and under the baton of Krzysztof Urbański.
