KARIS TUCKER || Mezzo-soprano

American mezzo-soprano Karis Tucker is a young dramatic singer known for her rich, powerful voice.     

In the 2025-2026 season she debuts as Eboli in Don Carlo at Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as reprising Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Prinz Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, and Flosshilde, Rossweisse, Zweite Norn and Wellgunde in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. She also returns to Korea National Opera for her debut of Charlotte in Werther, and has her debut as Waltraute in Bayreuther Festspiele's 150th anniversary production of Die Walküre .

The 2024-2025 season brought her Korea National Opera debut as Princesse Clarice in Prokofiev's L’amour des trois oranges and as Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel at Grand Teton Music Festival.

Her concert work includes Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, Duruflé’s Requiem at the Dresdner Philharmonie, and the alto solo in Frank Martin's Das Märchen vom Aschenbrödel with Association L’Odyssée Frank Martin in Geneva.

Previous role debuts at Deutsche Oper Berlin include Fenena in Nabucco, Polina in Pique Dame, Smeton in Anna Bolena, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflote, and the mezzo-soprano solo part in Verdi’s Requiem with Staatsballett Berlin. She has also made her debut at Glyndebourne Festival, Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin, and Staatstheater Meiningen, all in the role of Thurza in The Wreckers by Ethel Smyth. 

In 2018 she was a Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and in 2019 Apprentice Artist at Des Moines Metro Opera. As winner of the 2019 Curt Engelhorn Scholarship awarded by the Opera Foundation in New York, she started the 2019-2020 season with Deutsche Oper Berlin. This contract was extended for the following two seasons under the Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin. She was honored as a 2017 and 2018 Ohio District winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and was also the 2017 recipient of the Seybold-Russell Award in the CCM Opera Scholarship Competition.  

Raised and educated in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, she completed her studies in the United States, earning her Master’s Degree at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of soprano Amy Johnson, where she also pursued her Artist Diploma for one year. She continues studying voice with soprano Adina Nițescu.