Astrid Marie Lazar, a German soprano, possesses a beautiful full Lyric Spinto voice and has a wonderful stage presence.  She completed her studies in the US and gained first stage experiences with small companies in the New York City area, performing roles like Violetta in La Traviata, Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni amongst others. 

She made her successful role debut as Tosca at the Musikfestival Steyr (singing with the tenor Warren Mok and Kammersänger Wicus Slabbert), Austria, followed by another Tosca engagement with Busan Grand Opera Company & Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in South-Korea.  Her voice has now grown into the German Fach (Salome etc.).  The first role she performed in the German Fach was Marta in D’Albert’s opera Tiefland at the Eduard v. Winterstein Theater in Annaberg-Buchholz, Germany.  2012/13 she will make her role debut as Magda Sorel in Menotti’s The Consul at the Theater Neustrelitz (Germany), where she will also sing the role of Bertalda in Lortzing’s Undine.  With the Symphonic Orchestra of Ravensburg she will appear in Verdi Gala concerts.

Last season she guested at Infinity Hall, Connecticut, US, with the programme “Heroines in Opera”, which she will repeat this season in Germany as well as a continuation of Operetta concerts throughout Germany called “Fledermaus – ein Gastspiel mit Hindernissen”.

Her first engagement as a fest singer was at the Theater Hof, Germany, where she appeared with great critical acclaim as Violetta in La Traviata, , as well as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte, Lisa in the Land of the Smiles, and Silva Varescu in Die Csardasfürstin.  While in Hof she also sang the role of Auguste in Ein Preußisches Märchen, Dorota in Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeiffer amongst others.  Afterwards she has guested in a number of theatres such as Südostbayerisches Städtetheater Passau (Violetta, La Traviata), Theater Würzburg as Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte), Konzerthaus Ravensburg as Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) and Saffi (Der Zigeunerbaron), Opera Festival di Roma, Italy (La Contessa, Le Nozze di Figaro), Operetten-Tourneetheater-Hannover as Lisa (Land of the Smiles) touring Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Theater an der Rott as Countess Mariza, and the Musiktheater Friedrichshafen as Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus).  Astrid Marie Lazar was also a guest soloist with the Sarasota Symphony Orchestra performing as part of the concert series ‘Salute to Vienna’ in various cities in Florida. 

As an accomplished concert singer, Astrid Marie Lazar is also well at home on the oratorio and concert stage, singing a broad repertoire, which she has performed throughout Germany and the US.  She has appeared with the Festival Campos do Jordão in Brazil where she represented American Opera in Concert and covered Violetta in La Traviata, and at the Opera Festival di Roma in Rome, Italy, where she sang the role of the Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro.