Marie-Dominique Ryckmanns

Soprano

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Marie-Dominique Ryckmanns is a German-French coloratura soprano with a powerful, radiant and confident voice in the high and highest registers, who stands out for her artistic versatility, musical precision and great stage presence, especially in vocally demanding roles.
From 2023 to 2025, she was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater Kassel, where she made her role debuts as Frasquita in Carmen, Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Despina in Così fan tutte, and shone in the extremely high and virtuosic coloratura role of Ariel in Thomas Adès‘ The Tempest.
She has performed at renowned opera houses such as the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Hamburg State Opera, the Staatstheater Nürnberg and the Staatstheater Meiningen under the baton of Axel Kober, Gianluca Capuano, Alessandro de Marchi, Daniele Callegari, Mark Wigglesworth, Marco Comin, Francesco Angelico, Péter Halász, Mario Hartmuth, et al.
Her repertoire ranges from Baroque to world premieres of new music. She has been particularly impressive as a last-minute replacement in roles such as the Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute) and Adele (Die Fledermaus).
From 2020-22, Marie-Dominique Ryckmanns was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera and a scholarship holder of the Körber Foundation. There she made her debut under the baton of Kent Nagano in Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire alongside Anja Silja and Nicole Chevalier. Particularly noteworthy is her portrayal of Sophie Scholl in the award-winning graphic opera Weiße Rose by Udo Zimmermann (directed by David Bösch), which won the Golden Prague International Television Festival Prize and the Hamburg Theatre Prize Rolf Mares in 2021.
After gaining initial stage experience at the Junges Theater Gärtnerplatz and vocal training with KS Felicia Weathers, she completed her master’s degree at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Michèle Crider and Pauliina Tukiainen, graduating with distinction and receiving the Lilli Lehmann Medal from the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg. During her bachelor’s degree, she was a guest in the opera class as Tytania in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Olympia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann.
As a concert and lieder singer, she has performed at St. Michael’s Church in Hamburg, Salzburg Cathedral, Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, the Fridericianum in Kassel, the Allerheiligen Hofkirche and the Herkulessaal in the Residenz in Munich.
Marie-Dominique Ryckmanns has won several national and international competitions. Her most recent successes include third prize in the ‘200 Years of Johann Strauss MUT’ competition at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich in cooperation with the 200 Years of Johann Strauss Festival in Vienna.