Claudia Visca
Soprano,
Professor of Voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna,
International Vocal Pedagogue
Claudia Visca has been Professor of Solo Voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Institute for Voice and Music Theater) since 2003. From 2000 to 2003, she held a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. As a highly sought-after vocal pedagogue, she regularly gives masterclasses in Europe, North America, and Asia — most recently in Germany, Austria, Italy, the United States, Japan, Greece, England, Belgium, and the Czech Republic. She has also been a longtime faculty member of the Allegro Vivo Summer Academy in the Waldviertel region of Austria and is frequently invited to serve as a juror for international vocal competitions.
Her students have won numerous prizes at international competitions and are engaged at leading opera houses around the world.
As a celebrated soprano, Claudia Visca has performed in over 2,000 stage productions, portraying 75 operatic, operetta, and musical theater roles. She has appeared at more than 25 major opera houses including those in Vienna, Berlin, Geneva, Zurich, Cologne, Munich, Amsterdam, and Montreal. In addition to her operatic career, she has been a frequent concert soloist, collaborating with many of the world’s top orchestras and conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, István Kertész, Gustav Kuhn, Miguel Gómez-Martínez, Helmut Müller-Brühl, Hanns-Martin Schneidt, Sándor Végh, Peter Gülke, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.
She has also performed alongside an impressive roster of internationally renowned artists, such as Plácido Domingo, Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras, Edith Mathis, Günther von Kannen, Hartmut Welker, Thomas Tipton, Josef Protschka, Yo-Yo Ma, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Bruno Canino, Rudolf Serkin, Siegfried Palm, Richard Stolzman, and members of the Guarneri Quartet.
Her stage collaborations have included working with acclaimed directors and artists such as Marcel Prawy, Pina Bausch, John Dew, Pet Halmen, Christine Mielitz, Wolfgang Weber, and Sammy Molcho.
Claudia Visca received her vocal training at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She later studied in Vienna with a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Music and Performing Arts, where her teachers included the legendary Hilde Rössel-Majdan and Anton Dermota.