| Nadja Stefanoff | |
| Birth Date: | 1976 7, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany |
| Education: | Musikhochschule Dresden |
| Occupation: | Operatic soprano |
| Organization: | Staatstheater Mainz |
Nadja Stefanoff (born 22 July 1976)[1] is a German operatic soprano based at the Staatstheater Mainz. She began her career as a mezzo-soprano. She has performed leading roles there and as a guest at major opera houses in Europe, such as Marta in Weinberg's Die Passagierin at the Oper Graz, and Giordano's Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt.
Stefanoff was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, the daughter of Bulgarian tenor Stefan Stefanoff.[2] She studied voice at the Musikhochschule Dresden, graduating in 2010. She was successful at competitions, such as a third prize at Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin in 2002,[3] and winner of the Orpheum Public Award for Mozart in Zürich in 2004. She became a member of the Theater Erfurt, then of the Stadttheater Pforzheim and from 2007 to 2014 at Theater Bremen.[4] She moved to soprano roles in 2013. Stefanoff appeared as a guest at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Komische Oper Berlin and Oper Bonn. She made recordings with the .
She moved to the Staatstheater Mainz with the 2014/15 season.[5] She performed there the title roles of Cherubini's Mèdèe, Bellini's Norma and Puccini's Manon Lescaut[6] and Tosca, and as Madame Lidoine in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites.
In the 2020/21 season, she appeared as Marta in Weinberg's Die Passagierin at the Oper Graz, recorded on CD.[7] Stefanoff portrayed the title role, a Russian princess, of Giordano's Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt in a new production in 2022, directed by Christof Loy and conducted by Lorenzo Passerini, alongside Jonathan Tetelman as Loris Ipanov.[8] [9] Reviewer Jan Brachmann from the FAZ noted the brilliance and agility of her voice, assertive even when singing softly.