“Die charismatische Mezzosopranistin Lana Maletić trumpft als autoritätskritische Mère Marie auf.”
Verena Großkreutz · Stuttgarter Nachrichten
A voice at home
in three languages.
Lana Maletić is a Belgrade-born opera singer. She completed her vocal studies at the Academy of Music of the University of Zagreb under the guidance of Prof. Dunja Vejzović. She subsequently earned her Master’s degree in Opera and Lied at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts, studying with Kammersängerin Diana Haller, Prof. Cornelis Witthoefft, Bernhard Epstein, and Franziska Severin.
She gained her first stage experience at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, appearing as the Hen in The Cunning Little Vixen and as Dorabella in Così fan tutte. Her repertoire further includes roles such as Smeraldina (The Love for Three Oranges), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Mère Marie (Dialogues des Carmélites), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), and Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus).
In the 2024/25 season, she made her debut as the Page in Salome at the Stuttgart State Opera under the baton of Tomáš Hanus and in a production by Kirill Serebrennikov. During the 2025/26 season, she debuted at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in the title role of Tintenfischlady and appeared in the opera Endlich, composed by Asia Ahmetjanova, in cooperation with the Munich Biennale.
Distinction
In the summer of 2025, she was awarded a scholarship by the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation for the Bayreuth Festival.
Maletić is also a prizewinner of several international singing competitions.
Photograph — Jean Marie Fox
From the 2026/27 season
From the 2026/27 season onward, Lana Maletić joins the ensemble of the Ulm Theatre, where she will appear, among other roles, as Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Olga in Eugene Onegin. She is also expected to perform the solo mezzo in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem by the end of 2026.