Cornelia Horak

Born in Vienna. From the age of 12, studied recorder with Ernst Kölz at the “Konservatorium der Stadt Wien” and with Hans Maria Kneihs at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Vocal training with KS Hilde Rössel-Majdan at the “Goetheanistischen Konservatorium Wien. Baroque singing courses with Cristina Miatello in Padua complemented her musical training.

Cornelia Horak has developed a repertoire of over 50 roles in opera, operetta and musicals.

Winner of the international vocal competition s'Hertogenbosch, twice nominated for the Merkur Theatre Prize in Munich.

Guest performances and concerts have taken Cornelia to a number of festivals, including Salzburg Festival, Ultraschall Festival 2014 Berlin, Carinthian Summer, Musica Viva Festival of Bavarian Radio, Styriarte Graz, Bregenz Festival, Budapest Spring Festival, L'Arte salva L'Arte Festival in Rome and Bach Festival in Lausanne.

The soprano has been, and still is, a guest at various European opera houses, including Vienna Volksoper, Theater an der Wien, Stadttheater Baden, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Langenlois Festival, Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Nationaltheater Weimar, Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy, Musikalische Komödie in Leipzig and Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz.

Since March 2024, Cornelia Horak has been teaching Voice at the Department of Conducting of the mdw.

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