Liesl Odenweller made her professional début at the age of sixteen as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Liederkranz Prize in the US, the International Bellini Prize, and the Italian “Il Virtuoso” Prize. Currently a resident of Italy, she has received much acclaim for her performances as Violetta in La Traviata in several European and American theaters and has also enjoyed great success as Queen of the Night, Gilda, Lucia, Konstanze, and Adina.

Recent roles include Queen of the Night The Magic Flute, First Lady Die Zauberflöte, First Knappe and Blumenmädchen Parsifal, First Maid Daphne (the latter two just released on CD and DVD), Bastienne Bastien und Bastienne (broadcast live on Italian Radio),the Confidante in Elektra, and Cunegonde Candide (cover) for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Piccolo in Milano, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, and Vicenza’s Teatro Olimpico.

Major concert engagements have included gala events in Venice, including the opening of the Biennale di Arte Contemporanea 2007, and New York: Mozart Mass in C Minor, Poulenc Gloria, Strauss Vier Letzte Lieder, Vaughan Williams Dona nobis pacem, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Mozart Requiem, Szymanovsky Stabat Mater, Brahms Requiem, and Fauré Requiem at Carnegie Hall, the Auditorium di Milano, Teatro La Fenice, Festival de La Ciotat, Eglise de la Madeleine, and the Ratzeburger Dom, collaborating with such orchestras as Riccardo Chailly’s Orchestra Verdi di Milano, the New England Symphonic Ensemble, and the Neue Bachorchestra.

A devoted recitalist, Liesl Odenweller has been particularly acclaimed for her interpretations of the repertoire of Vivaldi, Rossini, Debussy, Strauss, Mozart, and Tosti. She made her Lincoln Center début at Avery Fisher Hall in 1997 and her London recital début in 2003. She has collaborated with conductors including Sir Jeffrey Tate, Andrea Marcon, Gunther Neuhold, Romano Gandolfi, Raymond Hughes, Stefan Anton Reck, Gabor Ötvös, Marco Boemi, Bruno Rigacci, and Giovanni Reggioli, and she performs regularly with the Baroque ensembles MusicaVenezia and Baroccanalia.

Liesl Odenweller’s recording début CD was “This Son So Young,” issued on the Towerhill label.

Liesl Odenweller’s forthcoming engagements include Serpina La Serva Padrona in Venice, Cleopatra Giulio Cesare in New York, Gilda Rigoletto, Konstanze Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Queen of the Night Die Zauberflöte in Milan, and symphonic concerts and recitals in London, Venice, Treviso, Verona, Rome, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and New York.