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Chelsea Zurflüh

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NAME  
Chelsea Zurflüh

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Pieterlen, Switzerland

STUDY 
Specialised Music Performance – Opera at the Bern University of the Arts

COMPETITIONS/PRIZES 
2025 Main Award and orchestra award at the SWR Junge Opernstars / Emmerich Smola Competition in Landau
2024 First prize at the Concours de Genève
2024 Second prize at the International Otto Edelmann Singing Competition in Vienna
2024 First prize at the International Haydn Singing Competition in Rohrau
2023 Second prize at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg

IMPORTANT CONDUCTORS 
Antonino Fogliani
Gustavo Gimeno
Ivor Bolton
Joana Mallwitz

IMPORTANT DIRECTORS
David McVicar
Damiano Michieletto
Michael Hampe
Jan Philipp Gloger
Rainer Holzapfel

IMPORTANT ENGAGEMENTS 
2021–2023 Member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich

IMPORTANT PARTS ELSEWHERE
Marie (La Fille du régiment, Bayerische Staatsoper)
Pamina (Die Zauberflöte, Royal Ballet and Opera, London; Oper Köln)
Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro, Opernhaus Zürich) 
Atalanta (Xerxes, Theater Winterthur)

EXCURSIONS 
2019 Soloist in the Swiss Federal Palace on the occasion of the swearing-in of the city councillors

AT THE KOMISCHE OPER BERLIN 
Zerlina (Don Giovanni/Requiem)

As of November 2025