About
Laura Olivia Spengel is a Berlin-born, Vienna-based mezzo-soprano. She sang Maddalena in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims at Vienna's Musikverein alongside Juan Diego Flórez, and appears with the Vienna Waltz Orchestra under Lei Chen (Lui Chan).
Laura Olivia Spengel is a mezzo-soprano born in Berlin, who has lived in Vienna since 2004. She studied solo singing with Gabriele Sima and took master classes with Thomas Hampson, Juan Diego Flórez, Marjana Lipovšek, Sona Ghazarian and Brigitte Fassbaender. In 2015 she was a scholarship holder of the Bayreuth Festival. She was invited three years in a row by the Vienna Hofburg Orchestra to sing its traditional New Year's Eve and New Year concerts.
In June 2018 she made her Musikverein debut as Delia and Maddalena in a concert performance of Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims with Juan Diego Flórez. Later that year she gave her first solo aria evening in the main hall of the Brucknerhaus Linz with the Sinfonietta Linz. Her awards include a Golden Medal at the 2017 Berliner Music Competition.
She tours as a soloist with the Vienna Waltz Orchestra under Lei Chen (Lui Chan), including its New Year concerts.