Mezzo-soprano Dorottya Láng was born in Budapest and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. From 2012 to 2014, she was a member of the ensemble at the Vienna Volksoper, then moved to the National Theatre Mannheim for the 2014/15 season, and from 2015 to 2018 belonged to the ensemble of the Hamburg State Opera. Since then, she has worked with conductors such as Adam Fischer, Marc Albrecht, Sakari Oramo, Ivan Fischer, Cornelius Meister, Kent Nagano, and Theodor Currentzis, as well as with orchestras including the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Her operatic repertoire includes roles such as the Composer ("Ariadne auf Naxos"), Octavian ("Der Rosenkavalier"), Venus ("Tannhäuser"), Brangäne ("Tristan und Isolde"), Hänsel ("Hänsel und Gretel"), Marguerite ("La damnation de Faust"), Waltraute ("Die Walküre"), and Adriano ("Rienzi"). She has appeared, among others, at the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, the Savonlinna Opera Festival, the Ruhrtriennale, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and at the Baden-Baden Festival Theatre with the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko. Concerts have taken her to the BBC Proms, Budapest’s Palace of Arts, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the International Song Festival in Oxford. Her most recent engagements include the alto part in Mahler’s "Das Lied von der Erde" with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Composer with the Nederlandse Reisopera, and Venus in Budapest.
