A voice full of warmth, splendour and scintillating colorful richness merges with a uniquely vivid stage presence. 

Austrian singer Veronika Dünser was born in 1985 in Feldkirch, where she graduated with honours in instrumental and vocal pedagogy. She went on to study solo singing and completed a Master's degree in Lied and Oratorio at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Kammersängerin Marjana Lipovsek. She received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Association Vorarlberg and the Thyll-Dürr Foundation and in 2006 won first prize with distinction in the prima la musica competition as well as the special prize from Bärenreiter Verlag.

Veronika Dünser gained her first stage experience as Hänsel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Annina and Flora in Verdi's La Traviata, as Golde in the musical Anatevka, as the housekeeper in The Man of La Mancha and in the role of Maddalena in Verdi's Rigoletto at the Vorarlberg State Theatre. At the same theatre, she sang the Third Lady in a production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte under Gérard Korsten, which was recorded and broadcast by ORF. She sang the Third Lady again under Gustav Kuhn at the Erl Festival.      
Equally active in the concert field, she performed Mozart's Missa brevis in B flat with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the opening of the Bregenz Festival. She sang Brahms' Liebesliederwalzer at the castle on the island of Mainau. She has given recitals in Hohenems, Feldkirch, Vienna, Jerusalem and at the Accademia Filarmonica Romana in Rome. 
Veronika Dünser can be heard regularly in masses and church concerts in Austria and Switzerland. She performed songs by Arnold Schönberg and Alma Mahler at the Jewish Museum in Vienna. In 2013, she appeared in a Salzburg Festival production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Furthermore she performed as a soloist in the sacred concert series in St Augustin in Vienna as well as recitals in Jerusalem, Vienna and Vorarlberg.
In December 2016, she took on the role of the Fairy Godmother in the Austrian premiere of Alma Deutscher's opera Cinderella in Vienna. She also appeared in the role of Mrs Doc in a Neue Oper Wien production of Bernstein's A Quiet Place at the Vienna Chamber Opera and as Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro at the Kittsee Summer Festival. At the Stadttheater Klagenfurt she sang the roles of the Third Elf in Dvorak's Rusalka and Frau Dr Schönbuhl in Koma by Georg Friedrich Haas, the latter also at the Opéra de Dijon. She further appeared there as Maddalena in Rigoletto.  In Bern, she made her role debut as Erda in Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold. and returned there in the role of Waltraute in Die Walküre. She performed in various concerts and recitals, including a Schubertiade at the Vienna Konzerthaus with Sir András Schiff and KS Robert Holl. 

This season she will sing the roles of 1st Norn and Waltraute in Götterdämmerung at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, where  she will return next season for a production of Das Rheingold (Erda and Floßhilde). 

2023-2024 

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Götterdämmerung - First Norn/Waltraute - Stadttheater Klagenfurt September 2023

"The Austrian Veronika Dünseri was equally perfect in the alto role of the First Norn, but above all in the mezzo-soprano role of Waltraute with a round, full tone and differentiated expression".

Das Opernglas - November 2023

Recital at Austrian Hospice, Jerusalem - January 2017

The program opened with three Jewish songs, first a somewhat formal reading of the traditional Hassidic melody “Y’varech’cha”. This was followed by a Yiddish song “Hobn mir a Nigendl” in which Veronika Dünser’s sensitive and flexible singing captured the mix of joy and sorrow of this genre. Then to a rich and emotional rendering of David Zehavi’s setting of “Eli, Eli", a poem written in 1942 by young Hungarian resistance fighter Hannah Senesz. (…)
“Das irdische Leben” tells of a mother watching her child starve to death as he waits for her to finish baking bread. Dünser’s vocal and emotional resources made for a gripping, convincing and real interpretation of the song.
The program concluded with songs from Johannes Brahms’ “Zigeunerlieder”. Dünser’s easeful and honeyed singing in all registers and musical- and facial expression revealing moments of passion, sorrow, light-heartedness, joy and disappointment. How poignant and bathed in warmth was “Lieber Gott, Du weisst” about a young woman’s cherished memory of her lover’s first kiss, to be followed by the carefree joy of “Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze” as a young man takes his girl to a dance.  In “Röslein dreie in der Reihe”, opening with its delicate depiction of courtship, Dünser’s facial expression and vocal timbre then reveal an element of doubt as fear of remaining single creeps in.

Pamela Hickman, Concert Critique, January 2017

Veronika Dünser, Schülerin von Marjana Lipovšek, rundete mit satter Altstimme als Emeline und Gute Fee die erfreuliche Besetzung trefflich ab.

Karl Masek, Der Neue Merker, January 2017

Überall bringt sie das Charisma ihrer stattlichen Erscheinung ein, punktet mit ihren stimmlichen Vorzügen und als Künstlerpersönlichkeit von unverwechselbarer Ausstrahlung.“

Fritz Juhrmann, Zeitschrift Kultur, March 2017

OPER / OPERETTE / MUSICAL

Bernstein - A Quiet Place - Mrs. Doc

Bock - Anatevka - Golde

Deutscher - Cinderella - Fee

Dvorak - Rusalka - 3. Elfe

Haas - Koma - Dr. Schönbuhl

Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro - Marcellina
Mozart - Die Zauberflöte - 3. Dame

Verdi - Rigoletto - Maddalena
Verdi - La Traviata - Flora

Wagner - Das Rheingold - Erda
Wagner - Die Walküre - Waltraute, Schwertleite
Wagner - Götterdämmerung - Waltraute