Soprano Marie Luise Werneburg is among the most sought-after soloists in her field, renowned as a specialist in the music of the 17th and 18th centuries – with a particular dedication to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. She enjoys an active international concert career: in the 2025/26 season she will sing Bach’s Mass in B minor on tour in South Korea with Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herreweghe, appear with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in performances of Advent cantatas in Berlin, Freiburg, and Stuttgart, and join Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the Leipzig Bach Festival to perform the “Top 4” of the cantata ranking.
The soprano Marie Luise Werneburg grew up in a vicarage full of art, music and literature in Dresden. Whilst studying church music and singing in Dresden and Bremen, she deepened her love for the music of the 17th and 18th centuries; the musical heart of her repertoire remains the works of Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach.
Her extensive discography also includes her own projects centred around Lieder. Most recently she recorded songs by the Dresden composer Johann Gottlieb Naumann with the fortepianist Sebastian Knebel for the record label cpo (2025).
“Marie Luise Werneburg’s radiant, weightlessly floating soprano was a true highlight, dispelling even the fear of death itself.”
LUZERNER ZEITUNG 2023
“Marie Luise Werneburg’s radiant, weightlessly floating soprano was a true highlight, dispelling even the fear of death itself.”
LUZERNER ZEITUNG 2023
“Marie Luise Werneburg sang through the cantatas with an almost otherworldly radiance – what a level she has reached! When she began the recitative from ‘Wer weiß, wie nahe mir das Ende’ (BWV 27) with the word ‘Ah!’, it was as if heaven itself opened. And in the arias, she managed to surpass even that.”
DRESDNER NEUESTE NACHRICHTEN 2025
