Deniz Uzun

Deniz Uzun is a Turkish-German mezzo-soprano. She studied at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts and at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and was then a member of the opera studio of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. From the 2016/17 season she belonged to the ensemble of the Zurich Opera, where her roles included Ino in Handel’s Semele, Sonetka in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Krista in Janáček’s The Makropulos Case and Lucilla in Rossini’s La scala di seta; she moved to the ensemble of the Komische Oper Berlin in 2022. She won the Eva Marton Prize in 2021 and the Elizabeth Connell Prize in 2022, and her concert work includes appearances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.