Chelsea Zurflüh

Chelsea Zurflüh was First Prize Winner of the Concours de Genève in 2024, and Main Prize (female voice) and Orchestra Prize Winner at the Junge Opernstars / Emmerich Smola Competition in 2025.

In the 2025/26 season, Chelsea makes a sensational debut at the Royal Opera House with Pamina Die Zauberflöte, a role she debuts first at Oper Köln. She also makes her house and role debut as Marie La fille du régiment at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. She makes her long awaited return to Opernhaus Zürich for a first Sophie in Werther and another role and house debut as Zerlina and Soprano in the Kirill Serebrennikov creation of Don Giovanni / Requiem at Komische Oper Berlin. She appears regularly on the concert scene, debuting with L'Orchestre de Chambre de Genève for Ethel Smyth's Der Wald, she sings for the first time with il Pomo d'Oro for St. John Passion led by Maxim Emelyanychev and sings Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem with Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. She returns to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg for Fünfte Magd Elektra with Alan Gilbert and makes her UK debut for The Mozartists in a concert at Cadogan Hall.

Last season, Chelsea made her debut at the Handel Festspiele with the title role in Clori, Tirsi e Fileno and a role debut as Serpina in Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona at Theatre Biel-Solothurn. On the concert scene, she debuted with the Tonkünstler Orchestra, singing George Frideric Handel's Messiah on tour, led by Ivor Bolton, Matthew Halls and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem with Andreas Ottensamer at Stadttheater Wiener Neustadt. Chelsea closed the Philharmonie Luxembourg season with an outdoor gala alongside Joyce DiDonato led by Gustavo Gimeno, reopened the Classic Open Air series for Konzerthaus Berlin and sang a gala concert alongside Jonathan Tetelman at Schloss Neuschwanstein. She works regularly at the Tonhalle Zürich and highlights this season there include a New Year's concert with Heiko Mathias Förster and the Zürcher Symphoniker and concerts to celebrate Mozart's birthday with CHAARTS Chamber Artists.

On the competition scene, she had major success in competitions around Europe. She is the prizewinner of the renowned 78th Concours de Genève 2024. Along with the first prize, she won nine special prices which include a role in the Grand Théâtre de Genève and several other concert possibilites. At the SWR Junge Opernstars 2025, she won first prize for Female Voice as well as the Emmerich Smola Orchestra Prize of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie.

Chelsea was a member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich in the seasons from 2021 to 2023, where she appeared as Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, as Zaida in Il Turco in Italia, as Atalanta in Serse and other operas on the stage of the Zurich Opera House and the Theater Winterthur. At the Theatre Biel-Solothurn she sang the title role in the world premiere of the opera Heidi feiert Weihnachten in December 2023 written by the Swiss Composer Fabian Müller. In the summer of 2023, she debuted the leading role of Licori in Vivaldis La Fida Ninfa at the renowned Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, which was recorded and released by CPO in January 2025. She has also sang various concerts at prestigious venues such as the Wiener Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Prague State Opera, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Palace of Culture Dresden, Philharmonie Cologne and Stuttgart Liederhalle.