Dorottya Láng was born in Budapest and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She is the winner of several prestigious competitions, including the Wigmore Hall Kohn Foundation International Song Competition in London and the SWR Emmerich Smola Competition in Germany, and was invited to the renowned Mozart Academy of the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
The mezzo-soprano has been a member of the ensembles of the Vienna Volksoper, Nationaltheater Mannheim and Hamburg State Opera. Her repertoire includes roles such as Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Marguerite (La damnation de Faust), Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Varvara (Katja Kabanova), Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Judith (Bluebeard’s Castle), and Adriano (Rienzi).
As a guest artist, she has appeared at numerous leading opera houses, including Oslo Opera House, the Ruhrtriennale under the baton of Theodor Currentzis, and Deutsche Oper am Rhein. She recently achieved outstanding success as Die Dame in Hindemith’s Cardillac at Zurich Opera House, directed by Kornél Mundruczó.
An acclaimed recital and concert performer, She has appeared at the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Oxford Lieder Festival, Müpa Budapest (Palace of Arts), Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Hugo-Wolf-Akademie, Fundación Juan March in Spain, and made her Wigmore Hall recital debut as part of the Rosenblatt Recital Series with Helmut Deutsch.
Her concert appearances have included Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Berlin Philharmonic, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Franz Schmidt’s Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln at the Musikverein Vienna under Ingo Metzmacher, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius conducted by Markus Stenz, Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Sinfonieorchester Basel under Hans-Christoph Rademann, and Romeo Castellucci’s staged production of Bach’s St Matthew Passion at Hamburg State Opera under Kent Nagano.
She is a regular guest at the Wiener Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Elbphilharmonie, Berliner Philharmonie and Müpa Budapest. She has worked with distinguished conductors including Adam Fischer, Iván Fischer, Jonathan Nott, Fabio Luisi, Ottavio Dantone, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Cornelius Meister.
In June 2022, she appeared to great acclaim as Adriano in a concert performance of Wagner’s Rienzi at the Budapest Wagner Days, where she will return in 2027 as Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde.
She was recently heard as Judith in Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle at the BBC Proms and the Enescu Festival with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Her stage debuts in the 2026/27 season include the Composer in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at Opéra national du Rhin, Judith at the Adelaide Festival in Australia, and Brangäne at the Municipal Theatre of Santiago, Chile.
