Hermine Haselböck is known for her wide-ranging repertoire, spanning from Baroque to contemporary music and encompassing song, concert and opera.
She has worked with conductors such as Bertrand de Billy, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Martin Haselböck, Vladimir Fedosejev, Adam Fischer, Manfred Honeck, Karen Kamensek, Gustav Kuhn, Fabio Luisi, Kirill Petrenko, Martin Sieghart, Christian Thielemann, Erwin Ortner, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Franz Welser-Möst and Jaap van Zweden, and with orchestras including the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, MDR Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest The Hague, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, ORF Radio-Symphony Orchestra Vienna, Vienna Academy, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Spirit of Europe and Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra.
Her operatic roles include Hänsel (Hänsel and Gretel, Vienna Volksoper), Dorabella (Così fan tutte, Concertgebouw Amsterdam), Ramiro (La finta giardiniera, New National Opera Tokyo), Second Lady (The Magic Flute, Theater an der Wien and Grand Théâtre de la Ville Luxembourg), Mercedes (Carmen, under Nikolaus Harnoncourt at Styriarte), Ernesto (Il mondo della luna, Brucknerhaus Linz), Third Maid (Elektra, Baden-Baden Festival), Magdalene (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Floßhilde (Das Rheingold, Rome, conducted by Kirill Petrenko), Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde, Tyrolean Festival Erl and Beijing), Gertrud (Hänsel and Gretel, Opera Graz), Azucena (Il trovatore), Fricka (Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, Shanghai), as well as the Daughter in Ella Milch-Sheriff’s Baruch’s Silence at the EntArteOpera Festival Vienna.
Her concert repertoire is extensive and includes works by Bach (cantatas, passions), Handel (Judas Maccabaeus, Messiah), Mendelssohn (Elijah), Beethoven (Symphony No. 9, Missa solemnis), Mahler (Songs of a Wayfarer, Kindertotenlieder, Rückert Songs, Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3, Das Lied von der Erde), Wolf (Italian and Spanish Songbooks), Zemlinsky (Maeterlinck Songs), Wagner (Wesendonck Songs) and Verdi (Requiem).
International recital and concert performances have taken her to venues such as Carnegie Hall New York, the Vienna Musikverein, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Philharmonie am Gasteig Munich, the Frauenkirche Dresden, the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Bing Theater Los Angeles and the Teatro San Carlo Naples, as well as to festivals including Styriarte, Vienna Festival Weeks, KlangBogen Vienna, Gustav Mahler Music Weeks Toblach, Bachfest Leipzig, Brucknerfest Linz, Sagra Musicale Umbra Perugia, Kunstfest Weimar, MDR Musiksommer Leipzig, the Tyrolean Festival Erl and the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt.
Both of Hermine Haselböck’s solo CDs have received awards. Songs by Zemlinsky (Bridge Records) was awarded the Pasticcio Prize by ORF Ö1 in 2004 and the International Alexander Zemlinsky Prize in 2005, presented during a concert at the Vienna Musikverein. Her recording of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Rückert Songs (also Bridge Records) received the Supersonic Award from Pizzicato magazine.
Her discography further includes recordings such as Donizetti’s Adelia (Sony-BMG), Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Missa solemnis (Col Legno), Schubert’s Masses in A-flat and E-flat major (ORF / Gramola), Schulhoff’s Flammen (ORF, conducted by Bertrand de Billy), Schreker’s Lieder (Bridge Records), Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (CAvi-Music) and Symphony No. 2 (Evidence Classics), Strauss’ Elektra (DVD, Unitel), works by Weigl, Schlesinger, Kaprálová and Bosmans (EntArteOpera / Gramola), as well as Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung (Naxos, conducted by Jaap van Zweden).
Born in Melk, Austria, mezzo-soprano Hermine Haselböck studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Rita Streich and at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold with Ingeborg Ruß, graduating with performance and vocal pedagogy diplomas. Master classes and vocal studies with Sena Jurinac, Marjana Lipovšek, Christa Ludwig, Eva Randová, Brigitte Fassbaender and Carol Blaickner-Mayo provided important artistic impulses.
Hermine Haselböck has long been active in vocal pedagogy. She taught voice at the Richard Wagner Conservatory in Vienna and has been Guest Professor of Voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz since 2017. In 2020, she expanded her teaching activities to include the Johann Joseph Fux Conservatory in Graz. From 2022 to 2024 she was Professor of Voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW). Since 2025, she has been Full Professor of Voice and Head of the Voice Department at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG).