Lyric soprano Lubov Karetnikova, a First Prize winner of the Debut Competition 2024, is celebrated for her powerful and clear voice, captivating stage presence, and refined musicality. Born in the United States and raised across Switzerland, Latvia, and Ukraine, she channels her multicultural upbringing into a unique approach to her art.

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Season 2026/2027 holds her return to Oper Frankfurt, this time as Emilia in Handel's Flavio, Re de' Longobardi, a role she also reprises in a second production at Staatstheater Meiningen. She further appears as Mimì in a new production of La Bohème at Landestheater Detmold, and makes her role debuts at Meiningen as Télaïre in Rameau's Castor et Pollux, Vitellia in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, and Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff, alongside a return as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Freia in Wagner's Das Rheingold.