Contralto Henriette Gödde is looking forward to several musical highlights in the 2023/2024 season. She is invited to perform on several occasions at the Berlin Konzerthaus: with the Singakademie Berlin conducted by Achim Zimmermann and the Dresden Kreuzchor directed by Martin Lehmann. Henriette also looks forward to renewed collaborations with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and the Stuttgart Bach Academy. She travels beyond the German border to sing Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in St. Gallen (Switzerland) and a staged version in Athens, Greece. Performances in the Dresden Frauenkirche include a rendition of Bach’s St. John Passion on Good Friday. Henriette Gödde will conclude the 2023/2024 concert season with appearances at the Bach Festival in Leipzig.

Henriette Gödde studied voice with Prof. Christiane Junghanns at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden, where she received valuable counsel in the discipline of art song from the renowned baritone Olaf Bär, graduating with honors in the specialties of Lied and concert singing. She currently lives with her family in Leipzig.

Henriette Gödde has made herself a name as a concert soloist at a great number of German and international venues. Her repertoire not only comprises the cantatas, oratorios, and passions of J. S. Bach and his contemporaries but also spans the great 19th-century oratorios and many other outstanding vocal works leading up to contemporary music. She has performed at major international events including the Bach Festivals in Leipzig and Dresden, the Handel Festival in Halle, Dresden Music Festival, and Stuttgart Music Festival.

Gödde has often been invited to perform with renowned orchestras and ensembles, including Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti, Gaechinger Cantorey (Helmuth Rilling, Hans-Christoph Rademann), Collegium 1704 (Václav Luks), Ensemble Modern (Kent Nagano), Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon (Leonard Slatkin), the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Jaap van Zweeden), RIAS Chamber Choir (Justin Doyle), Athens State Orchestra (Christoph Poppen), and the St. Thomas Choir in Leipzig.

Henriette Gödde has also made a great number of guest appearances at German and Austrian opera houses. She recently sang the role of Third Lady in Mozart’s Magic Flute (Karsten Januschke) for the Sankt Margarethen Opera Festival. In her Leipzig Opera début, she covered the role of Erda in Wagner’s Ring tetralogy. Moreover, she has been invited to guest performances at the opera houses of Weimar, Magdeburg, Halle, and Erfurt. In 2014 she sang her début at Salzburg Festival within the framework of the YoungSingersProjekt.

An increasing number of CD recordings showcase Henriette Gödde’s elevated artistic standards. In 2023, the GENUIN Classics label released a recording of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony in Bruno Walter's arrangement. Two further productions are to follow in 2024: Max Reger’s Requiem and a CD with newly discovered cantatas by Christian Ludwig Bocksberg.

Henriette Gödde has won several prizes for her outstanding artistry in the Lied and Oratorio genres. In Zwickau, she won 1st Prize at the Robert Schumann Competition; in Rome, she won 1st Prize at the International Sacred Music Competition. She also won 2nd Prize at the German National Voice Competition in Berlin.

Henriette Gödde cultivates the Lied genre with a passion; accompanied by her duo partner, Prof. Michael Schütze, she gives vocal recitals all over Germany.