Since 2019 Karis Tucker has been a member of the Ensemble at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Here, she can be seen as FLOSSHILDE in “Das Rheingold”, ROSSWEISSE in “Die Walküre”, 2. NORNE in “Götterdämmerung” in Stefan Herheim’s new RING,as well as ROSE in “Lakmé”, ADONELLA in “Francesca da Rimini”, MYRTALE in “Thais”, HERMIA in “A midsummer night's dream”, BARENE in “Jenufa”, MERCEDES in “Carmen”, SECOND DAME in “Die Zauberflöte”, FLORA in “La Traviata”, SUZUKI in “Madama Butterfly”, FENENA in “Nabucco”, HÄNSEL in “Hänsel und Gretel”, ORLOFSKY in “Die Fledermaus”. 

 

In 2026 she debuts at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as EBOLI in “Don Carlo” and as WALTRAUTE in “Die Walküre” at the Bayreuth Festival. 

 

In 2025  she made her debut as PRINCESS CLARISSE in “The Love to the 3 Oranges” at the Korea National Opera and was re-engaged here in 2026 as CHARLOTTE in “Werther”. In the season 2025/26 she also debuts at the Dresden Philharmonic and sings Wagner’s WESENDONCK Lieder with the Würzburg Philharmonic Orchestra. 

 

Besides, in 2024/ 25 she was THIRZA in “The Wreckers” at the Meiningen and the Schwerin State Theatre.  Before, she already succeeded with this very role at the  Glyndebourne Festival, the BBC Proms and with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.  She sang the Verdi Requiem with the Deutsche Symphony Orchestra Berlin and In 2025 she portrayed a FLOWER MAIDEN next to Jonas Kaufman at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl.    

 

Karis works with such renowned conductors such as  Donald Runnicles, John Fiore, Alexander Vedernikov, Ramon Tebár and directors like  Stefan Herheim, Christof Loy, David Alden, Neil Barry Moss...

 

The American-Rumanian singer studied at the University of Southern Mississippi and at the University of Cincinnati / College-Conservatory of Music where she got her diploma in 2019.

She has joined young artists programs with the Des Moines Metro Opera in 2019, the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in 2018 as well as with the CCM Opera Bootscamp in 2017.

 

Karis is Ohio District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council. 

In 2020 she received a scholarship from the Friends of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She is currently studying with Adina Nitescu.

While still studying at the Cincinnati College of Music she already sang first roles such as THE OLD LADY in “Candide”, LA ZIA PRINCIPESSA in “Suor Angelica”, MRS. GROSE in “The Turn of the Screw” .

Her first CARMEN she performed at the Southern Opera and Musical Theatre.