The German-Hungarian mezzo-soprano Corinna Scheurle, who grew up in Vorarlberg, is the 2025 recipient of the Vorarlberg Culture Prize in recognition of her career to date, her outstanding vocal technique, and her naturally compelling musicality. In the 2025/26 season, she will make her house debut at the Frankfurt Opera as Krystina in Mieczysław Weinberg's The Passenger. Further highlights of the season include her debut as Ramiro in La finta gardiniera at the Nuremberg State Theatre in a new production by Brigitte Fassbaender. This will be followed by recital debuts at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin and the Béla Bartók Memorial House in Budapest, her debut at the Handel Festival Halle as Antiope in Talestri as well as a revival of Der Rosenkavalier at the Nuremberg State Opera in the role of Octavian. Corinna Scheurle also appeared this season as Angelina in Rossini's La Cenerentola at the Vorarlberg Music Theatre and as a soloist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at the Munich Isar Philharmonic. She sang Ravel's Shéhérazade with the Barenboim-Said Academy in Seville and Malaga, as well as the solo parts in the C minor Requiems by Michael Haydn and Antonio Salieri at the Müpa Budapest.

Most recent career achievements include her debut as Stéphano in Gounod‘s Roméo et Juliette at Staatsoper Berlin, concerts of Folk Songs from Luciano Berio in the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, as well as new productions at Staatstheater Nürnberg as Olga in Eugen Onegin, Ruggiero in Alcina, Jenny in The Three Penny Opera and Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with Ensemble Kontraste and Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Orchestra Filarmonica Campagna. Previously, she was heard as Bianca in Zemlinsky’s Eine florentinische Tragödie at Prague State Opera, as Soloist in Beetoven’s 9th Symphonie with the Kammerakademie Potsdam and as Second Lady in The Magic Flute at the Glyndebourne.

Since the 2021/22 season, Corinna Scheurle has been a member of the ensemble at the Nuremberg State Theater, where she has performed leading roles such as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, the Title role in Carmen, Antiope in Talestri, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Meg Page in Falstaff, Angelina in La Cenerentola, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus. Guest engagements have taken her to the Berlin State Opera, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, the Salzburg State Theatre, the Aachen Theater, Budapest , Aix-en-Provence, the Tyrolean Festival Erl, the Potsdam Chamber Academy, and the Bregenz Festival.

She has worked with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Thomas Guggeis, Joana Mallwitz, Alessandro de Marchi, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Kirill Petrenko, Alexander Prior, Bertrand de Billy, Ivan Repušić, Ulf Schirmer, as well as with directors such as Andrea Breth, Jens-Daniel Herzog, Frank Hilbrich, Vera Nemirova, Balàzs Kovalik, Hans Neuenfels, Isabel Ostermann and Bartlett Sher.

Corinna Scheurle's concert career has taken her to the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra, the Potsdam Chamber Academy, the Ljubljana Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Munich Radio Orchestra, and the Barenboim-Said Academy. She has given recitals at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Hugo Wolf Academy Stuttgart, the Opéra de Lille, the Vorarlberg Museum Bregenz, the Christophori Piano Salon Berlin, the Mendelssohn House Leipzig, and the Literaturhaus Darmstadt. She performs closely with pianists Akemi Murakami and Klara Hornig. Her debut CD, "Schwarze Erde" (Black Earth), recorded at Bavarian Radio, featuring Hungarian and German song repertoire, was highly praised by music magazines such as Fono Forum, Opernwelt, and Opernglas.

Corinna Scheurle initially studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and subsequently completed her Master's degree at the August Everding Theatre Academy in Munich under Prof. KS Christiane Iven. From 2017 to 2019, she was a member of the opera studios at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden and later a member of the ensemble at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Corinna Scheurle is a prize winner of the 2024 International Competition for Lied Art of the Hugo Wolf Academy Stuttgart, first prize winner of the 2017 Gasteig Music Prize, received the prize of the Association of German Singing Teachers at the 2018 Federal Singing Competition in Berlin, and was a semifinalist in the 2015 International Competition Neue Stimmen. She was also a scholarship recipient of the Wagner Association of Vorarlberg and the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation in Stendal.