Since the 2014/15 season, Lavinia Dames has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, where she has performed roles in her repertoire such as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Nanetta (Falstaff), Norina (Don Pasquale), Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Musetta (La Bohème) and Servilia (La Clemenza di Tito). In 2019, she interpreted Anabella in the world premiere of Anno Schreier's opera „Schade, dass sie eine Hure“ war.
In the 2024/25 season, she will sing Pamina and Gretel again and make her debut as Chang-Haitang (Der Kreidekreis) and Woglinde (Das Rheingold).
She also gives recitals of songs by Richard Strauss together with the pianist Carson Becke at the Mosel Music Festival and elsewhere.
Guest performances and appearances have taken her to the Komische Oper Berlin (Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Pamina), the Kungliga Operan Stockholm (Susanna), the Royal Opera Copenhagen (Susanna), the Theater St. Gallen (Adina), the Staatstheater Wiesbaden (Servillia), the Oper Köln (Pamina), the Staatstheater Klagenfurt (Gretel, Isotta in Die Schweigsame Frau) and the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich (Isotta). In summer 2024, she made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival as the Flower Girl in Parsifal and will sing the soprano solo in “La Passion de Simone” by Kaija Saariaho at the Cologne Opera in May 2025.
She has also performed at the Vienna Konzerthaus (Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri) and the Vienna Musikverein. She has performed with the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra (Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Brahms' A German Requiem), the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra (Mahler No. 2) and the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra (Haydn's The Creation). In 2019, she performed Betty in Lortzing's Zum Großadmiral at the Prinzregententheater with the Munich Radio Orchestra and interpreted Benjamin Britten's Les Illuminations with the Saarland State Orchestra in the 2020/21 season.
Lavinia Dames was a student of the Early Promotion of the Musically Gifted (IFF) at the Hanover University of Music with Prof. Gerhard Faulstich until 2010. She completed her vocal studies in 2014 with distinction at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Gabriele Lechner and Peter Edelmann.
She is a prizewinner of the Cantilena and Ferruccio Tagliavini singing competitions and winner of the Kärtner Sparkassen Music Scholarship. She is a multiple scholarship holder of the Young Musicians Foundation Bayreuth and in the 2015/16 season of the Mozart Society Dortmund.
