Sarah Wegener sings fabulously; every word is clear, she masters the highly dramatic outbursts just as naturally as the intimate, almost spoken passages. [...] Supernaturally beautiful. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Egbert Tholl, 13 November 2022

Sarah Wegener imbues every part with captivating intensity. With her warm timbre, she has thrilled audiences with Strauss's orchestral songs under Mariss Jansons and Vladimir Jurowski, Strauss's Four Last Songs under Daniel Harding, and Mahler's Symphony No. 8 under Kirill Petrenko, Vasily Petrenko, James Conlon, Eliahu Inbal and Kent Nagano. Her ‘wonderfully luminous, powerful and colourful voice’ (FAZ) also marks her out as a first-rate song interpreter, as can be heard on her highly acclaimed CDs ‘Into the Deepest Sea’ and ‘Zueignung’. A highlight of the past season was her successful role debut as Sieglinde; she appeared in concert performances of Wagner's Valkyrie with the Dresden Festival Orchestra and Concerto Köln under the baton of Kent Nagano in Prague, Amsterdam, Cologne, Hamburg, Dresden and Lucerne.

Strauss, Mahler and Wagner will also be the focus for Sarah Wegener in the 2024/25 season: she will return to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with the Four Last Songs, which she will perform under Domingo Hindoyan.
Sarah Wegener will be heard in Mahler's Symphony No. 8 at the Prague Spring Festival, and a semi-staged performance of the work will take her to the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner. She will reprise her role as Sieglinde in Act 1 of Die Walküre with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Petr Popelka in Trieste, as well as with the Orquesta de Valencia and Alexander Liebreich. She will also perform Dvořák's Stabat Mater with both the MDR Symphony Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and sing Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony, the latter again in Valencia. She will give recitals at the Oxford International Song Festival and the Cologne Philharmonic Hall.

Equally esteemed as an interpreter of the classical and romantic repertoire as well as contemporary compositions, Sarah Wegener has sung Sibelius' Luonnotar (Andris Nelsons, Gewandhaus Orchestra), Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri (Jérémie Rhorer and Le Cercle de l'Harmonie), Penderecki's St Luke Passion (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano), Bernstein's Kaddish (MDR Symphony Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies) and Schoenberg's Six Orchestral Songs (Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Emilio Pomarico). Her programme Krieg und Frieden (War and Peace), based on works by Handel and Purcell, was performed with the ensemble il capriccio at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival, among other venues. She has also premiered numerous works by Georg Friedrich Haas, including the opera Bluthaus. In 2021, she made her debut as Freia in Wagner's Rheingold in Cologne and Amsterdam with Concerto Köln and Kent Nagano.

Götz Payer has performed with more than 80 singers, including Sarah Wegener, Mojca Erdmann, Sibylla Rubens, Esther Dierkes, Samantha Gaul, KS Helene Schneiderman, Angela Brower, Deniz Uzun, Thilo Dahlmann, Cornelius Hauptmann, Konrad Jarnot, Björn Bürger, Johannes Held, Julian Prégardien, Andreas Weller and James Wagner. His chamber music partners have included the King's Singers, the Ensemble Cantissimo and the Amaryllis Quartet.

Concerts have taken him to festivals and concert halls in Europe, Asia and the USA. These include the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the European Music Festival Stuttgart, the Bach Festival Leipzig, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Atlanta Opera, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Oji Hall Tokyo, the Theatre Vladivostok, the Oxford International Song Festival, the Hugo Wolf Academy Stuttgart, the Shizuoka Hall, the Leopoldskron Palace Salzburg, the Nymphenburg Palace, the Opera Lille, the Chigiana Siena, the Elbphilharmonie, the Frankfurt Opera and the Cologne Philharmonic.

He has collaborated on over 35 CD productions for various labels. In 2013, a song composed by Götz Payer especially for the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht was premiered at a concert by the Atlanta Opera. He has also arranged music on numerous occasions, including the songs for Helene Schneiderman's CD ‘Makh tsu die Eygelech’.

As the official accompanist for numerous master classes, he has worked with artists such as Grace Bumbry, Ernst Haefliger, Kurt Moll, Matthias Goerne, Christoph Prégardien, Rudolf Piernay, Rudolf Jansen, Alberto Zedda and Gerd Uecker.