In summer 2004 Marlene Lichtenberg made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as BRANGÄNE in “Tristan und Isolde”. In this very role, she had already succeeded at the Opera House Halle. In 2025 she also sings BRANGÄNE at the Lübeck Theatre. In the season 2024/25 she also portrays LISA in “The Passenger” here.

Other engagements took her lately as ERDA in “Rheingold” and WALTRAUTE in “Götterdämmerung” to the Braunschweig State Opera, as KOSTELNICKA in “Jenufa”, ULRICA in “Un ballo in maschera”, as the FOREIGN PRINCESS in “Rusalka” to the Opera House Halle and as VENUS in “Tannhäuser” to the Tyrolean Festival.

Before, Marlene Lichtenberg could be seen in numerous roles such as EBOLI in “Don Carlo”, AMNERIS in “Aida”,FLOSSHILDE, FRICKA, WALTRAUTE, 1st NORNE in “Der Ring des Nibelungen”, JEZIBABA ( Rusalka), NIKLAS (The Tales of Hoffmann), ORFEO, HÄNSEL, BRADAMANTE, LEONORE in “La Favorita” and CARMEN at the Cottbus State Theatre.

Marlene was discovered in the year 2001 by the conductor Fritz Weisse - Founder of the National Singing Competitions - in her native village in South Tyrol, whereupon she studied Singing at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the renowned Janáček Academy in Brno.
She attended master classes with the Kammersängerinnen Hilde Zadek and Sena Jurinac.
She was influenced by both her first teacher, the legendary Czech bass baritone Richard Novák, Janina Baechle and Vito Maria Brunetti.

The good-looking artist, whose voice is equipped with profound deep tones, made her opera debut in 2007 at the Festival d‘Opéra Avenches.
Guest performances brought her as MADDALENA (Rigoletto) to the Teatro Regio di Torino,with the title part in Philippe Boesman’s JULIE to the Teatro Comunale Bolzano and as ULRICA to the Kosice State Theatre and Brixen.
She achieved huge successes with her portrayal of CARMEN at the Riga National Opera and the Liberec Opera.. She was the 1st VIRGIN in “Elektra” at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, ZIA PRINCIPESSA in “Suor Angelica” in Sirmione and at the Lübeck Theatre , ULRICA in “Un ballo in Maschera” at the Teatro Malatesta di Montefiore Conca, GERTRUDE (in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette) at the Teatro di Pisa and at the Teatro Alighieri di Ravenna, the MAID in “Titanic” at the am Volkstheater Rostock and FENENA Bad Hersfeld Opera Festival, a portrayal that was awarded with the Opera Prize for the best Singer.

Moreover, Marlene Lichtenberg is a very much sought-after concert soloist. She performed with the famous Leipzig Thomaner Choir at the Berlin Philharmonic. She sang with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, performed the Mozart Requiem in Bremen and Bach’s Mass in B Minor at the Beethoven Hall in Bonn. Besides, she enthralled the audience with Mahler's 3rd Symphony on the occasion of the opening of the Brandenburg Summer Concerts. With the Orchestra of the Darmstadt State Theatre, she could be heard in the Passion of Saint John.