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1. Before we introduce your new release to our readers – what kind of drink would you recommend to sip on while they listen to your new music?
I would recommend my lovely listeners to pour an Espresso Martini into a black martini glass with a glitter rim and enjoy it slowly.
It is full of contrasts and opposites – just like “Ouvertüre” itself. It creates this intense energy that is difficult to put into words. That is exactly what I hope the song will give you, too: a feeling you can experience, rather than something you can easily describe.
2. Please give us an update about – new single, new album, tour dates, new videos?!
There is quite a lot happening at the moment. “Ouvertüre” is the first single from my debut album “Opera is Alive” and marks the beginning of a completely new era for GG Soprano. The song is also the prologue to the album and comes with a six-minute music film that introduces many of the musical, visual and personal themes that run through the entire work.
The album itself will be released on January 15, 2027. It is structured in three acts, following a journey from trauma, loss and isolation, through escape and extreme experiences, towards self-expression, community and ultimately arriving at oneself.
There will be several singles leading into the album, each opening another part of this world. After the album, I will continue developing it visually and on stage as well. My release concert will take place on January 15 in Munich at Kranhalle, Feierwerk, where I will bring all three acts to life through different outfits, movement, live visuals and performance.
So, yes – there are quite a few things coming. But I am trying not to reveal everything at once. I would rather let the world unfold piece by piece.
3. We live in times of many conspiracy theories. Which, harmless, theory would you wish were true?
I think it would be hilarious if the Pastafarian religion turned out to be real and we were all actually supposed to worship a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Honestly, some of the things happening in the world right now seem far more absurd to me than that. I also believe that anything funny deserves a chance to
become reality. And, by the way, carbohydrates are great. Low-carb diets must be some kind of punishment someone invented specifically to annoy women. Haha.
4. What fashion style or brand would best describe your music?
My strongest fashion reference is Thierry Mugler. I have always loved his designs, but I only discovered later that his connection to ballet and costume design was such an important part of his creative world. That made even more sense to me afterwards. His Winter 1995 collection is one of my absolute favourites.
What fascinates me about fashion is the crossing of worlds: classical aesthetics and streetwear, elegance and excess, beauty and something slightly strange or provocative. I enjoy designing and styling these contrasts myself and being involved in the direction of the entire visual world rather than simply choosing an outfit.
There is also something very personal about that for me. I often feel quite unusual on the inside while looking completely ordinary from the outside. When I allow the styling to become more extreme, more theatrical or more extravagant, I sometimes feel that my outside finally catches up with my inside. That creates a strange sense of balance.
So my fashion world is probably best described as a collision of couture, costume, opera, streetwear and performance – with a lot of room for exaggeration.
5. Tell us more about your songs! Topics! Message!?
My songs are very personal, but I never wanted to tell my story in a purely autobiographical way. I am more interested in turning personal experiences into something that can become universal.
The album moves through themes of identity, loss, isolation, escape, excess, transformation and finally finding a sense of belonging. It is about what happens when you feel like you don’t fit anywhere, when you try to escape yourself, and eventually realise that being different can actually lead you to the people and places where you belong.
Musically, I use opera, rap and pop as different tools to express these different states. Sometimes the music is vulnerable and intimate, sometimes it is aggressive, excessive or playful. I don’t want to tell people what they should feel or think. I want to create a world that they can enter and find their own meaning in. At the heart of it, the message is quite simple: you don’t have to become someone else to belong. There is a lot of freedom in becoming fully yourself.
6. Beside music, do you have any special talents?
I have a slightly strange relationship with hobbies because I tend to become very interested in completely different things. I genuinely love reading difficult books from classical literature, especially the kind of books you have to really concentrate on and probably read twice to fully understand. I actually enjoy that.
I also like learning and doing very different things in my free time. I get bored when everything becomes too specialised, so I like having several completely different interests at the same time. For me, there is something exciting about being a beginner at something again and discovering a completely different way of thinking. So maybe my special talent is being endlessly curious – and somehow turning that curiosity into new obsessions.
7. Name 5 things we all should know about you as an artist?!
Five things you should know about me as an artist:
1. I don’t believe in genre boundaries. Opera, rap and pop are all tools I can use to express an idea.
2. I believe opera can be an incredibly modern medium and that it can be made accessible to everyone, without taking away its complexity or depth.
3. I write all of my lyrics myself. It is important to me that my perspective and my words remain my own.
4. I allow myself to think big, even when I sometimes feel that the German music industry isn’t necessarily prepared for the scale of what I want to create.
5. WE NEED ORIGINAL MUSIC. WE NEED ORIGINAL WOMEN IN MUSIC.
6. The road so far…. who or what was your biggest support?
I think my biggest support has actually come from many different places. One of the most important things is probably my ability to envision things very clearly and to think in 360-degree concepts. I can see a world in my head before it exists, and that gives me a lot of energy to actually build it.
I have also been incredibly supported by people from the rap world, by my vocal teachers in both pop and classical singing, and increasingly by my team. Everyone brings a different special skill to the project, and what means a lot to me is that they are willing to give 120% to something that is not necessarily “profitable” in the traditional sense, but because they believe in the art and in creating something new.
My friends and family have always stood by me as well. And my fans have surprised me enormously, especially last year when I experienced a very intense wave of hate online. They defended me and at the same time helped carry the music to more than five million views.
I have also learned a lot simply by doing it myself. I booked around 30 shows 2025 independently, built the project step by step and had support and recognition from institutions and platforms such as the Wiener Staatsoper, GEMA, TEDx, WDR and Deutschlandfunk.
So I don’t think there is one person or one moment I could name. It has been this growing ecosystem of people who believe in the vision, combined with my own stubbornness to keep building it even when the path wasn’t obvious.
9. A question you’d like to answer, but never been asked in an interview before?! + Answer pls What do you think people misunderstand most about you?
I think people sometimes mistake confidence for a lack of vulnerability. Because GG Soprano is such a strong and highly controlled character visually and artistically, it can be easy to assume that everything about me is calculated or that I don’t question myself.
In reality, there is a very vulnerable person behind all of that. A lot of the confidence you see in my work comes from having experienced the opposite: feeling like I was too much, too strange or simply not fitting into the spaces around me.
I also think people sometimes see the ambition and the big vision and assume that it comes from wanting attention or wanting to be famous. Of course I would love to reach a lot of people, but the attention itself isn’t the goal. I want to create something that feels genuinely mine and see how far that idea can go.
GG Soprano is not about pretending to be fearless. It is about allowing yourself to be fully visible, even when you know that not everyone will understand you.
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