Franco-German soprano Neima Fischer studied with Sabine Ritterbusch, Anne Champert, and Jan Philip Schulze at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (Germany). She spent a year as an exchange student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where she was selected to participate in masterclasses and concerts with Ton Koopman at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
In 2025, she was nominated for the Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis for her Performance of the title role in Arianna in Creta at the 2024 Innsbruck Festival of Early Music. That same year, she was awarded a scholarship from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
In September 2025, Neima Fischer will join the Académie de l’Opéra national de Paris as a singer-in-residence. In spring 2025, she also appeared as Flora in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw at the Oldenburg State Theatre.
In the 2024/2025 season, she was a member of the Liedakademie of the Heidelberger Frühling Festival, where she took part in masterclasses with Thomas Hampson and Susan Manoff and gave several performances as part of the festival program. In 2023, she received the Young Artist Prize at the Pietro Antonio Cesti International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera (Innsbruck) and was a finalist in the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang (Berlin) in 2024.
During her studies, she appeared in a wide range of operatic roles, including the Mädchen in Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern, Colombine in Pierrot Lunaire – Mondsüchtig, Zaide (title role), Pleasure in The Choice of Hercules, and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas.
Equally at home on the concert stage, she has performed major works such as Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and St John Passion, Mozart’s Requiem, and Franck’s Les Béatitudes.
Neima Fischer has performed with ensembles and orchestras such as the Lautten Compagney (Berlin), the National Orchestra of Turkmenistan, Accademia Bizantina (Ravenna), the Oldenburg Opera Orchestra, VOCES8, and the Jupiter Ensemble, under the direction of conductors including Ottavio Dantone, Kai-Uwe Jirka, Hendrik Vestmann, Ton Koopman, and Thomas Dunford.