The American soprano, Robin Johannsen, studied singing at the University of Cincinnati. Among her many awards are the Friedrich Schorr Memorial Performance Prize in Voice, the Liederkranz Foundation Prize and the Alberto Vilar Scholarship of the American Berlin Opera Foundation. Among her engagements during the 2001-2002 season were a gala concert in Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center in New York, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Madame Herz in W.A. Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor, Pamina in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Gilda in Rigoletto. 　　Robin Johannsen came to Europe in 2002 as a scholarship-holder of the American Berlin Opera Foundation and joined the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, where her roles during her first, exceptionally successful, season with the company included Barbarina in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Jano in Jenufa, the Sandman and Dew Fairy in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel and the Young Shepherd in Tannhäuser. She became a permanent member of the Deutsche Oper at the start of the 2003-2004 season, her new roles including Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Norina in Don Pasquale, Aljeja in Aus einem Totenhaus, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, and Soeur Constance in Francis Poulenc's Les dialogues des Carmélites over the next three seasons, as well as the soprano soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana. In summer 2003 she made her Bayreuth Festival debut as the Young Shepherd in Tannhäuser; she continued to appear as the Shepherd and the Forest Bird in Siegfried for the following five seasons. In 2008, she sang there the Voice of the Woodbird. Between 2005 and 2007 she was engaged by Oper Leipzig in a repertoire that included Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel and Blonde in a new production of W.A. Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, as well as Marzelline and Valencienne. Guest engagements have taken her to the Mannheim National Theatre, the Musica Mallorca Festival and to Barcelona.