Berlin-born Nina Bezu “has an elegant, even sophisticated, queenly soprano voice” (Oper! 5-6/25). “As a lyric-dramatic soprano with a soft, well-controlled voice, she combines vocal talent with impressive stage presence” (OperaLibera, May 20, 2025).

In the current 2025/26 season, she will appear as Hanna Glawari in the new production of Die lustige Witwe at the Theater Baden, with the Dresden Philharmonic under Sir Donald Runnicles in Richard Strauss' Elektra, before taking on the title role in the new production of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki.

Nina Bezu recently celebrated a series of significant debuts, including the title role in Strauss' Salome and Elisabetta in David Livermore's new production of Verdi's Don Carlo, both at the Finnish National Opera under Hannu Lintu, during the 2024/25 season. In another house debut, she returned to Salome at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo and was hailed by audiences and press alike as “the great discovery of the evening” (OperaLibera). She ends her season with her role debut as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus at the Wertinger Festspiele. In

February 2025, her debut album “Überweltlich / Apparition” was released on the Schweizer Fonogramm label, on which she interprets art songs by George Crumb, Richard Strauss, and Franz Schubert together with pianist Matthias Alteheld.

During the 2023/24 season, she gave her house debut at Hanover State Opera as Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro). She performed Verdi's Messa da Requiem, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, and Mendelssohn's Paulus, all at the Herkulessaal in Munich, as well as gala concerts at the Auditorio de Zaragoza with the Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Zaragoza, at the Theater Kempten with the Smetana Philharmonic Prague, and with the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra at the Türk Telekom Opera Hall. With the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire under the direction of Sascha Goetzel and together with e.g. René Pape, she sang concerts featuring Verdi's Messa da Requiem in Angers and Nantes.

2022/23, she gave her role debut as Violetta (La Traviata) at the Castle Glatt Opera Festival, returned to Cottbus as Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro) and gave her house debut at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples as Gerhilde (Die Walküre) alongside Jonas Kaufmann and under the musical direction of Dan Ettinger. In Munich’s Herkulessaal, she could be heard in Dvořák's Stabat Mater.

In the 2021/22 season, she made her debuts at Leipzig Opera as Mariana in Wagner's Das Liebesverbot, as the First Lady (Die Zauberflöte) and as the soprano soloist in Beethoven's 9th Symphony at Brunswick State Theater, as well as Contessa in the new production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Cottbus State Theater.

During the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons, she was a member of the ensemble of the Western Pomeranian Theater. There, she appeared as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, as Dido in Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, and as Brigomeïde and Minna in Detlev Glanert's Die drei Wasserspiele. In the 2018/19 season and before joining the ensemble there, she had already guest-starred at the Western Pomeranian Theater as the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte).

In previous seasons, Nina Bezu gave guest performances at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Castle Glatt Opera Festival, the Teatro Principal de Zaragoza, Auditorium Zaragoza, and others.

The soprano was invited by UEFA to sing at the opening ceremony of the 24th Champions League Final in 2015 at the Berlin Olympic Stadium.

She is the winner of the Elizabeth Connell Prize - International Singing Competition for Dramatic Sopranos, the Schloss Rheinsberg Singing Competition, finalist in the Concurso Internacional Alfredo Kraus, the International Competition for Wagnerian Voices in Karlsruhe, and the New York International Vocal Competition. She is alumna of the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation and the Olga Forrai Foundation since 2023.

Nina Bezu studied at the Berlin University of the Arts with Robert Gambill and Carola Höhn, where she graduated with honors. She received further artistic impulses in masterclasses with Christiane Iven, Thomas Quasthoff, Norma Sharp, and Teresa Berganza.