Renate Kupfer was born in New Ulm, Germany.
In addition to her studies at school and lycee, she studied piano, acting and modern dance; 
she had contracts as a singer and ballerina in the Ulm Theatre.
From 1961 to 1970 Renate Kupfer studied singing in Milan, Stuttgart and Vienna.
In the 1970s she worked at the Wiener Staatoper.
In the early 1980s she managed recordings of operas and other vocal works of the Hamburg 
based Deutsche Grammophon in Berlin, Dresden, London, Milan, Prague and Vienna, 
where she made recordings with  conductors Carlo Maria Giulini, Leopold Hager, 
Bernhard Klee, Herbert von Karajan and Guiseppe Sinopoli.
From 1983 to 1988 she was the Director of Artistic Planning and Preparation at the 
Hamburg State Opera.
In the early 1990s she was named Executive Producer responsible for the ideas, planning, 
organization and implementation of opera and vocal works for Teldec Classics International, 
for which she recorded in Amsterdam, Berlin, Cardiff, Chicago, Dresden, Edinburgh, London, 
Lausanne, Monaco, New York, Rome, Venice, Vienna, San Francisco, and Zurich. 
Among her recordings were performances with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, 
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Jesus Lopez-Kobos, Kurt Mazur, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, 
Carlo Ricci and Giuseppe Sinopoli.
Renate Kupfer became Director of Programming and Artistic Preparation at the Rome Opera 
in 1999 and Casting Consultant at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo in 2004.
Renate Kupfer has frequently been called upon to be a Jury member at international vocal c
ompetitions since 1986.

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