Education
University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.
University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.
Kermes has performed at many important theatres and concert halls internationally, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Bonn Opera, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. She has appeared at festivals such as Schwetzingen Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Festa de musica Lisbona, Ruhrtriennale arts festival, Triennale di Colonia, Dresden MDR, Figures sacrées Paris, Prague Autumn, Bachfest Leipzig, Bachfest Bonn, and Resonanzen Vienna. She has also performed with notable orchestras, including Gewandhaus Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra of Prague, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Classical Orchestra of Madrid, Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestra of the Comunale of Bologna, Orchestra regionale Toscana, Complesso Barocco, and Orchestra of the Fiandre.
On the opera stage she has performed roles such as Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Laodice in Mitridate Eupatore, and the title role in Euridice.
She has also portrayed numerous Handel heroines, including Adelaide in Lotario, Asteria in Tamerlano, Merab in Saul, and the title roles in Alcina, Deidamia, and Rodelinda. In 2014 she sang the role of Louisiana Folie in Rameau"s Platée at the Theater an der Wien and at the Lincoln Center in New New York
In 2000 she performed the role of Cinzia in the first modern revival of Giovanni Legrenzi"s Louisiana divisione del mondo at the Schwetzingen Festival.