Critics and audiences alike have nothing but rapturous praise for the voice of Anja Harteros. Some experts even regard her as the greatest female singer of the present day. With her broad palette of vocal colours, she is the ideal interpreter of Romantic songs for voice and orchestra. The fin de siecle atmosphere of Berg's Seven Early Songs, Wagner's Tristanesque conjuration of love in his Wesendonck-Lieder and Mahler's focus on a world of private introspection in his Ruckert-Lieder offer Anja Harteros ample scope for her multifaceted musical sensitivity.