Dorothee Jansen was born in Bonn and began her career at the Cologne Opera, where she has sung the roles of Fiordiligi, Pamina, Cherubino, Musetta and Annina (Eine Nacht in Venedig).

Miss Jansen has also sung Pamina and 1. Dame at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich; Dorisbe (Cesti's L'argia) in Lausanne and Paris; 1. Dame and Naiad at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Anne Truelove in Lausanne and Paris; Woglinde in Geneva. She has appeared at the Bayreuth Festival in Parsifal and in Der Ring der Niebelungen and has worked with Muti, Cambreling, Gielen, Eschenbach, Flohr, Inbal, Rilling, Russell Davies, Hogwood, Thielemann, Tate, de Burgos, A. Fischer, Satu, Jacobs and with the late G. Sinopoli and H. Wallberg.

Miss Jansen works extensively in the field of Lieder. Together with pianist Francis Grier (one of England's most distinguished choral composers), the Jansen-Grier-Duo recently performed and recorded FRANZ SCHUBERT: New Perspectives, a series of Schubert programmes conceived for the duo by the English Schubert-Dramaturg, Dr Nicholas Rast. Since 2000, programmes from FRANZ SCHUBERT: ‘New Perspectives' have been performed increasingly in Germany, Belgium, England, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg and New Zealand.

Miss Jansen's recent and forthcoming engagements include Die Zauberflöte at the Ruhrtriennale Festival; Ascanio in Alba in Bologna; Die Schöpfung in Berlin, Leipzig and Halle; Carmina Burana in Berlin; Messiah in Munich, Vienna, Antwerp and on tour in The Netherlands; Die Jahreszeiten in Frankfurt, Bremen and Freiburg; Myslivecek's “Isacco figura del Redentore” for Radio France; Brahms' Requiem for RAI in Turin; Das Paradies und die Peri in Vienna, Mainz, Freiburg and Turin; Missa Solemnis in Munich; Bach's Mass in B Minor at the Concertgebouw; Poulenc's Gloria, Brahms' Requiem and Mendelssohn's Psalm 42 with the Folkestone Choral Society, Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Milan; Leonore (1806) version, in concert, in Bonn, and Schubert recitals in Bonn, Duisburg, Grafenegg, Florence, Geneva and at London's Wigmore Hall.