Johanna Winkel initially gained an excellent reputation in the Early Music scene and has since consistently been expanding her stylistic range to include Romantic and Modern repertoire. In concert she has sung with musicAeterna conducted by Teodor Currentzis, the Bonn Beethoven Orchestra conducted by Christof Prick, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Peter Dijkstra, the Cologne WDR Symphony Orchestra and Simon Halsey, Trevor Pinnock, Václav Luks, Jeffrey Tade, Frieder Bernius, Sylvain Cambreling, Alexander Liebreich, Howard Arman, Hans-Christoph Rademann, with the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra and Iván Fischer and many more.

Johanna Winkel also appears regularly on the opera stage. After already having performed the roles of Mimi, Donna Elvira and Micaela during her studies, she went on to sing the roles of Alcina (Handel, Alcina), Rosalinde (J. Strauss, Die Fledermaus), Agathe (Weber, Der Freischütz) and Leonore (Beethoven, Fidelio) at prominent opera houses in Germany to great success. Gerhilde in Wagner’s Die Walküre marked her début at the Salzburg Easter Festival under the baton of Christian Thielemann in 2017 and she subsequently repeated this role with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden and at Semperoper Dresden. After her first performances in 2016, Beethoven’s Leonore as become one of her signature roles and she has reprised it at the 2018 Styriarte Festival under the baton of Andrés Orozco-Estrada and in 2020 with Wroclaw Boroque Orchestra under the baton of Jos van Immerseel.

Johanna Winkel has contributed as a soloist to numerous prizewinning recordings. Her CD releases include Louis Spohr’s Die letzten Dinge with the Bremen Kammerphilharmonie, Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, works by Mendelssohn with the Bavarian Radio Choir and Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.