The soprano was born in Kronberg im Taunus. She took her first violin classes at the age of six and joined very soon the children's choir of the Hessian Radio. In Mannheim she studied singing with Vera Scherr and Rudolf Piernay and in Saarbrücken song creation with Irwin Gage. She has taken part in master classes with Cornelius L. Reid, Edith Wiens, Christoph Prégardien, Axel Bauni and Ulrich Eisenlohr. Caroline Melzer is award winner and finalist of different contests and scholarship holder of the opera course of the Händel-Akademie Karlsruhe (2002), the Richard-Wagner-Association (2004), as well as, in the year 2005, of the Steans Institute for Young Artists, Ravinia Festival, Chicago/USA. She has given concerts with such orchestras as the Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz, Musica ad Rhenum Amsterdam, the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Munich Bach Soloists, the Nuremberg Symphonic and Philharmonic. A very active cooperation links Caroline Melzer to the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. Invitations to festivals, such as the Nibelungen Festival in Worms, the Mozartfest Würzburg, the Rheingau-Musik-Festival and the Herbstliche Musiktage Bad Urach, followed. Numerous recordings, live-recordings and productions (SWR, HR) resulted in the scope of song and concert. Recitals with the pianist Anette Fischer-Lichdi took her to Spain and Belgium. Already during her studies, Caroline Melzer was engaged for some important parts of the lyric mode by different opera houses. She sang Donna Elvira in »Don Giovanni« for the Cottbus Staatstheater, the Landestheater Detmold and the Lübeck Theatre. After the great success of »The Merry Widow«, she was again engaged in Kaiserslautern for the title part in the operetta »Madame Pompadour« and the part of Fanny in the scenic debut performance of the rediscovered opera »The Uncle from Boston«by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Caroline Melzer will join the ensemble of the Komische Oper in the 2007/08 season. Here she will sing the parts of Donna Elvira in »Don Giovanni«, Antonia in »Tales of Hoffmann« and Agilea in the new production of »Theseus«.