The soprano received her vocal training as a master student with Kammersänger (title awarded to a singer with outstanding ability) Peter Gougaloff at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. After completing her instrumental studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hanover [School of Music and Theatre], her bel canto studies introduced her to Mirella Freni. She further undertook a two-and-a-half year breathwork course and received advanced improvisation, rhythmic and movement coaching.

Opera and concert performances have taken her to Switzerland, the USA, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, the Czech Republic and Germany. She has participated in radio, CD and TV recordings for, among others, Deutschlandradio, Westdeutscher and Hessischer Rundfunk, the Danish national radio, the Lithuanian national radio, Polskie Radio Szczecin, TV Kraków, Bucharest television and the labels Profil Hänssler (RUSSIAN SONGS, 2010), Dreyer-Gaido (Wie ein Cherub aus den Wolken, 2003; La Note d’Or, 2006), as well as the Potsdam Eastern Europe publication series (Edwin Geist – Chamber Music and Songs, 2007).

In 2010 the comprehensive and innovative film (title: The Liberation of Sound – New Directions in Classical Singing) about Verena Rein and her work is going to be released!

She made her opera debut in Switzerland as Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen. Her most notable roles since then have included Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata (which soon became her best role), Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Agathe in Weber's Der Freischütz.
Recitals have become a major component of her work as an artist. She has performed at several international festivals, including the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, the Internationaler Musiksommer "NordTöne", the Reconstruction Concerts for the Dresden Frauenkirche (Wiederaufbaukonzerte), the Lausitzer Musiksommer, the Summer Festival at Rosenholm Castle, Danmark, the Karol Szymanowski Music Days in Zakopane, Poland, the Christopher Summer Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania, and the International Festival of Lyrical Art as part of the European Cultural Capital 2007: Sibiu programme.
Verena Rein is further known as a performer of different styles of contemporary music, from duets to vocal works with orchestra.

The soprano has been achieving great success in both Germany and abroad* in conducting master classes on such diverse subjects as stage performance and stage presence training, lieder interpretation, classical Italian bel canto techniques, as well as breath and timbre control. She previously held a chair at Shenandoah University* in Winchester, VA (USA).
She currently teaches stage performance and stage presence to the lieder class of Prof. Axel Bauni at the Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin [Berlin University of the Arts], as well as courses at the Landesmusikakademie Berlin. Verena Rein also works as a publicist and writer. Further information can be found on her website:
Verena Rein · master classes.