Alexandra Petersamer

Alexandra Petersamer (* 1968 in Landau an der Isar ) is a German opera, lied, concert and oratorio singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

Alexandra Petersamer studied singing from 1988 to 1995 at the University of Music and Theater in Munich with Hanno Blaschke . There she completed her studies as an opera and concert singer with a master class diploma. During this time she received scholarships from the German Stage Association , the Richard Wagner Foundation Bayreuth and the advancement award for young artists from the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture.

In 1994 she got a permanent engagement at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau. From 2000 to 2004 she was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich. There she sang almost all the major roles in her field: Carmen ( Carmen ), Frasquita ( Der Corregidor ), Prince Orlofsky ( Die Fledermaus ), Angelina ( La Cenerentola ), Clairon ( Capriccio ), Charlotte ( Werther ), Gertrud ( Hansel and Gretel ) . She was particularly successful as Octavian in the opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss . She sang this role in 1996 for the reopening of the Prinzregententheater in Munich, as well as in Dessau, Hanover, Weimar, Düsseldorf and at the Savonlinna Opera Festival .

The artist, who sang under the conductors Valeri Abissalowitsch Gergijew , Colin Davis , Günther Herbig , Bertrand de Billy , Stefan Anton Reck , Michael Gielen and Marcello Viotti , has been working as a freelance artist since 2004 . She sang / sings (as a guest) on all major stages in German-speaking countries, including in Bayreuth (where she made her debut at the Festival in 2006 ), Dessau, Schwerin, Innsbruck, Munich, Hanover, Leipzig, Nuremberg and Dresden. In the latter city she shone a. a. at the Semperoper in the premiere performance on February 10, 2008, as high priestess in the opera Penthesilea by Othmar Schoeck , after a mourning piece by Heinrich von Kleist .

Alexandra Petersamer has a busy concert career. So far this has taken her to Berlin, Dresden, Cologne, Mainz, Brussels, Riga, Paris, Marseille, Las Palmes, Amsterdam, Palermo, to the Castle Concerts on Neuschwanstein and the Salzburg Festival, etc. Her repertoire includes songs and oratorios by the composers Hugo Wolf , Johann Sebastian Bach , Georg Friedrich Handel , Antonio Vivaldi , Joseph Haydn , Anton Bruckner , Peter Cornelius , Wolfgang Fortner and Maurice Ravel .

Awards

• First prize at the national singing competition VDMK in Berlin Fach Oper (1992)
• First prize at the International Hans Pfitzner Competition in Munich (1994)
• Two special prizes from Riga and Barcelona at the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna (1994)

Discography

• Listing by Arciv Music

Web links

• Alexandra Petersamer at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Alexandra Petersamer homepage