Andrea Bönig

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Andrea Bönig (born December 27, 1964 in Bamberg ) is a German opera and concert singer ( alto / mezzo-soprano ) and vocal teacher.

Life

After completing an apprenticeship in goldsmithing , she studied singing with Donald Grobe and Lisa Hagenau, and later specifically in the song area at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Kurt Widmer . Further studies led her to Fedora Barbieri , Arrigo Pola and Astrid Varnay .

Bönig made her stage debut in 1990 while studying as a dryad in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona , where she later returned for Der Ring des Nibelungen . In 1994 she made her debut in Salome at the Berlin State Opera , where she was a member of the ensemble from 1995 to 1997. She sang at this house u. a. Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried , Maddalena Rigoletto , Hansel Hansel and Gretel and Magdalene Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg under conductors like u. a. Daniel Barenboim , Zubin Mehta , Donald Runnicles , Fabio Luisi and Simone Young . Here she also took part in the world premiere of Peter Ruzicka's opera Hölderlin in November 2008 . In 2009 she returned for the resumption and could be heard in Rosenkavalier in spring and autumn under the direction of Philippe Jordan. In 2010 she sang in The distant sound of Franz Schreker .

In 1996 she took part for the first time at the Bayreuth Festival in Die Walküre under James Levine and Parsifal under Giuseppe Sinopoli , to which she returned regularly afterwards. In 1997 the artist made her debut as Erda in Siegfried under Donald Runnicles at the Vienna State Opera , where she was part of the ensemble from 1997 to 1999. In 1998 she took part in the State Opera’s first guest performance with Le nozze di Figaro in China .

From 2003 to 2008 she was a member of the ensemble at the Vienna Volksoper , where she sang premieres such as A Midsummer Night's Dream , Boris Godunow , Martha , The Excursions of Mr Brouček and repertoire performances . During this time she also made her role debut as Magdalena in Der Evangelimann . In 2003 and 2004 she sang in Barcelona under Bertrand de Billy in Das Rheingold and Siegfried die Erda.

Andrea Bönig is also a frequent guest on the concert podium, where she u. a. with her repertoire of Bach passions, Beethoven's Missa solemnis , Elgar's Sea-Pictures , Mahler's symphonies and orchestral songs, Mozart's Requiem and Stravinsky's Les Noces in Europe, America and Asia. In Lisbon and Amsterdam she made guest appearances at the Mahler Marathon with the Lied von der Erde under Hartmut Haenchen, also with the Bergen Philharmonie Orchestra with Elgar's "Sea Pictures" under Simone Young, in the Berlin Philharmonie and in the Berlin Konzerthaus under Daniel Barenboim and Claudio Abbado , in Chicago also under Daniel Barenboim, in Genoa under Julia Jones, in Copenhagen under Hartmut Haenchen, in Paris under Daniel Barenboim and Bertrand de Billy, in Tokyo and Taiwan under Giuseppe Sinopoli and Daniel Barenboim and in Vienna a. a. under Sebastian Weigle.

In the field of operetta she was a. a. to be heard in the Cologne and Essen Philharmonic under Axel Kober with Leo Fall Brüderlein fein and Fräulein Denise , whose live recording has been released on CD. Among other engagements, she sang Erda in Wagner concerts under the direction of Kirill Petrenko with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai in Turin .

She has been a vocal teacher and coach since the beginning of her career.

In 2011 her documentary Alfred Hrdlicka was released. Sequences that the artist initiated and directed.

Filmography

  • 1995 Choir Fantasy - Barenboim (TV)
  • 2002 Lulu (TV)
  • 2003 Das Rheingold (TV)
  • 2004 Siegfried (TV)
  • 2011 Alfred Hrdlicka - Sequences (documentary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Bönig in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)Template: BMLO / Maintenance / Local ID different from Wikidata
personal data
SURNAME Bönig, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and concert singer (alto / mezzo-soprano) and vocal teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg