Angelika Kirchschlager

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Angelika Kirchschlager, 2015
Angelika Kirchschlager 2008 at the opening of the Wiener Festwochen

Angelika Kirchschlager (born November 24, 1965 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian singer ( mezzo-soprano ) and singing teacher. She can be heard on many opera stages around the world, but also works as an interpreter of songs and oratorios .

Life

Kirchschlager with Michael Schade in 2013 at the opening of the Wiener Festwochen

Angelika Kirchschlager first studied drums and piano at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, in 1984 she began her vocal training with Gerhard Kahry and Walter Berry at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts . Her first engagements took her to the Vienna Chamber Opera during her singing studies . In 1991, at the end of her vocal training, she won three placements at the Vienna Belvedere singing competition . In the same year she became a member of the Graz Opera ensemble for a short time . In 1993 she moved to the Vienna State Opera as a permanent member of the ensemble , where she made her debut in 1994 as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro .

To date, Kirchschlager has appeared at important theaters such as La Scala in Milan , the Royal Opera House in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Opéra de Paris , the Opera La Monnaie / De Munt in Brussels, the Vienna and Munich State Operas , and the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the San Francisco Opera , the Salle Pleyel and the Cité de la musique in Paris, Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Boston Symphony Hall and the Barbican Center and the Wigmore Hall in London.

She celebrated great success in 2002 in the title role and world premiere of Sophie's Choice by British composer Nicholas Maw at the Royal Opera House in London. Further artistic highlights were the DaPonte cycle at the Wiener Festwochen in June 2002 and her engagements at the Salzburg Festival : In 2003 she made her debut as La Muse / Nicklausse in a new production of Les contes d'Hoffmann , in 1994 she sang Octavian in Rosenkavalier ; In 2006 she developed the Mélisande in Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande at the Salzburg Easter Festival with its director Sir Simon Rattle .

Kirchschlager has with many eminent conductors as Claudio Abbado , Bertrand de Billy , Sir Colin Davis , John Eliot Gardiner , Christopher Hogwood , James Levine , Kurt Masur , Riccardo Muti , Kent Nagano , Seiji Ozawa , Kurt Sanderling , Donald Runnicles and Sir Simon Rattle collaborated .

She also gives regular recitals, u. a. since 1994 at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg; her preferred partner at the piano is Helmut Deutsch .

As a soloist at the gala concert for Pope John Paul II . under Riccardo Muti on October 13, 1998, Kirchschlager was the first woman ever to sing in the Sistine Chapel .

Kirchschlager held a visiting professorship at the Salzburg Mozarteum from 2007 to 2009 , and in the 2011 summer semester she held an endowed professorship at the University of Art in Graz , where she was subsequently a guest several times (including for a master class in November 2012 and as a jury member at the Internationaler Chamber Music Competition Franz Schubert and Modern Music 2018).

In 2013, together with the German songwriter Konstantin Wecker , she undertook the Liedestoll tour through Germany and Austria, where they performed classical songs and songs by Wecker. In the same year her autobiography I reinvent myself every day was published , recorded for the Amalthea publishing house by Achim Schneyder.

Kirchschlager lives with her family in Vienna. Her son Felix Kammerer, born in 1995, comes from her marriage to the baritone Hans Peter Kammerer .

Repertoire (selection)

Discography

  • Mahler, Alma Mahler & Korngold, Lieder - with Helmut Deutsch (1997)
  • When Night Falls. Lullabies - with Helmut Deutsch, Yuri Bashmet, Miguel Llobet, Roger Vignoles, John Williams and Steven Mercurio (1999)
  • Berlioz, Huit Scenes de Faust Op. 1 - with Jean-Paul Fouchécourt , Frédéric Caton and the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio-France Yutaka Sado (2000)
  • Viennese songs from the Kremser albums - with the Philharmonia Schrammeln (2002)
  • Bach, Missa in B minor - with Barbara Bonney, John Mark Ainsley, Alistair Miles and the Saito Kinen Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa (2002)
  • Enjoyed rest. Bach arias - with the Venice Baroque Orchestra (2003)
  • Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro - with Véronique Gens, Patrizia Ciofi , Lorenzo Regazzo, Simon Keenlyside and Concerto Köln under René Jacobs (2004)
  • First encounter. Duets by Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Mendelssohn-Hensel, Schumann, Brahms, Dvořák - with Barbara Bonney and Malcolm Martineau (2004)
  • Women's lives and loves. Songs and Duets - with Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson (2006)
  • Handel, arias from "Ariodante", "Giulio Cesare" and "Arianna", with the Basel Chamber Orchestra (2006)
  • My heart is all yours. Operetta chants - with Simon Keenlyside and the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich 2007
  • Christmas carols - with Helmut Deutsch and the Tonkünstler Orchestra Lower Austria (2007)
  • Schumann, Lieder - with Helmut Deutsch (2010)
  • Mahler, Lieder - with Helmut Deutsch (2010)
  • Brahms, songs - with Graham Johnson (2010)
  • Wolf & Strauss, songs - with Roger Vignoles (2010)
  • Joseph Marx , songs - with Anthony Spiri (2010)

Videos

  • Mozart, Così fan tutte - with Barbara Frittoli, Monica Bacelli, Michael Schade, Bo Skovhus & Alessandro Corbelli - Vienna State Opera 1996 - Riccardo Muti - Director: Roberto de Simone
  • Mozart, Don Giovanni - with Adrianne Pieczonka, Anna Caterina Antonacci , Michael Schade, Carlos Alvarez, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo & Lorenzo Regazzo - Vienna State Opera 1999 - Riccardo Muti - Director: Roberto de Simone
  • Maw, Sophie's Choice - with Gordon Gietz, Rodney Gilfry & Dale Duesing - Royal Opera House, London 2002 - Sir Simon Rattle - directed by Trevor Nunn
  • Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier - with Adrianne Pieczonka, Miah Persson, Franz Grundheber & Franz Hawlata - Salzburg Festival 2004 - Semyon Bychkov - Director: Robert Carsen
  • Handel, Giulio Cesare - with Danielle de Niese , Sarah Connolly , Patricia Bardon & Christopher Maltman - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Glyndebourne Festival 2005 - William Christie
  • Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro - with Annette Dasch, Rosemary Joshua , Pietro Spagnioli & Luca Pisaroni - Concerto Köln - Théâtre des Champs-Élysées 2005 - René Jacobs - Director: Jean-Louis Martinoty
  • Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel - with Diana Damrau, Elizabeth Connell, Anja Silja & Sir Thomas Allen - Royal Opera House, London 2008 - Simon Toyne - directed by Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier

Awards

Web links

Commons : Angelika Kirchschlager  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Performances with Angelika Kirchschlager at the Vienna State Opera
  2. ↑ Performance cast from September 20, 1994 , Angelika Kirchschlager's debut at the Vienna State Opera
  3. ^ Events with Angelika Kirchschlager at La Scala in Milan
  4. ↑ Performances with Angelika Kirchschlager at the Royal Opera House / Covent Garden in London
  5. ↑ Angelika Kirchschlager's appearances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York
  6. ↑ Performances with Angelika Kirchschlager at the Opéra national de Paris
  7. ↑ Performances with Angelika Kirchschlager at the San Francisco Opera
  8. ↑ Performance dates 2002 Royal Opera House / Covent Garden in London
  9. ↑ Manfred A. Schmid: "Mutis Mozart Cycle is History" , in: wienerzeitung.at , June 19, 2002. Retrieved January 12, 2018
  10. ↑ Events with Angelika Kirchschlager ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Salzburg Festival @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.salzburgerfestspiele.at
  11. ↑ Cast of the new production of Les contes d'Hoffmann at the Salzburg Festival 2003
  12. ↑ Premiere cast Der Rosenkavalier 2004 at the Salzburg Festival
  13. ^ Events with Angelika Kirchschlager at the Schubertiade
  14. ↑ PressReader.com - Newspapers from around the world. Retrieved May 10, 2019 .
  15. ^ Website of the International Chamber Music Competition "Franz Schubert and Modern Music" Jury member in the "Lied" category
  16. ↑ Angelika Kirchschlager as the second winner of the Golden Mozart Ring, which has only been awarded three times (accessed on June 19, 2014)
  17. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: European Culture Prize for Angelika Kirchschlager . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on January 16, 2017]).
  18. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Angelika Kirchschlager honored with an award in London . ( salzburg.com [accessed January 16, 2017]).
  19. ↑ Austria'14 Awards - Austrian of the Year (accessed December 7, 2014)
  20. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Austrian Music Theater Awards to Damrau and Kang . Article dated June 28, 2016, accessed June 28, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Kirchschlager, Angelika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg