Anja Daniela Wagner

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Anja Daniela Wagner (born March 11, 1969 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ) and photographer .

Live and act

After training as a re- retoucher , Anja Daniela Wagner, the daughter of the artist couple Heidi Wagner-Kerkhof and Hannes H. Wagner , first studied singing at the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig with Jitka Kovarikova. With Cornelia Melian from Munich she also received training in "historical singing" in the field of early music. After graduating, she completed postgraduate studies at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden . Your teacher there was Hartmut Zabel. This was followed by master classes with Jessica Cash, Hermann Christian Polster and chamber singer Brigitte Fassbaender .

Anja Daniela Wagner made her debut on the opera stage during her studies as Hansel in Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck at the Zwickau Theater .

In 2003 she was engaged at the Nordhausen Theater and is still active there today (as of 2020). In 2004 she took part in the world premiere of the opera Die Legende von Paul und Paula (based on the film of the same name ) by Ludger Vollmer as Paula / Laura. As in the film, the opera is based on the novel by Ulrich Plenzdorf . She sang u. a. Carmen in “ Carmen ”, Dorabella in “ Così fan tutte ”, Olga in “ Eugene Onegin ”, Flora Bervoix in “ La Traviata ”, Anita in “ West Side Story ”, Nehebka in “ Aida ” and the Countess in the Wildschütz by Albert Lortzing in the Theater Nordhausen and Theater Meiningen .

Her activities are diverse in the singing of oratorios, for example in the Mozart Requiem, in Dvorak's "Stabat Mater" and "Requiem", in Mendelsohn-Bartholdy's "Elias", in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, St. Mark's Passion, St. John Passion and others

During the CD production of the Liturgical Sentences by Hugo Distler , she received the German record award "Echo Klassik" in 2001 as a soloist for the alto voice.

In 2017 she received the 11th Nordhausen Theater Prize, an award for special artistic achievements. It is a foundation of the Kreissparkasse Nordhausen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artist information - Anja Daniela Wagner on interartshop.de
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ Kimberly Fiebig: Theater Prize for Opera Singer Wagner. In: Göttinger Tageblatt . September 5, 2017. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Anja Daniela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle / Saale