Anja Schlosser

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Anja Schlosser is a German opera and concert singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

Schlosser grew up in the Bavarian Chiemgau and completed her singing studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Ingrid Mayr . She expanded her training in the lied class of Wolfgang Holzmair and in the opera class of Josef Wallnig and graduated with honors in 2007. In addition, she attended master classes with Robert Holl , Julie Kaufmann , Lilian Sukis , Barbara Bonney and Angelika Kirchschlager .

During her studies, she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival . In August 2006 she sang Apollo in a John Dew production of Mozart's Apollo and Hyacinth . She played this role in the following season with the Staatstheater Darmstadt on a tour of Korea, the production was also released on DVD.

Opera

Schlosser has a broad repertoire, ranging from lyrical trouser roles - Prince Orlofski in Johann Strauss ' Fledermaus and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro - to Olga in Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin and Suzuki in Puccini's Madama Butterfly to dramatic Richard-Wagner - and Richard -Strauss -Parts is enough.

From 2008 to 2011 the singer was engaged at the Zurich Opera House , where she appeared on stage as the landlord's daughter in Humperdinck's Royal Children , as Olga in Eugen Onegin , as Fyodor in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunow and in the Ring of the Nibelung as Wellgunde and Siegrune. In autumn 2010 she was involved in a rediscovery of artistic director Alexander Pereira as part of her engagements in Zurich : In Emanuel Schikaneder's The Philosopher's Stone or Die Zauberinsel , she sang - together with Ruben Drole - the Buffo couple Lubano and Lubanara.

Guest performances took Schlosser as Brigitta in Korngold's Die tote Stadt to the Stadttheater Bern , as Siegrune to the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, as Dryad in Ariadne auf Naxos to the Hamburg State Opera , and finally as Olga in Eugen Onegin and Rossweiß in Die Walküre to das Aalto-Theater in Essen, where she was permanently engaged in the 2012/13 season and could be seen and heard as Suzuki and Orlofsky, among others.

In the summer of 2012, Schlosser returned to the Salzburg Festival and took over the second lady in the Magic Flute at the Felsenreitschule - with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the podium. In spring 2013 she made her debut as Wellgunde and Schwertleite in the Ring des Nibelungen at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. In July 2014 she sang in Seville for the first time as Flosshilde in Götterdämmerung . In 2015 she made her debut as Erda in Rheingold at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau and as a flower girl in Parsifal at the State Opera in the Schillertheater in Berlin.

concert

A series of concert engagements led the singer a. a. to the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Konzerthaus Berlin , the Philharmonie Essen , the Stuttgarter Liederhalle , the Rheingoldhalle Mainz , the Hamburg Laeiszhalle as well as on tours to Italy, Luxembourg, Poland and Taiwan. She worked with conductors such as Jeffrey Tate, Hansjörg Albrecht , Helmuth Rilling , Justus Frantz , Dennis Russell Davies and Christoph Poppen .

Awards

  • 2007: 45th International Singing Competition “Francisco Viñas” - 3rd Prize Voice, Special Prize Song and Oratorio
  • Scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ WAZ of March 3, 2012: She prefers to sing Wagner than Rossini , accessed on September 10, 2015.
  2. ^ Opera from January 2011, p. 69: Switzerland , accessed on October 14, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Locksmith, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mezzo-soprano
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century