Anna Maria Kaufmann

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Anna Maria Kaufmann at the 21st UNESCO Charity Gala on October 27, 2012 in Düsseldorf.

Anna Maria Kaufmann (born October 15, 1964 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a Canadian - German opera and musical singer.

Life and artistic career

Anna Maria Kaufmann grew up in the town of Lacombe south of Edmonton and at the beginning of her career could only be seen in her free time in clubs and at private events on stage.

She received her training in classical singing at the Robert Schumann Music Institute in Düsseldorf, where she learned from Erika Köth and Claire Watson . In 1990 the soprano got her professional breakthrough in the Hamburg production of the musical Das Phantom der Oper . At the side of Peter Hofmann she sang and played the main female role of the ballet dancer Christine Daaé and was awarded the Golden Europe in 1993 and the Golden Lion in 1994 after more than 500 appearances . The soundtrack of the production Das Phantom der Oper with Anna Maria Kaufmann and Peter Hofmann is the most successful German musical sound carrier of all time with over 2 million copies sold in Germany alone. For this outstanding achievement, Anna Maria Kaufmann was awarded eight gold records on September 25, 2010 at the ZDF gala Welcome to Carmen Nebel .

After the musical success, she was also heard in classical singing roles. In 1997 she played in the operetta Der Mikado at the Vancouver Opera House, followed by the role of Violetta in La traviata , which she played in 1998 and 2000 in Wiesbaden and 1999 in Mannheim, and in 2000 she sang the title role in Carmen in Hamburg . In Bremen she premiered in May 2001 in the tragic opera Lucia di Lammermoor , and in October 2005 she took on the leading role of Eva Perón in the German version of the musical Evita performed in Bremen . She was also seen at the Vienna Volksoper in the title role as Duchess of Chicago (2006).

She has also become known to a broader audience through television appearances in music programs and as a guest at various shows, and in 1997 she played in the episode Acting out of the Tatort series.

Anna Maria Kaufmann also sang the national anthem several times before games by the German national soccer team , for the first time in 1994 before a friendly match between Canada and Germany , when she sang the anthems of her two home countries. According to her own statement, this enabled her to fulfill a childhood dream. In an interview, she said: "I always marveled at the singers who sang the national anthem in the stadium before big football games, I found that incredibly exciting." When she sang the German anthem before the final of the 1996 European Football Championship in Wembley , overlooked a billion people, and for the 1998 World Cup she sang the anthem Running with a Dream with Joey Tempest . During the 2006 soccer World Cup in Germany, she was involved in several concerts in different venues for the World Cup. In 2004 she sang the German national anthem before the DEL final between the Frankfurt Lions and the Eisbären Berlin .

She has had German citizenship since 2006.

There are various recordings with Anna Maria Kaufmann, and her studio album Anna Maria Kaufmann , published in 1992, includes a. two duets with the American singer Barry Manilow . In 2011 Anna Maria Kaufmann ended her twenty years of successful collaboration with Universal Music and signed a contract with the record label “Solo Musica”. The first album It's a Good Day! The new contract partner released on April 27, 2012, and in July 2015 the CD Wiener Blut with the Wiener Symphoniker was released.

At the beginning of 2019 she will change her image and go on the "Rock meets Classic" anniversary tour 2019 together with Ian Gillan from Deep Purple and other rock greats from Loverboy, The Sweet, Thin Lizzy and REO Speedwagon.

At the same time she is releasing her new album "Rock goes Kaufmann".

Records

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Running with a Dream (with Joey Tempest )
  DE 94 02/09/1998 (1 week)

Soundtracks and recordings

  • The Phantom of the Opera (Soundtrack, with Peter Hofmann 1990)
  • Carmen (recording of the Hamburg performance in 2000)
  • Evita (soundtrack of the German version 2005)

Compilations

  • Musical Diva (The greatest musical hits, 2008)
  • Musical Diva (Special Edition, 2010)

Solo releases

  • La belle epoque (the time of the operetta) (CD 1996)
  • Running with a Dream (Maxi-CD 1997)
  • The other life (CD, 1997)
  • Blame it on the moon (CD 1998)
  • Anna Maria Kaufmann (CD, 1999)
  • Spotlight (CD, 1999)
  • With one look (CD, 2000)
  • With open arms (CD 2001)
  • Anna Maria Kaufmann sings Emme (compositions by Emmerich Kálmán , CD 2003)
  • Private Moments (CD 2004)
  • Eternally (CD 2004)
  • Adagio (CD 2006)
  • IT'S A GOOD DAY! (CD 2012)
  • Viennese Blood (CD 2015)
  • Christmas with Love (CD 2015)
  • Rock goes Kaufmann (CD 2019)

Awards

  • 1993: Golden Europe
  • 1994: Golden Lion (Radio Luxembourg)
  • 2001: Radio Regenbogen Award, Category Classic
  • 2010: Quadruple platinum and eightfold gold for over two million records sold, Phantom of the Opera

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE
personal data
SURNAME Merchant, Anna Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-German opera and musical singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Edmonton , Alberta