Anna Samuil
Anna Samuil ( Russian Анна Александровна Самуил ; * 1976 in Perm , Soviet Union ) is a Russian opera and concert singer ( soprano ). She is the sister of the violinist Tatiana Samouil and married to the pianist Matthias Samuil .
Life
Training and competitions
Anna Samuil studied both violin and singing at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and in 2003 she graduated with honors from Irina Archipova's singing class.
During her studies she was already a winner of important international competitions.
- 2000 Concorso internazionale Franco Corelli in Ancona / Italy (3rd prize)
- 2001 International Singing Competition New Voices in Gütersloh / Germany (3rd Prize)
- 2001 Klaudia Taev International Singing Competition in Pärnu / Estonia (1st prize)
- 2001 XIX. International Glinka Singing Competition in Chelyabinsk / Russia (1st prize)
- 2002 XII. International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow / Russia (3rd Prize)
- 2003 · Prize of the "Irina Arkhipova Foundation" in Moscow / Russia
- 2004 Concorso Riccardo Zandonai in Riva del Garda / Italy (1st prize)
Engagements
Anna Samuil made her operatic debut in the role of the Swan Princess ( The Tale of Tsar Saltan ) at the Stanislavski Opera Theater in Moscow, where she was subsequently engaged from 2001 to 2004. During this time she also appeared as Adele ( Die Fledermaus ) , Queen of Schemacha ( The Golden Rooster ) , Violetta ( La traviata ) and Gilda ( Rigoletto ) . Anna Samuil made her debut at the Deutsche Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin in September 2003 as Violetta under the direction of General Music Director Daniel Barenboim , where she has been a permanent soloist since the beginning of the 2004/05 season. Since then she has been at this house a. a. as Donna Anna ( Don Giovanni ), Fiordiligi ( Così fan tutte ), Contessa ( Le nozze di Figaro ), Tatjana ( Eugen Onegin ), Mimì and Musetta ( La Bohème ), Violetta, Elisabetta ( Don Carlo ), Alice Ford ( Falstaff ) , Adina ( L'elisir d'amore ), Micaëla ( Carmen ), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Mařenka ( The Bartered Bride ), Miss Jessel ( The Turn of the Screw ), Elsa ( Lohengrin ), Eva ( Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ), Freia ( Das Rheingold ) and Gutrune ( Götterdämmerung ) .
International career
Her international career brought her to the world's major stages within a short period of time: At La Scala in Milan (Donna Anna, Freia and Gutrune), the Metropolitan Opera New York (Musetta), the State Operas in Munich (Violetta, Donna Anna), Dresden ( Mimì) and Hamburg (Adina, Fiordiligi, Donna Anna, Violetta), to the opera houses in Valencia (Donna Anna), Lyon (Maria in Mazeppa ), Tel Aviv and Tokyo (Donna Anna, Rosalinde), Pittsburgh (Violetta, Tatjana), Baltimore (Mimì) and the Grand Théâtre Luxembourg (Violetta).
As a much sought-after guest at international festivals, Anna Samuil celebrated great successes at the Salzburg Festival (Tatjana), in Aix-en-Provence and Edinburgh (Violetta and Maria), in Glyndebourne, Verbier and the Arena di Verona (Donna Anna) and at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Verdi's Messa da Requiem ).
Conductors and directors
She has worked extensively with well-known conductors such as Daniel Barenboim , Zubin Mehta , Sir Neville Marriner , Lorin Maazel , Antonio Pappano , Plácido Domingo , Dmitrij Kitajenko , Kent Nagano , Manfred Honeck , Chung Myung-whun , Ivor Bolton , Kirill Petrenko , Vladimir Jurowski , Gustavo Dudamel , Dan Ettinger , Philippe Jordan , Asher Fisch, Andris Nelsons , Vasily Petrenko, Massimo Zanetti and Stefano Ranzani. The directors who accompany her career include Franco Zeffirelli , Peter Stein , Andrea Breth , Jonathan Miller , Bernard Uzan, Achim Freyer , Jonathan Kent , Claus Guth , Guy Cassiers, Lindy Hume and Marthe Keller .
Concert activity
Orchestra concerts and recitals (with the pianists Elena Bashkirova , Matthias Samuil and Semion Skigin) took the Russian singer to the most important European music centers, for example to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and to the BBC Proms in London, in the Palais des Beaux-Arts Bruxelles and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein , the Berlin Waldbühne and Cologne Philharmonic , the Moscow Bolshoi Theater , the Philharmonie am Gasteig Munich, the Konzerthaus Berlin , the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival and the Rheingau Music Festival , and the Norske Opera Oslo the festivals in Bad Kissingen and Colmar and in the Richard-Wagner-Haus Bayreuth. In addition, she gave concerts in other cities such as Avignon, Bratislava, Dresden, Krakow, Lisbon, Moscow, Prague, Saint Petersburg, Toulouse, Valladolid and Vienna.
Stage award Daphne
In recognition of her outstanding singing and acting achievements, Anna Samuil was honored with the audience award “ Daphne ” of the TheaterGemeinde Berlin in 2008 .
admission
Numerous recordings document her artistic activity. Eugen Onegin from the Salzburg Festival (Deutsche Grammophon), Don Giovanni from Glyndebourne (EMI) and concert recordings from Israel (Helicon), Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung from La Scala in Milan (Arthaus) and Britten's War Requiem under the have so far been released on CD and DVD Sir Neville Marriner and Beethoven's 9th Symphony conducted with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim (Decca). On the occasion of the Rimsky-Korsakov anniversary in 2008, the CD Angel and Demon was released with songs and duets by the Russian composer.
repertoire
Opera
concert
| composer | plant |
|---|---|
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 9th Symphony in D minor, Op. 125 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Christ on the Mount of Olives , Op. 85 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Concert aria Ah, perfido! op. 65 |
| Benjamin Britten | Was Requiem op.66 |
| georg Friedrich Handel | Messiah HWV 56 |
| Joseph Haydn | The seven last words of our Savior on the cross |
| Gustav Mahler | 4th Symphony in G major |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Exsultate, jubilate KV 165 (158a) |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Great Mass in C minor KV 427 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Requiem KV 626 |
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | Stabat Mater |
| Sergei Prokofiev | Hamlet op.77 |
| Sergei Rachmaninov | The bells op.35 |
| Gioachino Rossini | Petite fair solennelle |
| Gioachino Rossini | Stabat mater |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | Seven romances after Alexander Blok op.127 |
| Richard Strauss | Four last Songs |
| Michael Tippett | A Child of our Time |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Messa da Requiem |
Discography
- Mozart: Don Giovanni (CD) Israel Philharmonie Orchestra / Zubin Mehta (Helicon 2009)
- Beethoven for Everyone: Symphonies No. 1–9 (CD) West-Eastern Divan Orchestra / Daniel Barenboim (Decca 2011)
- Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin (DVD) Salzburg Festival 2007 (Deutsche Grammophon 2007)
- Angel and Demon (CD) songs and duets by Rimski-Korsakow Anna Samuil (soprano), Alfredo Daza (baritone) and Matthias Samuil (piano) (Michael Storrs Music)
- Wagner: Das Rheingold (DVD and Blu-ray Disc) Teatro alla Scala (Arthaus Musik 2010)
- Wagner: Götterdämmerung (DVD and Blu-ray Disc) Teatro alla Scala (Arthaus Musik 2013)
- Britten: War Requiem (CD) Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) Anna Samuil (soprano), John Daszak (tenor), Artur Ruciński (baritone) (solitone 2009)
- 50 Years of the Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg (CD) Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin (Deutsche Grammophon 2007)
- 25 Years New Voices (CD) Anna Samuil, René Pape, Nathalie Stutzmann, Vesselina Kasarova, Michael Volle, Gustavo Dudamel (2012)
- The Winners of the XIX International Glinka Vocal Competition Chelyabinsk, 2001 (CD)
Web links
- Anna Samuil homepage
- Anna Samuil at the Berlin State Opera
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Samuil, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Самуил, Анна Александровна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian opera and concert singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perm , Soviet Union |