Barbara Cramm

Barbara Cramm (born June 19, 1966 in Stolzenau , Lower Saxony ) is a German opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

Barbara Cramm, born in Northern Germany and raised in the Rhineland , first studied musicology , Romance languages and German studies at the University of Bonn after graduating from high school . From 1988 to 1995 she studied school music (teaching post for secondary level II with violin as a major) and opera singing with Artur Janzen and Gabriella Lichter-Maxande at the Detmold University of Music . She attended master classes a. a. with Kurt Widmer, Thomas Quasthoff and Sena Jurinac .

She made her debut in the 1995/96 season with Mozart's “ Gardener from Love ” (Arminda) at the Lucerne Theater . This was followed by permanent engagements at the Regensburg Theater (1996/97 season), at the Krefeld-Mönchengladbach Municipal Theaters (1997–2004) and at the Kassel State Theater (2004–2007). Above all, she sang roles in the lyrical to the youthful-dramatic soprano field as well as numerous operettas and classical musicals. Guest contracts took her to various other theaters, such as the Cologne Opera, the Stuttgart Opera, the theaters in Oldenburg, Heidelberg, Pforzheim and the like. a. She worked with directors like Stefan Herheim , in whose first “ Magic Flute ” she was Pamina in Oldenburg, and sang with colleagues like Stefan Vinke , Andreas Schager and Eva-Maria Westbroek .

She has been based in Thuringia as a freelance singer and music teacher since 2007 . She works closely with Juri Gilbo and his Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg , Gunther Emmerlich , René Kollo and Jens Goldhardt .

Barbara Cramm lives with her husband and son (born 2008) in Weimar .

literature

• Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon . Supplementary volume, part 1. A – F. Page 221. De Gruyter, Berlin [et al.] November 2012. ISBN 978-3-11-028460-7 (accessed from De Gruyter Online).
• Axel Schniederjürgen (Red.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook 2006 . Soloists, conductors, composers, university lecturers. 5th edition 2006. KG Saur Munich 2006. Page 74. ISBN 978-3-59824-212-0 .

Web links

• Barbara Cramm - Internet presence
• Barbara Cramm at Operabase (engagements and dates)