Barbara Hahn (singer)

Barbara Hahn (born May 9, 1965 in Stuttgart ) is a German opera singer (mezzo-soprano).

Life

She studied singing with Knoll at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1987 she made her debut at the Bielefeld City Theater with the role of Dorabella in Così fan tutte . Her other stations include the Frankfurt and Leipzig Opera , the Teatro communale Bologna , the Bregenz Festival and the Freiburg Stadttheater , where she sang her first Hansel under Donald Runnicles . In addition to many mezzo-soprano roles, she also sang numerous operetta divas and also earned the Fidelio- Leonore, which she sang at the Saarbrücken State Theater . From 2001 to 2006 she was at the Mainfrankentheater in Würzburg , where she sang the Duchess in Hans Pfitzner's Das Herz . Since the 2006/07 season she has been a member of the Opera Choir of the Zurich Opera House in the Alto range .

Engagements (selection)

Bielefeld City Theater (1987–1990)

• So fan tutte : Dorabella
• Marriage of Figaro : Cherubin
• The bat : Orlowsky, Ida
• Falstaff : Meg Page
• Nerone ( Arrigo Boito ): Persida, Cerintus

Bregenz Festival

• Hoffmann's stories : Niklaus

Freiburg Theater (1989–1991)

• Hansel and Gretel : Hansel

Frankfurt Opera (1991–1993)

• Hoffmann's stories : Muse, Niklaus
• The Rosenkavalier : Octavian

Saarbrücken State Theater (1993–1996)

• Fidelio : Leonore
• Werther : Charlotte
• Carmen : Carmen
• Mignon : Mignon
• The Italian in Algiers : Isabella

Leipzig Opera House (1997-2001)

• La traviata : flora
• Hansel and Gretel : Hansel
• Carmen : Mercedes

Zurich Opera House (guest performance 1997)

• Aventures ( György Ligeti ): Altar part

Zurich Opera House (guest performance 2000)

• La Traviata : Flora

Zurich Concert Hall (guest performance 2000)

• Aventures : old part

Mainfrankentheater Würzburg (2001-2006)

• The Flying Dutchman : Mary
• The heart ( Hans Pfitzner ): Duchess

Web links

• Barbara Hahn - mezzo-soprano on opern-freund.de; Retrieved June 25, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The heart; For the production of the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg on kulturfreak.de, accessed on June 24, 2014.
2. ^ ^{A b} Michael Eagleton: Germany - Würzburg. In: Opera. August 2006, pp. 941f , accessed on June 25, 2014 (English). 
3. ^ Alfred Zimmerlin: Claudio Danuser - an intellectual Nabucco . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 25, 1997, p. 54 .