Carolin Masur

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Carolin Masur (* 1966 in Berlin ) is a German opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ) and presenter.

Life

The daughter of the conductor Kurt Masur and the dancer Irmgard Kaul was born in Berlin-Friedrichshain . Together with her parents, she moved to Leipzig in 1972 . In 1972 she survived a car accident caused by her father in which her mother was killed.

Masur attended the special school for music "Rudolf Hildebrand" in Markkleeberg . In 1978 she joined the Gewandhaus children's choir . In 1984 she moved from Leipzig to Berlin. She studied singing with Christiane Bach-Röhr at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin . In 1998/99 she completed a further education course with Anneliese Fried. She took master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender , Hans Hotter , Júlia Várady and Ruth Berghaus .

Carolin Masur made her operatic debut at the Theater Zwickau. From 1995 to 1997 she was a member of the ensemble of the Landestheater Coburg and from 2002 to 2004 a member of the Hanover Opera House .

In January 2005, Carolin Masur contracted ovarian cancer . After surgery and chemotherapy , she began to sing again, and her voice changed as a result of medical treatments. Since her illness, she has been involved in the clarification of ovarian cancer in the Ovarian Cancer Foundation initiated by Jalid Sehouli, the director of the Clinic for Gynecology at the Berlin Charité . She is a member of the foundation's board of trustees. She can be heard with her own columns on radio “MDR-Figaro”. On TV “MDR um elf”, the national magazine of MDR FERNSEHENS, as a presenter for the “Musica” section, alternating with her colleague Sandra Maxheimer, who works at the Halle Opera.

Carolin Masur lives in Leipzig .

literature

  • Carolin Masur. From life - for life. In: The second voice. The magazine about ovarian cancer. Issue 1/2010 (PDF; 4.9 MB), pp. 6–7.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The maestro and tact. The Leipzig Gewandhaus Kapellmeister Kurt Masur becomes chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1991, pp. 218-224 ( online - Sept. 9, 1991 ).
personal data
SURNAME Masur, Carolin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (mezzo-soprano) and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin