Carolina Ullrich

Carolina Ullrich (* 1982 in Temuco ) is a Chilean opera singer ( soprano ) who has been permanently engaged at the Semperoper in Dresden since 2010 .

Life

Carolina Ullrich was born in Temuco, a center of the German-Chileans , as the only daughter of the German teacher Gunter Ullrich and his wife Sonia Meza. Because of her father's work, the family moved to Germany in 1987, to Colombia in 1992 and back to Chile in 1999 with Carolina, who is now 17 years old. Carolina Ullrich began to study singing with Ahlke Scheffelt at the Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago de Chile in 1999 , which she completed in 2004 “summa cum laude”. After receiving a scholarship from the Fundación Andes , she came to Augsburg and attended master classes in concert singing and musical theater with Edith Wiens at the Munich University of Music and Theater . In 2006 she took part in the ARD International Music Competition and was awarded 2nd prize together with Roxana Constantinescu in the singing section (concert and song). She won first prizes at the National Singing Competition in Berlin and in 2009 at the New York Young Concert Artists competition . The soprano has won various national and international competitions, including the ARD Music Competition, the National Singing Competition in Berlin, the Schumann Competition in Zwickau, “Das Lied” in Berlin and “Young Concert Artists” in New York. In October 2011 she was awarded the Christel Goltz Prize of the Foundation for the Promotion of the Semperoper.

At the age of 19, Carolina Ullrich gained important operatic experience at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile. She sang under the conductors Frédéric Chaslin , Maurizio Benini , Giampaolo Bisanti, Jonathan Darlington , Asher Fish, Omer Meir Wellber , Pier Giorgio Morandi, Jonathan Nott , Christian Thielemann , Helmuth Rilling and Simon Rattle . For the ZDF Advent concert from the Frauenkirche in Dresden, she jumped in for Anna Netrebko in December 2010 ; In the New Year's Eve 2010 broadcast on ZDF, she sang the role of Valencienne ( The Merry Widow ) . The soprano has had a permanent engagement at the Semperoper Dresden since 2010/11 and takes on roles such as Susanna ( Le nozze di Figaro ), Gretel ( Hansel and Gretel ), Adele ( Die Fledermaus ), Zdenka ( Arabella ), Pamina ( Die Zauberflöte ), Rose Maurrant ( Street Scene ), Oscar ( Un ballo in maschera ), Zerlina ( Don Giovanni ), Adina ( L'elisir d'amore ), Angelica ( Orlando ), Marzelline ( Fidelio ), Despina ( Così fan tutte ), Echo ( Ariadne on Naxos ) and Margret ( fire distress ) .

Under the musical direction of Jonathan Nott she could be heard as Nanetta ( Falstaff ) at the Lucerne Festival . In June 2013, Carolina Ullrich gave her first concert as part of the Schubertiade with Marcelo Amaral, which was followed by various recitals as part of the Convergences of the Opéra Bastille Paris. In May 2015 she sang the Italian songbook at the International Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart. After several appearances with Mahler's Symphony No. 4 under the direction of Christoph Poppen and Omer Meir Wellber in South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Italy, she took Mahler's Symphony No. 2 to Seoul in September 2015.

In the same year she appeared again at the Schubertiade in Hohenems with a Schubert program, accompanied by Marcelo Amaral. Carolina Ullrich sang the role of Gretchen in the new production of Wildschütz at the Semperoper in the 2015/16 season . She can also be seen as Musetta ( La Bohème ), Ännchen ( Der Freischütz ), Gretel, Angelica, Pamina and Susanna. A new CD will be released in January, recorded together with the Hyperion Trio, with works by Felix Woyrsch . In March 2017 she sang Schubert's Mass in E flat major in Geneva and Lausanne under the direction of Jonathan Nott . In April 2017 she sang the St. Matthew Passion in the Philharmonie am Gasteig , Munich, under the direction of Enoch zu Guttenberg .

Web links

• Carolina Ullrich's website
• Carolina Ullrich on the occasion of the Herrenchiemsee Festival
• Carolina Ullrich at the Semperoper
• Carolina Ullrich at Operabase (engagements and dates)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gabriel Galaz: Carolina Ullrich, la nueva promesa de la lírica nacional . In: La Tercera of February 27, 2011, p. 76. (Portrait in Spanish from a newspaper published in Santiago de Chile)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Portrait of the Herrenchiemsee Festival ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .