Cathrin Lange

This article is about the singer Cathrin Lange. For the writer see Kathrin Lange ; for other people see Katrin Lange .

Cathrin Lange

Cathrin Lange (* 1982 in Aachen ) is a German opera, operetta, lied and oratorio singer with a soprano voice .

Life

Cathrin Lange received musical training in her parents' house. From the age of fourteen to the beginning of her studies, she took piano and singing lessons at the music school in Düren. From 2001 to 2007 she completed her vocal studies with Soto Papulkas and Jagna Sokorska-Kwika at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, which she graduated with a diploma in 2007.

The soprano took master classes a. a. with Brigitte Fassbaender , Norman Shetler , Julie Kaufmann , Klesie Kelly-Moog and Ingrid Kremling .

From 2009 to 2017, Cathrin Lange was a member of the ensemble at Theater Augsburg . There she was u. a. to experience in the following roles: Gilda in Rigoletto , Olympia in Hoffmanns Tales , Adina in L'elisir d'amore , Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande , Musetta in La Bohème , Gretel in Hansel and Gretel , Sandrina in La finta giardiniera , Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro , Zerlina in Don Giovanni , Adele in Die Fledermaus , Frasquita in Carmen and Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady .

She has been engaged at the Staatstheater Darmstadt since March 2018 and will play Ninfa / Proserpina ( Orfeo / Monteverdi), Pamina / 1st Lady ( Die Zauberflöte ), Adele ( Die Fledermaus ) and Oscar ( A Masked Ball) in the 2018/19 season .

In autumn 2017 she made her debut at the Komische Oper Berlin with the role of Miss Schlesen in Satyagraha by Philip Glass .

Further guest engagements have taken her to the Stuttgart State Opera , the Basel Theater , the Aalto-Theater Essen , the Saarbrücken State Opera , the Graz Opera , the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, the Ulm Theater and the Salzburg State Theater .

In addition to her theater work, Lange also devotes herself to concert and oratorio singing. So she sang u. a. St. Matthew Passion by JSBach, A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms , Messiah by Georg Friedrich Händel , Hymn of Praise by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , the Coronation Mass and the Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , the 3rd Symphony by Leonard Bernstein , the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré , Carmina Burana from Carl Orff and the Mass of the Children by John Rutter .

From 2011 to 2013, Cathrin Lange sang the national anthems for the award ceremony of the DTM (German Touring Car Masters) in all races across Europe. The races, including the award ceremony, were broadcast nationwide by TV partner ARD .

Roles (selection)

• 2012, 2018: Die Fledermaus , operetta by Johann Strauss at the Augsburg Theater and the Darmstadt State Theater (Adele)
• 2013: Rigoletto , opera by Giuseppe Verdi at the Augsburg Theater (Gilda)
• 2014: Pelléas et Mélisande , opera by Claude Debussy at the Augsburg Theater (Mélisande)
• 2014: Jenůfa , opera by Leoš Janáček at the Augsburg Theater and at the Stuttgart State Theater (Karolka)
• 2014, 2017: Hansel and Gretel , opera by Engelbert Humperdinck at Theater Augsburg and Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern (Gretel)
• 2015: La finta giardiniera , opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Augsburg Theater (Sandrina)
• 2015: Hoffmann's Tales , opera by Jacques Offenbach at Theater Augsburg (Olympia)
• 2016, 2017: Die Csárdásfürstin , operetta by Emmerich Kálmán at the Augsburg Theater and the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern (Countess Anastasia Eggenberg)
• 2016: The Abduction from the Seraglio , opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Graz Opera House (blonde)
• 2016, 2017: L'elisir d'amore , opera by Gaetano Donizetti at Theater Augsburg, Theater Ulm and Saarbrücken State Opera (Adina)
• 2016: Idomeneo , opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at Theater Augsburg (Ilia)
• 2017: Satyagraha , opera by Philip Glass at the Theater Basel and at the Komische Oper Berlin (Miss Schlesen)
• 2017: Der Freischütz , opera by Carl Maria von Weber at the Augsburg Theater (Ännchen)
• 2018: Le nozze di Figaro , opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Staatstheater Darmstadt (Susanna)
• 2018: Così fan tutte , opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Staatstheater Darmstadt (Despina)
• 2018: Die Zauberflöte , opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Staatstheater Darmstadt (Pamina, 1st lady)
• 2018: Un ballo in maschera , opera by Giuseppe Verdi at the Staatstheater Darmstadt (Oscar)

Awards / prizes

• 2012: Theater Prize Augsburg in the "Music Theater" category
• 2014: Bavarian Art Prize in the category "Performing Arts" (endowed with 6000 euros)
• 2017: Nomination for the best female supporting role for the Austrian Music Theater Award (Blonde in Graz)

Web links

• Cathrin Lange at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Cathrin Lange homepage
• Cathrin Lange Homepage Darmstadt State Theater

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mozart City Augsburg ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 11, 2016.  
2. ^ The Augsburger Zeitung
3. ^ Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art
4. ^ Double pack advertising agency - Radstadt Salzburg: The Austrian Music Theater Prize - nominations. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .