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Cheryl Lichter (* in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American singer , music teacher, and conductor.

education

She studied at the University of Illinois, where she received extensive training as a music teacher, conductor, and singing subject, and where she won the 1974 Rotary International Scholarship. She used this to study singing at the University of Toronto ( Canada ). Later she continued studying in Germany.

Career

She had her first permanent engagement in 1978 at the Trier Theater . After she was first used as a coloratura soubrette , she switched to the lyric coloratura subject.

In 1983 she came to Linz, where her first role at the Linz State Theater was 'Belisa' in Don Perlimplin Loves Belisa (by Balduin Sulzer ) and 'Gilda' in Rigoletto . Since then she has been used in many great roles.

She sang the Queen of the Night (Magic Flute) over a hundred times in 19 opera houses, where she worked with Francisco Araiza , Gösta Winbergh and Matti Salminen , among others . She sang the role in Zurich in the famous Mozart cycle by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt .

Cheryl Lichter has worked in all musical styles, not only in operas and operettas as well as musicals, but also in concerts.

The world premiere of Peter Androsch's Die cunning widow took place in Linz's Eisenhandtheater on May 9, 2007 , with Cheryl Lichter playing the title role of the play about serial killer Elfriede Blauensteiner .

Some roles

• The Abduction from the Seraglio - Konstanze
• Le nozze di Figaro - Susanne
• The Magic Flute - Queen of the Night
• The merry women of Windsor - Mrs. Fluth
• The bird dealer - Princess Maria
• My Fair Lady - Higgins housekeeper, Mrs. Pearce

Honors

• 2004 Culture Medal of the Province of Upper Austria , awarded by Governor Dr. Josef Pühringer

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theater newspaper Landestheater Linz from September / October 2008.

Web links and sources

• Website Linzer Landestheater, with photo
• OÖN text archive May 11, 2007: Burli writhes in pain, the heiress is delighted with the heart ... about the cunning widow (only for registered users)
• OÖN text archive June 23, 2004: Day after day they give up their heart and soul, in front of, behind the stage ... , awarding of cultural medals to Eva-Maria Aichner , Silvia Glogner and Cheryl Lichter (only for registered users)