Cheryl Studer
Cheryl Studer (born October 24, 1955 in Midland , Michigan ) is an American opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
Cheryl Studer studied at Tanglewood Music Center , Tanglewood , and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Hans Hotter. After first appearances in Darmstadt , at the Bavarian State Opera and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, she made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 1985 as Elisabeth ( Tannhäuser ) , where she has since been heard as Elsa, Senta and Sieglinde (in 2000) was. At the Salzburg Festival she sang Chrysothemis ( Elektra ) , 1992 Empress ( Die Frau ohne Schatten ) , Marschallin ( Der Rosenkavalier ) , Elettra in Idomeneo and Leonore (Fidelio) . With over eighty roles, she has guested at major opera houses in Europe and the United States, such as the La Scala in Milan , the Opéra National de Paris , the Vienna State Opera , the Covent Garden in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Hamburg State Opera . Roles at the Bavarian State Opera included Violetta Valéry ( La traviata ) , Aida , Rosalinde ( Die Fledermaus ) , Chrysothemis (Elektra) , Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier) and Ariadne ( Ariadne auf Naxos ) . In 1998 there was an uproar with the Bavarian State Opera, which terminated its guest contract without notice because its “current vocal constitution” was not up to the expected “demands”. After her voice had recovered after a break, she sang in 14 other performances at the Bavarian State Opera until 2003.
In the course of her international career she made numerous important recordings, such as Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail under Bruno Weil and Richard Strauss' Salome under Giuseppe Sinopoli. For example, the soprano had made over 28 complete opera recordings between 1987 and 1994.
Cheryl Studer has held a professorship for singing at the University of Music in Würzburg since 2003 .
Repertoire (selection)
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Ludwig van Beethoven
- Fidelio (Leonore)
- Missa solemnis (soprano part)
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Vincenzo Bellini
- La sonnambula (Amina)
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Georges Bizet
- Carmen (Micaela)
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Johannes Brahms
- A German Requiem op.45 (soprano part)
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Gaetano Donizetti
- Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia)
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Carlisle Floyd
- Susannah (Susannah)
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Telemaco (Circe)
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Charles Gounod
- Faust (Marguerite)
- Roméo et Juliette (Juliette)
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georg Friedrich Handel
- The Messiah (Soprano II)
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Engelbert Humperdinck
- Hansel and Gretel (Gertrud)
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Franz Lehár
- The Merry Widow (Hanna Glawari)
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Jules Massenet
- Hérodiade (Salome)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Don Giovanni (Donna Anna)
- The Abduction from the Seraglio (Konstanze)
- The Magic Flute (Queen of the Night, Pamina)
- Idomeneo (Elettra)
- Le nozze di Figaro (Countess)
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Jacques Offenbach
- Les contes d'Hoffmann (Giulietta)
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Gioachino Rossini
- Il viaggio a Reims (Madama Cortese)
- Guglielmo Tell (Mathilde)
- Semiramide (semiramide)
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Bedrich Smetana
- The Bartered Bride (Mařenka)
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Louis Spohr
- Jessonda (Jessonda)
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Johann Strauss
- The Bat (Rosalinde)
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Richard Strauss
- Arabella (Arabella, Adelaide)
- Ariadne on Naxos (Ariadne)
- Capriccio (Countess)
- Daphne (Daphne)
- The Egyptian Helena (Aitra)
- Elektra (Chrysothemis)
- The woman without a shadow (Empress)
- The Rosenkavalier (Marschallin)
- Salome (Salome)
- Four last songs (soprano)
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Eugene Onegin (Tatjana)
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Giuseppe Verdi
- Aida (Aida)
- Attila (Odabella)
- Il trovatore (Leonora)
- I vespri siciliani (Elena)
- La traviata (Violetta)
- Otello (Desdemona)
- Rigoletto (Gilda)
- Messa da Requiem (soprano part)
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Richard Wagner
- The Flying Dutchman (Senta)
- The fairies (Drolla)
- The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Eva)
- The Valkyrie (Brünnhilde, Sieglinde, Helmwige, Ortlinde)
- Götterdämmerung (Gutrune)
- Lohengrin (Elsa)
- Parsifal (Kundry)
- Rienzi (Irene)
- Tannhauser (Elisabeth)
- Tristan and Isolde (Isolde)
- Wesendonck songs (soprano)
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Carl Maria von Weber
- Euryanthe (Euryanthe)
- Der Freischütz (Agathe)
Web links
- Cheryl Studer in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Cheryl Studer in the performance database of the Bayreuth Festival
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Umbach : Overthrown . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1998, pp. 276-278 ( online - 2 November 1998 ).
- ↑ Past appointments with Cheryl Studer. Bavarian State Opera . Retrieved December 5, 2016.
- ↑ Prof. Cheryl Studer. Singing. University of Music Würzburg .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Studer, Cheryl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American opera singer (soprano) |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1955 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Midland , Michigan |