Christa Mayer

Christa Mayer (* around 1972 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg ) is a German opera singer ( alto / mezzo-soprano ).

Life

During her school days, Christa Mayer was supported by the Bavarian Singing Academy. She then studied with Thomas Moser at the Munich Music Academy and completed master classes with Hans Hotter , Francisco Araiza and Irwin Gage .

Since 2001 she has been a member of the ensemble of the Saxon State Opera Dresden (Semperoper) . Guest performances have taken her to the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Bavarian State Opera , the Rheingau Music Festival , the Kissinger Sommer and the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg as well as the opera houses in Hamburg, Venice, Munich, Florence, Barcelona, ​​Bilbao and Seville. In 2008 she made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Erda and Waltraute in the Ring des Nibelungen . In 2015 she made her debut at the New National Theater Tokyo as Erda in a new production of Das Rheingold .

Honors

• 1999 Richard Strauss Badge (Young Talent Award of the Richard Strauss Society in Munich); Prize winner at the Nuremberg Mastersingers Competition
• 2000 winner of the Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau and the ARD Competition in Munich
• 2001 Bavarian State Prize for Music
• 2005 Christel Goltz Prize
• 2020 Award of the honorary title of chamber singer

Web links

• Works by and about Christa Mayer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography (Semperoper) of the soloist.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the Bayreuth Festival ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ IOCO culture on the web / press release Semperoper Dresden www.ioco.de, January 12, 2018