Christa Ratzenböck

Christa Ratzenböck (born August 24, 1972 in Sankt Aegidi ) is an Upper Austrian mezzo-soprano .

education

Ratzenböck studied from 1990 to 1996 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Ingrid Mayr. She attended master classes with Inge Borkh , Anna Reynolds , Marjana Lipovšek and chamber singer Margarita Lilowa as well as the opera school, song and oratorio class of Hartmut Höll and Mitsuko Shirai .

Festive engagements

• Member of the International Opera Studio at the Zurich Opera House (1998/99)
• Ensemble member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein , Düsseldorf (2000/01)
• Ensemble member at the Linz State Theater (2001-2007)

repertoire

• Bad Ischl , Lehár Festival: Prince Orlofsky from Die Fledermaus
• Basel Opera House : Main role in Fragoletto in Jacques Offenbach's Die Banditen
• Düsseldorf, Opera House: Page from Salome and the 3rd flower girl from Parsifal under Hans Wallat
• Landestheater Linz : Dorabella in Così fan tutte - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Idamante in Idomeneo - Mozart; Emilia in Otello - Giuseppe Verdi ; Palmatica in The Begging Student - Carl Millöcker ; Hansel in Hansel and Gretel - Humperdinck ; The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein - Offenbach; Siebel in Faust Gounod ; Orlofsky in the bat - Johann Strauss ; Varvara in Katja Kabanowa by Leoš Janáček ; Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos - Richard Strauss ; Mrs. M in news from the day of Paul Hindemith
• Linz Brucknerfest: concert performance of the Ring by Richard Wagner, the part of Wellgunde from Rheingold , Waltraute from Die Walküre , 2. Norn and Wellgunde in Götterdämmerung
• Linz EntArteOpera: Nele in Ulenspiegel by Walter Braunfels
• Moscow and St. Petersburg , White-Night Festival: Leading role of the cornet in the opera Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke by Siegfried Matthus
• Estates Theater Prague : Donna Elvira from Mozart's Don Giovanni
• Salzburg State Theater: Electress, The Bird Trader
• Chamber Opera Vienna : Dorabella in Così fan tutte
• Schlosstheater Schönbrunn , Vienna : Countess Zedlau from Viennese blood and Prince Orlofsky from the bat
• Theater an der Wien : Dialogues des Carmélites by Francis Poulenc ; A Streetcar Named Desire by André Previn under Sian Edwards
• Zurich Opera House : Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia ; Cavaliere Belfiore in Il viaggio a Reims , as well as the Countess in Der Wildschütz
• Concerts in the Vienna Konzerthaus , the Duisburg Concert Hall, the Zagreb Concert Hall , the new Budapest Concert Hall , St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna , the Brucknerhaus Linz and the Bratislava Music Festival

honors and awards

Christa Ratzenböck is the winner of the Gradus ad Parnassum singing competition and the Int. Mozart Competition in Salzburg 1999.

Web links

• Official website of Christa Ratzenböck
• Christa Ratzenböck on www.operavladarski.com
• Current information on Twitter
• Works by and about Christa Ratzenböck in the catalog of the German National Library