Christiane Oelze

Christiane Oelze (born October 9, 1963 in Cologne ) is a German song, concert and opera singer (lyrical soprano ).

Life

Christiane Oelze studied singing at the Cologne University of Music with Klesie Kelly-Moog and with Erna Westenberger in Frankfurt / Main. Master classes with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf .

Oelze works with famous orchestras and conductors around the world, including a. regularly with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle. She is a soloist at renowned festivals such as the BBC Proms, in Glyndebourne, at the Salzburg Festival, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Lucerne Festival, in Tanglewood and at Mostly Mozart Festival New York, and also in 2012 at the national holiday concert in Vienna. She has shown highly regarded appearances in new productions at major opera houses such as Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Hamburg State Opera, Opéra National de Paris.

Oelze is particularly known as a Mozart interpreter and also made a name for herself with roles of classical modernism. She advocates the works by the composers Hanns Eisler , Kurt Weill and Viktor Ullmann, which the National Socialists banned as “ degenerate music ” . Her special love is the song genre, for which Oelze is concerned with the "fusion" of vocal and instrumental parts. Oelze has performed in recitals with her long-time piano partner Eric Schneider and with solo pianists such as Mitsuko Uchida (in Carnegie Hall) and Pierre-Laurent Aimard (among others at the Mozart Week in Salzburg and at the Aldeburgh Festival).

She made recordings for the labels Deutsche Grammophon, Teldec, Capriccio, Berlin Classics and Phoenix.

From 2003 to 2008 she taught as a professor for singing at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf.

Remarks

^ Christiane Oelze in conversation with Andreas Dorschel , in: 9th International Competition Franz Schubert and Modern Music. Documentation , ed. v. Elisabeth Freismuth and Elisabeth von Magnus (Graz: University of Music and Performing Arts, 2016) ( ISBN 978-3-200-04568-2 ), pp. 65–69, p. 66: "to merge does not just mean that the singer sings somewhere and the pianist tries to carry it. It is only a song when it all works together. "

Web links

Works by Christiane Oelze in the catalog of the German National Library
Christiane Oelze's website

personal data
SURNAME	Oelze, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German song, concert and opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne

[1] Christiane Oelze in conversation with Andreas Dorschel , in: 9th International Competition Franz Schubert and Modern Music. Documentation , ed. v. Elisabeth Freismuth and Elisabeth von Magnus (Graz: University of Music and Performing Arts, 2016) ( ISBN 978-3-200-04568-2 ), pp. 65–69, p. 66: "to merge does not just mean that the singer sings somewhere and the pianist tries to carry it. It is only a song when it all works together. "