Cornelia Götz

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Cornelia Götz and Andy Lawrence in 2013

Cornelia Götz (born March 2, 1965 in Waiblingen ) is a German opera singer (soprano).

Life

Cornelia Götz began training as a teacher at the University of Education in Schwäbisch Gmünd and then studied at the Music Academy in Karlsruhe , the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and in the opera studio of the Munich State Opera . Ruthilde Boesch and Astrid Varnay were among her teachers .

After completing her training, she was initially a member of the ensemble at the Nuremberg Opera, later she moved to the Deutsche Oper Berlin , before working as a freelance artist. She has already sung at the Semperoper in Dresden and other major opera houses in Germany, but has also performed in the Vienna Volksoper , at the Edinburgh Festival , at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden , in Antwerp , Rome and Japan . One of her most important roles is the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute . In this role she was heard at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival 2004, at the Chicago Lyric Opera in 2005, in 2006 at the Teatro Regio in Parma and in 2008 at the Opéra National in Paris . She also appeared on stage more often as Konstanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio , including at the 2007 Festival in Aix-en-Provence . Cornelia Götz also appears as a concert soloist and has recorded several CD, radio and television productions.

In 1992 she won the VDMK competition in Berlin . In 1994 she reached the finals at the ARD competition in Munich, and in 1996 at the international competition in Toulouse .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Cornelia Götz in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
  2. Cornelia Götz on hamburgische-staatsoper.de ( Memento from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Cornelia Götz on nrw-buehnen.de