Cornelia Lanz

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Cornelia Lanz, 2011

Cornelia Lanz (* 1981 in Mainz ) is a German opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ) and producer of operas with the association Zukunft Kultur ev, formerly Zuflucht Kultur eV, which she founded in 2014

Life and career

Cornelia Lanz grew up in Biberach an der Riss in Upper Swabia . Her early musical training took place at the Bruno Frey Youth Music School in Biberach, where she received violin and piano lessons; this was later supplemented by singing lessons from Elsa Marx .

In 2010 she passed her state examinations with legal clerkship in school music with a focus on violin and conducting . Made possible by a scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg State Foundation , she studied opera singing at the Manhattan School of Music in New York in 2006/2007 and directing and American studies at Columbia University . In the summer of 2008, Lanz graduated from the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart with a degree in “Artistic Voice Training” and “Music Teacher Voice” . One of her teachers was the baritone Thomas Pfeiffer . She attended master classes with Jaume Aragall , Renée Morloc, Konrad Richter, Gabriel Sadé, Norma Sharp , Hans Sotin , The King's Singers , Dunja Vejzovic and Kurt Widmer, among others . She has been artistically supervised by Kammersängerin Eva Randová since 2013 .

She is married and has one child.

Artistic work

Cornelia Lanz has been singing as a freelance singer (mezzo-soprano / alto) in operas, concerts and oratorios since 2010.

Oratorio and concert

Her concert repertoire ranges from baroque music and the works of Johann Sebastian Bach to the music of the Viennese classic and romantic period to modern times. In the oratorio subject she took on almost all major alto parts.

In 2010 she sang with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra in the Tonhalle Zurich , in 2012 under Werner Ehrhardt with the ensemble “L'arte del mondo” in Altenberg Cathedral and with L'arpa festante in the Balingen city church , and in 2013 with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra in the Berlin Cathedral and in 2014 under Michel Tilkin with the Thuringia Philharmonic Gotha-Eisenach . She has also sung several times with the Nuremberg Bach Orchestra and the Nuremberg State Philharmonic at concerts in the Nuremberg Sebalduskirche . In 2015 she performed in the Herkulessaal Munich and the concert and congress hall in Bamberg . In 2019 she performed with the Chamber Orchestra of the Munich Philharmonic in the Prinzregententheater in Munich.

She sang in oratorios and concerts in the Cathedral Saint-Lazare von Autun (June 2011), in Notre-Dame in Beaune (June 2011), in the Église Saint-Jacques de Liège (October 2011), in the collegiate church of Stuttgart , in the Sebalduskirche Nuremberg (every year 2011–2014), in the Friedenskirche Ludwigsburg (2009), in the Stiftkirche Tübingen (2012) and under Friedemann Johannes Wieland in the Ulm Minster (2012).

Opera and operetta

In November 2008 she sang the role of Irmentraut in the play opera Der Waffenschmied at the St. Pauli Theater in Hamburg . In the role of Ida, she appeared in the Fledermaus production by Philipp Stölzl at the Stuttgart State Opera under the musical direction of Manfred Honeck and directed by Philipp Stölzl. In 2010 and 2011 she took part in a production of the Opernwerkstatt am Rhein in the opera Carmen in the role of the gypsy Mercedes. In December 2011 / January 2012 she took on the role of Countess Zedlau in the operetta Wiener Blut in a production of the Biberach Dramatic Society in the Biberach town hall. In 2012 she made guest appearances at the Bayer AG Kulturhaus in Leverkusen and at the Mei Lanfang Grand Theater in Beijing in the role of Lisinga in the Le Cinesi opera, directed by Igor Folwill . In the 2012/13 season she was engaged at the Landestheater Schleswig-Holstein , where she sang the siren in Hans-Magnus Enzensberger's Der Untergang der Titanic under the direction of Wolfram Apprich . In August 2012 and July 2013 she sang Maddalena in performances of the opera Rigoletto at the Dreieichenhain Castle Festival and the Clingenburg Festival .

In October 2014 Lanz took on the role of Dorabella in Così fan tutte in the Stuttgart Theaterhaus in an opera project in which, in addition to the opera singers and the Palatinate Chamber Orchestra, civil war refugees and asylum seekers from Syria took part; Lanz also had the idea and direction for this project, which was performed in the Radialsystem Berlin , the Gasteig Munich , the Tollhaus Karlsruhe , the Evangelical Church Congress Stuttgart , the Rüsselsheim Theater and the Roxy Ulm, among others .

In July 2015 she sang the title role in the opera Carmen at the Thuringian Castle Festival in Sondershausen .

In 2015 she sang in Mozart's Zaide at the Augsburg Theater , at the Augsburg Peace Festival, in the Theaterhaus Stuttgart, in 2016 in the Stadttheater Pforzheim and at the European Church Music Festival Schwäbisch Gmünd and in 2017 in the Old Congress Hall in Munich. In Mozart's Idomeneo she sang the role of Idamante with the orchestra "BandArt" under the musical direction of Gordan Nikolic at the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival in 2016 and at the Lucerne Festival in 2017 in the Lucerne Culture and Congress Center .

In 2017 she sang Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus and Fenena in Verdi's Nabucco in the Fürstenfeldbruck town hall under the direction of Carolin Nordmeyer at the Hofspielhaus Munich . In 2017 she was also seen in the title role of Bizet's Carmen at the MMA Club Munich .

In the Orfeo production of her association Zuflucht Kultur eV, she sang the title role of Orfeo in 2018 in the Hofspielhaus Munich and the collegiate church in Tübingen and in 2019 in the St. Jakobs Church (Zurich) . In 2018 she also sang Princess Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlos at the Kulturhaus Lüdenscheid , the Theater Düren and the Festival van Vlaanderen in Gent . During the guest appearance at the Bayreuth Festival in Abu Dhabi , she played Brünnhilde in the film adaptation of Wagner's Die Walküre under the direction of Katharina Wagner .

Cornelia Lanz (2017)

CD recordings

In a world premiere recording in 2010, Cornelia Lanz sang the title role on CD in Handel's opera Oreste . NDR Kultur praised the “successful overall recording”. Das Opernglas magazine highlighted Cornelia Lanz's performance: “In the title role, Mezzo Cornelia Lanz impresses with great passion. She redesigns almost each of the emotionally very demanding arias individually and depending on the situation. "

She also recorded two song albums with pianist Stefan Laux: 2015 with Hänssler Classic Frauengestalten with Schubert, Verdi and Rossini and 2017 with thorofon They both loved each other ... , women's love and life and other women's songs by Robert Schumann , Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms .

Own productions

In 2007, Cornelia Lanz staged Handel's Alcina with the baroque ensemble of the Manhattan School of Music in New York under the musical direction of Kenneth Cooper . In 2012 she directed Handel's Imeneo at DUCTAC ( Dubai Community Theater and Arts Center, United Arab Emirates ) with the Raccanto Ensemble under the musical direction of Robert Schröter as well as scenes from Janáček's opera The Makropulos Affair at the Kundry Festival in Theater Hall 6 in Munich under the artistic direction of Julian Riem.

Awards and grants

In 2006 she received a grant from the Baden-Württemberg State Foundation and in 2010 a grant from the Richard Wagner Association . Cornelia Lanz received the Bruno Frey Prize from the Biberach Youth Music School and the Culture Prize of the Biberach District in 2011. In 2012 she was a finalist in the Vienna Nico Dostal opera competition. In 2015 she received the Zonta Art and Culture Award. The ZDF program Die Anstalt from November 18, 2014, in which its Syrian refugee choir "Refuge" performed, received a Grimme Prize and a special prize as part of the Marl Media Prize for Human Rights from Amnesty International the following year . In 2016 her association Zuflucht Kultur eV received the Pill Mayer Foundation's Dialogue Prize.

Web links

Commons : Cornelia Lanz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zukunft Kultur eV. Accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ EQ Events Speaker> Topics> MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT> Lanz Cornelia. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d biography ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the program brochure Stiftung Karlshöhe Ludwigsburg (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  4. ↑ a b c The artists (PDF; 751 kB) Biography of Cornelia Lanz (program booklet)
  5. ↑ EQ Events Speaker> Topics> MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT> Lanz Cornelia. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Michael Vogel: Biberach mezzo-soprano Cornelia Lanz marries in a baroque church. In: Schwäbische Zeitung. September 10, 2019, accessed September 27, 2019 .
  7. ^ Official homepage, Cornelia Lanz, Repertoire Oratorium
  8. ↑ Mass in B minor (official website of the Zurich Concert Choir)
  9. ↑ My name: concert review. February 2, 2018, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Kantorei sings Johannespassion , in Schwarzwälder Bote from March 21, 2013 (event information)
  11. ↑ Bach's Johannes Passion in the cathedral ( memento of April 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), official website
  12. ↑ Concert C2 | Thuringia Philharmonic Gotha - Eisenach. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Archive until 2015 ; accessed on May 10, 2020
  14. ↑ Bayer. Doctors Orchestra Dvorak Stabat Mater. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  15. ^ "With humor into the New Year", Prinzregententheater, Tuesday, January 8th, 2019 / 8:00 p.m. at Bell´Arte concerts in Munich. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Hymns of praise in an inspiring oath concert , in: Südwest Presse of July 23, 2012
  17. ↑ Drolliges Spielöperchen , review in: Hamburger Abendblatt from November 17, 2008; Retrieved April 25, 2013
  18. ↑ Die Fledermaus Online Music Magazine ; Retrieved April 27, 2013
  19. ↑ Cornelia Lanz ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2013 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. ; Short biography with the ensemble of the Opernwerkstatt am Rhein  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.opernwerkstatt-am-rhein.de
  20. ↑ Carmen ( Memento from August 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (cast, music excerpts)
  21. ↑ The dram passes the blood sample  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Premiere report; accessed on September 1, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dramatischer-verein-biberach.de  
  22. ↑ I am a lucky child ( Memento from September 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 935 kB) Portrait of Cornelia Lanz (January 2013)
  23. ^ "Le Cinesi" celebrated in Beijing Focus Online October 11, 2012, review by Gluck Le Cinesi , Mei Lanfang Theater (Beijing)
  24. ↑ Successful end to the season | shz.de. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  25. ^ Castle Festival - Rigoletto cast; Dreieichenhain Castle Festival; Retrieved August 25, 2013
  26. ↑ Rigoletto. Dreieichenhain Castle Festival Operabase ; August 2012
  27. ↑ Rigoletto ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2013 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. Internet presence of the Clingenburg Festival  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.clingenburg-festspiele.de
  28. ↑ Cornelia Lanz (dates)
  29. ^ Theaterhaus Stuttgart: Cosi fan tutte. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  30. ^ Opera as a cultural bridge - "Così fan tutte" with Syrian refugees in Berlin. Retrieved on May 10, 2020 (German).
  31. ^ Gasteig Munich GmbH: Mozart: Così fan tutte | 11/02/2014 | Carl Orff Hall | Gasteig Munich. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  32. ↑ Così fan tutte goes Syria | Open the flap - Karlsruhe. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  33. ↑ Klarner Medien GmbH: "Celebrated and much noticed" - Cosi fan tutte opera project with Syrian civil war refugees | RTF.1. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  34. ^ Opera "Così fan tutte" in the Roxy in Ulm. Retrieved on May 10, 2020 (German).
  35. ^ Mozart and paradise preliminary report in: Südwestpresse from August 29, 2014. Accessed on November 9, 2014
  36. ^ Mozart's Così fan tutte in the refugee home preliminary report in: Stuttgarter Zeitung of September 30, 2014. Accessed on November 9, 2014
  37. ^ Thuringian Castle Festival Sondershausen: Carmen ; Performance review in opera world . Edition 9/2015. Page 70.
  38. ↑ »Zaide« needs help | a3culture | Feuilleton for Augsburg. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  39. ^ Theaterhaus Stuttgart: Zaide. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  40. ↑ Mozart's “Zaide” as a refugee project at the Pforzheim Theater - Culture - Pforzheimer-Zeitung. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  41. ↑ SDZ Druck und Medien GmbH: On the run. August 2, 2016, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  42. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: "Zaide" - opera project with refugees: main actor Pouya has to go back to Afghanistan | BR classic. January 17, 2018, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  43. ^ Mozart: Idomeneo. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  44. ↑ LUCERNE FESTIVAL: 08/22/2017 members of the “Idomeneo” ensemble | Cornelia Lanz - “Finding Sanctuary in Mozart” - Summer Festival. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  45. ↑ LUCERNE FESTIVAL: 08/22/2017 members of the “Idomeneo” ensemble | Cornelia Lanz - “Finding Sanctuary in Mozart” - Summer Festival. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  46. ^ Opera: Nabucco conquers the city hall. July 13, 2017, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  47. ↑ Carmen | Opera Incognita. Retrieved on May 10, 2020 (German).
  48. ↑ Orfeo - a transcultural opera on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 8:00 p.m. - Hofspielhaus. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  49. ↑ stiftskirche-tuebingen.de. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  50. ↑ RICHARD WAGNER, DIE WALKÜRE, Emirates Palace, ABU DHABI / UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, January 30, 2019. In: Classical enthusiasm. February 2, 2019, accessed on May 10, 2020 (German).
  51. ↑ German National Library
  52. ↑ Findings - Exciting encounter with operas from the baroque era  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Review in: Das Opernglas from November 7, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cornelia-lanz.com  
  53. ↑ Das Opernglas , website
  54. ↑ Robert Schumann: Frauenliebe & Leben op.42 (CD) - jpc. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  55. ↑ Program, Handel, Alcina, Manhattan School of Music, New York, 2007
  56. ↑ Dubai Concert Committee ( Memento January 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Official Website
  57. ↑ in: Süddeutsche Zeitung : "Die Kraft des Kollektiv", May 4, 2012
  58. ↑ District awards culture prize for the first time Report in: Schwäbische Zeitung , updated on January 24, 2011; last accessed on September 1, 2013
  59. ↑ Cornelia Lanz receives the Zonta Award 2015. Accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  60. ^ Dietrich Krauss, Max Uthoff and Claus von Wagner. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  61. ^ Performance of the Zuflucht choir on ZDF Die Anstalt 2014. Accessed on May 10, 2020 .
  62. ^ Marl Media Prize for Human Rights 2015. Accessed May 10, 2020 .
  63. ↑ Sponsorship award for intercultural dialogue - PILL MAYER STIFTUNG. Retrieved on May 10, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Lanz, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz