Doris Soffel
Doris Soffel (born May 12, 1948 in Hechingen ) is a German opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ).
Life
Soffel first studied violin , then singing (teacher: Marianne Schech ) at the University of Music and Theater in Munich . From 1973 to 1982 she was a member of the Stuttgart Opera Ensemble, where she took on roles such as Carmen, Dorabella (Mozart: Così fan tutte ) and Octavian (Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier ). Her international breakthrough came in 1982 at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London, as Sesto in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and as Prince Orlofsky in Strauss ' operetta Die Fledermaus .
Soffel sang Fricka at the Bayreuth Festival as early as 1983 . She then became the only German female coloratura mezzo-soprano with an international career with engagements in bel canto operas such as L'italiana in Algeri and La Cenerentola by Rossini , Maria Stuarda by Donizetti and Norma von Bellini . She sang world premieres by contemporary composers such as Aribert Reimann and Krzysztof Penderecki . She could be heard in concerts with Mahler's works around the world. Her artistic work is documented in over 60 CD and DVD recordings.
From 1994 she played more dramatic roles like Judith in Béla Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle , Princess Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlos and Amneris in Aida . In 1996 she sang her first Klytämnestra ( Elektra) at the Salzburg Festival .
Since 1999 Soffel has been one of the internationally sought-after Wagner and Strauss singers with roles such as Ortrud ( Lohengrin ), Kundry ( Parsifal ), Fricka ( Das Rheingold and Die Walküre ), Herodias ( Salome ), Amme ( The Woman Without a Shadow ) and Klytämnestra ( Elektra ). In 2007 she took on the female lead with Marfa in the Mussorgsky opera Chowanschtschina at the Bavarian State Opera , Munich, and in 2008 Kabanicha in Janáček's Katja Kabanowa at the Cologne Opera and Jezibaba in Dvořák's Rusalka at the La Monnaie Theater, Brussels.
Between 2004 and 2017 she sang Herodias in eleven different Salome productions and between 2010 and 2017 she sang Clytemnestra in six Elektra productions. Since 2015 roles such as Erda in Wagner's Ring , Mme de Croissy in Poulencs Dialogues des Carmélites , Leokadja Begbick in the rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny and Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande have also been part of her repertoire.
Soffel lives in Berlin and is married to a Swede; they have a grown daughter together.
Awards
In 2006 Soffel became a chamber singer at the Cologne Opera. She is the bearer of the Royal Swedish North Star Order .
repertoire
Opera
| composer | Opera | role |
|---|---|---|
| Béla Bartók | Bluebeard's Castle | Judit |
| Vincenzo Bellini | Norma | Adalgisa |
| Alban Berg | Lulu | Countess Geschwitz |
| Hector Berlioz | Les Troyens | Didon |
| Georges Bizet | Carmen | Carmen |
| Francesco Cilea | Adriana Lecouvreur | La Principessa di Bouillon |
| Gaetano Donizetti | Anna Bolena | Giovanna di Seymour |
| La favorita | Leonora di Guzman | |
| Maria Stuarda | Elisabetta | |
| Antonín Dvořák | Rusalka | Witch Jezibaba |
| Friedrich Freiherr von Flotow | Martha or The Richmond Market | Nancy |
| Christoph Willibald Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice | Orfeo |
| georg Friedrich Handel | Hercules | Dejanira |
| Leoš Janáček | Káťa Kabanová | Kabanicha |
| Pietro Mascagni | Cavalleria rusticana | Santuzza |
| Jules Massenet | Hérodiade | Hérodiade |
| Werther | Charlotte | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | So fan tutte | Dorabella |
| La clemenza di Tito | Sesto | |
| The Magic Flute | Second lady | |
| So fan tutte | Dorabella | |
| Modest Mussorgsky | Boris Godunov | Marina Mnisek |
| Khovanshchina | Marfa | |
| Krzysztof Penderecki | Ubu Rex | Mère Ubu |
| Amilcare Ponchielli | La Gioconda | Laura Adorno |
| Francis Poulenc | Dialogues des Carmélites | Madame de Croissy |
| Aribert Reimann | Troades | Kassandra |
| Gioachino Rossini | La Cenerentola | Angelina |
| Il barbiere di Siviglia | Rosina | |
| L'italiana in Algeri | Isabella | |
| Mosè in Egitto | Sinaide | |
| Camille Saint-Saëns | Samson et Dalila | Dalila |
| Othmar Schoeck | Penthesilea | Penthesilea |
| Louis Spohr | Jessonda | Amazili |
| Johann Strauss | The bat | Prince Orlofsky |
| Richard Strauss | Elektra | Clytemnestra |
| Ariadne on Naxos | The composer | |
| Capriccio | Clairon | |
| The woman without a shadow | The wet nurse | |
| The Rosenkavalier | Octavian | |
| Salome | Herodias | |
| Igor Stravinsky | Oedipus Rex | Jocaste |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky | Orleanskaya deva | Joan of Arc |
| Queen of Spades | countess | |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Aida | Amneris |
| Don Carlo | Eboli | |
| Un ballo in maschera | Ulrika | |
| Il trovatore | Azucena | |
| Richard Wagner | Götterdämmerung | Waltraute |
| Lohengrin | Ortrud | |
| Parsifal | Kundry | |
| the Rheingold | Fricka | |
| Rienzi : The last of the tribunes | Adriano | |
| Tannhäuser and the singer's war on Wartburg | Venus | |
| Tristan and Isolde | Brangäne | |
| The Valkyrie | Fricka | |
| Hugo Wolf | The corregidor | Frasquita |
| Alexander von Zemlinsky | A Florentine tragedy | Bianca |
concert
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Passions and oratorios | Mezzo |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Missa solemnis in D major op.123 | Mezzo |
| Symphony No. 9 | Old | |
| Hector Berlioz | La mort de Cleopâtre | Mezzo |
| Les nuits d'été | Mezzo | |
| La damnation de Faust | Marguerite | |
| Johannes Brahms | Songs | Mezzo |
| Anton Bruckner | Mass No. 3 in F minor | Old |
| Joseph Haydn | Harmony Mass in B flat major Hob. XXII: 13 | Old |
| Holy Mass in B flat major Hob.XXII: 10 | Old | |
| Missa Sanctae Caeciliae in C major | Old | |
| Theresienmesse in B flat major Hob. XXII: 12 | Mezzo | |
| Gustav Mahler | The Song of the Earth | Mezzo |
| Children's songs for the dead | Mezzo | |
| Symphony No. 2 in C minor (Resurrection) | Old | |
| Symphony No. 8 in E flat major (Symphony of a Thousand) | Old | |
| Symphony No. 3 in D minor | Mezzo | |
| Rückert songs | Mezzo | |
| Songs of a Wayfarer | Mezzo | |
| Hermann Reutter | Songs | Mezzo |
| Franz Schubert | Songs and song cycles | Mezzo |
| Erwin Schulhoff | Landscapes / humanity | Mezzo |
| Robert Schumann | Songs and song cycles | Mezzo |
| Arnold Schoenberg | Gurre songs | Wood pigeon |
| Wolfgang von Schweinitz | Song cycle paper stars | Mezzo |
| Aleksandr Scriabin | Symphony No. 1 in E major | Mezzo |
| Richard Strauss | Songs and song cycles | Mezzo |
| Giuseppe Verdi | requiem | Mezzo |
| Richard Wagner | Wesendonck songs | Mezzo |
| Alexander von Zemlinsky | Maeterlinck orchestral songs | Mezzo |
Web links
- Doris Soffel at Boris Orlob Management
- Doris Soffel at Klassik-heute
- Doris Soffel in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.coram-publico.de/jahrestage3.asp?jahr=2008
- ^ Doris Soffel becomes the first female chamber singer at the Cologne Opera
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Soffel, Doris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (mezzo-soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hechingen , Württemberg-Hohenzollern |