Elisabeth Linhart

Elisabeth Linhart (* in Vienna ) is an Austrian soprano , opera and lieder singer.

Career

In Vienna she had piano lessons from the age of seven. After training to be an actor and studying psychology, she found engagements at Viennese basement theaters. She completed a classical singing course at the Music University in Vienna . Her teachers were Ilse Rapf and Erik Werba , and she attended master classes with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Sir Charles Mackerras and Jean-Pierre Blivet . This was followed by engagements at the Vienna Chamber Opera and collaboration with independent Viennese opera groups in a number of contemporary operas. Elisabeth Linhart appeared in orchestral concerts and the popular oratorios and developed her extensive lied repertoire. She gives master classes for song interpretation.

Contemporary composers have written songs and song cycles for Elisabeth Linhart , while the Viennese film and media composer Alexander Kukelka played the main role of Donna Simpson in his opera Donnas Traum (world premiere: March 2012 in Vienna). The singer performs at international festivals all over Europe, the United States, Central America and Asia with the two programs, Alma Mahler's Guest at Alma Mahler - Lieder des Wiener Jugendstil and Ingeborg Bachmann's song cycles by the Bulgarian composer Julia Tsenova . Concert tours have taken her to many European countries and to Central America, China and the USA. Elisabeth Linhart leads cultural projects and writes musicological essays. She wrote her master's thesis ( Musikverein St. Pölten 1837. Its history from 1837-1900 ) in 2003 on one of the oldest active music associations in Austria.

repertoire

The preference for text interpretations and a large repertoire of songs are her trademarks. She gives concerts a. a. with the ORF Symphony Orchestra, the NÖ Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Haydn Sinfonietta Vienna, the Collegium Academicum de Genève and with Paul Angerer and the Concilium musicum Vienna. Song accompanists were Helmut Deutsch, Julia Tsenova, Volker Nemmer, Margit Fussi, Markus Vorzellner, Karl Eichinger, Halina Piskorski, Elisabeth Eschwé. Elisabeth Linhart has participated in world premieres by contemporary composers such as Wolfram Wagner, Paul Hertel , Ulf-Diether Soyka , Karlheinz Schrödl and Julia Tsenova.

Song recitals are the main focus of the soprano's career. She compiles her programs on specific topics and also writes the music-sociological texts for the evening program. Over 500 songs from practically all style epochs make up her repertoire - from classical, romantic and contemporary - from JS Bach to Luciano Berio and the Wienerlied. Elisabeth Linhart is particularly successful with her interpretation of the songs of the Vienna Fin de Siècle around 1900 by the composers Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schönberg, Alexander Zemlinsky, Franz Schreker and Richard Strauss. She also sings Viennese songs and pieces from operettas, chansons and couplets from the years 1900 to 1938, combined with texts by the Viennese coffee house literary writers Alexander Roda Roda and Peter Altenberg .

Awards

• 2004 Award of the state capital St. Pölten for science and art .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.ingeborg-bachmann.cc/elisabeth_linhart.html
2. ↑ Work by students p. 9  ( 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. (PDF file; 50 kB) on mdw.ac.at, viewed May 29, 2010