Erika Sunnegårdh
Margareta Erika Sunnegårdh (born May 11, 1966 in Danderyd , Stockholm) is a Swedish opera singer who specializes in highly dramatic soprano . She lived in New York for many years , made her debut at Malmö Opera in 2004 and has since sung leading roles at major opera houses in Europe and North America. The singer has lived in Vienna since 2011.
life and work
The singer's parents were well-known singing teachers. Arne Sunnegårdh, her father, taught at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm , worked with the legendary opera singers Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling and was also choirmaster at the Royal Stockholm Opera . Margareta Backer-Sunnegårdh, her mother, was a coloratura soprano . Her half-brother Thomas Sunnegårdh is a hero tenor , and her sister-in-law Katarina Dalayman is also a highly dramatic soprano.
Erika Sunnegårdh attended Adolf Fredriks Musikklasse , a music high school in Stockholm. Sunnegårdh moved to New York in 1985, where she had her primary residence for 26 years. Originally she wanted to be a dancer. She graduated from the Manhattan School of Music in 1992 and then completed a Masters degree from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College . She earned her living as a waitress, tour guide and singer at funerals. She also studied in Tel Aviv and Tanglewood . In 1999 she founded In time with Music , a community outreach program for school children in Queens , New York.
Opera
She made her debut in Malmö in 2004 with the title role in Puccini's Turandot . This was quickly followed by guest engagements on major stages across Europe and her debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 2006 . Sunnegårdh's repertoire focuses on six main roles, which appear to be predestined for their voice and the dramatic impetus of their personality, two from the Italian and four from the German subject - the cruel princesses Salome and Turandot, the three passionately and faithfully loving women Tosca, Leonore and Senta and the disoriented Chrysotemis, deeply affected by murder and manslaughter. For these roles she was engaged as a guest at numerous important opera houses:
- the Turandot she sang in Malmo and New York, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Royal Opera in Stockholm and at the NorrlandsOperan and on the floating stage at the Bregenz Festival ,
- She embodied the title role in Tosca in Berlin and Stockholm as well as at the Frankfurt Opera , the Cologne Opera and the Nashville Opera .
- as Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio , she could be heard at the New York Met, in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Cologne as well as at the Opera de Lyon , in Florence and at the Edinburgh International Festival , in concert with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in New Zealand,
- she took on the title role in Salome at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna , at the Semperoper in Dresden, in Palm Beach and at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, at the Welsh National Opera , at the Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, in Bari and Warsaw, at the New International Theater in Tokyo and at the Vienna State Opera ,
- she sang the chrysotemis in Elektra at the New Zealand Opera in Auckland, at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and at the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden ,
- she took on Senta in the Flying Dutchman at Den Norske Opera in Oslo, at Atlanta Opera , in Cologne and Wiesbaden.
In addition, the singer makes one or two role debuts in selected new productions every year. Although she also sang two Verdi operas - in 2006 the Abigaille in the Danish open-air theater Opera Hedeland and in 2010 Lady Macbeth at the Glyndebourne Festival - she emphasizes on her website that these are not roles in her core repertoire. The German subject also dominates the repertoire expansions:
- In 2014 she was seen and heard for the first time as Empress in Frau ohne Schatten , directed by Uwe Eric Laufenberg at the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden,
- In 2015 she tried her hand at Belcanto with Bellini Norma , also in Wiesbaden,
- also in 2015 she sang the title role in Carl Maria von Weber's rarely played opera Euryanthe at the Frankfurt Opera , it was staged by Johannes Erath , it was conducted by Roland Kluttig ,
- In 2016 she took on the role of Regan in Aribert Reimann's Shakespeare setting of Lear at the Opéra National de Paris .
Gerhard Rohde , music critic of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , described her performance on the occasion of the Wiesbaden role debut as follows: “Erika Sunnegårdh sang the» Empress «with bright soprano tones, beautiful linearity and also had the vocal expressiveness to make the woman's painful decision of conscience convincingly believable . "
concert
In the concert hall, Sunnegårdh can primarily be heard in large choral orchestral works and in concert opera performances. She sang the soprano solos in Beethoven Ninth and Mahler's Eighth , in Rossini's Stabat mater and Verdi's Requiem , in Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony and in a number of new commissioned works. The singer was invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker , the Gewandhausorchester zu Leipzig and the Orchestra sinfonica nazionale della RAI , sang with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in Carnegie Hall , with the Milwaukee Symphony and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra as well as with a number of Scandinavian orchestras - including the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra , the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra.
The singer has worked with a number of well-known conductors - including Marco Armiliato , Semyon Bychkov , Paolo Carignani , Riccardo Chailly , Myung Wun Chung , James Conlon , Andreas Delfs , Gustavo Dudamel , Ádám Fischer , John Fiore , Hartmut Haenchen , Daniel Harding , Will Humburg , Lothar Koenigs , Jesus Lopez-Cobos , Fabio Luisi , Nicola Luisotti , Cornelius Meister , Gianandrea Noseda , Kirill Petrenko , Sir Simon Rattle and Stefan Soltesz .
Erika Sunnegårdh has had her main residence in Vienna since 2011, which is also where her singing teacher Glenys Linos lives .
roll
repertoire
Bellini :
Puccini :
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Verdi : Wagner :
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premiere
- 2008 Jonas Forssell : Death and the Maiden , Malmö Opera - as Paulina
Discography
- Mahler : 8th Symphony , Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , conductor: Riccardo Chailly . DVD. 2011, Accentus Music.
- Who might sing in all the muted woods? Erika Sunnegårdh sings songs created by Joel Mandelbaum . 2002. Capstone.
- Janáčeks : Jenůfa . Malmö Opera , conductor: Marko Ivanović . DVD. Arthaus 101665. - Title role
- Wagner : The Valkyrie . Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (Grand Théâtre de Provence), conductor: Sir Simon Rattle . 2007. DVD. BelAirClassiques BAC034. - Helmwige
- Solo CD with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra , conductor: Will Humburg - Four last songs by Richard Strauss, as well as excerpts from Fidelio , Tannhäuser , The Flying Dutchman and Salome
Award
- Cultural Award from the American Scandinavian Society
Web links
- Erika Sunnegårdh , official website of the artist (with blog)
- Erika Sunnegårdh at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden , short biography of the singer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ole Rothenborg, "Roasting som bara växte och växte" , Dagens Nyheter , September 11, 2004.
- ↑ a b Clas Barkman, "Sopranos som misstror det Perfekta" , Dagens Nyheter , July 16, 2006.
- ↑ "Thomas Sunnegårdh artist portrait" ( Memento of the original from December 21, 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. Opera Soloists Foundation.
- ↑ Der Neue Merker (Vienna): Interview, 06/2008: Erika SUNNEGARDH, In every opera you have to accept new rules ... ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Interview with Marc Rohde, June 2008, accessed on September 23, 2016.
- ↑ Erika Sunnegårdh, soprano - MSO "Erika Sunnegårdh, soprano" , Medverkar i July Conserts on 18–20 / 12, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, retrieved December 25, 2013, quoted here. after the engl. Wikipedia
- ↑ Marcus Boldemann, "Skönsång" , Dagens Nyheter , February 7, 2007.
- ↑ Daniel J. Wakin, "Stepping Onstage as a Waitress, She May Exit the Met as a Star" , The New York Times , April 1st of 2006.
- ↑ Oper Frankfurt : Erika Sunnegårdh ( Memento of the original from December 20, 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 of the singer in the 2013/2014 season, no longer available, quoted here. according to the English Wikipedia.
- ^ Gerhard Rohde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 15, 2014
- ↑ "Brunch for Erika Sunnegardh" , Nordstjernan , July 18th 2011, accessed on September 22 2016th
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sunnegårdh, Erika |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sunnegårdh, Margareta Erika (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish opera singer with a highly dramatic soprano voice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danderyd , Stockholm |