Gabriela Scherer

Gabriela Scherer (* 1981 in Zurich ) is a Swiss opera singer ( mezzo-soprano / soprano ).

Life

education

She began her vocal studies after many years as a choir with Helen Keller ( SMPV ) in Zurich. From 2002 to 2006 she studied at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Horiana Brănişteanu and with Kammersängerin Elisabeth Wilke.

Career

Mezzo-soprano:

She performed at numerous concerts in Austria , Germany and Switzerland. During her studies, she was already involved in the opera productions of Hoffmann's Tales by Jacques Offenbach , Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel , Momo and the Zeitdiebe by Mark Lothar and in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro . She sang the beginning of 2005 in Switzerland in the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen the Le Laudi of Hermann Suter .

Master classes with Angelika Kirchschlager, Francisco Araiza and Barbara Fink.

She has appeared in the roles of Hansel at the Kleist Forum , the Brandenburg Theater and the Hans Otto Theater , among others . In June 2006 she played the Second Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in Dornach , Switzerland. From September 2006 she was a member of the Zurich International Opera Studio .

Other roles in her repertoire are: Orpheus from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice , Olga from Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin , Charlotte from Massenets Werther , Sesto and Cornelia from Handel's Julius Cäsar , Orlofsky from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss and especially the mezzo parts from the operas by WA Mozart ( Cherubino, Ramiro, Zerlina, Annio, Sesto, Dorabella, Farnace) .

2007/08 member of the Leipzig Opera ensemble, with roles such as Miss Jessel in "Turn of the Screw", Annio in La clemenza di Tito and composer in Ariadne auf Naxos . In the same year she was a guest at the Whitsun Festival in Baden-Baden as Meg Page in Verdi's Falstaff under Thomas Hengelbrock.

2009-11 member of the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera (Dorabella in Così fan tutte , Hansel in Hansel and Gretel , Mércèdes in Carmen , Fenena in Nabucco , Sœr Mathilde in Dialogues des Carmélites , flower girl in Parsifal and Silla in Palestrina ).

Soprano:

Then changed to the youthful dramatic soprano to roles like Elsa in Lohengrin , Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , Agathe in Der Freischütz and the title roles in  Arabella and Ariadne auf Naxos . Collaboration with conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, John Elliot Gardiner, Lawrence Foster, Christopher Hogwood, Kent Nagano and Simone Young as well as the directors Philippe Arlaud, David Pountney, Giancarlo del Monaco and Nicolas Joel.

Guest engagements in the 2016/17 season in the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Theater Lübeck and as 1st lady in Die Zauberflöte at the Opéra National de Paris .

At the Leipzig Opera 2016/17 guest as Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro .

Upcoming engagements including Freia in Wagner's Rheingold under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock in the Elbphilharmonie and in Baden-Baden.

Awards

In 2005 she was a prizewinner at the International Singing Competition of the Rheinsberg Castle Chamber Opera . There she made her debut in the summer of the same year with the role of Hansel in Humperdinck's fairy tale opera Hansel and Gretel . For this role, she was awarded the Vera und Volker Doppelfeld Foundation Prize. She is a prizewinner of the Armin Weltner Foundation and the Lyra Foundation. At the 9th International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in 2006, she received an audience award.

Personal

Gabriela Scherer is married to the baritone Michael Volle .

Web links

• Gabriela Scherer at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Gabriela Scherer at Oper Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 9th International Mozart Competition (PDF; 1.9 MB), Salzburg 2006. Documentation.