Gesa Hoppe
Gesa Hoppe (* in Kiel ) is a German opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
Gesa Hoppe grew up in a Kiel family of pastors and church musicians and began performing early as a recorder and singer. Hoppe first studied music education at the State University for Music in Detmold (Mechthild Böhme). At the State University of Music in Karlsruhe ( Maria Venuti ) she took the lied class of Hartmut Höll and the opera class of Renate Ackermann as well as master classes and supplemented her education. Prizes at the Paula Lindberg Salomon competition “Das Lied” and the national song competition followed.
From 1997 to 2004 Hoppe was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Theater Hagen and the Stadttheater Bern . Her focus is on French, German and English roles such as Micaela, Marie in The Bartered Bride as well as Mozart roles such as Fiordiligi and Pamina, Handel roles such as the title roles in Deidamia and Alcina and their contemporaries. She appears in opera productions and as a concert singer all over Europe and has worked with well-known partners such as Claudio Abbado and Péter Eötvös .
Gesa Hoppe has lived as a freelance singer in Berlin since 2004 and has increasingly made a name for herself as an interpreter of contemporary music. She is married and has a son.
Guest performances
Gesa Hoppe has made guest appearances at the Berlin State Opera , in Lübeck, in Hanover, in Karlsruhe at the Handel Festival as Theodora, in Mannheim, in Barcelona as Ilia and in Zurich.
In June 2007 she sang the world premiere of the chamber opera Spoorlos at Operadagen Rotterdam, which Peter-Jan Wagemans wrote especially for her. In 2007 Gesa Hoppe made her debut at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the leading role in Legende (WP) by Peter-Jan Wagemans. This was followed by the title role in the world premiere of Medea as part of the “Medeamorphosen” festival of the Radialsstiftung Berlin in cooperation with the Berlin State Opera . Voices , a chamber opera by Frank Schwemmer and Christa Wolf . In 2010 Gesa Hoppe performed the world premiere of the oratorio Behind the Wall on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall with the RIAS Chamber Choir and the musikFabrik under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann in Germany and Israel . In June 2010 she appeared in the opera premiere of A Dog's Heart by Alexander Raskatow at the Nederlandse Opera.
Hoppe sang Mrs. P in the chamber opera The Man who mistook his wife for a hat by Michael Nyman at the Michael Nyman Festival in Groningen and in Medea by Pascal Dusapin at the International Arts Festival at the Melbourne State Theater.
In addition, Gesa Hoppe sings a wide range of concerts from baroque to contemporary music and gives many recitals all over Europe ( Berlin Philharmonic , Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Tonhalle Zürich , Auditorio Nacional de Musica Madrid, Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi Trieste, Teatro Verdi Pisa, Jewish Museum Vienna etc.).
In the 2010/2011 season she will appear as Hanna Glawari in the operetta The Merry Widow at the Giessen City Theater .
repertoire
Her interest extends in particular to contemporary music and working with composers who write for her, e.g. B. Peter-Jan Wagemans and Sidney Corbett . Hoppe also appears as a lieder singer, especially in collaboration with her permanent partner Felicitas Strack, and develops her own programs.
Gesa Hoppe was involved in various television, radio and CD productions, for example in the television broadcast of the operetta Der Graf von Luxemburg 2006 by the Seefestspiele Mörbisch in the role of Angele Didier and in the CD production of the oratorio Gioas re di Giuda by Antonio Casimir Cartellieri with Thomas Quasthoff .
Web links
- Works by and about Gesa Hoppe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gesa Hoppe homepage
- Gesa Hoppe at Operabase (engagements and dates)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoppe, Gesa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |