Ulrike Helzel

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Ulrike Helzel (* in Magdeburg ) is a German singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

Ulrike Helzel comes from Magdeburg. She received her vocal training from 1988 with Christa Kern-Pöschel at the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig . In 1990 she was awarded second prize at the International Antonín Dvořák Competition in Karlovy Vary / Karlsbad. In 1992 she received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation. During her studies she sang in Halle and Leipzig.

In 1993 she was engaged at the Halle Opera House . She also performed at the Handel Festival . In 1995 she received the Handel Prize from the city of Halle . From 1996 to 2012 she worked at the Deutsche Oper Berlin . Her roles there included: Orpheus in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice , Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro , Hansel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel , Octavian in Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier und Fuchs in Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen . She also sang Maria Maddalena de 'Pazzi in the contemporary music theater work Infinito nero by Salvatore Sciarrino .

In 2011 she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera , where she became a member of the ensemble in 2012. She sang there u. a. as Annina in Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier , as Wellgunde in Wagner's Götterdämmerung , as Elfe in Dvořák's Rusalka , as Jenny in Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny as Marcellina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro . She also took part in the children's opera Pollicino by Hans Werner Henze . Guest appearances have taken her to the De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam, the Theater Basel , the Komische Oper Berlin , the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Semperoper Dresden , the Grand Théâtre de Genève , the Graz Opera House , the Hamburg State Opera and the Cologne Opera , the Leipzig Opera , the Opéra National de Lyon and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. She has also performed at the Dresden Music Festival and the Lucerne Festival . From 2006 to 2012 she was regularly engaged at the Bayreuth Festival . There she was the wellgunde in the ring as well as the second squire and the flower girl in Parsifal (from 2008).

Concert tours as a concert singer took her to the USA and Japan, where she a. a. worked with the conductors Marek Janowski , Jiří Kout , Helmuth Rilling , Peter Schreier , Christian Thielemann , Marcello Viotti and Lothar Zagrosek . She interpreted songs a. a. by Brahms , Mussorgsky and Zemlinsky .

Helzel participated in numerous CD, radio and television productions.

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SURNAME Helzel, Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer (mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg