Ildikó Raimondi

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Ildikó Raimondi

Ildikó Raimondi (born Ildikó Clara Szabo, married Szabo-Raimondi ; born November 11, 1962 in Arad , Romania) is a Hungarian - Austrian singer ( soprano ).

Life

After studying in her home country and first engagements there and in Italy , Ildikó Raimondi won first prize in the operetta category at the 7th Hans Gabor Belvedere singing competition in 1988  . Since 1991 she has been part of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera , where she has appeared in more than 40 operatic roles from Pamina ( Die Zauberflöte ) to Mimi ( La Bohème ) and from Susanna ( Le nozze di Figaro ) to Rosalinde ( Die Fledermaus ) . She also gives concerts at the Wiener Musikverein , as well as on guest tours and on festival stages. At the Bregenz Festival she appeared as Micaela ( Carmen ) , at the Wiener Klangbogen and at the Wiener Festwochen in major Mozart roles, at the Edinburgh Festival under Sir Charles Mackerras as Marzelline in Fidelio and at the Salzburg Festival with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Egon Wellesz .

Guest performances have taken the artist , who lives in Vienna, to the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Semperoper Dresden, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Zurich Opera House . There were also concerts, radio and television appearances in many European countries, in Japan, Indonesia, the USA and Israel. She also interprets sacred music, for example as part of the Schubertiade of the Wiener Musikverein or in the great oratorios of Johann Sebastian Bach and Joseph Haydn , in which she performed as a soloist under prominent conductors.

Ildikó Raimondi also interprets music of the 20th century, including works by Franz Schmidt , Arnold Schönberg , Alexander Zemlinsky , Egon Wellesz , Ernst Krenek , Gottfried von Eine and Paul Hindemith . Among the works of contemporary music, Friedrich Cerha and Thomas Daniel Schlee belong to the repertoire of the lyrical soprano .

In 2003 Ildikó Raimondi published a collection of 41 Goethe songs by the Czech composer Wenzel Johann Tomaschek as part of a larger scientific and artistic song project .

In the 2006/07 season, recitals followed in Frankfurt am Main , Dusseldorf , in the Wiener Musikverein (“Mozart and his journeymen”) and in Freiburg im Breisgau on the occasion of the 550th anniversary of the university there : she also sang concerts with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra (World premiere of Egon Wellesz's “Hymn of the Agave”), the Vienna Philharmonic (Mozart's Coronation Mass and Exsultate, jubilate in St. Peter in Rome ) under Leopold Hager and the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden (Mozart's Requiem ) under Manfred Honeck . At the opening of the new opera house in Valencia in the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Ildikó Raimondi worked as Marzelline in Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio under the direction of Zubin Mehta .

The 2007/08 season includes recitals and concerts in Bonn, Dresden ( Anton Bruckner's Te Deum under Zubin Mehta, Sächsische Staatskapelle), Frankfurt, Vienna (Wiener Musikverein), and finally the Asian tour of the Vienna State Opera with Le nozze di Figaro ( Susanna / musical direction: Seiji Ozawa ) as well as u. a. the roles of Pamina and Mimi in the Vienna State Opera and Rosalinde at the Bavarian State Opera.

Ildikó Raimondi has been professor of solo singing at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg since October 2015 .

She has two sons.

In 2011 she presented the provisionally new text versions of the Austrian national anthem in a recording.

Awards

Repertoire (selection)

Opera

operetta

concert

song

  • Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms , Wolf (also orchestral songs ), Strauss (also orchestral songs ), Pfitzner , Schönberg , Zemlinsky (also orchestral songs ), Berg , songs by various masters from the 17th century to the present etc.

Discography (selection)

  • Liszt oublieé - organum classics 2015
  • Johan Wenzel Tomaschek- Goethe Lieder / Paladino 2011
  • Mozart - Exsultate, jubilate 2006 / ORF
  • Vienna Opera Festival 2005 / Orfeo
  • Greetings to Vienna 2005 / Arts
  • Songs of Life 2002 / ORF
  • A German Requiem 2002 / ORF
  • Don Giovanni 2002 / Naxos
  • Fidelio 1998 / Telarc

Web links

Commons : Ildikó Raimondi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Name: Mozarteum - people. In: www.moz.ac.at. Retrieved January 6, 2017 .
  2. ^ Ildikó Raimondi on the website of the Vienna State Opera. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ Federal Minister Ostermayer awards the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art to Ildikó Raimondi. APA notification dated June 3, 2014, accessed May 7, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Raimondi, Ildikó
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szabo, Ildikó Clara (maiden name); Szabo-Raimondi, Ildikó (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Austrian singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Arad , Romania