Jutta Maria Fries

Jutta Maria Fries (* before 1975 in Bochum ) is a German opera , concert and lied singer ( soprano ).

Life

Jutta Maria Fries studied singing with Carl-Heinz Müller at the University of Music and Theater in Hanover . In 1999 she received her diploma as an opera singer and in 2002 she completed her studies with the concert exam. She completed further studies and master classes with Krisztina Laki . In 1999 she received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Foundation.

From 2003 to 2007 Jutta Maria Fries was a member of the ensemble of the Landestheater Detmold , where she developed a broad repertoire. She sang, among others, Fiordiligi ( Così fan tutte ), Donna Anna ( Don Giovanni ), Frau Fluth ( Die Lustigen Frauen von Windsor ), Gretel ( Hansel and Gretel ), Marie ( The Bartered Bride ), Agathe ( Der Freischütz ), Rosalinde ( Die Fledermaus ) and Helena ( A Midsummer Night's Dream ).

Her repertoire includes the passions and cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach , the oratorios by Georg Friedrich Händel , Josef Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , the masses by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven , Gioachino Rossini and Anton Bruckner , and Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms , Golgotha by Frank Martin and songs by, among others, Franz Schubert , Clara Schumann , Robert Schumann and Richard Strauss .

In 2004 and 2006 she sang Donna Anna as part of the Herrenhausen Festival and in 2015 in the Festival Choir of the Bayreuth Festival .

Repertoire (selection)

concert

• Johann Sebastian Bach : Christmas Oratorio, St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, Lutheran Masses (F major, G minor, A major), cantatas, masses
• Georg Friedrich Handel : Messiah
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Requiem, Coronation Mass, Great Mass in C minor, Masses
• Joseph Haydn : Creation, Seasons, Nelson Mass
• Frank Martin : Golgotha

Opera / operetta

• Così fan tutte : Fiordiligi, German
• The Valkyrie : Ortlinde
• Don Giovanni : Donna Anna (German and Italian)
• The dwarf ( Alexander von Zemlinsky ): Infanta Donna Clara
• Viennese blood : Countess Zedlau
• The bat : Rosalinde
• The land of smiles : Lisa
• Acis and Galatea : Galatea (English / concert version)

Web links

• Jutta Maria Fries at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Jutta Maria Fries at Bach Cantatas (English)
• Concert of touching intensity , MerkurOnline on January 8, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Festival Choir 2015 ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2015 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.