Kateřina Beranová

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Kateřina Beranová (* in Blansko ) is a Czech opera singer ( lyric coloratura soprano ) and singing teacher .

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Beranová began to study singing at the age of 14 years, Conservatory of Brno , where she graduated with 20 studies with distinction. Then she got her first engagement in the choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome , where she continued her studies and sang as a soloist of the Accademia Nazionale under conductors such as Daniele Gatti , Wolfgang Sawallisch , Wladimir Teodorowitsch Spiwakow and Christian Thielemann .

From 1997 to 2001 she studied with Walter Moore at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and graduated with a diploma for lied and oratorio .

Between 1996 and 2002 she regularly sang the role of 1st Flower Girl in Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival under the conductors Giuseppe Sinopoli , Christoph Eschenbach and Christian Thielemann. Under Sinopoli she could also be heard as Woglinde and Waldvogel in the “ Ring des Nibelungen ” in the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma .

Engagements have taken the artist to Dublin , Turin , the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC , to the “ Carinthian Summer ”, to the Theater an der Wien , the Wiener Musikverein and the Wiener Konzerthaus .

An operetta tour to Tokyo followed in 2002, where she performed together with tenor Herbert Lippert at Suntory Hall .

She has been teaching singing at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz since 2007 and has been a university lecturer since 2016 .

In 2008, she worked in Requiem by Antonín Dvořák in Brussels and Rotterdam with where they from the Orchester National de Belgique was accompanied. In the same year the Cantata BWV 21 by Johann Sebastian Bach under the direction of Ton Koopman followed at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia .

In 2009 and 2010 she took part in the Styriarte in Graz , the Bruckner Festival in Linz and the Oberammergau Passion Play .

In 2011 she performed with the Bach Choir Holland and the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra Amsterdam under Gijs Leenaars in Leiden , Groningen and Lochem and made her role debut as Contessa in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck . Further stations this year were the Konzerthaus Berlin , the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg , the Barbican Center in London , the Gewandhaus (Leipzig) , appearances in Turin , Los Angeles and other venues.

Under the direction of Matthias Georg Kendlinger and accompanied by the “K&K Philharmonic” he founded, she sang in 2012 in Lemberg / Ukraine , in the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, in the hr broadcasting hall in Frankfurt am Main and the Konzerthaus Berlin.

On January 25, 2013, Kateřina Beranová took part in the world premiere of the modern opera ( semi-staged music theater production) "Spiegelgrund" in the historic conference room of the Vienna Parliament building , which was composed by Peter Androsch for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and broadcast directly on ORF . Beranova also took part in the Bruckner Festival in Linz, where the opera was performed in autumn 2013.

In 2016/2017 she sang passions by Balduin Sulzer and Peter Androsch in the Brucknerhaus Linz, in Passau, Regensburg and other venues. Numerous other concerts, open air events, song recitals and New Year's concerts followed, among others with the Hungarian Chamber Philharmonic under Antal Barnas, the Thuringian Philharmonic or the Erfurt Philharmonic.

In 2018 Kateřina Beranová took part in the world premiere of the Easter Oratorio by Michael Stenov in the parish church of St. Peter in Linz / Spallerhof.

Beranová regularly gives master classes in singing in the Czech Republic ( Prague , Brno, Budweis ), Austria ( Zell an der Pram , Linz), Italy and Germany and is a member of the jury at international singing competitions.

Kateřina Beranová is married to the tenor Claus Durstewitz and lives in Linz.

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  1. ↑ Booklet for the DVD from the world premiere
  2. ↑ Biography on Katerina Beranova's website , accessed October 18, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Beranová, Kateřina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech song, oratorio and opera singer (soprano) and vocal teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Blansko