Katerina Sokolová-Rauer

Kateřina Sokolová-Rauer (* in Jablonec nad Nisou ) is a Czech opera, operetta, lieder and concert singer with a soprano voice .

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She first studied at the Conservatory in Brno , then at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts , where she was taught singing by Paula Page . She also took private singing lessons from the internationally renowned singing teacher Ruthilde Boesch .

First engagements took the artist to the theaters of Ulm and Augsburg . She sang the major roles in her field at the music stages mentioned above. a. the Violetta in La traviata , Tatjana in Eugene Onegin , Micaela in Carmen , Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and the Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte . Katerina Sokolová-Rauer made guest appearances a. a. at the stages in Cologne, Kassel, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Erfurt, Leipzig, Dresden, Osnabrück, Regensburg. In 2006 she also sang Violetta in La traviata at the Oberammergau Festival and in 2007 Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Heidenheim Opera Festival . In the 2007/08 season she sang at the Vienna Volksoper and also made her debut at the Semperoper as Hanna Glawari, one of her star roles, in The Merry Widow . In 2009 she finally changed her subject to " lirico spinto " when she took over Tosca, which she sang in Regensburg in a series of performances with great success.

As a song and concert singer she performed a. a. at the Rheingau Music Festival, in the Cologne Philharmonic and in the Parktheater in the Kurhaus Göggingen . For her song and concert repertoire, she is particularly interested in the great works by composers from her home country such as Antonín Dvořák , Leoš Janáček , Bohuslav Martinů and Bedřich Smetana .

Sokolová-Rauer lives in Germany.

Prices

2001: 2nd prize at the First German Operetta Prize in Frankfurt
2001: Third prize (operetta category) at the Belvedere singing competition, Vienna

Discography

The Auditor, Label: OehmsClassics 2001

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personal data
SURNAME	Sokolová-Rauer, Katerina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sokolová-Rauer, Kateřina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech opera, operetta, lied and concert singer with a soprano voice
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jablonec nad Nisou