Lisenka Kirkcaldy

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Lisenka Milène Kirkcaldy (* 1987 in Düsseldorf ) is a German - French singer and actress of Scottish origin.

Life

Lisenka Kirkcaldy, great niece of the film actress couple Rosemary Kirkcaldy and Joss Ackland , spent her childhood in Germany and England . She received singing and piano lessons and a dance scholarship at an early age. A first engagement at the Colosseum Theater Essen was followed by art scholarships through the state's support for gifted students. After graduating from high school, she graduated from 2006 to 2010 at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts , the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf , and the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy .

After graduation, she made her debut in radio and television, as well as on the theater and opera stage at the State Theater in Stuttgart and in Baden-Baden. The first opera and theater roles include Wanda in the operetta Die Großherzogin von Gerolstein , Das Stubenmädel in Schnitzler's Reigen , Alice in the world premiere of Der Zoo directed by Hasko Weber at the Stuttgart State Theater, Miss Forsythe in a music theater production of The Death of a Salesman directed by Claudia Beier, as well as "Sugar - Some like it hot" at Theater Baden-Baden.

After initial theater engagements and speaking positions for radio and television in southern and northern Germany, u. a. for SWR and Arte, WDR and ZDF, she took up further opera engagements as a guest singer at theaters not far from her first residence in Düsseldorf, next to her second residence in Berlin. Here she was u. a. at the Bonn Opera House and the Krefeld Opera House, Mönchengladbach . She played in La Cage aux Folles, directed by John Dew, followed by the role of Helena Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood , and the role of Chava in Bock's Anatevka , directed by Karl Absenger .

This was followed by a northern tour en croisière through Finland , Sweden and Norway to St. Petersburg , where Kirkcaldy a. a. took over the roles of Fantine and Cosette in Les Misérables under the direction of Götz Hellriegel , as well as when Christine was seen with scenes from Phantom of the Opera . As a concert singer, Kirkcaldy could also be heard with works by Handel, Dowland and Scottish Art Song, as well as in Bernstein's production of Mass at the Forum Junge Solisten Stuttgart as a vocal soloist.

Scholarships, prizes

In addition to a grant from the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation , she received an invitation to the European operetta duet competition. Further press awards for roles in theater productions followed, such as the press award for the role of Marie in the music theater production Woyzeck . She also appeared on stage as Susan Parks in Pitmen Painters , directed by Jan Steinbach , as Agnes in the production of Bärfus Die Probe, and Marja Antonowna in Gogol's Der Auditor .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theater Bonn
  2. ↑ Antonia Kasparek: Lisenka Kirkcaldy goes from the ship to the gourmets. Rheinische Post, August 24, 2018, accessed on October 20, 2018 (local section Düsseldorf).
  3. ↑ https://hspdat.to/?p8=Lisenka+Kirkcaldy
  4. ↑ The “Pitmen Painters” - What does art mean? Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, December 26, 2010, accessed on October 20, 2018 (local part Papenburg).
personal data
SURNAME Kirkcaldy, Lisenka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirkcaldy, Lisenka Milène (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German singer and actress of Scottish origin
DATE OF BIRTH 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf