Maite Beaumont

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Maite Beaumont (born in Pamplona ) is a Spanish opera singer with a mezzo-soprano voice .

life and work

Beaumont studied singing and violin at the Conservatorio Navarro de Música Pablo Sarasate in her hometown, and from 1999 to 2003 with Hanna Schwarz at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . From 2001 to 2003 she was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera and was then engaged in the ensemble of the house. She had her breakthrough in 2002, when she was still a member of the opera studio, when she briefly took over the role of Ruggiero in the new production of Handel's Alcina for the sick Magdalena Kožená .

She sang in numerous new Hamburg productions - the Smeraldine in love for the three oranges , the Ottavia in L'incoronazione di Poppea , the trouser roles of Sesto (in Giulio Cesare in Egitto ), Annio (in La clemenza di Tito ) and Idamante (in Idomeneo ), as well as Zenobia (in Radamisto ) and Angelina (in La Cenerentola ). She also took over the Zerlina (in Don Giovanni ), the Raisin (in the Barbiere di Siviglia ), the Cherubino (in Le nozze di Figaro ), as well as the Muse and Niklausse (in Les Contes d'Hoffmann ).

Beaumont has been working as a freelance artist since 2006 and has made guest appearances at the Opéra National de Paris , the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, ​​the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie , the Bavarian State Opera Munich , the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de , among others Chile. At the Salzburg Festival in 2005 she made her debut as Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte , staged by Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann , conducted by Ádám Fischer , followed in 2006 by a series of Mozart roles at De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam under the direction of Ingo Metzmacher . The mezzo-soprano made her American debut as Sesto at the Lyric Opera of Chicago . She made her debut at La Scala in Milan as Melibea in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims , and at Theater an der Wien in 2009 as Lisetta in Haydn's Il mondo della luna , conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt . In 2014 she returned to this house, again under Harnoncourt, and sang Donna Elvira in concert in Don Giovanni . In 2011/12 she took on the title role in the new production Flavius ​​Bertaridus , a co-production of the Hamburg State Opera and the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music . She also sang Dorabella in her hometown, Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the title role in Narciso by Domenico Scarlatti in Innsbruck and Meg Page in Falstaff in Amsterdam.

In the concert hall

Beaumont performed in the concert hall under the conductor Christoph Eschenbach and at the Rheingau Music Festival . Her concert repertoire is also wide and ranges from Bach to the present day. For example, she sang in the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn's Ariosi for soprano, basset clarinet and orchestra, a work commissioned for the Salzburg Festival in 2006, under Sir Roger Norrington .

Discography (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Beaumont, Maite
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish opera singer with a mezzo-soprano voice
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Pamplona