Manuela Uhl

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Manuela Uhl as Violetta in Verdi's La traviata

Manuela Uhl (born March 7, 1966 in Ravensburg ) is a German concert and opera singer ( soprano ). The focus of her work is on parts of German late romanticism and classical modernism .

Life

Manuela Uhl grew up in Ravensburg. She studied in Salzburg , Zurich and Freiburg im Breisgau . After guest contracts in Freiburg and Essen and first permanent engagements in the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (1995–2000) and at the theaters of the state capital Kiel (2000–2003), Manuela Uhl was a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 2006 to 2011 .

The singer has been working internationally as a freelance artist since 2011. In addition to her work as a singer, she has been a professor at the Lübeck University of Music since 2015 .

She lives in Mönkeberg (Schleswig-Holstein) with her husband, the moderator Hans-Jürgen Mende , and their three sons .

Artistic creation

She has appeared at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires , the New National Theater Tokyo , the National Theater Munich , the Teatro Real Madrid , the Budapest State Opera , the Teatro San Carlo Napoli , the Baden-Baden Festival, at the Nederlandse Opera , in the Royal Opera in Copenhagen , in the Semperoper Dresden, at the Theater an der Wien , at the Teatro Massimo Palermo , at the State Opera Hamburg , at the Opera Hong Kong, at the State Opera Stuttgart , at the Oper Frankfurt , at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma , at the Teatro de la Maestranza Sevilla , at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, at the Nationaltheater Mannheim , at the Korea National Opera in Seoul, at the National Theater Taipei, at the Opéra de Montpellier , at the Opéra de Nice , at the Badischen Staatstheater Karlsruhe and at the May Festival Wiesbaden.

Uhl worked with the conductors Christian Thielemann , Riccardo Chailly , Peter Schneider , Antonio Pappano , Gustavo Dudamel , Ádám Fischer , Simon Rattle , Kent Nagano , Semyon Bychkov , Lorin Maazel , Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Leopold Hager , Michael Boder , Pinchas Steinberg , Mark Albrecht , Donald Runnicles , Stefan Soltesz , Friedeman Layer , Ulf Schirmer , Bertrand de Billy , Alexander Liebreich , Juraj Valčuha , Alejo Pérez , Dmitri Jurowski , David Afkam and Jesús López Cobos together.

Her repertoire includes, among other things, the games

Guest contracts

Manuela Uhl guested a. a. at the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires ( Die Frau ohne Schatten , Elektra , Rosenkavalier ) at the Semperoper Dresden ( Tannhäuser , Elektra , Die tote Stadt , Dr. Faust ), at the New National Opera Tokyo ( Lohengrin ), at the Teatro Real Madrid ( Die tote City , Elektra , Das Liebesverbot ), at the National Theater Taipei ( Salome ), at the State Theater Budapest ( Salome , Die Frau ohne Schatten ), at the National Theater Korea Seoul, ( The Flying Dutchman ), at the Opera Hongkong ( The Flying Dutchman ), at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam ( The Treasure Grave ), at the National Theater in Munich ( Elektra ), at the Theater an der Wien ( Mathis der Maler ), at the Hungarian State Opera Budapest ( The Woman Without a Shadow , Salome ), at the Royal Copenhagen Opera ( Tannhäuser , The flying Dutchman ), at the Teatro Massimo Palermo ( Die tote Stadt ), at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf ( The flying Dutchman , Die Walküre , Lohengrin , Sehnsucht Meer ), at the Baden-Baden Festival ( Elektra ), a at the Hamburg State Opera ( Tannhäuser , Die Zauberflöte ), at the Opéra de Nice ( Elektra ), at the Opéra de Montpellier ( Salome , Cyrano de Bergerac ), at the Teatro del Opera Roma ( Rienzi ), at the Teatro Maestranza Sevilla ( Der Freischütz ) , in Leipzig ( Iphigénie en Aulide , Der Rosenkavalier , Tannhäuser , Salome ), at the Deutsche Oper Berlin ( Lohengrin , The Flying Dutchman , Die Walküre , Rienzi , Tannhäuser , Salome , Die Liebe der Danae , Elektra , Die Frau ohne Schatten , Turandot , Der Freischütz , Germania , Colonel Chabert , Bajazzo ) and at the Saarbrücken Opera ( Die tote Stadt ).

concert

Manuela Uhl is also a concert and lieder singer and sang a. a. the soprano parts in the German Requiem by Johannes Brahms, in the Elias by Mendelssohn Bartholdy, in the Requiem, Stabat Mater and the Te Deum by Antonín Dvořák, in the lyric symphony by Alexander von Zemlinsky, in the St. Matthew Passion, the B minor Mass and the Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, in Egmont by Ludwig von Beethoven, in the 2nd and 4th symphonies by Gustav Mahler, in the Messa da Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi and the Petite Messe Solennelle by Gioachino Rossini. She also performed the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss, Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder , the seven early songs by Alban Berg, the songs Op. 8 by Arnold Schönberg, 8 orchestral songs by Richard Strauss, 8 concert arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Marienleben by Paul Hindemith. She sang Beethoven's 9th Symphony a . a. with Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Marek Janowski and Miguel Gomez Martinez. In the Mahler year 2010 she made her debut as 1st soprano in Mahler's 8th Symphony . It followed u. a. Performances under Christian Thielemann , Lorin Maazel , Jonathan Nott , Christian Arming , Antonio Pappano , Gustavo Dudamel , Adam Fischer and Riccardo Chailly .

Publications

CDs

Complete recordings in which Manuela Uhl sings the female lead:

DVDs

Web links

Commons : Manuela Uhl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwäbische press report from August 22, 2002
  2. ↑ Jürgen Feldhoff: Singing lessons for body and mind. In: Lübecker Nachrichten of October 31, 2015, p. 16.
  3. ↑ Manuela Uhl at Operabase , accessed on October 28, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Uhl, Manuela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert and opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg