Maria Radner

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Maria Friderike Radner (born May 7, 1981 in Düsseldorf ; † March 24, 2015 in Prads-Haute-Bléone , Alpes-de-Haute-Provence , France ) was a German opera singer with an alto voice .

Life

In 2000 Radner completed her school education with the Abitur at the Archbishopric St. Ursula High School in Düsseldorf. After studying singing at the Musikhochschule Düsseldorf with Michaela Krämer , she was internationally successful as an alto . Her first opera role was Cornelia in Handel's Giulio Cesare in a production by Gregor Horres in January 2008 at Theater Hagen . At the Bregenz Festival in 2008 she sang the title role in Handel's Solomon in a British ensemble led by Sally Matthews and Andrew Kennedy .

She was best known for roles in Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen . In January 2012 she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in Götterdämmerung , in March 2012 she appeared in Richard Strauss ' Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. She sang the role of the earth goddess Erda in Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden under the direction of Antonio Pappano .

In a new production of Hector Berlioz ' Les Troyens , she sang the role of Anna at La Scala in Milan and in 2015 the same role at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires . Radner can be heard on sound carriers in the Gürzenich Orchestra 's recording of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in E flat major as well as in a recording of Das Rheingold by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin .

In her last appearance she was engaged for the role of Erda in Wagner's Siegfried at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona . On the return flight from this engagement, Radner was killed on March 24, 2015 in the crash of Germanwings flight 9525 in the French Alps, along with her husband and her toddler. The family last lived in Wuppertal - Cronenberg .

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cantilena Singing Competition 2007 . Young Musicians Foundation ; accessed on March 24, 2015
  2. ↑ Archbishop's St. Ursula-Gymnasium Düsseldorf: School year 2011/12. Schulnachrichten No. 59, February 2012 (PDF) ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 24, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.st-ursula-gymnasium.de
  3. ^ Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar) - Hostile takeover. Online Musik Magazin, review of the performance on January 15, 2008.
  4. ↑ Reviews in Italartist Autroconcert . ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Among other things from the Vorarlberger Nachrichten of August 19, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ia-ac.com
  5. ^ The Metropolitan Opera: 2011–12 Season. The 229th Metropolitan Opera performance of Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at metopera.org, PDF, 1.15 MB @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.metopera.org
  6. ↑ Teatro alla Scala: The woman without a shadow .
  7. ^ Morgan Winsor: Germanwings Crash Victims Identified: Opera Singers Oleg Bryjak And Maria Radner Among Those Killed . International Business Times , March 24, 2015.
    John Shammas: Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crash: First pictures of opera singers Maria Radner and Oleg Bryjak among 150 dead. Daily Mirror , March 24, 2015, accessed March 25, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Sad certainty: The Cronenberger family is among the victims. Cronenberger Woche, March 25, 2015, accessed on March 25, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Radner, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radner, Maria Friderike (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7th 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2015
Place of death near Le Vernet , Alpes-de-Haute-Provence , France