Marilyn Schmiege
Marilyn Schmiege (born November 29, 1948 in Milwaukee ) is an American-German singer with a mezzo-soprano voice , university teacher and vocal teacher .
Live and act
Marilyn Schmiege, b. Konrad, studied singing, church music (organ) at Boston University, Valparaiso University and at the Westphalian University of Music with Anny Dieninghoff . From 1977 to 1978 she was a member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich. Her steep career began in 1978 as Dorabella in Così fan tutte at the Wuppertal Opera House . The artist accompanied this role throughout her entire life as a singer. From 1978 to 1982 Marilyn Schmiege was a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz . This was followed by guest engagements at the major international opera stages. The mezzo-soprano sang z. B. in Bayreuth, Dresden, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Vienna, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Paris, Barcelona, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as well as in a production of the Milan Scala in Castello Sforzesco .
In addition to her stage presence, the singer was / is active as a song and concert singer. In this regard, she has performed with the Munich Philharmonic , the Bamberg Symphony , the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under well-known conductors such as Gabriele Ferro , Daniele Gatti , Horst Stein , Lothar Zagrosek , Rafael Kubelík etc. Together with the pianist Donald Sulzen , she gave a considerable number of recitals in European cities. Her song and concert repertoire is extremely extensive. This includes works u. a. by Hindemith, Mahler, Berg, Beethoven, Ravel, Telemann, by Zemlinsky, Schoenberg, Wolf, Liszt and Schumann.
Schmiege has been a member of the jury at international singing competitions in Germany, Italy and China several times. She has been teaching singing since 2001, first at the Richard Strauss Conservatory and since autumn 2008 at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts , where she was made an honorary professor in 2010. Her students are now well-known singers themselves, for example Susanne Drexl , Franziska Rabl and Mathias Ludwig .
Since May 2014 she has been President of the Federal Association of German Singing Pedagogues , the largest singing pedagogue association in Europe.
Schmiege offers private courses (and is practically active himself) in singing, qigong , kinesiology and energetic healing .
Role repertoire (selection)
- Marquerite in La damnation de Faust
- Composer in Ariadne on Naxos
- Katherina in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
- Marqise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons dangéreuses
- Sieglinde in Die Walküre
- Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro
- Carlotta in The Marked
- Carmen in Carmen
- Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier
- Charlotte in Werther
- Rosina in The Barber of Seville
- Countess Geschwitz in Lulu
- Marie in Wozzeck
- Leonore in Fidelio
- Kundry in Parsifal
- Dorabella in Così fan tutte
- Venus in Tannhäuser and the Singers' War on Wartburg
- Witch in royal children
- The woman in overnight
- Ariane in Ariane et Barbe-bleue
- Johanna in The Maid of Orléans
- Margarita in The Master and Margarita
Discography
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Teaching activity of Marilyn Schmiege
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 29, 2014 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.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmiege, Marilyn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-German singer (mezzo-soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milwaukee |