Marion Ammann
Marion Ammann (born July 30, 1964 in Zurich , citizen of Herisau ) is a Swiss opera and concert singer ( soprano ).
Life
From 1991 Ammann studied singing with a teaching diploma at the Academy for School and Church Music in Lucerne and privately in Zurich and Bern. In 1997 she obtained her concert qualification for opera at the Biel Opera Studio. She sang her first roles as Lady Macbeth in Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth and Leonore in Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio at the Biel Solothurn Theater . Your teachers were u. a. Kurt Widmer (Basel), Edith Mathis (Lucerne) and Daniel Ferro (New York).
Ammann excelled especially in the Strauss and Wagner fields. She sang her Empress in Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten on the stages of Antwerp, Ghent, Graz, Karlsruhe, Saarbrücken and Helsinki, her Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde on a dozen German and Nordic theaters. In the Klosterneuburg Opera she was Leonore in Fidelio .
She received various prizes and awards, including from the Federation of Migros Cooperatives and from the cantons of Graubünden and Solothurn, and was a Bayreuth scholarship holder.
Ammann lives in Dornach near Basel.
Repertoire (selection)
Opera and operetta
- Leonore in Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Dorabella in Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss
- Salome in Salome by Richard Strauss
- Arabella in Arabella by Richard Strauss
- Elsa von Brabant in Lohengrin by Richard Wagner
- Senta in The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner
- Isolde in Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner
- Sieglinde in Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
Concerts
- St. Matthew Passion , BWV 244 by Johann Sebastian Bach
- 9th Symphony in D minor op. 125 by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Mass No. 3 in F minor ( WAB 28) by Anton Bruckner
- The book with seven seals by Franz Schmidt
- Wesendonck songs by Richard Wagner
Discography
- DVD Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner, Klassik-Center Kassel, 2011
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Art, Culture & Recognition Awards 2005 , Canton Solothurn, accessed on September 26, 2019.
- ↑ Curriculum vitae on Marion Ammann's website , accessed on July 3, 2019
- ↑ Price for music. Marion Ammann. In: Website of the Canton of Solothurn, accessed on June 28, 2019
- ^ Short biography on Marion Ammann's website , accessed on May 15, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ammann, Marion |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss opera and concert singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |