Marit Sauramo

Marit Sauramo

Marit Sauramo (born March 12, 1954 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish opera and concert singer ( soprano ).

Life

Sauramo's mother is from Sweden . Her father was of Finnish- Norwegian descent. Marit Sauramo studied at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Kammersängerin Hilde Rössel-Majdan , at the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg with Naan Pöld and privately with the opera singer Ingrid Bjoner in Oslo .

She made her debut at the Finnish National Opera in 1979 as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser . At the beginning of her career, Sauramo sang mainly the lyric-dramatic and the dramatic soprano subject ; Later in her career she also added specialist roles for mezzo-soprano and alto to her repertoire. She sang roles like Leonore in Fidelio , the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos , Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier , Senta in The Flying Dutchman , Kundry in Parsifal , Elisabeth / Venus in Tannhauser . Later, after a change of subject, roles such as Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried , Fricka in Der Ring des Nibelungen , 1st Norne in Götterdämmerung and 3rd Lady in The Magic Flute became her stage roles.

Marit Sauramo sang at the Royal Copenhagen Opera House (1991–1993 as Musetta in La Bohème ), at the Dublin Opera House (1995 as Zerlina in Don Giovanni ; 2009 as Erda in Das Rheingold ), at De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam , at the St. Gallen City Theater (1992/93 season; as Lisa in Pique Dame ), at the Grand Théâtre de Genève (since 1986; among others as Ortlinde in Die Walküre , 1990 as 4th maid in Elektra , 1992/93 season as Gertrude in Louise ), at the Opera House von Nantes (as the blacksmith's wife in the opera Kullervo by Aulis Sallinen ), in Oviedo, in Vienna, at the Berlin State Opera (as Agathe in Der Freischütz ), at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (in Der Ring des Nibelungen ), at the Berliner State Opera (July 1989 as Agathe in Der Freischütz ), several times at the Theater Hagen (season 1984/85 as Giulietta in Hoffmanns Erzählungen ; season 1985/86 as Elsa in Lohengrin ; season 1985/86 as Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos with Werner Götz as Bacchus ; 1986/87 season as Marschallin; 1986/87 season as Elsa in the revival of Lohengrin -Inszenierung), in the Theater of the West (in January 1988 as "soulful" Lisa in The Land of Smiles ), at the Bavarian State Opera , at the Hanover State Opera , the Opera House Dortmund (such as Freia in Das Rheingold ; 1989/90 season; premiere: May 1990 and as Grimgerde in Die Walküre ; 1990/91 season; premiere: September 1990), at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf (including in the 1982/83 season as a maid Barena in a new production by Jenůfa , there also in Der Ring des Nibelungen and in the 1983/84 season as Marie in The Bartered Bride ), at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow (as a businessman's wife in Der Reitersmann by Aulis Sallinen) and at the Cologne Opera .

In the 1989/90 season she took on the role of Aldonza in the musical Der Mann von La Mancha at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven . She has also made several guest appearances at the Savonlinna Festival since 1989 (including as Marenka in The Bartered Bride , as Leonore in Fidelio , as Venus in Tannhäuser , 1992/1993 as 2nd Lady in The Magic Flute , and 2008–2012 as Mary in Der Flying Dutchman ), at the Eutin Festival (1988 as Agathe in Der Freischütz ), the Bayreuth Festival and at the Wexford Festival (1991 as Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew ; as Mariana in Das Liebesverbot ).

She worked with conductors like Gerd Albrecht , Alberto Erede , Georg Fischer , Hans Graf , Michael Halász , Will Humburg , Marek Janowski , Armin Jordan , Siegfried Köhler , Jiri Kout , Sir John Pritchard , Nello Santi , Peter Schneider , Leif Segerstam , Stefan Soltesz , Horst Stein , Otmar Suitner , Jeffrey Tate , Neil Varon , Hiroshi Wakasugi and Hans Wallat .

In 1997, Marit Sauramo was paralyzed in an accident and could no longer sing. It didn't appear again until 2006. In 2014 she finally ended her stage career.

In addition to her stage career, she taught singing and part studies both privately and in master classes. Marit Sauramo worked as a singing teacher for the SMPV (CH) and the European Voice Teachers Association Switzerland (EVTA). From 2010 to 2012 she was Artistic Director of the GomsOpera in Wallis (CH) .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Rheingold in the Gaiety Theater in Dublin on 19th and 21st November Event notice (Finnish Embassy in Dublin, 2009)
2. ↑ Jörg Graepel: SEXY; EXOTIC, ECCENTRIC . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue March 3, 1988. Page 190.
3. ↑ Circular letter from the Swiss Lupus Erythematosus Association , accessed on September 8, 2014