Mechthild Bach (singer)

Mechthild Bach (* 1963 or 1970 in Limburg an der Lahn ) is a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Live and act

The soprano Mechthild Bach studied at the Frankfurt University of Music with Elsa Cavelti . She also learned from Hartmut Höll , Laura Sarti and Vera Rosza.

Conductors who work regularly with her are Frieder Bernius , Marcus Creed , Uwe Gronostay , Reinhard Goebel , Konrad Junghänel , Ton Koopman , Sigiswald Kuijken , Helmuth Rilling , Michael Schneider and others. Early music as one of the focal points in her work is also expressed in her participation in the solo vocal ensemble Cantus Cölln .

On the opera stage she made her debut at the Staatstheater Darmstadt . Later she was engaged at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. From 1990 she worked at the theater of the city of Heidelberg . At the Halle Opera House she sang Antigona in Handel's Admeto 2006. At the Lucerne Theater in 2007 she played Alice Ford in Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff , and in 2008/2009 Countess Elisabeth in Ernst Krenek's Kehraus um St. Stephan . In 2010 she worked on Robert Schumann's Manfred in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf .

Mechthild Bach has contributed to over 30 recordings as well as numerous radio recordings. She teaches as a lecturer at the Trossingen University of Music . She is married to the conductor Eckart Manke and lives in Constance .

Awards

• 1986: Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation .
• 1993: Innsbruck Radio Prize for Early Music, for Thomaskantors before Bach with Cantus Cölln.
• 2002: German Record Critics' Prize , for Missa Dei Patris von Zelenka with Frieder Bernius.

Recordings (selection)

CDs

Religious music

• Johann Sebastian Bach : Mass in B minor . Cantus Cölln , Konrad Junghänel . 2 CDs. Harmonia Mundi France , 2003.
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor. Mechthild Bach (soprano), Daniel Taylor (alto), Marcus Ullmann (tenor), Raimund Nolte (bass), Kammerchor Stuttgart , Barockorchester Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius . 2 CDs. Carus , 2008.
• Rupert Ignaz Mayr : Vespers of Mary. With works from Psalmodia brevis and Sacri contentus . Mechthild Bach (soprano), Dorothée Zimmermann (alto), Hans Jörg Mammel (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass); Capella Weilburgensis vocale, L'arpa festante , Doris Hagel. Triptych, 2003.
• Rupert Ignaz Mayr: “Confitebor tibi.” Psalms - Motets - Concerti. Mechthild Bach (soprano), Elisabeth Popien (alto), Hans Jörg Mammel , Gotthold Schwarz ; Capella Weilburgensis vocale, L'arpa festante, Doris Hagel. Profile, 2006.
• Thomaskantors before Bach. Works by Sebastian Knüpfer , Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau . Mechthild Bach and Johanna Koslowsky (soprano), Andreas Scholl (alto), Gerd Türk and Wilfried Jochens (tenor), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Cantus Cölln, conducted by Konrad Junghänel. BMG / WDR , 1993.
• Jan Dismas Zelenka : Missa Dei Patris. Mechthild Bach (soprano), Daniel Taylor (alto), Markus Brutscher (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Kammerchor Stuttgart, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius. Carus, 2001.
• Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Omnium Sanctorum. Mechthild Bach (soprano), Daniel Taylor (alto), Markus Brutscher (tenor), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Kammerchor Stuttgart, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius (conductor). Sony, 1998.

Secular works

• “He took my love with him.” Clara and Robert Schumann - A love in songs and words. Songs by Clara and Robert Schumann , Mendelssohn and Brahms . With Lucius Rühl, piano and Michael Schütz, speaker. Auris subtilis, 2007.

DVDs

• Georg Friedrich Handel : Admeto, Re di Tessaglia (role of Antigona). Direction Howard Arman , staging by Axel Köhler , Opernhaus Halle 2006. Blu-ray Disc. Arthaus, Halle an der Saale, 2009.
• Robert Schumann : Manfred. Dramatic poem opus 115. Directed by Johannes Deutsch. With Johann von Bülow as Manfred. Düsseldorfer Symphoniker , conductor Andrey Boreyko . Arthaus, 2011.

Web links

• Mechthild Bach at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Works by and about Mechthild Bach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Mechthild Bach
• Mechthild Bach at Lied & Literatur

Individual evidence

1. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved January 13, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Description of the play and press reviews ( Memento of the original dated December 14, 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 the Lucerne Theater. Retrieved October 6, 2012. 
3. ↑ Review by Peter Bilsing. In: Musenblätter dated December 2, 2010. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
4. ↑ Mechthild Bach in the teaching staff ( memento from May 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) of the Trossingen University of Music. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
5. ↑ CD portrait on the Cantus Cölln website . Retrieved October 12, 2012.
6. ↑ Critique ( Memento of February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in Partituren 9/2007, p. 77. Retrieved on October 6, 2012.
7. ↑ CD portrait on the Cantus Cölln website. Retrieved October 12, 2012.
8. ^ Reviews quoted by Carus-Verlag . Retrieved October 6, 2012.
9. ^ Carsten Niemann: Review. In Rondo magazine on September 4, 2010. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
10. ↑ Description ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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 Arthaus Musik . Retrieved October 9, 2012. 
11. ↑ Description ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2017 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. on the website of the Arthaus Musik label . Retrieved October 10, 2012.