Melanie Diener

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Melanie Diener (* 1967 in Schenefeld ) is a German opera and oratorio singer (soprano).

Life

The soprano Melanie Diener, born near Hamburg, completed her vocal studies with Sylvia Geszty at the Stuttgart Conservatory , with Rudolf Piernay in Mannheim and at Indiana University .

Melanie Diener first became famous as a prizewinner of the Salzburg Mozart Competition and the International Queen Sonja Singing Competition in Oslo. In 1996 she made her stage debut as Ilia in Idomeneo at Garsington Opera ; with the same role she made her debut a year later at the Bavarian State Opera . Melanie Diener established herself in international musical life with two other Mozart roles: she interpreted Fiordiligi from Così fan tutte at the Royal Opera House in London , at the Palais Garnier in Paris , in Ferrara, Dresden, at the Met and in Zurich; as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni she has made guest appearances in Aix-en-Provence, Vienna, at the Salzburg Festival , at the Metropolitan Opera and in Tokyo. She also appeared as Figaro Countess, Elettra in Idomeneo and Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito (debut in May 2005 at the Met under James Levine ) and at the Berlin State Opera . In 1999 Melanie Diener made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Elsa in Lohengrin . In the German subject, Sieglinde and Gutrune in the Ring of the Nibelung and Strauss roles such as Chrysothemis in Elektra , Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier and the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos belong to her repertoire. At the 2001 Wiener Festwochen she interpreted the Contessa di Almaviva from Le nozze di Figaro under Riccardo Muti . In January 2005 the soprano celebrated a great personal success with the lead role in Katja Kabanova at the Berlin Linden Opera; shortly afterwards she was successful as Ellen Orford in Britten's Peter Grimes , as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and in 2007 as Chrysothemis at the Vienna State Opera and as Marschallin at the Hamburg State Opera . In 2008 she made her debut as Leonore in Fidelio at the Zurich Opera House under the direction of Katharina Thalbach .

She made her role debut as Ursula in Hindemith's Mathis der Maler at the Opéra Bastille in Paris (2010). She also sang the Marschallin at the Helsinki Opera (2014) and at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. In 2013 she gave her first Isolde at the Canadian Opera in Toronto, a role with which she also appeared at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg (2015) and at the National Opera Warsaw under Stefan Soltesz (2016). Another role debut was the role of the singer in Philippe Boesmans ' dance at the Stuttgart Opera (2016). This was followed again by the Marschallin at the Bolshoi Theater Moscow (2017), the role debut as Senta at the National Theater Zagreb (2018) and the Leonore in Fidelio at the National Theater Prague (2019). In 2019 she founded the International Opera Workshop Waiblingen together with the baritone Thomas Hampson .

Melanie Diener has been singing regularly at festivals such as the Berliner Festwochen , Lucerne Festival , Salzburg Festival, Richard Strauss Festival Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Wiener Festwochen, in Orange and Tanglewood for many years . Melanie Diener has appeared with many orchestras and conductors across Europe and the USA, including Claudio Abbado , Armin Jordan , Philippe Jordan , Pierre Boulez , Riccardo Chailly , Christoph von Dohnányi , Michael Gielen , Bernard Haitink , Marek Janowski , Simone Young , Kurt Masur , Lorin Maazel , Kent Nagano , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Wolfgang Sawallisch , David Zinman and Franz Welser-Möst .

Prizes and awards

  • 1992 silver medal in the singing competition "Concorso Internazionale di Musica da Camera" Finale Ligure / Italy
  • 1992 1st prize at the 3rd intern. Coloratura singing competition in Stuttgart
  • 1993 scholarship master class for singing with Sena Jurinac
  • 1993 scholarship holder of a master class for song with Jutta Vulpius in Moers
  • 1993 scholarship for a master class for singing with Brigitte Fassbaender
  • 1994 “Deutscher Musikrat” scholarship with a sponsorship award from Opernfreunde Bonn eV
  • 1994 DAAD scholarship at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
  • 1995 Prize of the International Mozarteum Foundation at the 6th International Mozart Competition in Salzburg
  • 1995 Kirsten Flagstadt Prize at the International Queen Sonja Competition in Oslo
  • 1997 “Star of the Week” Munich evening newspaper

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography
  2. ↑ Katja Schalla: 1st International Opera Workshop in Waiblingen. In: SWR2 . September 26, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Servant, Melanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and oratorio singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Schenefeld