Michaela Kaune

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Michaela Kaune (* 1968 in Hamburg ) is a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Kaune initially sang privately in various choirs . They originally wanted to Jura study, however, then decided to study singing. She received her vocal training at the Hamburg University of Music , where Judith Beckmann and Annie Schoonus were her singing teachers. In 1995 she won first prize at the National Singing Competition in Berlin ; In 1998 she won the Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna . In 1999 she was awarded the Otto Kasten Prize of the German Stage Association.

Kaune received her first guest engagements at the Halberstadt Theater , the Lübeck City Theater and the Bremen Theater .

Since the 1997/1998 season she has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper Berlin . She made her debut there with the role of Princess Natalie in the opera The Prince of Homburg . There she appeared as Micaëla in Carmen , Pamina in Die Zauberflöte , Marguerite in Faust , Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni , as Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro and in the title role of the opera Arabella . In the 2007/2008 season she appeared at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and as Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier . In February 2009 she sang the title role in the opera Ariadne auf Naxos at her parent company .

A highlight of her career was the interpretation of the role of Eva in Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , which she sang at the Bayreuth Festival in 2008 and 2009 .

Opera guest performances have taken Kaune to the Opéra National de Paris , the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels (1999/2000 season as Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro ), the Frankfurt Opera (as Agathe in Der Freischütz ), the Hamburg State Opera and the Saxon State Opera Dresden (2001, as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte ), to the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp , the Bavarian State Opera Munich (1999, as Agathe; 2000, as Micaëla; 2002, as Donna Elvira), to the Salzburg Festival (2001, 2006), to the Berliner Festwochen and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival . In the 2010/2011 season Kaune made another guest appearance at the Bavarian State Opera; there she took over Rosalinde in the operetta Die Fledermaus .

Since 1997 she has made several guest appearances at the Aalto Theater in Essen ; there she sang Contessa, Fiordiligi and in 2001 Cordelia in Lear . In 1999 she appeared at the Basel Theater as Tatjana in Eugen Onegin .

Other roles in her youthful-dramatic soprano repertoire are the title roles in the operas Rusalka and Katja Kabanowa and Anna in Hans Heiling .

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  1. ↑ a b Michaela Kaune  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vita on the website of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bayerische.staatsoper.de  
  2. ↑ a b c Michaela Kaune ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2012 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. Vita on the official website of the Bayreuth Festival @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bayreuther-festspiele.de
  3. ↑ a b c d Michaela Kaune Vita on the website of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Kaune, Michaela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg