Miriam Alexandra

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Miriam Alexandra , bourgeois Miriam-Alexandra Wigbers , née Müller (* 1981 in Heidelberg ) is a German-Greek opera , concert and lied singer ( soprano ) and holds a doctorate in musicology .

biography

She studied singing and school music at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe. In 2012 Miriam Alexandra could be heard as Belinda at the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich. From 2013 Miriam Alexandra was engaged as a soloist at the Central Saxon Theater . She was there u. a. to be heard as Gretel in Humperdick's Hansel and Gretel , as Susanna in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro , as Sophie in Richard Stauss ' Rosenkavalier , as Lisa in Kálmán's Countess Mariza and Christel in Zeller's bird dealer . In the 2015/16 season she sang the leading role of Mathilde in the opera Das Waldmädchen by Carl Maria von Weber, which was believed to be lost .

She became known to a wider public through the release of her debut CD Deutsche Lieder with German-language song settings by Pauline Viardot , which was released in 2017 in coproduction with Deutschlandradio Kultur on the OehmsClassics label . In 2014 she received her PhD thesis on Pauline Viardot. phil. PhD. The CD was presented as “CD of the month” in the opera magazine Opernwelt . Miriam Alexandra has a keen interest in performance-related issues and prefers to work at the interface between theory and practice and with women composers of the 19th century. In 2019 she released a CD with all of Clara Schumann's songs together with Peter Gijsbertsen and Jozef De Beenhouwer .

Awards

  • 2009: First prize in the international Handel competition in Göttingen (together with Koschitzki & Ritter )

Publications

  • Miriam-Alexandra Wigbers: Johannes Brahms and Pauline Viardot - the summer of 1869: encounters, the lost morning serenade, the alto rhapsody. In: Brahms Studies, publications of the Brahms Society Hamburg e. V. vol. 16.2011. Tutzing 2011, pp. 67-89.
  • Miriam Alexandra: Pauline Viardot. In: Lexicon of the Singing Voice. History - Scientific Basics - Singing Techniques - Performers. Laaber 2016.
  • CD German songs by Pauline Viardot. OehmsClassics 2017.
  • CD All songs by Clara Schumann. Dabringhaus & Grimm 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Seifert: Remarkable Debut . In: Lions International (ed.): The Lion . May 2004, p. 32 ( lions.de [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Schumann evening at Clara. CSG Lahr, accessed January 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ http://www.cosifacciamo.de/DIDO-AENEAS.16.0.html
  4. ↑ Chemnitzer Verlag und Druck GmbH & Co. KG: Soprano has her first premiere. Retrieved November 28, 2017 (German).
  5. ↑ Miriam Alexandra, soprano. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Weber's missing debut - Opera Lounge . In: Opera Lounge . February 4, 2016 ( operalounge.de [accessed November 29, 2017]).
  7. ^ FOCUS Online: Next concert "Music in (Baden-) Baden" on April 23rd . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on November 29, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Michael Merschmeier, Der Theaterverlag: Opernwelt - Archive. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Miriam Alexandra: Lexicon of the singing voice. History - Scientific Basics - Singing Techniques - Performers . Laaber 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Alexandra, Miriam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wigbers, Miriam-Alexandra (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Greek opera, concert and lied singer (soprano) as well as a doctorate in musicology
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg