Nadja Stefanoff

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Nadja Stefanoff (born July 22, 1976 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German opera singer ( soprano / mezzo-soprano ).

Biography and artistic work

Nadja Stefanoff, daughter of the Bulgarian hero tenor Stefan Stefanoff , was a member of the children's choir of the Chemnitz Opera at the age of eleven, at that time still Karl-Marx-Stadt. She completed her vocal training from 1995 to 2002 at the Dresden Music Academy and from 1995 to 1999 in the choir studio of the Saxon State Opera in Dresden . She passed the soloist examination with the grade “excellent”. During her master class studies at the Dresden University of Music, she gained her first stage experience at the Batzdorf Baroque Festival .

She received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Association , won the Orpheum Public Award for Mozart - Zurich 2004 singing competition, and won 3rd prize at the National Singing Competition in Berlin in 2002.

She received her first permanent engagement in 2002 at the Theater Erfurt , which was followed by a two-year contract at the Stadttheater Pforzheim from 2003 to 2005. Her first engagement was followed by guest appearances and contracts at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, the Dresden State Operetta and concerts with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra in the Tonhalle Zurich and the Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz.

From the 2007/2008 season until 2012 the singer was a member of the Theater Bremen ensemble . With the beginning of the Bremen engagement there followed guest appearances with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as well as guest contracts at the State Opera Stuttgart , the Komische Oper Berlin , the Theater Bonn and the Staatstheater Braunschweig .

In the course of her vocal development from the lyrical mezzo-soprano into the intermediate subject to the roles of the youthful-dramatic soprano, she made her debut after roles like Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Giulietta in Hoffmanns Erzählungen and Judith in Bluebeard in June 2012 in the role of Tosca in Bremen ( January to April 2013) and Anna Karenina in Braunschweig.

Roles (selection)

Discography

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Remarks

  1. Joachim Weise: To New Shores: The Mezzo-Soprano Nadja Stefanoff , Online Merker, August 2012.
  2. Indulging in adultery. The soprano Nadja Stefanoff embodies Anna Karenina in Braunschweig , in: Braunschweiger Zeitung, undated