Nelly Palmer

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Nelly Palmer (born May 9, 1979 in Pavlodar , Kazakh SSR ) is a German opera and concert singer ( soprano ).

Life

Nelly Palmer received her training at the Mannheim University of Music with Katharina Dau . There she completed her studies in singing in 2007 with a diploma as a singing teacher , opera singer and concert singer.

In 2003 she had a first role as a shepherdess in Gluck's Armide . In 2004 she made her operatic debut as Pamina in Mozart's Magic Flute , conducted by Manfred Schreier. This was followed by guest engagements at the Nationaltheater Mannheim in Mozart's Bastien and Bastienne as Bastienne and at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern in Lehár's The Merry Widow as Valencienne. An engagement at the Nuremberg State Theater as a member of the International Opera Studio followed. At the Ludwigsburg Festival in 2008 she sang the title role in Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon , which she had previously played in Nuremberg. In the summer of 2006 she appeared on stage in Ibiza Town in Verdi's La traviata as Violetta and in summer 2009 in Puccini's La Bohème as Mimì. In the 2009/2010 season she was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven , where she appeared on stage as Countess Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and as Fennimore in Kurt Weill's Der Silbersee . Guest engagements in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse as Blanche in Poulenc's Conversations of the Carmelite Sisters 2011, at the Landestheater Detmold 2011/12 and at the Landestheater Schleswig-Holstein 2015/16 as Countess Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and as Auguste in Blacher's Prussian Fairy Tale at the Landestheater Schleswig- Holstein followed in 2012. She has been a member of the TourneeOper Mannheim ensemble since 2011. In October 2013 she made her debut in the role of Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss at the “Center des Arts Pluriels” (CAPe) in Ettelbrück , Luxembourg and at the Walldorf Music Days 2016 as Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas .

Her concert activities in the field of lied, concert, oratorio and opera have taken Nelly Palmer at home and abroad. She could be heard as a soloist in the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg in Paul McCartney's oratorio Ecce Cor Meum , in the Requien of Brahms and Fauré, with the Heilbronner Symphoniker in Mahler's 4th Symphony , with the Bremerhaven Municipal Orchestra in Mahler's 2nd Symphony , in Bach's St. John Passion , in Mendelssohn's Elijah in Merano and Bressanone and in Beethoven's Missa solemnis heard in Zielona Góra as well as numerous radio recordings and CD recordings of radio choirs of the WDR and the Berlin radio. There are also television and cinema recordings as part of the Bayreuth Festival.

Palmer completed master classes with Helmut Deutsch , Ulrich Eisenlohr, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Reri Grist , Klesie Kelly, Rudolf Piernay , Anna Reynolds , Maria Venuti , Ruth Ziesak, Katharina Dau and Claudia Eder .

Awards

Nelly Palmer won prizes at " Jugend musiziert ", at the Suder Lied Competition in 2002 in Nuremberg, at the university competition in the song category with a focus on Schubert in 2003 and at the Richard Strauss Competition in 2004. She was also a Richard Wagner scholarship holder during the Bayreuth Festival 2005, finalist of the International Kärntner Sparkasse Competition and winner of the Paul Lincke Society at the National Singing Competition in Berlin 2006 as well as the “Viennese Friends of the Meistersinger Course” at the Great International Meistersinger Competition Neustadt 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nelly Palmer at theaterjobs.de, accessed on August 24, 2011
  2. ↑ Calendar on cape.lu, accessed on August 11, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Palmer, Nelly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kazakh-German opera and concert singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Pavlodar , Kazakh SSR