Nina Stemme
Nina Stemme Maria (born on 11. May 1963 in Stockholm as Nina Maria Thöldte is) a Swedish opera singer in the vocal category Dramatic Soprano .
Life
education
Stemme played the piano and viola in her youth. She attended the Adolf Fredrik Music School (Adolf Fredrik's Music Class) in Stockholm. During a year abroad as an exchange student at Langley High School in McLean , Virginia, she was a member of the school choir, sang solos and won awards.
In addition to studying business and economics at Stockholm University , she took a two-year course at the Stockholm Opera Studio ( Operastudio 67 ). After her operatic debut as Cherubino at the Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy in 1989, Stemme decided to embark on a professional singing career. She completed her studies at the Stockholm Opera School in 1994. Smaller roles at the Royal Opera in Stockholm followed.
She took part in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition and in 1993 won the Operalia singing competition founded by Plácido Domingo . Then she was invited by Domingo to sing with him in a concert at the Opéra Bastille . This concert was repeated on January 1st, 1994 in Munich.
career
Since her debut as Cherubino in Cortona , Stemme has appeared at all the major opera houses in the world, at the Scala in Milan, the Semperoper in Dresden, at the Grand Théâtre de Genève , at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the San Francisco Opera , at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the Bregenz Festival .
Her roles cover a broad spectrum - from the cheerful Rosalinde , the Agathe and the Figaro countess, to the tragic Puccini heroines Mimì , Cio-Cio San , Tosca , Manon Lescaut , Suor Angelica and, most recently, Turandot , Gluck's Euridice , Beethoven's Fidelio , Bergs Marie , Janáček's Jenůfa , Strauss' Marschallin , Verdi's Amelia , Leonore and Aida to various Wagner roles: Eva , Elisabeth , Senta , Elsa , Sieglinde , the three Brünnhilden and Isolde .
In 2002 Nina Stemme made her debut at the Salzburg Festival with extraordinary success , as Nyssia in Alexander von Zemlinsky's rarely performed opera The King Kandaules . In 2003 she sang Isolde for the first time at the Glyndebourne Festival and was again heavily acclaimed by the audience and the press. In December 2003 she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera as Senta , a role she played there a total of 25 times until 2010. Since then she has been closely associated with the Haus am Ring, sang 15 times Leonore de Vargas in La forza del destino , 12 times Sieglinde , 8 times Minnie in La fanciulla del West , 4 times Tosca and Isolde, each 3 times Field Marshal and Ariadne on Naxos . In 2008 she stepped in for Deborah Voigt as Brünnhilde in Siegfried , which she sang a total of 14 times in Vienna, furthermore Brünnhilde 2 times in Walküre and 3 times in Götterdämmerung . At the end of March 2015, she took on the title role in Elektra von Hofmannsthal and Strauss for the first time in a new Viennese production by Uwe Eric Laufenberg , conducted by Mikko Franck . She will also appear in this role at the New York Met in 2016 .
On March 24, 2006, the artist sang Maria in the world premiere of Sven-David Sandström's Ordet - en passion at the Royal Stockholm Opera . In the same year she made her debut as Aida in a new production at the Zurich Opera House . She sang all three Brünnhilden in Ring cycles in 2011 in San Francisco, in 2013 and 2014 at the Vienna State Opera, as well as in concerts at the London Proms under Daniel Barenboim .
In September 2015 she took on - with great success - the role of Ingrid Bergman in the world premiere of the opera Notorious at the Gothenburg Opera House . This opera is based on Alfred Hitchcock's spy thriller Notorious from 1946. The libretto was by Kerstin Perski , the music by Hans Gefors . It staged Keith Warner . The cast also included Katarina Karnéus , John Lundgren and Michael Weinius .
In 2017 she was seen in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk as Katerina Ismailowa at the Salzburg Festival.
Isolde
Since the Glyndebourne debut in 2003, Isolde has become the artist's star role. She also sang this role at the Bayreuth Festival in 2005 and 2006, returned with her to Glyndebourne in 2007, impersonated it at the Royal Stockholm Opera and Zurich Opera House (2008) and (2015), at the Royal Opera House in London (2009), at the Munich Opera Festival (2011), in concert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris (2012), again staged in 2013 at the Houston Grand Opera and finally at the Vienna State Opera . In autumn 2016 she will take on the role at the Metropolitan Opera again . Applause and criticism were profuse everywhere, here is an example:
“It is to report about an event to the inclined, regular and potential opera audience. This has a name, and that is Nina Stemme. [...] Stemme's soprano is enormous and extremely dramatic, but in the next moment it is capable of the finest lyricisms. Its top notes are precise and powerful, but never shrill. In the middle and lower registers, her voice captivates with an almost noble, warm timbre. As a listener, you never have the feeling that she has to go to her limit - even if she does it of course in this game. "
Three CDs are dedicated to her Isolde. The first was released by EMI Classics in 2005 - with Plácido Domingo , Mihoko Fujimura , René Pape , Olaf Bär , Jared Holt , Rolando Villazón , Ian Bostridge , Matthew Rose , as well as the choir and orchestra of the Royal Opera House under the direction of Antonio Pappano . The second is a DVD of the Glyndebourner production by Nikolaus Lehnhoff from 2007. There is also a live recording from 2012 with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Marek Janowski .
Wesendonck songs
The artist can also claim a unique position as an interpreter of Wagner's Wesendonck lieder , at least since 2010, when she sang them at the Salzburg Festival in the Haus für Mozart with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Thomas Dausgaard . Two years later she returned to Salzburg with this song cycle, this time in the Großer Festspielhaus with the Vienna Philharmonic under Mariss Jansons . Both concerts were released on phonograms. There is also a third recording (by Phaedra), this time as a piano version with Jozef de Beenhouwer as accompanist.
Personal
Stemme speaks five languages. She is married to the set designer Bengt Gomér and has three children. The family lives in Stockholm.
Assessment of the criticism
Stemme is considered one of the most important Wagner sopranos of their time. The Evening Standard describes her Isolde as “The thrilling triumph” of the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and the New York Times stated on the occasion of her Brünnhilde in San Francisco: “Nina Stemme sang gloriously. It's hard to recall anyone's sounding more commanding or at ease in the part, and that includes Kirsten Flagstad ”.
Awards
- 1993 winner of the singing competition Operalia , Paris
- 2004 Opera Prize from Svenska Dagbladet
- 2005 singer of the year in Opernwelt magazine's critics poll
- 2006 member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
- 2006 Swedish court singer (Hovsångerska), appointed by King Carl XVI. Gustaf
- 2008 Royal Medal Litteris et Artibus , Sweden
- 2010 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera
- 2010 Critics' Prize Premio Abbiati , Italy
- 2012 singer of the year in Opernwelt magazine's critics poll
- 2012 Austrian chamber singer
- 2012 Gramophone Award for the best opera recording for their DECCA recording of Fidelio under Claudio Abbado
- 2013 International Opera Award as "world's leading female opera singer"
- 2013 Opera News Award
- 2014 Music Prize of the City of Duisburg
- 2018 Birgit Nilsson Prize
- 2019 European Culture Prize Taurus
repertoire
Stemmes repertoire includes the following roles:
Discography (selection)
Complete opera recordings
- Isolde in Richard Wagner s Tristan und Isolde . (3 CD + 1 DVD). EMI 7243 5 58006 2 6
- Isolde in Tristan and Isolde . Glyndebourne Festival . Dir. Jiří Bělohlávek . Opus Arte DVD OA 0988 D
- Leonore in Fidelio . Dir. Claudio Abbado . Salzburg Festival . Decca 478 2551 (box), (478 2552, 478 2553)
- Title role in Jenufa . Dir. Peter Schneider . Live from the Gran Teatre del Liceu , Barcelona, 2005. DVD. Naxos
- Senta in The Flying Dutchman . Dir. David Parry . Chandos 3119 (2 CD). (Opera in English)
- Title role in Aida . Zurich Opera House . Dir. Ádám Fischer . DVD. BelAir Classics
- Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier . Choir and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House . Nina Stemme, with Malin Hartelius . Dir. Franz Welser-Möst . EMI. DVD
- Leonora in La forza del destino . Choir and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera , dir. Zubin Mehta . Unitel classics (PROFILE 708108). DVD.
- Victoria and She / soprano in Ingvar Lidholm : Ett drömspel (based on Strindberg's Traumspiel ), with Håkan Hagegård . Caprice CAP 22029: 1-2. (2 CD)
- Isolde in Tristan and Isolde . Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin , live March 27, 2012. Dir. Marek Janowski . PentatoneClassics PTC 5186404.
- Elisabeth in Tannhauser . Dir. Marek Janowski . PentatoneClassics PTC 5186405
- Minnie in La fanciulla del West . DVD. Dir. Pier Giorgio Morandi . Stockholm Royal Opera . Euroarts Unitel Classica
- Brünnhilde in Die Walküre . With Jonas Kaufmann , Anja Kampe , René Pape . Mariinsky Orchestra, Dir. Valery Gergiev . MARO527
- Sieglinde in Die Walküre . Dir. Franz Welser-Möst . Vienna State Opera , December 2, 2007. Orfeo C875 131B
Songs, concerts, excerpts
- Strauss, Richard : Four last songs , final scenes from Capriccio and Salome . EMI Classics 0946 3 78797 2 6
- Mortelmans, Lodewijk : concert aria Mignon (Do you know the country) . Zsolt Hamar , conductor; Flemish Radio Orchestra . In Flanders' Fields, vol. 33. Phaedra 92033
- The First Operalia Competition - Gala Concert . Gov. Eugene Kohn . Sony classical 01-046691-10
- Wagner, Richard : Wesendonck songs . Swedish Chamber Orchestra . Dir. Thomas Dausgaard . BY 2022
- Wesendonck songs ; Nystroem's Songs by the Sea ; De Boeck's Seven French songs. Jozef de Beenhouwer , piano. In Flanders' Fields, vol. 40. Phaedra 92040
- Wesendonck songs . Salzburg Festival , Vienna Philharmonic , you Mariss Jansons . DVD Euroarts.
Web links
- Nina Stemme in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nina Stemme homepage
- Nina Stemme at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Biography on artistsman.com
- Nina Stemme at www.wagneropera.net (English)
- Criticism of the New York Times , regarding Stemmes Isolde in Bayreuth (2006)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swedish genealogy CD, cf. http://www.genealogi.se/wiki/index.php/Sveriges_befolkning_1970
- ↑ a b c En vanlig stjärna . SvD
- ↑ nytimes.com
- ↑ People. Nordstjernan
- ↑ BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 30 years. Sinfini Music
- ^ Operalia
- ↑ Nina Stemme . AllMusic
- ↑ a b KS Nina Stemme (soprano): Biography ( Memento from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Wagneropera ( Memento of May 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) web page
- ↑ As of September 18, 2014, see: Nina Stemme's appearances at the Vienna State Opera
- ^ Works, Genre. Sven-David Sandström
- ↑ Katharina Hogrefe: Nina Stemme in Ingrid Bergman's shoes: Gothenburg premiere of Hans Gefors' Notorious , bachtrack, September 20, 2015
- ↑ Tristan and Isolde . ( Memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Glyndebourne
- ^ Dominic McHugh: Nina Stemme on The Royal Opera's new production of Tristan and Isolde . In: MusicalCriticism.com . September 13, 2009. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
- ↑ Tristan and Isolde . Metropolitan Opera. Archived from the original on August 20, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
- ^ Kurier (Vienna), June 14, 2013
- ^ Emerging Pictures. ( Memento of December 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) November 8, 2012
- ^ Fiona Maddocks, Evening Standard, Aug. 2, 2007
- ^ Michael Kimmelman : In Italy, a Political Opera About Opera . In: The New York Times , December 11, 2010
- ↑ svd.se Svenska Dagbladets official web page
- ↑ a b opernwelt.de official web page
- ↑ Kungliga Musikaliska Academies
- ↑ kungahuset.se Swedish Royal Court official home page
- ↑ Nina Stemme | The Royal Court
- ↑ Nina Stemme . ( Memento from May 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Wagneropera.net
- ↑ Olivier Awards ( Memento of February 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) web page
- ^ Associazione Nazionale Critici Musicali ( Memento from January 10, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) web page
- ↑ Nina Stemme named “Austrian Chamber Singer” .
- ↑ gramophone.co.uk
- ↑ Nina Stemme bäst i världen - culture . UNT.se
- ↑ operanews.com , September 2013.
- ↑ WAZ of July 12, 2014 (PDF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stemme, Nina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stemme, Nina Maria (full name); Thöldte, Nina Maria (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish opera singer specializing in dramatic soprano |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |