Petra Wolf-Perraudin

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Petra-Kristin Wolf-Perraudin (born in Braunschweig ) is a German opera and concert singer ( mezzo-soprano ), speech and singing teacher and voice coach.

Life

Beginnings and training

Petra Wolf-Perraudin (née Wolf, premarital: Petra-Kristin Wolf) grew up in Hamburg . She gained her first experience in musical performance practice while she was still at school. She was a member of the children's choir of the NDR and had appearances with the choir on radio and television, at recordings and concerts, including the Hamburg premiere of Britten's War Requiem in November 1966 in the Laeiszhalle . She also took part in church music events. She finished school at the Walddörfer-Gymnasium Hamburg ("Walddörferschule") with a music diploma.

At the University of Music and Performing Arts in Hamburg , she then studied from 1974 first music education for higher education. 1976 switched to solo vocal studies, u. a. with the Hamburg contralto , university professor and chamber singer Gisela Litz , from which she graduated in 1982 first with a song diploma and in 1984 with an opera and concert diploma. In 1984 she sang the role of Frau Reich in the opera Die lustigen Frauen von Windsor in a performance of the opera class at the Hamburg University of Music . In addition, she received several years of language training from Willy Schlingplässer and Ursula Gompf , which she continued after completing her studies.

Wolf-Perraudin also completed a second full degree in dentistry from 1975 to 1981 at the University of Hamburg with a state examination and license to practice medicine .

In 1986 she studied song and oratorio interpretation with Christa Ludwig . From 1986 to 1991 she completed a postgraduate course in singing with Dietger Jacob , Cologne / Hamburg. In 1986 she was awarded the Salzburg City Singing Promotion Prize.

Engagements as an opera singer

In 1985, immediately after completing her studies, she was hired by the Flensburg State Theater for a guest appearance in Denmark as Frau Reich in the Lustige Weibern von Windsor . In the 1985/86 season Wolf-Perraudin was engaged as a lyrical mezzo-soprano at the Staatstheater Oldenburg . Her debut role there was the maid Rosalia in Tiefland . In the same season she also sang Maddalena in Rigoletto there .

From the 1987/88 season until the end of the 1989/90 season, Petra Wolf-Perraudin was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Hildesheim Theater under the direction of Pierre Léon . During this time she developed several roles in the mezzo-soprano opera field. She sang in a total of 253 performances with 11 operatic roles, including 8 main roles in the lyrical and dramatic mezzo-soprano operatic field.

She sang in Hildesheim a. a. the title role in Carmen (1987/88 season), Bersi, also Madelon, in Andrea Chénier (1987/88 season), Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus (1987/88 season), Sesto in La clemenza di Tito (1988/89 season) , Anita in The Girl of Navarre by Jules Massenet (1988/89 season), the title role in La Cenerentola (1988/89 season), Polina in Queen of Spades (1988/89 season), Frau Reich in Die Lustigen Frauen von Windsor (season 1989/90), Chiwrja in Der Jahrmarkt von Sorotschinzy (1989/90 season), Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda in the German-language premiere of the original version (1989/90 season) and Gluck's eponymous hero Orpheus (1989/90 season).

Further engagements and guest performances

Starting with a Belcanto masterclass for young opera singers in the summer of 1991 in Vienna , Wolf-Perraudin began a post-graduate course of several years in Belcanto in Milan and New York with Franco Corelli and his wife Loretta di Lelio- Corelli. In the following years Wolf-Perraudin put her main artistic focus on bel canto interpretations and the classical song in recitals with works and the like. a. by Johannes Brahms , Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf in Würzburg and other stations. She also sang operatic roles. In the 1993/94 season she was a guest at the Munster Municipal Theaters as Frugola in Il tabarro . She took on more dramatic operatic roles, u. a. the title role in Samson and Dalila and Herodias in Salome (1994; Theater Stralsund ), in their repertoire. In the 1994/95 season she was a guest at the State Theater Eisenach as Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda .

She performed, especially as a concert singer and with recitals, at home and abroad. She sang u. a. in Berlin, Hamburg, Eisenach, Münster, Austria (Vienna and Salzburg), Italy (Venice, Trieste, Bozen and Vicenza) and in the USA (Houston, Austin). Since 2007, after a long break, she has been performing mainly with concert projects and classical recitals.

She participated in radio productions of the SFB / RBB and the NDR. In December 2008 a live audio CD on church arias with Wolf-Perraudin was published under the title Treasures of Belcanto. Since 2011, Wolf-Perraudin has been producing extensive documentation on the history and development of Italian opera and bel canto in a comprehensive Internet radio broadcast series.

Teaching

After a first teaching activity 1992–1993 at the University of Applied Sciences Hildesheim in voice, speech and singing, Wolf-Perraudin began in 1993 to gradually develop and teach a vocal-pedagogical, holistic teaching concept of voice and speech training, singing and bel canto . Since 1997 Wolf-Perraudin has been working as a voice, speech and singing teacher, voice trainer, vocal trainer, vocal coach and coach for professional performance. She runs her own institute for voice and presentation training in Hanover .

Private

Wolf-Perraudin is married to the graduate engineer Luc Perraudin, the son of the painter, graphic artist and church artist Wilfrid Perraudin . She lives in Hanover.

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon . Volume VII. Wolbring – Zysset . Page 3541. De Gruyter, Berlin [u. a.] July 2015, ISBN 978-3-908255-52-9 (accessed from De Gruyter Online).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Denker: Exciting . Performance review. In. Orpheus . Issue 4/86, p. 293/294.
  2. ^ Gerhard Eckels: Exciting . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue 1/88, p. 38.
  3. ↑ Gerhart Asche: Walking a fine line - not without a slip . Performance review. In: Opera world . Edition 6/88, pp. 28/29.
  4. ↑ HILDESHEIM . Premiere note with production details and cast (with photo). In: Orpheus . Edition 12/88, p. 957.
  5. ^ Marion Eckels: Loose irony . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue 4/89, p. 298.
  6. ↑ Short editorial review (without title and author) with photo. In: Orpheus . Edition 12/89, p. 983.
  7. ↑ Gerhart Asche: Remarkably streamlined score . Performance review. In: Opera world . Edition 8/90, p. 52/53.
  8. ↑ a b c Church art and Belcanto - benefit CD crowns the homage for Wilfrid Perraudin . www.kulturigo.de. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  9. ↑ Treasures of Belcanto in memory of Perraudin . In: Badische Zeitung of December 2, 2008. Retrieved on February 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Wolf-Perraudin, Petra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf-Perraudin, Petra-Kristin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and concert singer (mezzo-soprano), speech and singing teacher and voice trainer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig