Regina Renzowa

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Regina Renzowa Jürgens (* Brno ) is a German-Czech soprano and vocal teacher .

life and career

Regina Renzowa was born as Regina Wernerova in Brno / CZ . After graduation she studied singing and vocal pedagogy at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts and graduated as Magistra from. While she was still studying, she was first on stage in smaller roles and soon in the larger operatic roles. She sang at the Chamber Opera in Brno and at the Opera in Opava . This was followed by brief engagements at the State Theater in Mährisch Ostrau and at the Národní_divadlo in Prague before she went abroad to Germany in 1986.

She attended the master class of Vera Rosza , sang solo concerts in the Rhine-Main area and met in Frankfurt / M. the artist Soňa Červená , who showed her the way to engagement at the Frankfurt Opera . Renzowa worked with the Hessischer Rundfunk Orchestra under Peter Falk and with the Frankfurt am Main Chamber Opera. In international singing competitions she won the special prize in the 1st Bodensee singing competition in Bregenz in 1991, in 1992 the 3rd prize and the 2nd audience award in Hamburg at the Robert Stolz singing competition and in 1993 the first prize in the Hartauer singing competition (organized by Mr. Peter Jansky) in the Vienna City Hall. After an engagement at the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern, she worked as a guest soloist at the Hessian State Theater from the 1995/1996 season , later at the State Theater in Darmstadt, at the State Theater in Detmold and in Erfurt. From 1995 she took bel canto lessons in Italy with Claudio Giombi . From the 1996/1997 season she worked for several years as a permanent soloist at the Volksoper in Vienna, where she sang Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni , Saffi in Der Zigeunerbaron, Sylva Varescu in Die Csardasfürstin and Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow . This was followed by appearances at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, the Mannheim National Theater and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein , and at the National Theater Brno she was seen in the roles of Verdi and Korngold . In Germany she sang and organized many benefit concerts for sick children in the Rhine-Main area and performed at the René-Kollo-Gala on the open-air stage in Ötigheim. From 1998 Renzowa was active as a soloist in numerous concerts both with the Symphony Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper and with other orchestras in Japan and Asia. For the double role Marietta / Marie in EW Korngold's opera “Die tote Stadt” she won the national opera prize “Cena Thálie” in Prague in 2003 for the best opera interpretation of the year 2002.

After that she had to limit her stage activities for family reasons, moved to Vienna and until further notice only performed concert appearances. In 2001 and 2003 she toured Japan with her “Renzowa Trio” and organized benefit concerts for OSF Vienna. In 2004 she performed in Prague at the Prague Spring music festival and in 2006 in Japan. Then she was a guest soloist (in operas: Dalibor, Rusalka, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, The Magic Flute) at the Pilsen Opera . In 2009 she appeared as a soloist in the opera “The Bartered Bride” during the anniversary season at the Opern Air in Gars am Kamp. She taught young opera singers in master classes in Beijing , Europe and Vienna (2006–2010) and accepted a professorship at the Conservatory in Brno. She was invited as a juror in several singing competitions such as the Robert Stolz Competition in Hamburg 2003, Iuventus Canti 2012 in Slovakia, Martinu and Jugend 2013, Pro Bohemia 2013–2020 and Feurich Competition Vienna 2017–2020. Until the end of March 2018, Renzowa Jürgens worked as a singing teacher at the State Conservatory in Brno (Brno / CZ). She sang numerous concerts in the Borromäus concert hall in Vienna and in the concert hall of Franz Schubert's birthplace.

Since 2019 she has been teaching classical singing and opera interpretation at the Franz Schubert Conservatory in Vienna and giving private lessons in solo singing, opera and operetta interpretation in the Vienna Piano Gallery, where she also offers international workshops with arias and songs by the Czech composers Leoš Janáček and Antonín Dvořák , Bohuslav Martinů and Bedřich Smetana for opera singers and singing students.

She was married to GK Harwardt from 1986 to 1993 and to EF Jürgens in Germany from 1993 to 2006; her son, born in Germany in 1993, comes from the second marriage.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from renzowa.com, accessed June 12, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.renzowa.com
  2. ↑ https://cenythalie.cz/laureati/ accessed on October 14, 2019
  3. ↑ FEURICH Competition. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Rentsova, Regina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Juergens, Regina; Harwardt, Regina; Wernerova, Regina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech soprano
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno