Regula Mühlemann

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Regula Mühlemann (2012)

Regula Mühlemann (born January 7, 1986 in Adligenswil ) is a Swiss opera singer .

Life

Regula Mühlemann grew up in Adligenswil in Lucerne and studied with Barbara Locher at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences . The young soprano gained her first experience on the opera stage at the Lucerne Theater at an early age .

Afterwards they carried out engagements a. a. as Despina ( Così fan tutte ) at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice , at the Zurich Opera House and at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , where she performed as Giannetta in Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore . In summer 2012 she made her debut as a young Papagena in the opera Das Labyrinth by Peter von Winter at the Salzburg Festival . Since then, Regula Mühlemann has performed at many of the world's most important opera and concert halls, including a. the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia , the Nederlandse Opera , the Opéra national de Paris, the Berlin State Opera , the Theater an der Wien , the Teatro Regio in Turin , the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles or the Verbier Festival and Lucerne Festival in the Switzerland. She made her debut as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro in September 2017 at the Grand Théâtre de Genève . As Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette , she performed a major romantic role for the first time at the Lucerne Theater in November 2018 . She made her house debut at the Vienna State Opera in February 2020 with her role debut as Adina in L'elisir d'amore .

Regula Mühlemann was a finalist of the “Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes” in Geneva and received numerous prizes, including a grant from the Friedl Wald Foundation, the Migros Culture Percentage , the Elvira Lüthi Wegmann Foundation, the Professor Armin Weltner and the Jmanuel and Evamaria Schenk Foundation. In 2015 she was a finalist in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition .

Regula Mühlemann's discography includes a. Gioachino Rossini's Petite Messe solennelle , Le nozze di Figaro with Rolando Villazón and Thomas Hampson under the musical direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and her debut album Mozart Arias , which won the German Record Critics' Prize in February 2017 .

Regula Mühlemann gained greater fame through Jens Neubert's film adaptation of the opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber , in which she played the role of Ännchens. In another film adaptation of Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice , Regula Mühlemann was seen alongside Bejun Mehta as Amor. In 2016 and 2019 she could be heard at the ZDF Advent Concert from Dresden .

In the documentary film The Sound of the Voice , which was released in 2018, she shows insights into her work and her relationship to singing.

Awards

  • 2008: Finalist of the “Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes” (Geneva)
  • 2009: Scholarship from the Friedl Wald Foundation
  • 2010: Semi-finalist at Concours Ernst Haefliger (Gstaad)
  • 2011: Migros Culture Percentage grant
  • 2011: Scholarship from the Elvira Lüthi Wegmann Foundation
  • 2011: Scholarship from the Professor Armin Weltner Foundation
  • 2011: Scholarship and audience award from the Jmanuel and Evamaria Schenk Foundation
  • 2012: Migros Culture Percentage grant
  • 2017: Prize of the German Record Critics
  • 2018: Opus Klassik as young artist of the year (vocals)

Discography

  • 2014: Gioachino Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle (Sony Classical)
  • 2016: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • 2016: Mozart Arias (Sony Classical)
  • 2017: Georg Philipp Telemann: Reformations Oratorio (Sony Classical)
  • 2017: Cleopatra - Baroque Arias (Sony Classical)

DVD

  • 2010: Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz (Constantin Film)
  • 2013: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute (Berliner Philharmoniker)
  • 2014: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Arthaus Musik)
  • 2014: Gaetano Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (Deutsche Grammophon)

Web links

Commons : Regula Mühlemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Schacher: "I am one hundred percent authentic". In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 3, 2017, accessed December 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Regula Mühlemann  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Zurich Opera House , accessed on December 20, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.opernhaus.ch  
  3. ↑ Peter Hagmann: Triptych with Barber: Three Perspectives on “Figaro” in Geneva. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. September 18, 2017, accessed November 1, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Urs Mattenberger: Premiere of a star from here: Lavishly beautiful rebellion. In: Lucerne newspaper. November 3, 2018, accessed November 4, 2018 .
  5. ^ Marion Eigl: State Opera: A bottle of love potion. In: Wiener Zeitung. February 17, 2020, accessed February 19, 2020 .
  6. ^ Prize of the German Record Critics: The best list 1/2017 has been published. In: Neue Musikzeitung . 16th February 2017.
  7. ↑ Program description ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2016 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. on ZDFmediathek , accessed on December 6, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  8. ↑ OPUS KLASSIK , accessed on October 14, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Mühlemann, Regula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Adligenswil