Ricarda Merbeth

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Ricarda Merbeth (born in Chemnitz ) is a German opera singer with a soprano voice who is particularly known for roles in operas by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss . In 2010 she was at the Vienna State Opera for opera singer named.

life and work

Merbeth studied at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . She continued her studies with the tenor and singing teacher Wolfgang Millgramm . Her career began in Magdeburg and Weimar. In 1999 she made her debut as Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio at the Vienna State Opera and remained a member of the ensemble until 2005. In the Haus am Ring she sang a number of Mozart roles - Countess Almaviva, Donna Anna, Pamina, Fiordiligi - also Wagner - Irene, Elisabeth, Elsa, Eva, Sieglinde - and Richard Strauss - Chrysothemis, Marschallin. The singer had her international breakthrough in 2004 in a new Daphne production by the Vienna State Opera. Ricarda Merbeth has been working as a freelancer since 2006, but remained connected to the Vienna Opera through guest contracts. In 2010 she was appointed Austrian Chamber Singer at the instigation of Ioan Holender , Director of the Vienna State Opera .

Merbeth has also been a guest at the Bayreuth Festival for many years . In 2000 she embodied Freia and Gutrune in the Ring des Nibelungen , from 2002 she sang Elisabeth several times in Tannhäuser and from 2013 to 2018 she took over the Senta in the Fliegende Holländer . In other houses she sang Elisabeth and Venus, Elsa, Isolde, Sieglinde and Brünnhilde on all three evenings.

The singer is at La Scala in Milan , at the Opéra National de Paris and in Toulouse and Marseille, at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, ​​at the State Operas of Hamburg and Munich , at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, at the New National Theater performed in Tokyo and at De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam, as well as in Helsinki, Stockholm, Zurich and Sydney. In April 2020 she was to make her debut as Isolde at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London.

The singer has expanded her Richard Strauss repertoire considerably since her time in Vienna. She now also sings the title roles of Elektra (in Milan, Berlin and soon in Vienna), Ariadne auf Naxos and Ägyptischer Helena . In October 2012 she made her role debut as Beethoven-Leonore at the Vienna State Opera. Merbeth has appropriated a number of prominent roles from the 20th century over the years: Marietta in Korngold's Toter Stadt , Emilia Marty in Janáček's Věc Makropulos , Marie in Bergs Wozzeck , Madame Lidoine in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites and Goneril in Reimann's Lear .

Merbeth is also a concert singer . Her concert repertoire includes the Wesendonck-Lieder , the War Requiem by Benjamin Britten, Beethoven's Missa solemnis , the Stabat Mater by Szymanowski, the Glagolitic Mass by Janáček, the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss, as well as his Brentano-Lieder and the 8. Symphony by Gustav Mahler. She worked with the conductors Daniel Barenboim , Pierre Boulez , Semyon Bychkov , Riccardo Chailly , Myung-whun Chung , Christoph von Dohnányi , Daniele Gatti , Marek Janowski , Mariss Jansons , Philippe Jordan , Fabio Luisi , Ingo Metzmacher , Kent Nagano , Yannick Nézet- Séguin , Seiji Ozawa , Donald Runnicles , Pinchas Steinberg , Christian Thielemann and Constantin Trinks together.

Before every performance, the artist prays an Our Father , and there are always two angels on her cloakroom table.

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personal data
SURNAME Merbeth, Ricarda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz