Romy Petrick

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Romy Petrick (born February 7, 1980 in Bautzen , bourgeois Dr. Romy Donath) is a German opera, lied and concert singer with a coloratura soprano voice .

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Romy Petrick studied singing at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden from 1999 until her soloist examination in 2007. She supplemented her studies with Andreas Scholl at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis . She belonged to Olaf Bär's lieder class and also attended master classes with Sylvia Geszty , Margreet Honig and Wolfram Rieger . In addition, she completed a degree in musicology and philosophy at the TU Dresden , which she completed in 2010 with a doctorate on the bourgeois music and theater life of Dresden in the 18th century .

The soprano began her first engagement at the Landesbühnen Sachsen Radebeul in 2005, where she sang roles such as Ännchen ( Der Freischütz ), Norina ( Don Pasquale ), Olympia ( Hoffmann's stories ), Gretel ( Hansel and Gretel ) and Despina ( Così fan tutte ). In 2008 she made her debut at the Saxon State Opera Dresden as Amelia in the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn's La grande magia . From 2009 to 2015 she was part of the permanent ensemble of the Semperoper. Her roles included Blondchen ( Die Entführung aus dem Serail ), Adele ( Die Fledermaus ), Musetta ( La Bohème ), Zerbinetta ( Ariadne auf Naxos ) and Fiakermilli ( Arabella ). In 2012 she sang the role of Hermione in Manfred Trojahn's Orest in the world premiere at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam and in the German premiere in January 2013 at the Hanover State Opera . She has made guest appearances at the Karlsruhe State Theater , the German National Theater Weimar and the Leipzig Opera . In March 2013 she performed Richard Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder with the Korean Symphony Orchestra in Seoul .

She has published several publications on Dresden's music history, including a new biography on the Dresden composer Johann Gottlieb Naumann .

In 2017 her first novel The Abduction of the Prima donna about the first female singer appeared at the Dresden court, Margherita Salicola .

Discography (selection)

  • Songs & chamber music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann. With Liana Bertók (piano), Anett Baumann (violin), Konsonanz 2018.
  • Orestes . Live recording of the world premiere by Manfred Trojahn. Challenge Classic 2013.
  • Dresden songs. With Liana Bertok (piano). 2011.
  • Serbska sinfonika. , Consonance 2009.
  • Cantus Budissinensis, music and texts about the city of Bautzen. With Lutz Hillmann (speaker), Romy Petrick (soprano), Liana Bertók (piano) and others in 2008.

Publications (selection)

  • Bourgeois music and theater life in Dresden in the 18th century . Marburg 2010. ISBN 978-3828826243 .
  • The musical Dresden . Dresden 2012.
  • "I was good?" - The Dresden post-war director Erich Geiger . Marburg 2015. ISBN 978-3828836600 .
  • Johann Gottlieb Naumann. The Dresden Amadeus . Donatus-Verlag 2017. ISBN 978-3946710042 .
  • The kidnapping of the prima donna . Donatus-Verlag 2017. ISBN 978-3946710080 .
  • Gerhard Paulik. Memoirs of a Dresden organist and composer . Donatus-Verlag 2019. ISBN 978-3946710271 .
  • Persian poetry garden. Lyrical impressions of a trip to Iran . Donatus-Verlag 2019. ISBN 978-3946710295 .
  • Seifersdorf in poetry and poetry. Poems and writings for the von Brühl family and the Seifersdorfer Tal 1775–1830 . Donatus-Verlag 2019. ISBN 978-3946710257 .

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  1. ^ Romy Petrick: Dresden's bourgeois music and theater life in the 18th century. Marburg 2011. (also Diss. Dresden 2010)

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personal data
SURNAME Petrick, Romy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donath, Romy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera, lied and concert singer with a coloratura soprano voice
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen