Sara Hershkowitz

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Hershkowitz at Gut Holzhausen , 2018

Sara Hershkowitz (born 1980 in Los Angeles ) is an American opera singer ( coloratura soprano ) who made her international career from Germany. She is known for roles in operas by Mozart and Strauss , for example Konstanze , Queen of the Night , Sophie and Zerbinetta , but also for new operas such as György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre .

Life

Hershkowitz was born in Los Angeles to a Jewish family who moved from Israel to California in the 1960s. She graduated with a BA from the Manhattan School of Music , followed by additional studies with Patricia McCaffrey, New York, and Thomas Quasthoff , Berlin. At the age of 23 she went to Germany, which she considered the “center of the opera world”. From 2007 to 2012 she was a soloist at Theater Bremen . Her first roles there were Venus and Gepopo in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre , staged by Tatjana Gürbaca . They took many roles in Mozart operas, the title role in Zaide , Arminda in La Finta Giardiniera , Konstanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio , Donna Anna in Don Giovanni , Madame Herz in The Impresario and the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute , a role , which she sang at the Hamburg State Opera , the National Theater Weimar and the Theater Kiel . Another focus of her repertoire are works by Richard Strauss . In 2010 she appeared in Bremen as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier , the plot of which the director Tobias Kratzer moved to a department store. She sang the demanding coloratura role of Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos with the Nordnorsk Opera og Symfoniorkester, among others .

Hershkowitz took over the title role in Zanaida , a rediscovered opera by Johann Christian Bach . It was performed in 2011 with the Opera Fuoco group at the Leipzig Bach Festival and later (among others) in concert at the Vienna Konzerthaus . In the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss she sang Adele at the Opéra national de Lorraine . In Offenbach's tales of Hoffmann in the Wuppertal Opera House , she embodied all of the poet's four lovers: Olympia, Antonia, Giulietta and Stella.

She also devoted herself to more recent operas, for example as the governess in Britten's The Turn of the Screw in Bremen. She played Ligeti's characters from Le Grand Macabre again for her debut with the Israeli Opera . She performed Ligeti's excerpt from this work, Mysteries of the Macabre , with the Noord Nederlands Orkest at the Lowlands Festival 2017 in the Netherlands in front of 15,000 visitors. When asked to make it provocative, she chose a satirical depiction with echoes of Donald Trump in three costumes, which she changed during the performance, as a clown, baby and Miss America . In the same year she performed the excerpt again in Groningen .

In 2014 she took part in the first recording of Donizetti's scenic cantata Aristeia , with soloists, members of the opera choir of the Bavarian State Opera and the Simon Mayr Choir and Ensemble, directed by Franz Hauk . With the same performers she recorded Simon Mayr's Il sogno di Partenope , a melodrama alegorico .

Hershkowitz sang in concerts such as a passion concert with the NDR choir and the NDR symphony orchestra , directed by Thomas Hengelbrock . It was given in Hamburg and Lübeck in 2014 and contained Fauré's Requiem as its main work . In 2017 she sang songs by Richard Strauss, including excerpts from the Brentano songs, Op. 68, with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie , directed by Vincent de Kort, in concerts in Herford and at the opening of the Voices festival at Gut Holzhausen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Concertonet.com
  2. ↑ a b Hershkowitz Sara . Retrieved September 12, 2018.
  3. ^ A b c Toby Axelrod: This Jewish soprano takes on Trump in absurdist opera piece . In: Jewish Telegraphic Agency , October 16, 2017. Retrieved July 13, 2018. 
  4. ↑ Sara Hershkowitz (English) . In: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra . Retrieved August 2, 2018. 
  5. ↑ a b Passion Concert . March 20, 2014. Accessed August 1, 2018. 
  6. ↑ a b Sara Hershkowitz . In: Stadttheater Gießen . Retrieved July 13, 2018. 
  7. ↑ a b c Benno Schirrmeister: “Nudity is a solution for the lazy” / In Groningen soprano Sara Hershkowitz sings György Ligeti's “Mysteries of the Macabre” in a fatsuit and with a Trump hairpiece . October 20, 2017. Retrieved August 1, 2018. 
  8. ^ Udo Klebes: Bad Urach / Autumn Music Days / Stadthalle Reutlingen: Zaide - concert performance . In: onlinemerker.com , October 16, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2018. 
  9. ↑ a b c d Sara Hershkowitz (English) . In: Naxos . Retrieved July 13, 2018. 
  10. ↑ Reinhold Beßling: “Der Rosenkavalier” in the department store: Tobias Kratzer deals with the commodity opera / Such a beautiful music in his Bremen production . In: Kreiszeitung , September 28, 2010. Retrieved July 13, 2018. 
  11. ↑ Ariadne on Naxos (English) . In: Arctic Philharmonic . Retrieved July 13, 2018. 
  12. ↑ Sara Hershkowitz . In: Wuppertaler Bühnen . Retrieved July 13, 2018. 
  13. ↑ Christoph Zimmermann: Wuppertal: Hoffmann's stories. Premiere . In: onlinemerker.com , September 19, 2016. Retrieved August 1, 2018. 
  14. ↑ Sara Hershkowitz (English) . In: Israeli Opera . Retrieved July 13, 2018. 
  15. ↑ Richard Strauss / Six Songs ( English ) July 6, 2018. Accessed August 1, 2018.
  16. ↑ Philipp Tenta: NWD says goodbye to the summer break with a concert / A new sound experience . In: Neue Westfälische , July 9, 2018. Accessed August 1, 2018. 
  17. ↑ And the silent silence of happiness falls on us . July 7, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2018. 
personal data
SURNAME Hershkowitz, Sara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (coloratura soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles