Silvana Dussmann

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Silvana Dussmann (* 1957 in Vienna ) is an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).

life and work

Dussmann studied with Rita Streich and Gerhard Kahry . In 1987 she made her debut at the Tyrolean State Theater in Innsbruck. Her career then took her to the Graz Opera House , the Vienna Volksoper , the opera houses in Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Essen, Cologne, Toulouse and Brussels as well as the Vienna State Opera .

Opera

The singer's operatic repertoire is broad and ranges from soubrette roles to lyrical roles and highly dramatic subjects . Her focus is on Mozart , Verdi , Wagner and Strauss , as well as selected operetta roles . At the beginning of her career there were a number of Mozart roles - such as Ilia in Idomeneo , Pamina in the Magic Flute and Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail - as well as Micaëla , Sophie and Musetta . As a result, the voice developed into a somewhat more dramatic subject and she sang Mozart's Figaro Countess , Donna Anna and Vitellia , as well as Agathe im Freischütz , Frau Fluth in Lustige Weibern von Windsor , as well as Violetta in La traviata and Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux .

Today her important operatic roles include Norma , Verdi's Amelia ( Un ballo in maschera ) and Leonore ( Il trovatore ), Strauss' Chrysothemis ( Elektra ), his Empress ( The Woman Without a Shadow ) and Ariadne auf Naxos , the Marietta in Korngold's Die dead city , as well as Wagner's Sieglinde ( Die Walküre ) and the Isolde (in Tristan and Isolde ).

She made her debut at the Salzburg Festival as one of the Three Appearances in Verdi's Macbeth in 1984 and 1985 and returned in 2014 as the lead butcher in the successful production of Rosenkavalier .

operetta

Dussmann was happy to take on the role of the diva in classic Viennese operettas, such as Rosalinde in der Fledermaus , Laura in begging students , Lisa in the land of smiles , Angèle Didier in the Count of Luxembourg or Die Csárdásfürstin .

concert

Dussmann's concert repertoire includes the Requien by Mozart and Verdi , Beethoven's Ninth , Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder and Strauss ' Four Last Songs . The singer has made guest appearances in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bergen, Dublin, Gent, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Lyon, New York, San Diego, São Paulo, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Washington and has worked with well-known conductors, including Bertrand de Billy and Valery Gergiev , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Marek Janowski , Zubin Mehta , Seiji Ozawa , Georges Prêtre , Stefan Soltesz and Christian Thielemann .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Belvedere Competition: Winners . Retrieved July 23, 2015.