Simone Schröder

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Simone Schröder (born 1964 in Altdöbern ) is a German opera singer with an alto voice .

life and work

Simone Schröder completed her vocal training at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and with professors Elsbeth Plehn in Dresden and Irmgard Hartmann-Dressler in Berlin. She was a prizewinner in singing competitions and already sang during her studies from 1992 the 3rd noble boy in Tannhäuser and from 1996 one of Klingsor's magic girls in Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival . In the 1997/98 season she made her debut at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin as a page in the Salome - under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim . Since then she has been associated with the State Opera as a guest singer, where she has taken on numerous Wagner roles as well as roles in works by Mozart, Verdi and Puccini.

Since her first roles at the Green Hill , the singer has been a regular guest at the Bayreuth Festival . She took on a number of roles in all four parts of the Ring des Nibelungen and in Parsifal . In the ring she was one of the Rhine daughters and sang two Valkyries, the First Norn and - from 2002 to 2004 - Erda in Rheingold and Siegfried . She took over the voice from above in a total of three Bayreuth productions of Parsifal - from 1999 in the existing production by Wolfgang Wagner , in 2004 newly staged by Christoph Schlingensief and conducted by Pierre Boulez , in 2008 again newly staged by Stefan Herheim and conducted by Daniele Gatti . In addition, she was engaged as a cover several times in Bayreuth, most recently for the role of Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde .

Further engagements led Simone Schröder to the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, to the Washington National Opera , the Semperoper in Dresden and the Leipzig Opera , to the Deutsche Oper Berlin , to Japan, Singapore and Denmark as well as to the music festival of the Canary Islands. The conductor Dan Ettinger hired her as Erda for his ring cycle at the New National Theater Tokyo (2008/09) and for Das Rheingold at the National Theater Mannheim (2011/12). In winter 2012/13 she successfully made her role debut as Fricka in the Ring des Nibelungen at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires - under the baton of Roberto Paternostro . In April 2013 she took on the role of Mary in Wagner's Fliegendem Holländer at the State Opera in the Schiller Theater under the musical direction of Daniel Harding . This was the Berlin re-production of the successful Basel new production by Philipp Stölzl from 2009. In June 2014 the singer appeared again in Dresden as Wigelis in Feuersnot by Ernst von Wolzüge and Richard Strauss under Stefan Klingele .

Schröder has worked with a number of other well-known conductors - including Michael Boder , Ivor Bolton , Christoph Eschenbach , Ádám Fischer , Michael Gielen , Fabio Luisi , Kent Nagano and Giuseppe Sinopoli as well as in Bayreuth, Dresden and at the Berlin Philharmonic with Christian Thielemann .

In the concert hall, the singer is regularly active as a soloist in large choral orchestral works and in concert operas. Her repertoire ranges from the oratorios of Bach on the Messa da Requiem by Verdi up to the central works of the early 20th century.

Schröder has been professor for singing at the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences in Cottbus since 2001 .

Essential roles

Mozart :

Puccini :

Richard Strauss :

Tchaikovsky :

 

Verdi :

Wagner :

Recordings

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minister appointed professors at the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Simone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer with an alto voice
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Altdöbern