Sophie Karthauser

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Sophie Karthauser

Sophie Karthäuser (* 1974 in Malmedy ) is a Belgian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

The contact with music began in her early childhood, her older sisters played the clarinet in the local music club and Sophie wanted to do the same. Since she was still too young, she began taking recorder lessons and from the age of five studied music and later clarinet at the local music academy. In the meantime she was a member of the church choir of her home parish Bellevaux-Ligneuville . At the age of 16 she started singing lessons, which she continued two years later in the class of Greta de Reyghere and Thierry Migliorini at the Liège Conservatory. In 1997 she won the Belgian sponsorship award and was able to specialize in Noelle Barker's class at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London .

She made her debut as an opera singer in the role of Pamina in Mozart's Magic Flute at the Alte Oper Frankfurt . She now sings regularly at the Monnaie Theater in Brussels , where she made her international breakthrough as an opera singer in the role of Papagena (Magic Flute) under the direction of René Jacobs .

In 2013 she gave Ilia in Idomeneo , directed by Stephan Aubé, and Gaëlle Arquez and Richard Croft could be heard in other roles .

In addition to its versatile opera commitments she loves the song singing, but also the historical performance practice, here she appears regularly with renowned ensembles such as the European Baroque Orchestra under Philippe Herreweghe , the Academy of Ancient Music under Roy Goodman , the Capella Augustina under Andreas Spering , with the Les Arts Florissants under William Christie , Les Folies Françoises with Patrick Cohen-Akenine , with La Petite Bande under Sigiswald Kuijken , the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Ensemble Café Zimmermann .

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SURNAME Karthauser, Sophie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian singer, soprano
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmedy