Sorjana Kuschpler

Sorjana Kuschpler ( Ukrainian Зоряна Кушплер , Transl. Zorâna ​​Kušpler , English. Transkr. Zoryana Kushpler ; born in Lviv (Lemberg), Ukraine ) is an opera and concert singer ( mezzo-soprano ). She is the twin sister of the pianist Olena Kuschpler.

biography

education

From the age of five, Kuschpler first learned the piano from her mother, but later switched to the violin. From 1993 she studied singing in the class of her father, Prof. Igor Kuschpler, at the music academy in Lviv and already performed successfully at the opera house there as Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia and as Maddalena in Verdi's Rigoletto .

In 1998 Kuschpler moved to the Hamburg University of Music in the class of Prof. Judith Beckmann and received important artistic impulses in master classes with Teresa Berganza , Renata Scotto and Kurt Moll . Among the numerous awards she has been given is the 1st prize at the renowned ARD music competition in Munich in September 2000.

Engagements

From 2004 to 2006 Kuschpler sang in the ensemble of the Stadttheater Bern , where she a. a. as Sesto ( Giulio Cesare ), Mascha ( Tri Sestry ), Marchesa Melibea ( Il viaggio a Reims ), Suzuki ( Madama Butterfly ) and Preziosilla ( La forza del destino ) .

Since 2007 she has been a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera , where she celebrated great successes as Ulrica ( Un ballo in maschera ), Preziosilla, Fenena ( Nabucco ), Maddalena, Lola ( Cavalleria rusticana ), Smeton ( Anna Bolena ) and Suzuki, Polina ( Pique Dame ) , Olga ( Eugene Onegin ), Sonjetka ( Lady Macbeth of Mzensk ), Giulietta ( Les contes d'Hoffmann ) and Marcellina ( Le nozze di Figaro ), as well as Prince Orlofsky ( The Bat ), Adelaide ( Arabella ), Mary ( The Flying One Holländer ), Magdalena ( Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ), Floßhilde ( Das Rheingold ), Schwertleite ( Die Walküre ) and Erste Norn ( Götterdämmerung ).

In addition, she has been a regular guest at the Vienna Volksoper since 2008 and has performed there as Carmen, Giulietta, Maddalena and Orlofsky.

Guest performances

As early as 2000, Kuschpler performed as a guest at the Estates Theater in Prague , where she embodied the role of Sesto in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito . She also sang Nerone in a concert performance of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea in London's Barbican Hall, Aminta in Mozart's Il re pastore at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and Marcellina on a tour of the Vienna State Opera in Japan.

She appeared as Preziosilla at the Cologne Opera , as Adelaide at the Graz Opera House and as Prince Orlofsky at the Mörbisch Seefestspiele . In 2014 Kuschpler made his debut at London's Royal Albert Hall in a concert performance of Strauss' Elektra and in the concert performance of the opera Die Vier Grobiane by Wolf-Ferrari with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich.

She made her US debut in 2012 in Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen with the Cleveland Orchestra and in 2013 with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra .

Kuschpler has worked extensively with well-known conductors such as Seiji Ozawa , Neville Marriner , Franz Welser-Möst , Christian Thielemann , Semjon Bytschkow , René Jacobs , Simone Young , Marco Armiliato, Alessandro De Marchi , Eiji Ōue or Christoph Eschenbach .

Concerts and song recitals

As a concert singer, Kuschpler is also a popular guest in the important European music centers. A tour with the National Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio took her as part of the clubhouse concerts to the Tonhalle Zurich , the Stadtcasino Basel and the Victoria Hall Geneva. At the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival she appeared in Haydn's Nelson-Messe in 2003, in 2004 in a wildly celebrated concert performance of Dvořák's Rusalka (opera) and in 2006 together with the Petersen Quartet .

The following year, Kuschpler sang the world premiere of Lera Auerbach's 2nd symphony “Requiem for a Poet” with the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover . In summer 2010, the collaboration with the young composer led her to the Verbier Festival .

In 2014 she made her debut at New York's Carnegie Hall as a soloist in Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

Kuschpler has a preference for song singing. Together with her twin sister, the pianist Olena Kuschpler, she gave acclaimed recitals, including at the Rheingau Music Festival and the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival , in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg , in the Konzerthaus Berlin , in Kassel and Recklinghausen, in the Wiener Musikverein and in Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , at which she was awarded the "Walter and Charlotte Hamel Foundation" award in 2010 for outstanding vocal achievements.

As part of an Italian tour with the Petersen Quartet and the pianist Alexander Schmalcz, she could also be heard in Venice, Milan, Florence and Ferrara.

Recordings

Kuschpler took part in numerous television and radio productions. In 1996 she lent her voice to the actress Agnieszka Wagner in the film "La tregua" by the famous Italian director Francesco Rosi . Shostakovich's “Six Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva” with the Petersen Quartet (Capriccio, 2006), Gounod's Faust from the Vienna State Opera (Orfeo International, 2010), “Slavonic Souls” with songs by Russian composers (Capriccio, 2010) and Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen under Christian Thielemann (Deutsche Grammophon, 2013). On DVD or Blu-ray Disc, there are also »Wagner's Nibelungenring for Children« from the Vienna State Opera (2007), Johann Strauss ' Fledermaus from the Mörbisch Seefestspiele (2012) and Richard Strauss' Arabella under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst (Electric Picture & Naxos 2012) available.

Discography

• Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (CD) Choir and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Christian Thielemann (Deutsche Grammophon 2013)
• Strauss: Die Fledermaus (DVD) live from the Mörbisch Seefestspiele (2012)
• Strauss: Arabella (DVD & Blu-ray Disc) live from the Vienna State Opera (Electric Picture, Naxos 2012)
• Slavonic Souls · Slavonic Souls (CD) · Songs by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninow, Rimski-Korsakow & Mussorgski · Sorjana Kuschpler & Olena Kuschpler (Capriccio 2010)
• Gounod: Faust (CD) · live from the Vienna State Opera (Electric Picture, Naxos 2010)
• Wagner's Nibelungenring for Children (DVD) Vienna State Opera (2007)
• Shostakovich & Auerbach (CD) · "Six poems by Marina Zwetajewa" / String quartets · Sorjana Kuschpler & Petersen Quartet (Capriccio 2006)
• La tregua (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (CD) Sorjana Kuschpler & Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra (New Sounds Multimedia 1997)

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1. ↑ Interview with the pianist Olena Kushpler

Web links

• Kuschpler's official website
• Kuschpler on the website of the Vienna State Opera
• Sorjana Kuschpler's appearances at the Vienna State Opera