Nathalie Stutzmann
Nathalie Stutzmann (born May 6, 1965 in Suresnes ) is a French opera singer ( alto ) and conductor . Her dark and sonorous voice has been described as "bittersweet".
Life
Stutzmann first studied piano , bassoon , chamber music and conducting. She received her first singing lessons from her mother, the soprano Christiane Stutzmann . The daughter initially had to overcome her disappointment with her “far too deep” voice. Later she studied at the Conservatory of Nantes, from 1983 to 1987 with Michel Sénéchal and Lou Bruder and finally singing with Hans Hotter at the Opera School of the Paris Opera .
She made her debut in 1985 in the Salle Pleyel in Paris with Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat and soon appeared in Paris, Munich, Berlin, Barcelona, Lisbon, Zurich, Moscow, Brussels, Amsterdam and other cities, where she was among others. a. worked under Seiji Ozawa , Manuel Rosenthal , Claudio Scimone , Enoch zu Guttenberg , Mstislav Rostropowitsch , Michel Plasson , Colin Davis and Alain Lombard . In 1987 she won the first edition of the Bertelsmann Stiftung's New Voices International Singing Competition .
As a concert singer she has appeared with the Concertgebouw Orchestra , the London Symphony Orchestra , the Orchester de Paris , the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra , the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra . She sang in Beethoven's Missa solemnis , performed with Brahms ' alto rhapsody and as a soloist in Mahler's symphonies and the Lied von der Erde .
On the opera stage sang Stutzmann the title role in Handel's Giulio Cesare and Radamisto , the Disinganno in Il Trionfo del Tempo and Amastre in Xerxes by the same composer, the Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and Erda in Wagner's Rheingold .
As a lieder singer, Stutzmann has been working primarily with the Swedish pianist Inger Södergren since 1994 . The focus of her repertoire is on the songs of French and German composers such as Ernest Chausson , Gabriel Fauré , Francis Poulenc and Robert Schumann . In 2004 a recording of Schubert's Winterreise was released .
Her discography includes more than 75 titles, including works by Bach and Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms through to Shostakovich , Prokofiev and Honegger . Your recordings received u. a. the German Record Critics' Prize , the Diapason d'or , the Japan Record Academy Award and a Grammy . Stutzmann gives master classes worldwide .
In 2009 she founded her own chamber orchestra Orfeo 55 , which plays both modern and historical instruments.
Web links
- Nathalie Stutzmann Homepage
- Nathalie Stutzmann at bach-cantatas.com (English)
- Nathalie Stutzmann at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ She likes to make fun of the fact that gastronomic comparisons are so often sought to describe her voice, writes Welt online (May 11, 2000, accessed May 2012). “But those about good food, she insists. Therefore: a voice in dark chocolate, infallibly recognizable through those gold leaf fragments that we know from fine chocolates. A full-toned mocha organ, dark as the night and bittersweet, oh yes, like unrequited love. "
- ↑ Orfeo 55 - Nathalie Stutzmann. Les Concerts Parisiens, archived from the original on February 24, 2011 ; accessed on February 21, 2020 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stutzmann, Nathalie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French opera singer (alto) and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Suresnes |