Susan Roberts

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Susan Roberts (* 1960 , after Kutsch / Riemens * 1958 , in New York City ) is an American opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Roberts studied singing in Boston ; During her training she won various singing competitions. After completing her training, she came to Germany in the early 1980s . She had her first engagement at the United City Theaters in Krefeld and Mönchengladbach . There she sang, among other things, as one of her first roles, Papagena in Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte in 1982 .

From 1982 to 1984 he was permanently engaged at the Wiesbaden State Theater . There she mainly sang roles from the subject of the coloratura soubrette and the lyrical coloratura soprano: 1983 Jungfer Anna Reich in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor , 1983 Ophelia in Hamlet , 1983 Ännchen in Der Freischütz , 1984 Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream , 1984 Fiakermilli in Arabella . From 1984 to 1987 Roberts was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Frankfurt Opera . There she appeared as Blondchen in Mozart's Singspiel Die Entführung aus dem Serail , as Minette in the Frankfurt premiere of the opera The English Cat by Hans Werner Henze and in 1985 as Nannetta in Falstaff . She also took on the role of Minette in The English Cat in the summer of 1987 at the opera's British premiere at the Edinburgh Festival .

In 1984 and 1985 she sang a flower girl at the Bayreuth Festival in Wagner's Parsifal stage festival .

As a blonde, their special brilliancy, she performed at the Cologne Opera , at the Bonn Opera , the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and in the season 1990/1991 at De Nederlaandse Opera in Amsterdam . In 1997 she took on the title role in the opera Lulu at the Stuttgart State Opera . Her other repertoire included: Marzelline in Fidelio , Norina in Don Pasquale , the title role in Agrippina and Claudia in Giulio Cesare .

Roberts was considered a specialist in contemporary opera and modern music. She participated in several world premieres and first performances. In 1988 she sang at the Grand Opéra Paris in the world premiere of the opera Célestine by Maurice Ohana . In 1991 she was a guest at the Scottish Opera in Glasgow in the modern opera Regina by Marc Blitzstein . In December 1991 she sang the role of Thérèse in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in a new production of the opera Les mamelles de Tirésias . In May 1992 she sang the role of Fiorella in a new production of the opera Il turco in Italia at the Lille Opera House . In 1999 she sang Thérèse in Les mamelles de Tirésias with the Orange Park Opera in Orange Park , Florida .

Roberts also performed extensively as a concert singer. She gave concerts in Vienna , Berlin , Turin and Lyon . She sang with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Orchester Philharmonique de Paris and the Düsseldorfer Sinfoniker , among others . In 1983 she sang the world premiere of the monodrama Traumspiel by York Höller in Liège . In 1988 she sang in Seattle in the local premiere of the soprano part in Three Chinese Love Songs for Soprano, Viola and Piano (1988) of in Shanghai -born composer Bright Sheng . In 1996 she made a guest appearance at the Rheingau Music Festival in Eberbach Monastery with Handel's oratorio Der Messias ; a live recording of this performance under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin was later published. She also performed with the Munich Bach Choir .

There are several sound documents by Susan Roberts, including compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Carl Orff . A live recording of the opera Salambo by Josef Matthias Hauer has been released on the Munich classical label Orfeo . At the BBC , a radio recording of the opera Wakula the Blacksmith by Peter Tchaikovsky , in which Roberts sings the role of Oxana, was made under the musical direction of Edward Downes .

In 1985 she appeared in Salzburg as a singer in the TV show One will win .

Roberts is married to the Russian violinist and conductor Dmitri Sitkowetski (* 1954).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susan Roberts International who's who in music and musicians' directory (excerpts from Google Books)
  2. ↑ Dream game (PDF; 67 kB) Boosey & Hawkes
  3. ^ Three Chinese Love Songs for Soprano, Viola and Piano (1988) Schirmer Music Publishers
  4. ↑ The Messiah MusicWEb (UK)
  5. ^ Artists Munich Bach Choir
  6. ↑ JM Hauer: Salambo op. 60 (opera in seven pictures) (review)
  7. ↑ Tchaikovsky: Vakula the Smith ( Memento of the original of April 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. BBC radio @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbc.co.uk
  8. ↑ Dmitry Sitkovetsky ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. INSPIRED MINDS @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / inspiredminds.de
personal data
SURNAME Roberts, Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City