Ulrike Sunday

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Ulrike Sonntag (* in Grötzingen / Esslingen am Neckar district ) is a German opera , song and concert singer ( soprano ) and professor for singing at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart .

Life

After graduating from high school in Esslingen am Neckar, Ulrike Sonntag first studied school music and German studies in Stuttgart , then singing in Cluj / Romania and at the Berlin University of the Arts with Irmgard Hartmann-Dressler (1924-2013). She took master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Aribert Reimann and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf . In 1983 Ulrike Sonntag won first prize at the Mozart Festival Competition in Würzburg and two years later at the German Music Competition in Bonn. As an opera singer, she made her debut as Oriane in Amadis by Johann Christian Bach during her studies at the Hamburg State Opera in 1983 . Permanent opera engagements in Heidelberg and Mannheim followed.

In 1988 the soprano went to the State Theater in Stuttgart. From 1991 to 1994 she was a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera , where she could be heard and seen as Susanna, Sophie, Zdenka, Marzelline, Musetta, Micaela, Pamina and Donna Elvira. Guest contracts led Ulrike Sonntag to opera houses in Berlin (including Ms. Fluth at the Deutsche Oper), Hamburg (Marzelline, Wildschütz -Baronin), Cologne (Wildschütz), Frankfurt / Main (Musetta, Marzelline, Belinda), Karlsruhe (Marzelline), Monte Carlo (Ännchen), Cairo (Rosina in La vera costanza ), Trieste (Ännchen, Euridice), Cagliari and Tel Aviv (Ännchen).

The artist has been a guest at many classical music festivals and festivals. At the Ludwigsburg Festival in 1988 she sang Ännchen in Der Freischütz ( Loriot staged ) and Pamina in the Magic Flute (staged by Axel Manthey ) in 1992, and Micaela in Carmen at the Open Air Festival in St. Margarethen (Austria) . She has also sung in Salzburg, Vienna, Berlin, Montreux, Schwetzingen and has performed with orchestras and conductors all over Europe, the USA, China, Russia, South America and Japan. She sang Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni at E-Werk Berlin in a production by Katharina Thalbach .

Song singing also plays an important role. Ulrike Sonntag gave recitals a. a. at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, at the NDR Hanover , at the Philharmonie Cologne , at the Ludwigsburg Festival, at the Rheingau Music Festival , with Hermann Prey in Bad Urach, at the Heidelberg Castle Concerts, the Weilburg Castle Concerts, at the Lake Constance Festival at Achberg Castle, at the Traunsteiner Musiktage, at Babenhausen Palace, at the Schubertiade at Ettlingen Palace , at the Ulm Summer Music Days, at the Munich Biennale , in Lyon, Lausanne, Lisbon, Paris, Barcelona, ​​Moscow, St. Petersburg, Montevideo, Asuncion, Cordoba, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk. The soprano sang Paul Hindemith's Life of Mary at the Hindemith Days in Berlin, Frankfurt, Salzburg, Bern, Mannheim, Milan, at the Lake Constance Festival and in Madrid. Her repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music.

Ulrike Sonntag is a sought-after singing teacher. She led master classes in Israel, South America, Switzerland, at the Oberstdorfer Musiksommers, in Paris, Riga, Bucharest, Budapest, Porto, at the European Academy for Music and Performing Arts Palazzo Ricci , Conservatorium Sydney, Akademie Montepulciano, Bach Academy Stuttgart, Conservatorium Sydney , Akademie Yerevan, Delhi, Pune and at the Margreet Honig Summer Academy at Schloss Weinberg. Since the summer semester 2005 she has been professor for singing at the State University for Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart .

Numerous radio, television, recordings and CD recordings round off Ulrike Sonntag's artistic work. Recordings with Helmuth Rilling (Bach: B minor mass , Amadis , cantatas 9 and 29), Hindemith: Das Unaufnahmliche under Lothar Zagrosek , Mignon settings by Schubert, Schumann and Wolf with tacet, songs and chamber music by Darius Milhaud with troubadisc, The plaintive song by Mahler under Wolfgang Gönnenwein and Herbsttag was published by POEMA. DVDs are published by Der Freischütz (Gönnenwein / Loriot), Die Zauberflöte (Gönnenwein, Manthey) and Carmen (St. Margarethen).

Discography (selection)

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata Heart and Mouth and Action and Life, BWV 147 ; Joseph Haydn: Missa in D minor in angustiis Hob. XXII: 11 (Mass in the distress, also: Nelson Mass). Performers: Ulrike Sonntag (soprano), Alison Browner (alto), Adalbert Kraus (tenor), Ernst Gerold Schramm (bass), Collegium Instrumentale Alois Kottmann , Figuralchor des Hessischer Rundfunks , Alois Ickstadt (conductor). Melisma 726, Oestrich-Winkel.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion BWV 245. Performers: Ulrike Sonntag (soprano), Alison Browner (alto), Adalbert Kraus (tenor), Ernst Gerold Schramm (bass), Collegium Instrumentale Alois Kottmann, Alois Kottmann (from left), figural choir of Hessischer Rundfunk, Alois Ickstadt (conductor). Melisma 7058, Oestrich-Winkel.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor BWV 232. Performers: Ulrike Sonntag (soprano), Alison Browner (alto), Adalbert Kraus (tenor), Ernst Gerold Schramm (bass), Collegium Instrumentale Alois Kottmann, Figural Choir of the Hessischer Rundfunk, conductor : Alois Ickstadt. Melisma 7023-2, Oestrich-Winkel.
  • Paul Hindemith (oratorio): Das Unaufnahmliche, Wergo label 1996

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personal data
SURNAME Sunday, Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera, lied and concert singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen am Neckar