Uta Priew
Uta Priew (born August 3, 1944 in Karlsbad ) is a German opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ).
Life
Priew began as a choir player at the Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Theater in Bernburg . She took singing lessons with Wolfgang Rainer and Erna Feierabend at the Georg Friedrich Händel Conservatory in Halle (Saale) and with Maria Croonen at the Leipzig University of Music .
In 1970 she was engaged by opera director Harry Kupfer at the German National Theater Weimar , where she sang in works by Mozart , Giuseppe Verdi , Johann Strauss , Christoph Willibald Gluck , Georges Bizet , Siegfried Matthus and Paul Dessau .
Since 1980 she has been a member of the ensemble of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin with roles like Dorabella, Cherubino, Annius ( La clemenza di Tito ), Idamante, Selika ( Die Afrikanerin ), Amneris, Cenerentola, Carmen, Jeanne in the opera Die Teufel von Loudun , Marie in Wozzeck , Klytämnestra, Herodias, Küsterin, Ortrud, Venus, Brangäne, Fricka, Waltraute and Kundry.
In 1984 she was appointed chamber singer . From 1988 to 2006 she was a permanent guest at the Bayreuth Festival with roles such as Kundry, Ortrud, Venus, Waltraute. From 1991 to 1996 she was a frequent guest at the Vienna State Opera in roles such as Kundry, Ortrud, Venus, Waltraute, Fricka and Brangäne.
Guest performances and concerts have also taken place in Munich, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Paris, Milan, Copenhagen, Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Moscow, Tel Aviv, Nice, Monte Carlo and Seville with conductors such as Claudio Abbado , Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez , Christoph von Dohnányi , Heinrich Hollreiser , James Levine , Kent Nagano , Peter Schneider , Giuseppe Sinopoli , Horst Stein , Otmar Suitner , Marek Janowski .
Priew worked with directors such as Ruth Berghaus , Dieter Dorn , Adolf Dresen , Erhard Fischer , Claus Guth , Pet Halmen , Harry Kupfer and Peter Mussbach . From 1983 to 1992, as the successor to Anny Schlemm , she played the Boulotte in Walter Felsenstein's Ritter Blaubart in 94 performances at the Komische Oper Berlin .
There were also countless appearances as a concert, oratorio and song interpreter with works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Georg Friedrich Händel , Ludwig van Beethoven , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski , Johannes Brahms , Franz Schubert , Robert Schumann , Hanns Eisler , Ottorino Respighi , Arnold Schönberg and Gustav Mahler .
Priew gave master classes in Beijing and St. Petersburg. She has been a lecturer at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin since 2000 , and has been an honorary professor there since 2007.
Records
- Rheingold , Valkyrie , Götterdämmerung .
Video recording
- Brangäne in Tristan and Isolde 1995
- Third Norne Götterdämmerung 1992
literature
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. Munich 2003. Volume 5: Menni – Rappold, p. 3769. ISBN 3-598-11598-9
- Horst Seeger : Opernlexikon , Berlin 1988, p. 528. ISBN 3-7959-0271-1
Web links
- Sound carrier by Uta Priew in the catalog of the German National Library
- Uta Priew - Bayreuth Festival
- Uta Priew - Portrait at the Berlin University of Music
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Priew, Uta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera and concert singer (mezzo-soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carlsbad |