Yvi Jänicke
Yvi Jänicke (* 1959 in Berlin ) is a German opera, concert and lied singer ( mezzo-soprano ) and a university lecturer.
Life
Yvi Jänicke studied singing with Helmut Kretschmar in Detmold after completing school music and piano studies. After taking part in international competitions, in which she won first prize in song at the International Singing Competition in 's-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands), she performed her first engagements at the opera houses in Krefeld and Mönchengladbach and at the Bern City Theater .
From 1994 to 2005 Jänicke was a member of the soloist ensemble of the Hamburg State Opera . In addition to her operatic activities, the mezzo-soprano devotes herself intensively to lieder and oratorio singing; Her concert activities have taken her to Europe, the USA, Canada, Singapore and Japan, to the Lucerne Festival , the Schubertiade Feldkirch Feldkirch, the Bergen Festival , the Lincoln Center Festival in New York and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival .
Yvi Jänicke has worked with the conductors Semyon Bychkov , Dmitrij Kitajenko , David Shallon , Ingo Metzmacher , Miguel Gómez Martínez , Michail Jurowski , Lothar Zagrosek , Jesús López Cobos , Stefan Soltesz , Peter Schreier , Christoph Prick , Gerd Albrecht , Edo de Waart , Peter Gülke , David Shallon and Helmuth Rilling worked together.
Since September 2008 she has been singing professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater .
repertoire
Carmen, Dorabella, Sesto, Cherubino, 3rd lady, Niklaus, Rosina, Countess Geschwitz, Cornelia, Hansel, Lola, Orlovsky, Dryade, Polina, Olga, Maddalena, Inez, Emilia, Flosshilde, Roßweiß.
Recordings
Recordings and CD recordings were made at German radio stations, including five solo CDs with rarely heard songs by Georges Bizet, Robert Volkmann, Carl Loewe, Julius Weismann and Ermanno Wolf Ferrari, as well as Gustav Mahler's Lied von der Erde (conducted by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ), Hans Pfitzner's Der Blumen Rache , JS Bach's St. John Passion and with other oratorical works.
Web links
- Literature by and about Yvi Jänicke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Yvi Jänicke at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Yvi Jänicke agency profile (German and English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jänicke, Yvi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera, concert and lied singer (mezzo-soprano) and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |