Angelika Kirchschlager

Angelika Kirschschlager (* November 24, 1965 in Salzburg) is an Austrian singer (mezzo- soprano). They can be heard on many opera stages of the world, but also acts as an interpreter of songs and oratorios.

Life and artistic work

Angelika Kirschschlager studied percussion and piano at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1984 she moved to the Vienna Academy of Music, where she studied singing, among other things, Gerhard Kahry and Walter Berry. First engagements have taken her to the Vienna Chamber Opera and - in the final year of her singing studies - at the Graz Opera.

In 1991, she won three placings at the Vienna Belvedere Singing Competition. She became a member of the Vienna State Opera in 1993. With the role of Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro debuts lyric mezzo-soprano.

In 2002 she sang the title role in the premiere of Sophie 's Choice by British composer Nicholas Maw at the Royal Opera House in London. At the Salzburg Festival, she made ​​her debut in 2003 in a new production of The Tales of Hoffmann, and a year later sang Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier. In 2006, she worked at the Salzburg Easter Festival with their manager Sir Simon Rattle, the Melisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande.

Kirschschlager has collaborated with many distinguished conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Bertrand de Billy, Sir Colin Davis, John Eliot Gardiner, Christopher Hogwood, James Levine, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Sanderling, Donald Runnicles, Sir Simon Rattle. She regularly gives recitals and was repeated guest Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. My frequent companion on the piano is Helmut German.

Occurred Kirschschlager is not yet in stores such as La Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Paris Opera, the Opera La Monnaie / De Munt in Brussels, the Vienna and Munich State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the San Francisco Opera, at the Salle Pleyel and the Cité de la Musique in Paris, in Avery Fisher and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Boston Symphony Hall and the Barbican Centre and Wigmore Hall in London.

In June 2007 Angelika Kirschschlager was appointed chamber singer.

Angelika Kirschschlager held a visiting professorship at the Salzburg Mozarteum from 2007 to 2009. Since 2011 she is professor at the university of arts.

In 2013 they undertook together with the German songwriter Konstantin Wecker a tour through Germany and Austria. Also in 2013 released her autobiography, " I invent every day " - recorded for the Amalthea -Verlag Achim Schneyder.

Operatic roles (selection)

• Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro )
• Octavian ( Der Rosenkavalier )
• Composer ( Ariadne auf Naxos)
• Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus)
• Rosina ( Il Barbiere di Siviglia )
• Zerlina ( Don Giovanni)
• Dorabella ( Cosi fan tutte )
• Valenciennes ( The Merry Widow )
• Silla ( Palestrina)
• Lauretta ( Gianni Schicchi )
• Niklausse / Muse ( The Tales of Hoffmann )
• Stéphano ( Romeo & Juliette )
• Peter Pan ( Peter Pan)
• Idamantes ( Idomeneo )
• Melisande ( Pelléas et Mélisande )
• Hansel ( Hansel and Gretel )
• Sophie ( Sophie's choice )
• Ariodante ( Ariodante )
• Muse ( The Tales of Hoffmann )

Discography

• Mahler, Alma Mahler and Korngold, songs - with Helmut German (1997)
• When Night Falls. Lullabies - with Helmut German, Yuri Bashmet, Miguel Llobet, Roger Vignoles, John Williams and Steven Mercurio (1999)
• Berlioz, Huit Scenes de Faust, Op. 1 - Jean -Paul Fouchécourt, Frédéric Caton and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio -France Yutaka Sado (2000)
• Viennese songs from the Kremser albums - with the Philharmonia Schrammeln (2002)
• Bach, Mass in B minor - with Barbara Bonney, John Mark Ainsley, Alistair Miles and the Saito Kinen Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa (2002)
• Hilarious rest. Bach arias - with the Venice Baroque Orchestra (2003)
• Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro - with Véronique Gens, Patrizia Ciofi, Lorenzo Regazzo, Simon Keenlyside and Concerto Köln under René Jacobs ( 2004)
• First Encounter. Duets by Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Mendelssohn- Hensel, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorák - with Barbara Bonney and Malcolm Martineau (2004)
• Women 's lives and loves. Songs and Duets - Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson ( 2006)
• Handel arias from " Ariodante ", " Giulio Cesare " and " Arianna ", with the Basel Chamber Orchestra ( 2006)
• You are my heart. Operetta songs - with Simon Keenlyside and the Musicians' Orchestra of Lower Austria 2007
• Christmas Carols - with Helmut German and the Musicians' Orchestra of Lower Austria (2007)
• Schumann, songs - with Helmut German (2010)
• Mahler, songs - with Helmut German (2010)
• Brahms, songs - with Graham Johnson ( 2010)
• Joseph Marx, songs - with Anthony Spiri (2010)

Videography

• Mozart, Così fan tutte - with Barbara Frittoli, Monica Bacelli, Michael Schade, Bo Skovhus & Alessandro Corbelli - Vienna State Opera 1996 - Riccardo Muti - Directed by Roberto de Simone
• Mozart, Don Giovanni - with Adrianne Pieczonka, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Michael Schade, Carlos Alvarez, Ildebrando d' Arcangelo & Lorenzo Regazzo - Vienna State Opera 1999 - Riccardo Muti - Directed by Roberto de Simone
• Maw, Sophie 's Choice - with Gordon Gietz, Rodney Gilfry & Dale Duesing - Royal Opera House, London 2002 - Sir Simon Rattle - Directed by Trevor Nunn
• Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier - with Adrianne Pieczonka, Miah Persson, Franz basic lift & Franz Hawlata - Salzburg Festival 2004 - Semyon Bychkov - Directed by Robert Carsen
• Handel, Giulio Cesare - Danielle de Niese with Sarah Connolly, Patricia Bardon, Christopher Maltman & - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Glyndebourne Festival 2005 - William Christie
• Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro - with Annette Dasch, Rosemary Joshua, Pietro Luca Pisaroni & Spagnioli - Concerto Köln - Théâtre des Champs- Élysées 2005 - René Jacobs - Directed by Jean -Louis Martinoty
• Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel - with Diana Damrau, Elizabeth Connell, Anja Silja & Sir Thomas Allen - Royal Opera House, London 2008 - Simon Toyne - Directed by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier