Deborah Polaski

Deborah Polaski ( born May 26, 1949 in Richland Center, Wisconsin ) is an American opera and concert singer (soprano ). It is one of the contemporary dramatic sopranos.

Life

After training in the United States Deborah Polaski went to Europe. Her operatic debut as Senta in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman in Gelsenkirchen. Then she sang in opera houses in Ulm, Karlsruhe, Darmstadt, Hannover and Freiburg. Her repertoire includes mainly dramatic soprano roles such as Wagner's Isolde ( Tristan and Isolde ), Brünnhilde ( Der Ring des Nibelungen ), Kundry and Ortrud ( Lohengrin ) and Strauss ' Ariadne and Elektra, Berlioz ' Didon and Cassandre (Les Troyens ), Berg's Marie ( Wozzeck ) and Janacek's Kostelnicka ( Jenufa ).

International attention she received at the 1988 Bayreuth Festival with the role of Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Daniel Barenboim. In 1991 she sang again Brünnhilde at Bayreuth, 1992 and 1993 were followed by Kundry in Parsifal under Giuseppe Sinopoli on the side of Placido Domingo. Repeatedly she sang the role of Brünnhilde in the new production in 1994 five more years under James Levine.

Deborah Polaski was, inter alia, a guest in Amsterdam, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, ​​at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Berlin State Opera and with the local Philharmonic Orchestra in Bonn, Chicago, MA, Dresden, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Genoa, Hamburg, Copenhagen and Cologne, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Lucerne, Milan, Mannheim, Montreux and Munich, at the New York Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall in Oslo, Paris, Rome, Salzburg, Stuttgart and the Sydney Festival, in Vienna, Tokyo, Yokohama and in Zurich. At the Vienna State Opera, she debuted in 1996 as well as Brünnhilde. These were followed by et al in this house Ariadne, Elektra, Marie, Ortrud and Kundry. For Austrian opera singer, she was appointed in 2003. In addition, Polaski occurs as a song and concert singer.

The title role in "Elektra" forms a focal point in the work of the artist, and they designed the challenging game of, inter alia, with Daniel Barenboim and Semyon Bychkov, with whom she has also played the game.

Discography

AUDIO

  • Brahms songs
  • Wagner "Der Ring des Nibelungen" / Excerpts, " Valkyrie" / snippets " Lohengrin " and " Tristan and Isolde " / Excerpts
  • Viennese Opera Festival 2005 ( gala concert )
  • Wolf-Ferrari " Sly "

DVD

  • Berlioz ' Les Troyens "
  • Wagner " Die Walküre ," " Siegfried ," " Twilight of the Gods " and " Tristan and Isolde "
  • Gala Concert - Vienna State Opera in 2005

VHS

  • Covent Garden Re -Opening Gala
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