Anja Harteros
Chamber singer Anja Harteros ( Greek: Χάρτερος, pronounced Chárteros, born July 23, 1972 in Mountain Neustadt ) is a German soprano with great stylistic diversity of character and.
Life
Anja Harteros grew up in Bergneustadt the daughter of a Greek father and a German mother, she has a sister ( Alexia ) and a brother (Georgios ). Even in her youth, she was brought by her parents to classical music and the singing. Finally, her music teacher, August Wilhelm Welp discovered on Wüllenweber High School in Mountain Neustadt her great talent and advised her to a professional training her voice. 1986, at the age of 14, she began her vocal training in addition to the school at Astrid Huber- Aulmann in Gummersbach.
Your first appearances she had at Institute concerts and at a school performance as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro 1990 at Wüllenweber High School, 1992, she was a first gig at the Cantonal School of Schwyz in Switzerland. From 1990, she was looked after for many years by the conductor and solo coach of the Cologne Opera Wolfgang Kastorp with regard to the musical interpretation of the developed lots. Kastorp accompanied also at various concerts on the piano.
After graduation in 1991, she studied singing with Liselotte Hammes at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. Your singing teacher Astrid Huber- Aulmann She also served during their studies until their final examination in the spring of 1996. During his study found in 1993 and 1994 further concert tours with Astrid Huber- Aulmann to Russia and the United States held, to which the singer a lot of attention found. Even before her graduation, she was hired as a permanent member of the Schiller Theater Gelsenkirchen and Wuppertal. After her graduation in 1996 she was a member of the ensemble at the Bonn Opera.
In summer 1999, she won the competition Cardiff Singer of the World the BBC and the Welsh National Opera, which earned her many invitations to concerts and guest performances and was the breakthrough for her career. There she met Sir Peter Jonas know they shortly afterwards called to Munich, where she has since been particularly frequent guest, as in many other prestigious opera houses in the world. Its effect places included the operas of Frankfurt, Lyon, Amsterdam, Dresden, Paris, Zurich, Hamburg ( Staatsoper ) Vienna (State Opera ), New York (Metropolitan Opera), Munich (State Opera ), Milan ( La Scala ) and Berlin ( German Opera and the State Opera ) and the Salzburg Festival. In addition, she gave concerts and recitals in many cities of Germany and from abroad (Boston, Florence, London, Edinburgh, Vicenza, Tel Aviv, etc.)
As part of the Munich Opera Festival 2005, she sang the title role in a new production of Handel's Alcina (also called CD edition ), where she sang the role of Elsa in Lohengrin at the Festival in 2009. In January 2010, she sang with great success Mimì in La Bohème at the Cologne Opera. In June 2011, she had her debut as Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at the Bavarian State Opera.
Her repertoire also includes roles such as Elettra ( Idomeneo ), Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro ), Donna Anna ( Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi ( Così fan tutte ), Elisabeth ( Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg ), Eva ( Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ), Leonora ( Il Trovatore ), Violetta Valéry (La Traviata ), Amelia (Simon Boccanegra ), Elisabeth of Valois ( Don Carlos ), Desdemona ( Otello ) and Alice Ford ( Falstaff ), Micaela ( Carmen ) and the title role in Arabella.
Awards
- Appointment Kammersängerin the Bavarian State Opera in Munich 2007
- Opera world singer of the year 2009 of the journal
- Cologne Opera Prize 2010