Cheryl Studer

Cheryl Studer ( born October 24, 1955 in Midland, Michigan) is an American opera singer. Your voice is the soprano.

Life and work

Cheryl Studer studied at the Tanglewood Music Center, Tanglewood, and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Hans Hotter. After first appearances in Darmstadt, at the Bavarian State Opera and the German Opera Berlin, she celebrated in 1985 her debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Elisabeth ( Tannhäuser ), where she has since also as Elsa, Senta and Sieglinde ( in 2000) to was heard. At the Salzburg Festival she sang the CHRYSOTHEMIS ( Elektra ), the Empress ( The Woman without a Shadow ), the Marschallin ( Der Rosenkavalier ), Elettra in Idomeneo and Leonore ( Fidelio ). With over eighty roles she a guest at major opera houses of Europe and the USA, as at La Scala, the Opéra National de Paris, the Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Hamburg State Opera. Roles at the Bavarian State Opera have included Violetta Valéry (La traviata ), Aida, Rosalinde ( Die Fledermaus ), CHRYSOTHEMIS ( Elektra ), Marschallin ( Der Rosenkavalier ) and Ariadne ( Ariadne auf Naxos). Throughout her international career numerous important recordings, such as Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio under Bruno Weil and Richard Strauss' Salome under Giuseppe Sinopoli emerged.

Since 2003, Cheryl Studer has been a professor of voice at the University of Music Würzburg.

Repertoire (selection)

  • Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio ( Leonore )
  • Missa Solemnis ( soprano part )
  • Charles Gounod Faust ( Marguerite )
  • Roméo et Juliette (Juliette )
  • Georg Friedrich Händel The Messiah (soprano II)
  • Leos Janacek Katya Kabanowa
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni ( Donna Anna )
  • The Abduction from the Seraglio ( Konstanze )
  • The Magic Flute ( Queen of the Night )
  • The Magic Flute ( Pamina )
  • Idomeneo ( Elettra )
  • Le nozze di Figaro ( Countess )
  • Gioacchino Rossini Il viaggio a Reims ( Madama Cortese )
  • Guglielmo Tell ( Mathilde )
  • Semiramide ( Semiramide )
  • Robert Schumann Genoveva
  • Ariadne auf Naxos ( Ariadne )
  • Capriccio ( Countess )
  • Daphne (Daphne)
  • The Egyptian Helen ( Aitra )
  • Elektra ( CHRYSOTHEMIS )
  • Die Frau ohne Schatten ( Empress )
  • Der Rosenkavalier ( Marschallin )
  • Salome ( Salome )
  • Four Last Songs (soprano )
  • ' Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin ( Tatjana )
  • Giuseppe Verdi Aida ( Aida )
  • Attila ( Odabella )
  • Il Trovatore (Leonora )
  • I vespri siciliani (Elena )
  • La Traviata ( Violetta )
  • Otello ( Desdemona )
  • Rigoletto ( Gilda )
  • Messa da Requiem ( Soprano Part)
  • Richard Wagner The Flying Dutchman ( Senta )
  • The fairies ( Drolla )
  • The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Eva )
  • The Valkyrie ( Brunnhilde )
  • The Valkyrie ( Sieglinde )
  • The Valkyrie ( Helmwige )
  • The Valkyrie ( Ortlinde )
  • Twilight of the Gods ( Gutrune )
  • Lohengrin ( Elsa)
  • Parsifal ( Kundry )
  • Rienzi ( Irene )
  • Tannhäuser (Elisabeth )
  • Tristan and Isolde ( Isolde )
  • Wesendonck - Lieder ( soprano)
  • Alexander Zemlinsky The Birthday of the Infanta ( maid )
  • Carl Maria von Weber Euryanthe ( Euryanthe )
  • Der Freischütz ( Agathe )
  • Soprano
  • Coloratura soprano
  • Opera singer
  • University teachers ( University of Music Würzburg )
  • American musician
  • Born in 1955
  • Woman
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