Christiane Oelze

Christiane Oelze ( born October 9, 1963 in Cologne ) is a German song, concert and opera singer ( lyric soprano ).

Life

Christiane Oelze studied singing at the Cologne Musikhochschule with Klesie Kelly - Moog, with Erna Berger west in Frankfurt / Main. Master classes with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

Oelze operates worldwide with leading orchestras and conductors, including regularly with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle. She is a soloist at prestigious festivals including the BBC Proms, Glyndebourne, the Salzburg Festival, the Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival, the Lucerne Festival, Tanglewood and Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. Widely acclaimed performances in new productions she showed at major opera houses such as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Hamburg State Opera, Opéra National de Paris.

Oelze especially as an interpreter of Mozart and distinguished himself as well with roles of classical modernism. She is committed by the Nazis as "Degenerate Music " forbidden works of the composer Hanns Eisler, Kurt Weill and Viktor Ullmann. Your special love is the song vocals, with her ​​longtime pianist Eric Schneider and solo pianist Mitsuko Uchida as ( at Carnegie Hall ) and Pierre -Laurent Aimard (including at the Salzburg Mozart Festival and the Aldeburgh Festival).

Recordings she made with the German label Grammophon, Teldec, Capriccio, Berlin Classics and Phoenix.

She taught from 2003 to 2008 as a professor of singing at the Robert -Schumann -Hochschule in Dusseldorf.