Elisabeth Scholl

Elisabeth Scholl (born 1966 in Kiedrich ) is a German soprano with a specialization in the field of Baroque music.

Life

Elisabeth Scholl sang the first girl in the boys' choir of her hometown, at the Kiedricher choir boys. The role of the first boys in Mozart's Magic Flute ( 1982/1983-1987 ) at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden to be reinforced the desire singer. After high school she studied musicology, English and Art History at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and received private singing lessons with Edward Wollitz. She then completed a postgraduate course in early music at the Schola Cantorum with René Jacobs and Richard Levitt and the Opera Studio of the Music Academy in Basel. Since then, she sang with renowned early music ensembles such as the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Concerto Köln, Anima Eterna and Cantus Coelln.

Elisabeth Scholl is the sister of the countertenor Andreas Scholl.

Performances and repertoire

Elisabeth Scholl is in many major European festivals as a soloist invited (Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Lufthansa Festival London, Lucerne Festival, Festival van Vlaanderen, Handel Festival in Halle, Göttingen and Karlsruhe, BBC Proms, etc.) and works with conductors such as René Jacobs, Jos van Immerseel, Frieder Bernius, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Bruno Weil, Nicholas McGegan, Sir Neville Marriner together. Her repertoire and numerous CD recordings of works by Alessandro Grandi to Romanticism reflect their stylistic versatility. In addition to her concert career in the field of early music, she gives recitals and was engaged in several European opera houses with rolls of Handel and Vivaldi to Mozart as a guest.

In the winter semester 2009/2010, she received the reputation as a professor of Baroque singing at the Academy of Music in Nuremberg.

Discography (selection)

  • Reinhard Keiser: Opera Arias and Instrumental Works. With La Ricordanza (DG)
  • Alessandro Scarlatti: Inferno - Cantate drammatiche. With Modo Antiquo ( cpo)
  • Giovanni Battista Ferrandini: Cantate per Passione. With Echo di Danube ( Accent )
  • Johann Christian Bach: Magnificat and Tantum ergo. La Stagione Frankfurt, Dresden Chamber Choir, Michael Schneider
  • George Frideric Handel: Athalia. Elisabeth Scholl ( Athalia ), boy choir and Baroque Orchestra Frankfurt, Joachim C. Martini ( NAXOS )
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Freiburger Barockorchester Rheingau Musik Festival Festival of Flanders Athalia (Handel) Joachim Carlos Martini Integrated Authority File
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