Nina Stemme

Nina Maria Stemme ( born May 11, 1963 in Stockholm as Nina Maria Thöldte ) is a Swedish opera singer in the vocal category Dramatic soprano.

Training

Stemme played in their youth, piano and viola. She attended the Adolf Fredrik 's Music School ( Adolf Fredrik Music Klasser ) in Stockholm. During a year abroad as an exchange student at Langley High School in McLean, Virginia, she was a member of the school choir, sang solos and won prizes.

In addition to her studies in business administration and economics at Stockholm University, she took a two year course at the Opera Studio of Stockholm. After her operatic debut as Cherubino at the Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy 1989 Stemme decided to pursue a professional singing career. Your studies at the University College of Opera Stockholm, she graduated from in 1994. Smaller roles at the Royal Opera in Stockholm followed.

She took part in the competition Cardiff Singer of the World and won the 1993 founded by Plácido Domingo singing competition Operalia. Then she was invited by Domingo to sing with him in a concert at the Opéra Bastille. This concert was repeated on 1 January 1994 in Munich.

Career

Since her debut as Cherubino in Cortona Stemme has occurred at all major opera houses of the world, La Scala in Milan, the Semper Opera House in Dresden, at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, at the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the San Francisco Opera, at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the Bregenz Festival.

Their roles cover a wide spectrum - from the serene Rosalind, Agathe and the Figaro Countess, about the tragic Puccini heroines Mimì, Cio-Cio San, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, Suor Angelica and last Turandot, Gluck's Euridice, Beethoven's Fidelio, Marie Berg, Janáček's Jenufa, Strauss' Marschallin, Verdi's Amelia, Leonora and Aida to various Wagnerian roles: Eva, Elisabeth, Senta, Elsa, Sieglinde, the three Brünnhildes and Isolde.

2002 debuted Nina Stemma with extraordinary success at the Salzburg Festival, as Alexander von Zemlinsky in Nyssia rarely performed opera The King Candaules. In 2003 she sang at the Glyndebourne Festival for the first time and Isolde was again violently acclaimed by public and press. In December 2003, she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera as Senta, a role that she played in 2010 a total of 25 times there. Since then she has the house closely connected to the ring, sang 15 times the Leonore de Vargas in La forza del destino, each 12 times the Sieglinde and Siegfried - Brünnhilde, 5 times the Minnie in La Fanciulla del West, each 4 times Tosca and Isolde, 3 times in Feldmarschallin and Ariadne auf Naxos, and once each Brünnhilde in Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung.

On 24 March 2006, the artist Maria sang at the Royal Opera in Stockholm in the premiere of Sven- David Sandström's Ordet - en passion. In the same year she made her debut as Aida a new production at the Zurich Opera. In 2008 she jumped for Deborah Voigt as Brünnhilde in Siegfried at the Vienna State Opera. All three Brünnhilde sang, 2011 in San Francisco and in 2013 at the Vienna State Opera, as well as a concert at the London Proms under Daniel Barenboim.

For 2015, another premiere is planned, Stemme will raise the GöteborgsOperan a new opera by Hans Gefors to a libretto by Kerstin Perski from the baptism. Staging is Keith Warner. The opera is based on Alfred Hitchcock's spy thriller Notorious from the year 1946. The cast also includes Katarina Karnéus, John Lundgren and Michael Weinius.

Isolde

Isolde was the signature role of the artist since the Glyndebourne debut in 2003. She sang the same role at the Bayreuth Festival in 2005 and 2006, returned to her 2007 return to Glyndebourne, she embodied at the Royal Opera in Stockholm and Zurich Opera House (2008 ) at the Royal Opera House in London (2009), at the Munich Opera Festival (2011), a concert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris (2012), in turn, scenic 2013 at the Houston Grand Opera, and finally at the Vienna State Opera. Applause and criticism were everywhere exuberant, here is an example:

"It is to report to the inclined, regular and prospective opera audience of an event. This has a name and is Nina Stemme. [ ... ] Stemmes soprano is enormous and most dramatically, the next moment, but capable of the finest lyricism. Your high notes are precise and powerful, but never shrill. In the middle and lower elevations her voice captivates with a downright classy, warm timbre. One hat as a listener never feel that she has to go to the limit -. Although they do the course in this game "

Three CDs are devoted to her Isolde. The first is 2005, EMI Classics released - with Plácido Domingo, Mihoko Fujimura, René Pape, Olaf Bär, Jared Holt, Rolando Villazón, Ian Bostridge, Matthew Rose, as well as choir and orchestra of the Royal Opera House under the direction of Antonio Pappano. The second is a DVD of the Glyndebourne production of Nikolaus Lehnhoff from the year 2007. Moreover, there is a live recording from 2012, with the Rundfunk- Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Marek Janowski.

Wesendonck Lieder

Unique can also claim the artist as an interpreter of Wagner's Wesendonck -Lieder, at least since 2010, when she sang this at the Salzburg Festival in the House for Mozart with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Thomas Dausgaard. Two years later, she returned with this song cycle returned to Salzburg, this time in the Grosses Festspielhaus with the Vienna Philharmonic under Mariss Jansons. Both concerts were released on recordings. There is furthermore a third recording ( Phaedra ), this time as a piano version with Jozef De Beenhouwer as a companion.

Personal

Stemme speaks five languages. She is married to the set designer Bengt Gomer and has three children. The family lives in Stockholm

Assessment of the criticism

Stemme is considered one of the greatest Wagnerian sopranos of her time. The Evening Standard describes her Isolde as "The thrilling triumph " of the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and The New York Times stated on the occasion of her Brünnhilde in San Francisco: " Nina Stemme sang gloriously It's hard to recall anyone 's sounding more commanding or at ease in the part. , and did includes Kirsten Flagstad ".

Awards

Repertoire

Stemmes repertoire includes the following roles:

Discography (selection)

Complete opera recordings

Isolde in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. (3 CD 1 DVD). EMI 7243 5 58006 2 6
Isolde in Tristan und Isolde. Glyndebourne Festival. Jiri Belohlavek Dir. Opus Arte OA 0988 D DVD
Leonore in Fidelio. Dir Claudio Abbado. Salzburg Festival. Decca 478 2551 (box), ( 478 in 2552, 478 in 2553 )
Title role in Jenufa. Gov. Peter Schneider. Live from the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 2005. DVD. Naxos
Senta in The Flying Dutchman. Gov. David Parry. Chandos 3119 (2 CD). ( Opera in English)
Title role in Aida. Zurich Opera. Gov. Ádám Fischer. DVD. BelAir Classics
Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. Choir and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera. Nina Stemme, with Malin Hartelius. Gov. Franz Welser -Möst. EMI. DVD
Leonora in La forza del destino. Choir and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, dir. Zubin Mehta. Unitel classics ( PROFILE 708 108 ). DVD.
Victoria and She / soprano in Ingvar Lidholm: Ett drömspel (after Strindberg's Dream Play ), with Håkan Hagegård. Caprice CAP 22029:1-2. (2 CD)
Isolde in Tristan und Isolde. Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, live March 27, 2012. Gov. Marek Janowski. PentatoneClassics PTC 5,186,404th
Elisabeth in Tannhäuser. Dir Marek Janowski. PentatoneClassics PTC 5186405
Minnie in La Fanciulla del West. DVD. Gov. Pier Giorgio Morandi. Royal Opera in Stockholm. Unitel Classica euro Arts
Brünnhilde in Die Walküre. With Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Kampe, René Pape. Mariinsky Orchestra, cond Valery Gergiev. MARO527
Sieglinde in Die Walküre. Gov. Franz Welser -Möst. Vienna State Opera 2 December 2007. Orfeo C875 131B

Songs, concerts, excerpts

Strauss, Richard: Four Last Songs, final scenes from Salome and Capriccio. EMI Classics 0946 3 78797 2 6
Mortelmans, Lodewijk: Concert aria Mignon ( Do you know the country). Zsolt Hamar, conductor; Flemish Radio Orchestra. In Flanders ' Fields, vol. 33 Phaedra 92033
The First Operalia Competition - Gala Concert. Gov. Eugene Kohn. Sony classical 01-046691-10
Wagner, Richard: Wesendonck -Lieder. Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Gov. Thomas Dausgaard. UNTIL 2022
Wesendonck -Lieder; Nyströms songs by the sea; De Boeck Seven French songs. Jozef De Beenhouwer, piano. In Flanders ' Fields, vol. 40th Phaedra 92040
Wesendonck Lieder. Salzburg Festival, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons you. DVD Euro Arts.

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