Angelika Kirchschlager

Angelika Kirchschlager is a respected European mezzo-soprano that has scored several critical successes both on the operatic stage so when a recitalist. She actually is generally thought to be among the best possible interpreters from the operatic functions of Mozart and Richard Strauss. She’s thus sung several main roles within their operas: Dorabella (Così lover tutte), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), as well as the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos). But Kirchschlager offers barely limited herself to functions by these two symbols, having sung to great acclaim Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), and trouser functions like Orlovsky (Die Fledermaus) and contemporary functions like Sophie from Nicholas Maw’s Sophie’s Choice. Kirchschlager offers appeared within the main operatic and concert locations throughout European countries and america, in addition to many in china and taiwan. Much mainly because she likes opera, nevertheless, Kirchschlager offers expressed hook choice for lieder, favoring functions by Schubert, Korngold, Liszt, and a variety of others. She’s appeared on several recordings on many brands, including Sony Classical, EMI, Virgin, EuroArts, Hyperion, among others. Kirchschlager was created in Salzburg, Austria, in 1966. She in the beginning analyzed piano, her 1st advanced training onto it coming in the Salzburg Mozarteum. In 1984 she enrolled in the Vienna Music Academy, where she analyzed tone of voice with renowned baritone Walter Berry along with Gerhard Kahry. Oddly, she also analyzed percussion there for a while. Kirchschlager soon released her profession with appearances on the Graz Opera Home and Wiener Kammeroper. In 1991 she had taken third prize within the Hans Gabor Belvedere Performing Competition kept in Vienna. She became a member of the Vienna Condition Opera in 1993, where she effectively debuted within the function of Cherubino. She shortly began to pull international see. Her first main recordings made an appearance in 1997 when Sony released a disk of lieder by Mahler, Korngold, and Alma Mahler, with Helmut Deutsch on piano. In the first years of the brand new hundred years, Kirchschlager appeared on the spate of main recordings that included two discs of Bach arias on Sony (2002), Le nozze di Figaro on Harmonia Mundi (2004), along with a Dvd and blu-ray entitled Appears like Xmas containing functions by J.S. Bach, Handel, along with other composers on EuroArts (2004). Kirchschlager’s occupied routine for 2007 included looks in Vienna in January performing Idamante from Mozart’s Idomeneo and in London in-may performing Mélisande. In 2011, she performed the name part in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia in the 64th Aldeburgh Event, in addition to at the Theatre an der Wien. She’s received three Echo Klassik honours along with a Grammy Honor for her documenting of Le Nozze di Figaro with René Jacobs.