Annette Markert

Annette Markert is a mezzo-soprano, especially known on her behalf shows of Baroque and Classical opera. Blessed in the after that East German Rhône Valley area, she studied on the Hochschule für Musik, in Leipzig, among Germany’s most esteemed conservatories. She got her initial professional operatic placement in the close by town of Hallé, house of Georg Frideric Handel, where she specific in the Baroque master’s operas; leading tasks included those in Rinaldo, Floridante, and in his little-known pasticcio, Oreste. While she was at Hallé the town twice granted her the Handel Reward. In 1991, she became a member of the roster from the opera home in Leipzig. There she sang even more standard repertory, like the tasks of Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Dorabella in his Così lover tutte, and Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Evgeny Onegin. Using the reunification of Germany and the finish to politics impediments to journeying outside the previous German Democratic Republic, Markert was right now in a position to sing like a visitor performers in such opera homes as the Movie theater Basle, as well as the Opera Châtelet of Paris as well as the Staatsoper in Berlin. Since finishing her account in the Leipzig Opera in 1996 Markert provides turned more and more to recitals and concert shows. Her concert repertory carries a full selection of great choral functions, like the J.S. Bach Passions, B Small Mass, Xmas Oratorio, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Paulus, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s “Nelson” Mass, Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater, Frank Martin’s Golgotha, Eisler’s Deutsche Sinfonie, and Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Notable performances have got included those in Carnegie Hall in NY with Roger Norrington as well as the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, once again with Norrington on the BBC Proms in London, with Philippe Herreweghe in the Australian Bach Celebration in Melbourne, and with Kurt Masur and the brand new York Philharmonic Orchestra in the Canary Islands Celebration in Tenerife. Various other orchestras and conductors with whom she’s worked consist of Nicolas McGegan, Armin Jordan, Michael Gielen, Helmuth Rilling, Peter Schreier, Lot Koopman, and Kurt Sanderling; the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Orchestre des Champs-Elyséha sido in Paris, the Israel Philharmonic, Music Antiqua Köln, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Orchestre Philharmonic de Radio France, as well as the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. She is constantly on the sing Handel operas. In 1998, she sang the name function of Tolomeo in the Göttingen Handel Celebration and in 2001 Partenope in the same place. At Movie theater Basle she sang Alcina as well as the function of Sesto in Giulio Cesare in Egitto and was planned to come back in 2002 as Caesar. Annette Markert provides documented for Decca, Harmonia Mundi France, and Erato.