Deborah Voigt

Deborah Voigt is a respected dramatic soprano, particularly noted for singing Germanic repertory. The fresh power and beauty of her tone of voice, coupled with unusually great musicianship and interpretive genius, possess made her perhaps one of the most sought-after performers from the 1990s and 2000s. Voigt acquired little connection with traditional music developing up. She was generally musical, however, even though attending the School of California, Fullerton, she appreciated singing with electric guitar for elementary college children (she phone calls this her “Julie Andrews/Sound of Music stage”). After graduation she was recognized into the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Opera’s young musician plan, where she received intense coaching and little assignments. From that knowledge, Voigt started carving out a good young career, as well as the magnitude of her abilities shortly became evident: even though she was performing a small function in Richard Strauss’ Elektra on the Theater de la Monnaie in Brussels in 1987, an helper conductor forecasted that “someday [she would] make an excellent Chrysothemis,” discussing the major function of Elektra’s sister, which includes since become among Voigt’s signatures. Another year she obtained international popularity as the champion from the Luciano Pavarotti Tone of voice Competition; in 1990 she earned the Yellow metal Medal on the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow; and in 1992 she earned the Richard Tucker Prize, which gives a generous prize each year for an American musician showing exceptional guarantee for a superb career. Starring simply because Ariadne in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos using the Boston Lyric Opera became Voigt’s discovery efficiency. She repeated the function in her debuts in Munich and Vienna, and afterwards that season she debuted at New York’s Metropolitan Opera Home as Amelia in Verdi’s El ballo in maschera. In 1992 the prediction of this helper conductor in Belgium emerged accurate when she sang Chrysothemis within a ensemble that included Hildegard Behrens and Leonie Rysanek and was executed by Adam Levine. She quickly became named perhaps one of the most effective dramatic voices in the globe. David Patrick Stearns had written in USA Today in August 1996, “There comes a spot inside a Deborah Voigt opera overall performance, by the end of a hard aria, when you imagine she has provided her all. Abruptly, the voice strikes overdrive — and a complete new degree of vocal power. Viewers go outrageous.” Voigt continues to be most closely from the functions of Strauss (Chrysothemis, Ariadne, the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten, The Egyptian Helen) and Verdi (Female Macbeth, Amelia, Aida, Leonora in La forza del destino). But afterwards in the 1990s she started branching out into Wagnerian jobs (Senta, Elsa, Sieglinde, Elisabeth). She actually is also well-known for the component of Cassandra in Berlioz’s Les Troyens, Mathilde in Rossini’s William Inform and Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio. Her concert hall repertory contains Schoenberg’s Guerrelieder, Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony, the Verdi Requiem, Mahler’s Klagende Lied and Second and 8th Symphonies, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, and Strauss’ Four Last Tracks. The first 2000s brought Voigt’s profession to a fresh level. In 2003 she sang the valued function of Isolde in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde on the Vienna Condition Opera and was compensated using a 23-minute ovation in the production’s premiere on, may 25. She sang four functions in the Met in NY in the 2003-2004 time of year and also produced her Carnegie Hall recital debut in Apr 2004, with Wayne Levine associated her. (She’s also been recognized to commandeer the key pad herself sometimes.) She was called 2003 Vocalist of the entire year by Musical America. Voigt performed Brünnhilde in Robert Lepage’s staging of the entire Ring Cycle in the Met in 2011 and 2012. She continues to be among the world’s most energetic and critically acclaimed sopranos.