Iris Vermillion

This noted mezzo soprano first began as students from the flute in Detmold and used the analysis of voice in Hamburg with Judith Beckmann and attended master classes with Christa Ludwig and Hermann Victim. In 1986, Iris Vermillion received the first reward in the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang (German Track Competition) kept in Berlin. She was after that engaged in the Staatstheater Braunschweig for just two years, where she sang the functions of Sesto in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, Dorabella in Mozart’s Così lover tutte, Octavian in Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, and Charlotte in Massenet’s Werther. In 1988, she made an appearance in the Deutsche Oper Berlin where she produced the functions of Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Muse and Niklaus in Offenbach’s The Stories of Hoffman, as well as the name part in Graun’s Montezuma, and experienced particular successes performing in Handel’s Semele and in a concert demonstration from the Berlioz opera Romeo et Juliette in Paris. She’s been a often requested visitor at the fantastic opera houses from the globe and spent some time working with such significant conductors as Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, Claudio Abbado, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Riccardo Chailly, and René Jacobs.