Dorothea Röschmann

Dorothea Röschmann (born 17 June 1967) is a German soprano. She is famous for her performances in operas by Mozart as well as Lieder.

Early and personal life

Röschmann was born in Flensburg. She studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, under Barbara Schlick at the Akademie für Alte Musik in Bremen, and subsequently in Los Angeles, New York, Tel Aviv, and under Vera Rózsa in London. She has been working as a Lieder and concert singer, both in Germany and abroad, since 1986.

She is married to Thalia Theater actor Christoph Bantzer. They live together in Hamburg with their daughter Clara, who was born in 2005.[1]

Career

From 1994 to 2000, she was a member of the ensemble at the Berlin State Opera, where she still performs often and had great success in roles such as Micaëla in Carmen, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Ännchen in Der Freischütz. She gained international recognition in 1995 with her debut at the Salzburg Festival, where she sang Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and staged by Luc Bondy.

She debuted in the role of Contessa d'Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro at the Ravinia Festival in 2004.[2] In 2006 she appeared as the role at the Royal Opera House (director: David McVicar; conductor: Antonio Pappano) and the Salzburg Festival (again with Harnoncourt conducting, and staged by Claus Guth). She also sang it at La Scala in Milan in March 2012.

As a concert singer she took part in the project of Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir to record the complete vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach.

On 10 September 2011, she took part in the performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, in a New York Philharmonic concert at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. The free concert, presented to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York City, was conducted by Alan Gilbert and telecast on PBS on that anniversary.[3]

She debuted the role of Desdemona in Verdi's Otello in March 2016 at the Salzburg Easter Festival under Christian Thielemann.[4][5]

Discography

Awards and honours

Sources
  1. Mischke, Joachim (2006-05-27). "Ich war nie eine Jetset-Sängerin". Hamburger Abendblatt. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  2. von Rhein, John (2004-06-13). "'Marriage of Figaro' a nod to a golden age at Ravinia". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  3. "A Concert for New York". pbs.org. 2011-09-10. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  4. "Finsternis der Herzen" [Darkness of Hearts]. Wiener Zeitung (in German). 21 March 2016.
  5. Arnold, Christine (21 March 2016). "Salzburger Osterfestspiele starten mit minimalistischem Otello" [Salzburg Easter Festival starts with minimalist Otello]. Bachtrack (in German).
  6. Echo Klassik Deutscher Musikpreis Archived October 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  7. "Dorothea Röschmann wird "Berliner Kammersängerin"". Berlin.de (in German). 17 May 2016.
  8. "Grammy Awards 2017: The Full List Of Winners". NPR. 2017-02-12. Retrieved 2017-02-12.

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