Andión Fernández is a Spanish Filipina operatic

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

, born in Manila. A soloist of the Deutsche Oper Berlin since 2001, she graduated with honors from the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, and has studied voice with

Karan Armstrong Karan Armstrong (December 14, 1941 – September 28, 2021) was an American operatic soprano, who was celebrated as a singing actress. After winning the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1966, she was given small roles at the Metro ...

and Ira Hartmann, and contemporary music with Aribert Reimann. She is a prizewinner of

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( Plácido Domingo World Opera Contest, Hamburg) and the

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. The major international opera houses she has sung in include the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, the Nuremberg Opera, the Gulbenkian Auditorium in Lisbon, the Festwochen Herrenhausen in Hannover, the Schloß Sanssouci in Potsdam, the Kallang Theatre and Victoria Theatre in Singapore, the Festspielhaus in Baden Baden, and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Among her major roles are Susanna ('' Le nozze di Figaro''), Niklausse ('' Les contes d'Hoffmann''), Hänsel (''

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''), Micaela (''

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''), Fox ('' The Cunning Little Vixen''), and Pamina ('' Die Zauberflöte''). She has worked with many distinguished conductors, including Alberto Zedda, Christian Thielemann, Marcello Viotti, Kent Nagano,

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, Leopold Hager, and Mikhail Jurowski. As Agnes in Mikhail Jurowski’s world premiere recording of

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’s ''

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'' she received rave reviews. She is married to composer Jeffrey Ching, and sang the solo part in his '' Symphony No. 5, "Kunstkammer"'' at its world premiere under Mikhail Jurowski in March 2006. She sang the title role in Ching's new opera ''The Orphan'', commissioned by Theater Erfurt, Germany, for its 2009-2010 season.

References

*Programme brochure for the

Kammerorchester Berlin The Kammerorchester Berlin has been in existence since 1945 and its first director was the conductor Helmut Koch. Already in the 1950s, the orchestra succeeded in making a name for itself. Among other awards it received the ''Japanese Record Prize ...

, 4th subscription concert, Berlin, 1 March 2006.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Spanish operatic sopranos Operalia, The World Opera Competition prize-winners Filipino people of Spanish descent Singers from Manila {{opera-singer-stub