Annette Seiltgen (born 26 June 1964 in

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) is a German operatic

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/ dramatic soprano.

Career

Seiltgen grew up in an artistic environment. Her father, , was intendant and long-time director of the Stadttheater Ingolstadt, her mother is the opera, concert and oratorio singer

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. During her school days in

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, where she attended the

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,''Fragestunde mit Sopranistin Annette Seiltgen''
Article from 24 November 2014 in the ''Kulturkanal Ingolstadt'', retrieved on 16 September 2016. she played in the statistery (?) of the theater and sang in several choirs. Seiltgen studied singing with her mother at the

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in Augsburg. She received her first engagement as a mezzo-soprano at the

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. Subsequently she moved to the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich. From 1996 to 2011 she was a member of the

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ensemble. There she sang all the great roles of the lyrical and dramatic mezzo repertoire among others: Ruggiero ''( Alcina),'' Sesto ''( La clemenza di Tito),'' Venus ''(

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),'' Octavian ''( Der Rosenkavalier),'' the composer ''( Ariadne auf Naxos),'' Adalgisa ''( Norma),'' Fricka ''( Die Walküre)'' as well as Brangäne ''( Tristan und Isolde).'' Seiltgen has made guest appearances in Berlin ( Komische Oper Berlin), Darmstadt, Dortmund, Essen, Frankfurt, Hanover, Koblenz, Leipzig, Mannheim, Mainz, Munich ( Bayerische Staatsoper), Nuremberg, Passau and Stuttgart, as well as on the music stages of Amsterdam, Buenos Aires (

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), Geneva, Madrid, Maastricht, Nice, Savonlinna, Santiago de Chile and Strasbourg. She is currently a member of the ensemble of the Landestheater Niederbayern. In addition to her stage presence, the artist is also active as a concert singer. Her concerts have been recorded by the

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, the

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, the Bayerischer Rundfunk and the

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