Gun-Brit Barkmin is a German
opera singer and concert soloist in the vocal range
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 ...
who has garnered generally positive reviews for her performances in leading roles in operas by Janáček, Britten, Berg, Wagner and Richard Strauss,
although (writing in ''The New Yorker'') Alex Ross felt that she "showed strain" in her role as Salome.
In contrast, Anthony Tommasini of the ''New York Times'' found she sang the role with "searing power and unflagging intensity."
James Leonard comments that her collaboration with Zürcher Klaviertrio to record ''
Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok
''Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok'' (Op. 127) is a vocal-instrumental song cycle by Dmitri Shostakovich, based on verses by Alexander Blok.
It was written in 1967 for Galina Vishnevskaya. The composition is written for soprano, violo ...
'' by Shostakovich added "human tenderness."
She was born in
Rostock
Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, c ...
in 1971 (in the former
German Democratic Republic
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)
but now lives in Berlin. She has performed in the US, Canada, UK, Japan, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.
Her given name is
of Swedish origin.
Awards
* 2002: Daphne prize of the Theatergemeinde Berlin (Berlin theater community)
References
External links
OperaBase
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Living people
German operatic sopranos
1971 births
Musicians from Rostock
21st-century German women opera singers