Irmgard Vilsmaier (born 4 April 1970) is a German operatic
soprano
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.
Life
Vilsmaier was born in
Frontenhausen
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,
Lower Bavaria
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. After attending secondary school in her home-town, Vilsmaier completed her studies at the
Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg
The Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg (formerly ''Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg-Augsburg'') is a music conservatoire based in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. The conservatoire has a secondary building in Augsburg.
The Hochschule
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with distinction. She then became a member of the opera studio at the
Bayerische Staatsoper Munich and later became an ensemble member at the
Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck
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under the direction of
Brigitte Fassbaender. Since 2001, she has been freelancing.
Vilsmaier has sung at various opera houses in Europe and overseas and participated in several festivals. In the process, she worked with renowned conductors and well-known directors. She has sung at the
Royal Opera House
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in London, the
Vienna State Opera, the
Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the
Opéra Bastille Paris, the
Gran Teatre del Liceu
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in Barcelona, the
Estonian National Opera
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in
Tallinn
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, the
Hungarian State Opera House
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in Budapest, the
Seattle Opera, the
Canadian Opera Company in
Toronto
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, the
Semperoper
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in
Dresden
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, the
Nationaltheater Mannheim
The Mannheim National Theatre (german: Nationaltheater Mannheim) is a theatre and opera company in Mannheim, Germany, with a variety of performance spaces. It was founded in 1779 and is one of the oldest theatres in Germany.
History
In the 18 ...
and the
Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar, the
Hamburgische Staatsoper
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and
Staatstheater Stuttgart
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, the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the
Vlaamse Opera The Vlaamse Opera (Flemish Opera) is an opera company in Belgium directed by Jan Vandenhouwe which operates in two different opera houses in two Flemish cities, the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp at Van Ertbornstraat 8 and the Vlaamse Opera Ghent at Schouwbu ...
in Antwerp and
Ghent
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, the
Volksoper Wien, the
Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the
Komische Oper Berlin, the
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
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The building was originally built in 1904 as Baden-Baden central railway station. This building replaced the original railway station whi ...
and the
Theater Trier
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. The singer has performed at the
Salzburg Festival
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, the
Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the in Austria and from 2000 to 2004 at the
Bayreuth Festival
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.
Vilsmaier Imrgard
on ''Großes Sängerlexikon
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'' ()
Repertoire
* Die Primadonna in ''Venus und Adonis
' is a one-act opera by Hans Werner Henze with a German libretto by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, after the poem by William Shakespeare. The work uses singers and dancers.
It was first performed by the Bavarian State Opera in Munich on 11 January 1997 ...
'' (Hans Werner Henze)
* Gertrud, Mutter in '' Hänsel und Gretel'' (Engelbert Humperdinck)
* Santuzza, eine junge Bäuerin in '' Cavalleria rusticana'' (Pietro Mascagni)
* Mutter Maria Theresa vom hl. Augustin in ''Dialogues des Carmélites
' (''Dialogues of the Carmelites''), FP 159, is an opera in three acts, divided into twelve scenes with linking orchestral interludes, with music and libretto by Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; 7 January 189930 January 196 ...
'' (Francis Poulenc (German and French)
* Fata Morgana, Zauberin in '' The Love for Three Oranges'' (Sergei Prokofiev)
* Goneril, Tochter König Lears in ''Lear
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* Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios, a Mexican association of revolutionary artists and writers
* Low Energy Ion Ring, an ion pre-accelerator of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
** Low Energy Antipr ...
'' (Aribert Reimann)
* Herodias in ''Salome
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'' (Richard Straus)
* Chrysothemis in '' Elektra'' (Richard Strauss)
* Brünnhilde in '' Götterdämmerung'' and '' Die Walküre'' (Richard Wagner)
* Gutrune in ''Götterdämmerung'' (Richard Wagner)
* Isolde in '' Tristan und Isolde'' (Richard Wagner)
* Brangäne in ''Tristan und Isolde'' (Richard Wagner)
* Sieglinde in '' Die Walküre'' (Richard Wagner)
* Kundry in '' Parsifal'' (Richard Wagner)
* Venus in ''Tannhäuser
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'' (Richard Wagner)
* Ortrud in '' Lohengrin'' (Richard Wagner)
* Ghita, Lieblingszofe von Donna Clara in ''Der Zwerg
''Der Zwerg'' (''The Dwarf''), Op. 17, is an opera in one act by Austrian composer Alexander von Zemlinsky to a libretto by Georg C. Klaren, freely adapted from the short story "The Birthday of the Infanta" by Oscar Wilde.
Composition history
...
'' (Alexander Zemlinsky)
References
External links
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* Hörprobe
Todesverkündigung aus „Die Walküre“ auf YouTube
retrieved 21 December 2020.
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German operatic sopranos
1970 births
Living people
People from Lower Bavaria