Marion Ammann (born 30 July 1964), citizen of
Herisau is a Swiss operatic and concert
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 ...
.
Life
Born in
Zürich, Ammann studied singing at the Academy for School and Church Music in Lucerne from 1991 and privately in Zurich and Berne. At the Opera Studio Biel, she obtained her concert entrance qualification in opera in 1997. She sang her first roles as Lady Macbeth in Verdi's ''
Macbeth
''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those w ...
'' and Leonore in Beethoven's ''
Fidelio'' at the . Her teachers were among others
Kurt Widmer
Kurt Widmer (28 December 1940 – 31 May 2023) was a Swiss baritone and voice teacher, who appeared and recorded internationally. He focused on concert singing, especially of oratorios from the Romantic period. His recordings cover a repertoire ...
(Basel),
Edith Mathis
Edith Mathis (born 11 February 1938) is a Swiss soprano and a leading exponent of the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart worldwide. She is known for parts in Mozart operas, but also took part in premieres of operas such as Henze's ''Der junge Lord' ...
(Lucern) and
Daniel Ferro
Daniel Ferro (born Daniel Eisen, 10 April 1921 – 18 November 2015) was an American bass-baritone and voice teacher. He was known primarily as a teacher whose students have included many prominent opera singers,Blier, Steven (August 2003)"A singer ...
(New York).
Ammann excelled above all in the
Strauss and
Wagner genres. She sang the Empress in Strauss' ''
Die Frau ohne Schatten'' at the stages of Antwerp, Ghent, Graz, Karlsruhe, Saarbrücken and Helsinki, her Isolde in Wagner's ''
Tristan und Isolde'' at a dozen German and Nordic stages. At the
Operklosterneuburg
The operklosterneuburg is an Austrian opera festival held annually in the baroque imperial courtyard of Klosterneuburg Abbey in Lower Austria.
History
The festival was founded in 1993 by Alexander Hermann and Sonja Fletzberger and takes p ...
, she was Leonore in ''Fidelio''.
She has received various prizes and awards, including from the
Migros and the cantons of Graubünden and Solothurn,
[''Prize for Music. Marion Ammann.''](_blank)
In Website des Kantons Solothurn, retrieved 7 August 2021 and was a Bayreuth scholarship holder.
Ammann lives in
Dornach
: ''Dornach is also a quarter of the French city of Mulhouse and the Scots name for Dornoch in the Scottish Highlands, and Dòrnach is the Gaelic name for Dornoch in the Scottish Highlands.''
Dornach (Swiss German: ''Dornech'') is a municipalit ...
near Basel.
Opernsängerin ist man nicht ewig
on Tagblatt.ch
Repertoire
Operas and Operettas
* ''Leonore'' in Fidelio.
* ''Dorabella'' in Così fan tutte
(''All Women Do It, or The School for Lovers''), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte w ...
.
* ''Rosalinde'' in Die Fledermaus.
* ''Salome'' in Salome
Salome (; he, שְלוֹמִית, Shlomit, related to , "peace"; el, Σαλώμη), also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II, son of Herod the Great, and princess Herodias, granddaughter of Herod the Great, an ...
.
* ''Arabella'' in Arabella
''Arabella'', Op. 79, is a lyric comedy, or opera, in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration.
Performance history
It was first performed on 1 July 1933 at the Dr ...
.
* ''Elsa von Brabant'' in Lohengrin.
* ''Senta'' in Der Fliegende Holländer.
* ''Isolde'' in Tristan und Isolde.
* ''Sieglinde'' in Die Walküre.
Concerts
* St Matthew Passion
The ''St Matthew Passion'' (german: Matthäus-Passion, links=-no), BWV 244, is a '' Passion'', a sacred oratorio written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727 for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander. It sets ...
, BWV 244, Johann Sebastian Bach
* Symphony No. 9 in D minor op. 125, Ludwig van Beethoven
* Messe Nr. 3 in F minor ( WAB 28), Anton Bruckner
* The Book with Seven Seals
''The Book with Seven Seals'' (''Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln'') is an oratorio in German by the Austrian composer Franz Schmidt, on themes from the biblical Book of Revelation of Saint John. It was completed in 1937 and first presented in 1938 in ...
.
* Wesendonck Lieder.
Recording
* DVD Der Ring des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner, Klassik-Center Kassel, 2011
References
External links
*
* Hörprobe
Marion Ammann als Isolde 1. Akt Tristan und Isolde auf YouTube
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Swiss operatic sopranos
1964 births
Living people
Musicians from Zürich