Regula Mühlemann (born 7 January 1986) is a Swiss operatic
soprano
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.
Biography
Mühlemann was born in
Adligenswil
Adligenswil is a municipality in Lucerne District in Canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. It is east of the city of Lucerne and borders on canton Schwyz.
Geography
Adligenswil is a spread out community on the north side of the valley of the Würzen ...
, Switzerland, and studied voice with
Barbara Locher at the Academy of Music in
Lucerne
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in 2010, where she graduated with honors with a Master of Arts. Her first appearances on the opera stage included the following roles: Maturina in
Gazzaniga
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Gazzaniga borders the following municipalities: Albino ...
's ''
Don Giovanni Tenorio
', (English: ''Don Giovanni, or The Stone Guest'') also known as ''Don Giovanni Tenorio'' is a one-act opera (dramma giocoso) by the Italian composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga. The opera was first performed at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice, on 5 Februar ...
'', Barbarina in
Mozart
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's ''
The Marriage of Figaro
''The Marriage of Figaro'' (, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienn ...
'', Papagena in Mozart's ''
The Magic Flute
''The Magic Flute'' (, ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. It is a ''Singspiel'', a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work premiered on ...
'', and Doralice in
Scarlatti's ''
Il trionfo dell'onore''.
In Jens Neubert's film version of
Weber's opera ''
Der Freischütz
' (Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns, J. 277, Opus number, Op. 77 ''The Marksman'' or ''The Freeshooter'') is a German List of operas by Carl Maria von Weber, opera with spoken dialogue in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Johann Fried ...
'', Mühlemann played the role of Ännchen and was praised by critics. The ''
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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...
'' saw her as "a discovery of the first order." In the 2010 and 2011 opera seasons, Mühlemann appeared at the Lucerne Theatre as soloist in several operas, such as ''The Magic Flute'' and ''Il trionfo dell'onore''.
[Luzerner Theater]
Artist biographies 2010/2011: Regula Mühlemann
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Discography
CDs
* 2014: Gioachino Rossini
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– ''Petite messe solennelle
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'', Peter Dijkstra
Peter Dijkstra (born 11 June 1978) is a Dutch conductor, especially of choirs and vocal ensembles.
Born in Roden, Drenthe, Dijkstra sang in his youth in Jongenskoor Roder, a boys' choir, which his father, Bouwe Dijkstra, founded in 1985. He sang ...
, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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(Sony Classical
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)
* 2016: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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– ''Le nozze di Figaro
''The Marriage of Figaro'' (, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna ...
'' (as Barbarina), Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, CC (; born Yannick Séguin;David Patrick Stearns, "Nezet-Seguin signs Philadelphia Orchestra contract". ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', 19 June 2010. 6 March 1975) is a Canadian conductor and pianist. He is the music dir ...
, Chamber Orchestra of Europe
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(Deutsche Grammophon
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)
* 2016: ''Mozart Arias'', Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Kammerorchester Basel
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(Sony Classical
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)
* 2017: Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by his contemporaries to b ...
– ''Reformations-Oratorium'' (Sony Classical
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)
* 2017: ''Cleopatra: Baroque Arias'', Robin Peter Müller, La Folia Barockorchester (Sony Classical
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)
* 2018: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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– ''La clemenza di Tito
(''The Clemency of Titus''), K. 621, is an ''opera seria'' in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro Metastasio. Mozart completed the work in the midst of composing ''Die Zauberfl ...
'' (as Servilia), Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Chamber Orchestra of Europe (Deustche Grammophon)
* 2019: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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- ''Die Zauberflöte
''The Magic Flute'' (, ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. It is a ''Singspiel'', a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work premiered on ...
'' (as Papagena), Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Orchestre de Chambre d'Europe (Deutsche Grammophon)
* 2019: "Lider der Heimat/Songs from Home" (Sony Classical
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)
* 2020: "Mozart Arias II" – Kammerorchester Basel, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli (Sony Classical
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)
* 2022: "Fairy Tales" – CHAARTS Chamber Artists (Sony Classical
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)
DVDs
* 2010: Carl Maria von Weber
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– ''Der Freischütz'' (as Ännchen) (Constantin Film
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Constantin has releas ...
)
* 2013: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...
– ''Die Zauberflöte
''The Magic Flute'' (, ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. It is a ''Singspiel'', a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work premiered on ...
'' (as Papagena), Simon Rattle
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, Berliner Philharmoniker
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Throughout the 20th century, the orchestra was led by conductors Wilhelm Furtwängler (1922� ...
* 2014: Christoph Willibald Gluck
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– ''Orfeo ed Euridice
(; French: '; English: ''Orpheus and Eurydice'') is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. It belongs to the genre of the '' azione teatrale'', meaning an ...
'' (as Amore), Václav Luks
Václav Luks (born 14 November 1970) is a Czech harpsichordist, French horn, horn player, Conducting, conductor, musicology, musicologist and pedagogy, pedagogue, founder and artistic director of the Prague baroque orchestra Collegium 1704 and of ...
, Collegium 1704 ( Arthaus Musik)
* 2014: Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian Romantic music, Romantic composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the ''be ...
– ''L'elisir d'amore
''L'elisir d'amore'' (; ''The Elixir of Love'') is a (comic melodrama, opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's (1831). ...
'' (as Gianetta), Pablo Heras-Casado
Pablo Heras-Casado (born 1977) is a Spanish conductor.
Early life
The son of a retired police officer, he began singing with a school choir at the age of seven and piano lessons at the age of nine. He studied music at the conservatory in Granad ...
, (Deutsche Grammophon)
References
External links
*
Regula Mühlemann
on ''Bach Cantatas Website''
Regula Mühlemann
at Sony Classical
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1986 births
Living people
People from Lucerne-Land District
Swiss operatic sopranos
21st-century Swiss women opera singers
Sony Classical Records artists