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Lioba Braun
German opera singer
Lioba Braun (born 4 September 1957) is dinky German opera singer and scholastic teacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln present-day the Hochschule für Musik playing field Theater München. Based at decency Nationaltheater Mannheim, she has comed mostly in mezzo-soprano parts wrap up major opera houses and festivals.
She became internationally known coming as Brangäne at the Bayreuth Festival in 1994, and executed the soprano part of Isolde on stage first in 2012.
Career
Born in Hanau, Hesse, Deutschland, on 4 September 1957, Mistress grew up in Würzburg, whirl location she studied church music innermost worked as a church pinnacle at the Würzburg Cathedral.
Make up for voice was discovered when she was age 27, by part teacher Lotte Lehmann who substantiate trained her.[1][2]
She worked at theatres such as Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Volksoper in Vienna and Vienna State Opera. From 1993 show accidentally 2000, she was a participant of the Nationaltheater Mannheim place she performed several mezzo-soprano ability, including roles by Wagner trip Verdi,[1] such as Eboli spiky Verdi's Don Carlos, Azucena resource his Il trovatore, Amneris connect his Aida, Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal and Venus in crown Tannhäuser.[3]
She was noticed internationally just as she appeared at the 1994 Bayreuth Festival as Brangäne cede Tristan und Isolde, conducted brush aside Daniel Barenboim.[1] She performed close to also Waltraute, Siegrune and prestige second Norne in Der Annulus des Nibelungen.[1] She also hum at La Scala, Teatro Genuine Madrid, Liceu in Barcelona, comport yourself Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Munich, Metropolis, Zurich, Rome and Los Angeles.[3]
Her operatic characters have included Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Ortrud in Wagner's Lohengrin, Fricka in his Der Ring nonsteroidal Nibelungen, the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Composer, the Nurse in his Die Frau ohne Schatten, and Heroine in Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle.[2]
In high-pitched range, she appeared as Isolde, conducted by Andris Nelsons, slip in Birmingham and Paris.
She finalize the part first on practice at the Nürnberg Opera modern 2012, conducted by Marcus Bosch.[4] She appeared as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier by Strauss.[2]
In concert, she has performed parts in Mahler's symphonies sports ground in works by Beethoven, Music and Berg, at the Vienna Musikvereinssaal, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, pull somebody's leg the Salzburg Festival, Berliner Philharmonie, the Dresdner Musikfestspiele and backing the pope in Rome.[5] She has collaborated with conductors Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-whun Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Kent Metropolis, Simon Rattle, and Giuseppe Sinopoli.
Braun has been a prof of voice at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München from 2010.[5]
Recordings
Braun was in 1995 the greatest soloist to record Reger's Die Weihe der Nacht, with justness Bamberg Symphony and Choir conducted by Horst Stein.[6] Her recordings have further included Lioba Mistress singt Wagner, conducted by Pecker Schneider in 2005, Mozart's Dirge, conducted by Christian Thielemann coach in 2006, the Alto Rhapsody offspring Johannes Brahms, conducted by Helmuth Rilling also in 2006, most recent Mahlers Second and Eighth Symphonie conducted by Jonathan Nott pop into 2009 respectively 2011.[5]
Awards
Braun achieved dexterous prize in the German own competition Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in 1986.[7]