Appreciating the Artistry of Soprano Anja Harteros

"Laudate Dominum" Vesperae Solennes de Confessore (Mozart)
"Come Scoglio" Così fan tutte (Mozart)
"È strano...Sempre libera" La Traviata (Verdi)
"Ebben, ne andrò lontana" La Wally (Catalani)
"D'Oreste ,d' Ajace" Idomeneo (Mozart)
"Pace, pace mio Dio" La Forza del Destino (Verdi)
"Tacea la notte placida" Il Trovatore (Verdi)
"Salce, salce" Otello (Verdi)
"Ave Maria" Otello (Verdi)
"Poveri fiori" Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea)
"Vissi d'arte" Tosca (Puccini)
"Euch Lüften, die mein Klagen" Lohengrin (Wagner)
"Ah! Mio cor" Alcina (Händel)
"Come in quest'ora bruna" Simon Boccanegra (Verdi)
"Dove sono" Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
"O mio babbino caro" Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
"Abends, will ich schlafen geh'n" Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck) w/Elīna Garanča
"Quia respexit humilitatem" Magnificat (Bach)
"Frühling" Vier letzte lieder (R. Strauss)
"September" Vier letzte lieder (R. Strauss)
"Beim Sclafengehen" Vier letzte lieder (R. Strauss)
"Im Abendrot" Vier letzte lieder (R. Strauss)


BONUS:
Te Deum (Bruckner)
 

Anja Harteros (born 23 July 1972, in Bergneustadt) is a German operatic soprano. In 1999, she became the first German to win the Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Harteros was born to a Greek father and a German mother in Bergneustadt, and has two siblings, Alexia and Georgios. As a child, she was encouraged by her parents to pursue classical music and singing. Eventually, her music teacher at the Wüllenweber-Gymnasium in Bergneustadt, August Wilhelm Welp, noticed her considerable talent and recommended that she be professionally educated in singing. At the age of 14 (in 1986), she started voice training under Astrid Huber-Aulmann in Gummersbach, concurrently with her schooling. Her first performances were in music institute concerts and in a school production of The Marriage of Figaro in 1990, as the

Gräfin. In 1992 she gave her first concert at the Kantonsschule Schwyz in Switzerland. From 1990 her musical education was entrusted to the technically-experienced conductor and repetiteur Wolfgang Kastorp at the Cologne Opera, who accompanied her in a series of concerts. After completing high school in 1991, Harteros continued her voice studies at the Cologne music school under Liselotte Hammes at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. Her original singing teacher, Huber-Aulmann, continued to teach her until early 1996, and Harteros accompanied Huber-Aulmann on concerts tours in 1993 and 1994 to Russia and the United States, which attracted lots of attention to the singer. Just before her final exams, she was employed as a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schillertheater in Gelsenkirchen and Wuppertal. After her 1996 exams, she was given a permanent position with the ensemble at the opera in Bonn. In the summer of 1999, she won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, which

led to many invitations for concerts and guest performances. This was the major breakthrough for her career: since then, she has appeared as a guest at all the major world opera houses, including Frankfurt, Lyon, Amsterdam, Dresden, Paris, Hamburg, Vienna, New York (Metropolitan Opera), Munich, Cologne and Berlin (Deutsche Oper), as well as the Salzburger Festspiele. She has also given concerts and Lieder recitals all over Germany, as well as in Boston, Florence, London, Edinburgh, Vicenza and Tel Aviv. She sang the title role in a new production of Händel's Alcina at the opera festival in Munich in 2005. Her repertoire includes the roles of Mimì (La bohème), Desdemona (Otello), Micaëla (Carmen), Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Elisabeth (Tannhäuser), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Arabella (Arabella), Alice Ford (Falstaff), and Alcina. She sang her first Violetta in La traviata in 2004 and her first Ameila in Simon Boccanegra in 2005 with San Diego Opera. [Source]

Royal Wedding Music, Part 2: Who Would Be Available To Sing?

POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR ROYAL WEDDING SOLOIST
In a business where professionals are contracted out five years in advance, what singer could possible be free to sing for the royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on April 29, 2011? Checking schedules of the top dozen front-runners for the job discloses that some could be a private jet ride away from the event:

Renée Fleming will have completed her last performance of Strauss's Capriccio at the Metropolitan Opera on April 23 and has a Strauss concert of orchestral songs and scenes from Arabella with the Berlin Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann.

Anna Netrebko sings the Pergolesi Stabat Mater on April 28 in Geneva, Switzerland, and again on May 2 in Toulouse, France.

Kate Royal makes her Metropolitan Opera debut the night of April 29 in Orfeo ed Euridice. The second performance of the run is May 4. There are only five performances of the Gluck opera.

Angela Gheorghiu has concerts on April 27 and May 1 at the National Concert Hall in Seoul, Korea.

Marina Poplavskaya is performing The Tsar's Bride of Rimsky-Korsakov at the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden during the month of April and her penultimate performance in the run takes place at 7PM on April 29.

Anja Harteros just canceled her appearances at the San Diego Opera as the Marschallin in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, but is to appear in that very role on May 4 in Wiesbaden. She will be singing performances of Mimí in La Bohème at the Hamburg State Opera on April 23 & 30.

Cecilia Bartoli makes her way to Down Under for concerts in Australia on March 15 & 18. Then there is nothing in her schedule until a May 5 concert performance with Orchestra La Scintilla in Berlin.

Elīna Garanča the mezzo-soprano is singing the role of Giovanna Seymour in Donizett's Anna Bolena with a last performance at the Wien Staatsoper in Austria on April 17 and the first performance of the same work at the Opernhaus Zürich in Switzerland on May 21.




What about the possibility of a male performing during the ceremony?

Rolando Villazón will be in rehearsals at the Royal Opera House for Massenet's Werther which will have its opening night on May 5.

Plácido Domingo sings a concert with Ana María Martínez in Puerto Rico on April 17 and then will head to Washington, D.C., for Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride opening on May 6.

Jonas Kaufmann can be found at the Metropolitan Opera in the middle of performing the role of Siegmund in Wagner's Die Walküre. Performance dates bookend the nuptials date: April 28 and May 2.

Bryn Terfel is also at the Metropolitan Opera taking on the role of Wotan with performances scheduled on April 28 and May 2.