Monika Frimmer

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Monika Frimmer
Born1955 (age 65–66)
Marburg
Education Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover
OccupationClassical soprano
Organization Staatsoper Hannover

Monika Frimmer (born 1955) is a German soprano in opera and concert.

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Career

Monika Frimmer studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in Hannover. She studied further in master-classes and worked with Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Jörg Demus. In 1980 she was a winner in the national competition Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin. [1]

She was a member of the ensemble of the Staatsoper Hannover as a lyric soprano from 1980 to 1993. In 1982 she appeared as Anima in a scenic production of Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo in the Marktkirche, conducted by Hans-Martin Linde. She sang the part of Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos of Richard Strauss. In the opera Sly of Ermann Wolf-Ferrari, revived by the Opera Hannover, she appeared as Rosalina. [2] Since 1993 she has worked as a free-lance singer in opera, oratorio and Lied. [1]

In 1987, Frimmer sang in a recording of Buxtehude's Membra Jesu nostri , conducted by Ton Koopman, with Barbara Schlick, Michael Chance, Christoph Prégardien, Peter Kooy, the Knabenchor Hannover and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. [3] In the Neustädter Kirche, Hannover, she sang in choral concerts, in 1996 Ein deutsches Requiem , [4] and in 1988 Stravinsky's Cantata and Mozart's Great Mass in C minor . [5] In 1991, she performed there Bach's St Matthew Passion in the last concert conducted by Erhard Egidi, together with Dantes Diwiak, Anselm Richter, Ralf Popken and Joachim Gebhardt. [6] In 1998, she recorded the St Matthew Passion with the Thomanerchor and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, conducted by Georg Christoph Biller. She has been a soprano soloist in the cycles of Bach cantatas of both Gustav Leonhardt and Masaaki Suzuki. With Leonhardt she also recorded Bach's Easter Oratorio and Ascension Oratorio , with Suzuki Bach's Christmas Oratorio . [1]

In 2002, she founded together with Christa Bonhoff, Diwiak and Peter Kooy a quartet Tanto Canto to sing rarely performed music a cappella, with piano or with ensemble. The quartet recorded in 2005 excerpts from the collections Augsburger Tafel-Confect (short for: Ohren-vergnügendes und Gemüth-ergötzendes Tafel-Confect, in English: Augsburg Table Confectionery, Pleasuring the Ears and Delightful to the Soul) of the composers Valentin Rathgeber and Johann Caspar Seyfert. [7] [8] She has collaborated regularly with the Trio di Clarone and the Ensemble Incanto. Her piano accompanist for Lieder is Liese Klahn.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Monika Frimmer (Soprano)". bach-cantatas.com. 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
  2. ↑ "Theaterzeitung" (in German). Theater Hannover. 1982.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ↑ "Library Search". wolfram.schneider.org. 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  4. ↑ Canticum sacrum / Ein Deutsches Requiem (in German). Neustädter Kirche. 16 November 1996.
  5. ↑ 30 Jahre Kantorei der Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis zu Hannover (in German). Neustädter Kirche. 20 November 1988.
  6. ↑ Passion unseres Herrn Jesu Christi nach dem Evangelisten Matthäus (in German). Neustädter Kirche. 10 March 1991.
  7. ↑ "Rathgeber: Tafel-confect". arkivmusic.com. 2005. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
  8. ↑ "Rathgeber (1682-1750) Augsburgisches Tafel-Confect". musicweb-international.com. 2006. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
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