Tanja Ariane Baumgartner

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Tanja Ariane Baumgartner
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Tanja Ariane Baumgartner is a German operatic mezzo-soprano. A member of the Oper Frankfurt since 2009, she has enjoyed an international career, appearing in major European and American opera houses and the Salzburg Festival.

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Career

Baumgartner grew up in Rheinfelden, the daughter of a teacher who conducted several choirs. [1] She first studied violin, graduating from the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. She then studied voice at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and at the Musikhochschule Wien with Helena Lazarska. [2] She was first engaged at the Lucerne Opera from 2002 to 2008 where she learned many parts of the mezzo-soprano repertoire, including Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte , Charlotte in Massenet's Werther , Mrs. Quickly in Verdi's Falstaff , Giulietta in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann , and Baba the Turc in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress . [1] [2] In 2008, she studied the title role of Othmar Schoeck's Penthesilea with Hans Neuenfels for the Basel Opera, a production that received the award Inszenierung des Jahres (production of the year) by Opernwelt . [1]

Baumgartner has been a member of the ensemble of the Oper Frankfurt from the 2009/10 season, where her roles included Bizet's Carmen, Mary in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer , Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlos , Lisa in Mieczysław Weinberg's The Passenger , the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss, again Penthesilea and Fricka in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen . She appeared as Circe in the world premiere of Rolf Riehm's Sirenen in 2014. [3] [4]

She made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2010 as Geschwitz in Alban Berg's Lulu , followed in 2012 by Charlotte in Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten , staged by Alvis Hermanis and conducted by Ingo Metzmacher. [1] She appeared at the Hamburg Opera in the premiere of Beat Furrer's La bianca notte, and as Ortrud in Wagner's Lohengrin . Fricka was her role again for her debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. [3]

She performed in 2017 in Frankfurt the role of Cassandre in Les Troyens by Berlioz, staged by Eva-Maria Höckmayr and conducted by John Nelson. [3] A reviewer noted that her dramatic mezzo-soprano expressed both, the visionary close to madness and the sorrowful lover. [5] Also in 2017, she appeared as Fricka at the Bayreuth Festival. [6]

Discography

Recitals & Orchestral Works

Opera

Following stage appearances were recorded and published on CD or DVD/ Blu-Ray:

Guest appearances

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Tanja Ariane Baumgartner" (in German). Deutsche Oper Berlin. Archived from the original on 14 March 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Tanja Ariane Baumgartner / Mezzosopran" (in German). Frankfurt Opera. 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  4. Griffel, Margaret Ross (2018). "Sirenen". Operas in German: A Dictionary. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 448. ISBN   9781442247970.
  5. Peter, Wolf-Dieter (21 February 2017). "Scheiternde Frauen in Umbruchszeiten – Frankfurts Oper mit "Les Troyens" von Hector Berlioz" (in German). NMZ. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  6. "Tanja Ariane Baumgartner". Bayreuth Festival (in German). Retrieved 20 August 2020.