Claudia Barainsky

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Claudia Barainsky
Born (1965-09-30) 30 September 1965 (age 58)
Berlin
Education
Hochschule der Künste
Occupation
Awards
Websitewww.claudiabarainsky.de

Claudia Barainsky (born 30 September 1965) is a German operatic soprano. She has performed internationally, and won awards for her roles in contemporary operas such as Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten and Aribert Reimann's Medea.

Career

Born in Berlin, Barainsky studied at the

Stadttheater Bern as Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. A year later, she sang there the title role of Alban Berg's Lulu.[1] She appeared in the title role of Aribert Reimann's Melusine at the Semperoper in Dresden.[2][3]

She performed at the

La Bohème and Blonde in Die Entführung. She appeared at the Bayreuth Festival first in 1998 as a flower maiden in Parsifal, and again in 2000 as the Forest Bird (Waldvogel) in Siegfried.[1]

Barainsky participated in the 2000 premiere of

Bayerische Staatsoper as Martirio, and performed the same part at the Komische Oper Berlin.[3] In 2001, she appeared as Anna in Heinrich Marschner's Hans Heiling at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She was awarded the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik in the category "best singer" in 2007 for her interpretation of Marie in Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten.[4]

She performed at Handel Festival Karlsruhe [de], and at the opera houses in Amsterdam, Avignon, Brussels and Tokyo, among others. In 2009, she appeared at the Semperoper as Badi'at in Henze's L'Upupa.[5]

She appeared in the title role of Reimann's

Der Faust for her performance.[2] She repeated the role in 2017 at the Vienna State Opera, conducted by Michael Boder.[6]

In 2014, she performed the title role of Daphne by Strauss at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.[7] She performed at the 2017 premiere of Uri Caine's song cycle on texts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, conducted by Kristjan Järvi. Composers have written works for her; for example, Aribert Reimann's Tarde for soprano and orchestra in 2003, after a poem by Juan Ramón Jiménez.[3]

She collaborated with conductors such as Gerd Albrecht, Herbert Blomstedt, Sylvain Cambreling, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Gielen, Hartmut Haenchen, Daniel Harding, Zubin Mehta, Ingo Metzmacher, Christian Thielemann and Lothar Zagrosek.[2]

Recordings

She was the soprano soloist in a 2008 recording of Bern Alois Zimmermann's Requiem für einen jungen Dichter by

Holland Symfonia, conducted by Bernhard Kontarsky.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Claudia Barainsky". Bayreuth Festival (in German). Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Claudia Barainsky". DSO Berlin. Retrieved 30 May 2017.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ a b c d "Aribert Reimann" (PDF). Schott. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Musiktriennale Köln" (PDF) (in German). koelner-philharmonie.de. 30 April 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2017.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Lange, Joachim (1 June 2009). "L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe" (in German). Online Musik Magazine. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  6. ^ "Aribert Reimann / Medea" (in German). Vienna State Opera. 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  7. ^ "Strauss' Daphne' with Barainsky, Selig and Larsson from Toulouse". World Concert Hall. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  8. ^ Clements, Dominy (2009). "Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970) / Requiem für einen jungen Dichter". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 2 May 2017.

External links

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