Marlis Petersen - Soprano
Biography
After her studies at the Academy of Music in Stuttgart and with Prof. Sylvia Geszty, Marlis Petersen was prize winner of various renown singing competitions. She attended a continuative education in opera and contemporary music as well as in the category dance.
As a firm member of Städtische Bühnen Nuremberg she sang roles like Aennchen, Blonde, Adele, Oscar, Rosina, Lulu and Queen of the night. Guest performances brought her to the opera houses of Berlin, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Karlsruhe, Munich, Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. From the beginning of 1998/99 season, she was a firm member of Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. There, she debuted with Mozart's Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro, followed by Daughter of the Regiment, Sophie/Der Rosenkavalier, Norina/Don Pasquale, The cunning vixen, Viola/Was ihr wollt (What you will) by Manfred Trojan, Konstanze/Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Ophélie/Hamlet.
Marlis Petersen made her debut at Vienna State Opera with Lulu. She sang the same role successfully in Peter Konwitschny’s production at State Opera Hamburg, in a new production in Athens and at Chicago Lyric Opera. Other highlights: A sensational Zerbinetta/ Ariadne auf Naxos at Covent Garden, Oscar/ Un ballo in maschera at Bregenz Festival, Nightingale/Die Vögel by Walter Braunfels in Geneva, Adele/Die Fledermaus at Bastille Opera Paris, Metropolitan Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera, Elisa/Il re pastore at Salzburg Festival, Konstanze/ Entführung aus dem Serail at La Monnaie Brussels and the Festival of Aix-en-Provence, the world premiere of Phaedra (Aphrodite) by H.W. Henze in Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt and at Vienna Festival, the world premiere of La grande Magia in Dresden, Donna Clara/Der Zwerg and Thais in Athens, her debut at Munich State Opera with Zdenka/Arabella, Haydn’s Orlando Paladino at the Berlin State Opera and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival.
Marlis Petersen’s numerous concert activities include also an intensive collaboration with Helmuth Rilling and the International Bach Academy Stuttgart, with concerts in the USA and Europe, just as with René Jacobs. Furthermore she sang successfully concerts with RAI Orchestra Torino (The Creation under Jeffrey Tate), Santa Cecilia Rome, Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Future projects: Concerts with Mendelssohn’s Elias and Haydn’s Creation, a European tour with Brahms’ Love Songs und Schumann’s Quartets. In opera she will sing Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro in Los Angeles, her role debut as Violetta/La Traviata in Graz, and guest appearances at Vienna State Opera (the title role in the world premiere of Medea by Aribert Reimann), Metropolitan Opera New York (Lulu, Ophélie/Hamlet), Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (Donna Anna) and at the Chicago Lyric Opera (Norina/Don Pasquale).
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