Gabriele Rossmanith
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Birthplace:
Stuttgart, Germany
Studies:
Violin studies at the Musikhochschule Trossingen, vocal studies with Sylvia Geszty at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart; Ks. Brigitte Eisenfeld (Studium)
Prizes:
1st Prize Mozartfestwettbewerb (1985), honored by the Hamburg Senate with the title of “Hamburger Kammersängerin” (2011)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera from 1988 to 2022 and Artistic Director of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since season 2020/21
Important parts:
Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Despina (Così fan tutte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Micaëla (Carmen), Morgana (Alcina), Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Nedda (I Pagliacci), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Anne Truelove (The Rake’s Progress), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Musetta (La Bohème), Sophie/Marianne Leitmetzerin (Der Rosenkavalier), Woglinde/Wellgunde (Das Rheingold), Ortlinde (Die Walküre), Hanna Glawari (Die lustige Witwe), Clorinda (La Cenerentola), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Blumenmädchen (Parsifal), Fortuna/Giunone (Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria), Vierte Magd (Elektra), szenischer Liederabend (Schumann und Schönberg), et al.
Stages:
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (1985-88), guest engagements in Munich, Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Glyndebourne Festival, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Willy Decker, Christof Loy, Guy Joosten, Harry Kupfer, Bob Wilson, Marco Arturo Marelli, Peter Konwitschny, Renaud Doucet, Achim Freyer, Calixto Bieito, John Dew, Vera Nemirova, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Horst Stein, Christian Thielemann, Donald Runnicles, Michel Plasson, Sir Antonio Pappano, Robin Ticciatti, Silvio Varviso, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ivor Bolton, Kirill Petrenko, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher, Simone Young, Kent Nagano, et al.