In summer 2008 mezzo-soprano Hermine Haselböck performed successfully at seve-ral renowned Austrian festivals: at the Festival Erl she sang Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis under Gustav Kuhn, she debuted at the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt with Verdi’s Messa da Requiem and at the Festival Wörthersee Classics with Mahler’s Kindertoten-Lieder. Her latest CD-recording of Missa Solemnis with Gustav Kuhn has been recently released, the next concerts with the Haydn Orchestra Bolzano will take place in autumn 2008 in Austria and Italy. As well in 2008/09 she will give her Recital-debuts at the Wiener Konzerthaus and in London, sing the Mozart-operas Zauberflöte at the Theater an der Wien and La finta giardiniera at the New National Theatre Tokyo, and in the Haydn-year she will perform his Lord Nelson-Mass with the MDR Symphony Orchestra under Mario Venzago at the Gewandhaus Leipzig.

 

After being awarded with the Alexander Zemlinsky Prize at the Wiener Musikverein Hermine Haselböck sang in spring 2008 his Maeterlinck-Lieder with the Residentie Orkest The Hague under Jaap van Zweden and the Het Gelders Orkest under Martin Sieghart. Following her triumphant recital success in New York’s Carnegie Hall and Washington in the last two seasons, she will return to Washington in March 2009.

 

Hermine Haselböck sang Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Wiener Konzerthaus and debuted at the Festival Wiener Klangbogen in Erwin Schulhoff’s Flammen conducted by Bertrand de Billy. She took part in the revival of Zauberflöte under Fabio Luisi at the Theater an der Wien and the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, in the Carmen-production under Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Styriarte Graz and appeared as Dorabella in the concert version of Cosi fan tutte at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. She could be heard at the Wiener Volksoper as Mercedes in Carmen und as Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel and in concerts at the St. Gallen Festival (Haendel’s Jephta), under Tomas Netopil at the Teatro San Carlo Napoli (Schubert’s Mass in E flat major), the MDR Musiksommer Leipzig and Kunstfest Weimar (Liszt’s Christus) and with the Dresdner Philharmonie under Rafael Fruehbeck de Burgos at the Frauenkirche Dresden (Beethoven’s Mass in C major).

 

Hermine Haselböck was awarded the Pasticcio Prize and the Alexander Zemlinsky Prize at the Wiener Musikverein. Pan Classics release of her debut-solo-CD Songs by Zemlinsky (piano: Florian Henschel) attracted international attention. As well for CD she recorded Donizetti’s opera Adelia under Gustav Kuhn.

 

After graduating from the Stiftsgymnasium Melk, Hermine Haselböck began her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Rita Streich and Hartmut Krones. She completed her studies with Ingeborg Ruß at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold / Germany and, after graduating with artistic merit, attended master-classes with Kurt Equiluz, Kurt Widmer, Christa Ludwig, Edith Sélig-Papée, Sena Jurinac and Marjana Lipovsek.

 

2008/09