Maria Radner, contralto
Within
a very short time Maria Radner could establish herself as one of the most
promising contraltos. In the season 2011/12 she will sing Mahler´s Symphony N°8 at the Accademia di
Santa Cecilia Roma under Antonio Pappano,
at the MITO Festival under Gianandrea Noseda, with the Gürzenich
Orchester Köln under Markus Stenz and the Orquestra Nacional do Porto under
Christoph König. She will sing as well Mahler´s Symphony N°3 with the Philharmoniker Hamburg under Markus Lehtinen, at
the RSB Berlin under Marek Janowski.
In
January 2012 Maria Radner will make her debut in Götterdämmerung at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and in March
2012 she will appear in Die Frau ohne
Schatten at the Teatro alla Scala Milano and and sing Erda in a concert performance of Wagner's Siegfried at the Leipzig
Opera.
In the two previous seasons, she gave a series of top-class opera and concert
debuts at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (Beethoven Symphony No.9, Missa Solemnis), Wiener Musikverein (Jeanne d'Arc au bucher at the Wiener
Festwochen under Bertrand de Billy), at the Salzburger Festspielen (new
production of Elektra under Daniele
Gatti and Frau ohne Schatten,
conducted by Christian Thielemann), at the Salzburger Osterfestspielen (Götterdämmerung, conducted by Sir Simon
Rattle), at the Teatro alla Scala Milano (Schumann's
Faust Scenes by Pinchas Steinberg), at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Roma
(Mahler Symphony No. 2, conducted by
Antonio Pappano), at the Bayerische Staatsoper München (Die Zauberflöte) and the Canadian Opera Toronto (new production of
Stravinsky's Rossignol).
Before that, the artist sang Erda in
a concert performance of Das Rheingold
by Ulf Schirmer at the Leipzig Opera and Ariadne
auf Naxos, conducted by Bertrand de Billy at
the Theater an der Wien.
Still
a student Maria Radner made her debut under Zubin Mehta at the Palau
de les Arts Valencia, where she was also singing the deep and challenging part of
Saul in Martin y Soler's oratorio Philitaei Jonatha disperse and a
recital. Then she had her debut at the Bregenz Festival in the title role of
Handel's Solomon. Furthermore she
appeared in a new production of Parsifal
under the baton of Lorin Maazel in Valencia, her concert debut at the Teatro
Real Madrid (Faust-scenes under Jesus
Lopez-Cobos), at the Teatro Regio Torino (Beethoven's Symphony N°9conducted by Gianandrea Noseda) and her debut at the Festival d ' Aix en
Provence (Götterdämmerung, conducted
by Sir Simon Rattle).
Maria
Radner was born in Düsseldorf,
Germany and
finished her studies with distinction. She is still working with Marga Schiml
in Karlsruhe
and was scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association Bayreuth.