METROPOLITAN OPERA
Wagner / Ring-Götterdämmerung
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Premiere: January 27, 2012
January 31, 2012
February 3/7/11, 2012

TEATRO ALLA SCALA
Strauss / Frau ohne Schatten
Semyon Bychkov, conductor
Premiere: March 11, 2012
March 14/17/20/24/27, 2012

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.