BEIJING MUSIC FESTIVAL
Wagner / Parsifal - 3. Blumenmädchen
October 29/31, 2013

Theresa Holzhauser, mezzosoprano

German mezzosoprano Theresa Holzhauser has won the national competition „Jugend musiziert“, received the supporting prize of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin and finally was awarded with the 1. prize of the competition of the international Opernwerkstatt Schloss Laubach as well as with the Frankfurt Mendelssohn-prize in 2010. 2011 she was member of the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival 2011.

In the season 2012/13 the artist will make her debut at Salzburg Easter Festival in the role of Flower Maiden I/3 in Parsifal with Christian Thielemann conducting. Theresa Holzhauser starts the season with a residential contract at Theater St. Gallen where she will appear as Maddalena in Rigoletto, Afra in La Wallyand 2nd Lady in The Magic Flute. Besides the mezzosoprano will sing concerts, performing in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Mozart’s Mass c-minorand Brahms’ Altrhapsodie in Munich. In the season 2013/14 she will make her debut at Beijing Music Festival in Parsifal.

Theresa Holzhauser studied at Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. Since 2008 she attended the Lied class with Helmut Deutsch and the French Lied class with Celine Dutilly. At the moment she works with Kammersängerin Marga Schiml. Already during her studies Theresa Holzhauser sang numerous performances in operaand concert. She was Juliet in Britten’s The little sweepas well as Tamiri in Mozart’s Il re pastoreat Stadttheater Augsburg, Zweite Dame in Zauberflöte in a production of the Hochschule München, Balki in Gluck’s Die Pilger von Mekkaand the sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in a production of the Bavarian Theaterakademie. For the reopening of the Reaktorhalle Munich she appeared in Fausts Träume by Jan Müller Wieland and György Ligeti and as Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte. With the Münchner Rundfunkorchester she sang Gwendolyne in Lehar’s Fürstenkindand Beate in Lortzing’s Regina. At Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma she had her debut as Zweite Magd in Strauss’ Elektra. Engagements in the season 2011/12 included the title role in Hasse’s Didone abbandonata with Münchner Hofkapelle under Michael Hofstetter at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. 

The mezzosoprano’s concert repertoire includes Bach-Cantatas, Johannes-Passion, Weihnachtsoratorium, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in c-minor, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Mendelssohn’s Elias, Paulus and Erste Walpurgisnacht as well as Brahms’ Altrhapsodie.