Claudia Barainsky
Claudia Barainsky (born 30 September 1965) is a German operatic soprano, who has appeared internationally and won awards for performing major parts in contemporary operas such as Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten and Aribert Reimann's Medea.
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Born in Berlin, Barainsky studierte there voice at the Hochschule der Künste with Ingrid Figur. She took master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Aribert Reimann. Atthe beginning of her career, she appeared in concerts at festivals such as Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden, the Schubertiade in Feldkirch, and the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik. She made her stage debut in 1993 at the Stadttheater Bern as Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. A year later, she sang there the title role of Alban Berg's Lulu. She appeared in the title role of Aribert Reimann's Melusine at the Semperoper in Dresden.
She performed at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 1995 the parts of Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, Musetta in Puccini's La Bohème and Blonde in Die Entführung. She appeared at the Bayreuth Festival first in 1998 as a Flower Maiden in Parsifal, and sang there from 2000 additionally the Waldvogel in Siegfried.
Barainsky participated in 2000 in the premiere of Aribert Reimann's Bernarda Albas Haus at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Martirio, and sang the same part at the Komische Oper Berlin. In 2001, she appeared as Anna in Heinrich Marschner's Hans Heiling at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She was awarded the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik in the category "best singer" in 2007 for her interpretation of Marie in Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten.
She performed at Handel Festival Karlsruhe, and at the opera houses in Amsterdam, Avignon, Brüssel and Tokio, among others. In 2009, she appeared at the Semperoper as Badi'at in Henze's L'Upupa zurück.
She appeared in the title role of Reimann's Medea at the Frankfurt Opera in the German premiere in September 2010, and was awarded the 2011 Der Faust for her performance. She repeated the role in 2017 at the ienna State Opera, conducted by Michael Boder.
In 2014, she performed the title role of Daphne by Strauss at the Théâtre du Capitole in Touloouse. She sang in 2017 in the premiere of Uri Caines song cycle on texts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, conducted by Kristjan Järvi.
She is regarded international as a versatile singer with a broad repertory.[1] Composers have written works for her, such as Aribert Reimann Tarde for soprano and orchestra in 2003, after a poem by Juan Ramón Jiménez.[2].
She collaborated with conductors such as Gerd Albrecht, Herbert Blomstedt, Sylvain Cambreling, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Gielen, Hartmut Haenchen, Daniel Harding, Zubin Mehta, Ingo Metzmacher, Christian Thielemann and Lothar Zagrosek.
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External links
- Literature by and about Claudia Barainsky in the German National Library catalogue
- Official website
- Claudia Barainsky Hamburger Symphoniker
- Claudia Barainsky at IMDb
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