Richard Strauss | Elektra
Tue, Apr. 14, 2026, 7.30 pm - 9.20 pm
Cast

Musikalische Leitung
Anja Bihlmaier

Anja Bihlmaier
Anja Bihlmaier’s musical intuition, inspiring charisma and ability to combine passion with precision have made her one of the leading conductors of her generation. She has been principal conductor of the Residentie Orkest The Hague since August 2021.
Numerous debuts await her in the 2023/24 season, including with the hr-Sinfonieorchester, the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg with 2 concerts at the Elbphilharmonie, the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Bergen Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. She also returns to the Salzburg Camerata as part of her debut at the Mozartwoche Salzburg and makes her Proms debut with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in summer 2023.
With a wide-ranging repertoire that includes Haydn, Mahler, Strauss, B.A. Zimmermann to Sibelius, Bartók, Dvořák, Shostakovich, Debussy, Britten, Galina Ustvolskaya and Unsuk Chin, Anja Bihlmaier has recently conducted the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, the BBC Symphony, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Finnish Radio Symphony, the Danish National Symphony, the Swedish Radio Symphony and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. She returns regularly to the Orquesta y Coro Nacional de España and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra.
A passionate opera conductor, Anja Bihlmaier gained many years of experience through positions at the Hanover State Opera, the Chemnitz Theatre and the Kassel State Theatre. In February 2023 she will conduct Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer” in Tampere and Verdi’s “La Traviata” at the Norske Opera in Oslo in September. More recently, she has conducted Gounod’s “Faust” at Trondheim Opera, Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Malmö Opera and various productions at the Vienna Volksoper, including Henry Mason’s acclaimed production of “The Magic Flute” (2020/21).
After studying at the Freiburg Hochschule für Musik with Scott Sandmeier, Anja Bihlmaier was a scholarship holder at the Salzburg Mozarteum and deepened her knowledge with Dennis Russell Davies and Jorge Rotter. She was subsequently accepted into the Conductors’ Forum and received a scholarship from the Brahmsgesellschaft Baden-Baden.
Performances
photo: Marco Borggreve

Klytämnestra
Violeta Urmana

Mezzo-soprano
Violeta Urmana
Birthplace:
Marijampole, Lithuania
Studies:
Piano at the Juozas-Gruodis Conservatory in Kaunas, piano and singing at the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy in Vilnius
Master classes:
Master class at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich as well as Opernstudio of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich
Prizes / Honors:
Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Singers (London), appointment as Austrian Kammersängerin (Vienna), Grand Duke Gedeminas of Lithuania (Lithuania), honorary degree of the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy (Vilnius), Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (Italy), Commander’s Grand Cross of the Order of Merit to Lithuania, UNESCO Artist for Peace, et al.
Important parts:
Kundry (Parsifal), Eboli (Don Carlo), Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), Elisabetta (Don Carlo), Leonora (La forza del destino), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Odabella (Attila), Aida (Aida), La Gioconda (La Gioconda), Medea (Medea), Tosca (Tosca), Norma (Norma), Iphigénie (Iphigénie en Tauride,Iphigénie en Aulide), Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos), Brünnhilde (Siegfried), Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Isolde (Tristan und Isolde), Azucena (Il trovatore), Soprano/Mezzosoprano (Messa da Requiem), Klytämnestra (Elektra), Herodias (Salome), Jocaste (Oedipus rex), et al.
Stages:
Metropolitan Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Opéra national de Paris, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper,Staatsoper Hamburg, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Arena di Verona as well as appearances at festivals such as Bayreuther Festspiele, Salzburger Festspiele, Festival d‘Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh International Festival and the BBC Proms
Cooperation with conductors:
Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand de Billy, Pierre Boulez, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, James Conlon, James Levine, Jesús López Cobos, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser-Möst, Christian Thielemann, et al.
Recordings :
Many CD and DVD recordings documenting her career: LA GIOCONDA, IL TROVATORE, OBERTO CONTE DI SAN BONIFACIO, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, AIDA, LA FORZA DEL DESTINO, MACBETH, DON CARLO, ANDREA CHENIER, SIEGFRIED, PARSIFAL, CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA, VERDI'S REQUIEM (soprano and mezzo-soprano), DAS LIED VON DER ERDE and RÜCKERT-LIEDER by Mahler, MAETERLINCK-LIEDER by Zemlinsky, LA MORT DE CLÉOPÂTRE by Berlioz, BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE of Bartok, CD "Puccini rediscovered", Rossignol by Stravinsky, "Lieder" by R. Strauss, Berg, Liszt.
She also played the role of Kundry in Tony Palmer's film "The Search for the Holy Grail".
Find further information about Violeta Urmana here.
Performances
photo: Ivan Balderramo

Elektra
Aušriné Stundyté

Soprano
Aušriné Stundyté
Birthplace:
Vilnius, Lithuania
Studies:
Voice at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig
Important parts:
Elektra/Chrysothemis (Elektra), Regan (Lear), Marietta/Marie (The Dead City), Judit (Duke Bluebeard's Castle), Salome (Salome), Heliane (The Miracle of Heliane), Katarina Ismailova (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk), Renata (The Fiery Angel), Carlotta (The Marked), Bianca (A Florentine Tragedy), Loreley (Loreley), Venus (Tannhäuser), Montezuma (The Conquest of Mexico), Leonore (Fidelio), Margherita (Mefistofele), Gioconda (La Gioconda), Cio-Cio-San (Madame Butterfly)
Stages:
Salzburger Festspiele, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Theater an der Wien, Oper Köln, Komische Oper Berlin, Wiener Konzerthaus, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Opernhaus Zürich, St. Galler Festspielen, Wiener Volksoper, Oper von Leipzig
Cooperations with directors:
Calixto Bieito, Dmitry Tcherniakov, Peter Konwitschny, Robert Carsen, Graham Vick, David Alden, Christof Nel, Pierre Audi, Tatjana Gürbaca, Anthony Pilavachi, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Franz Welser-Möst, Ingo Metzmacher, Kazushi Ono, Dmitri Jurowski, Gianandrea Noseda, Zubin Mehta, Fabio Luisi, Kent Nagano, Julia Jones, Julian Kovatchev, Marco Armiliato, Markus Stenz, Gabriel Feltz, et al.
Find further information about Aušriné Stundyté here.
Performances
photo: Petra Baratova

Chrysothemis
Jennifer Holloway

Soprano
Jennifer Holloway
Origin:
USA
Studies:
University of Georgia, Manhattan School of Music
Prizes:
Outstanding Alumni Award of University of Georgia (2012)
Important parts:
Salome (Salome), Senta (Der fliegende Holländer), Chrysothemis (Elektra), Sieglinde (Walküre), Grete (Der ferne Klang), Leonore (Fidelio), Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes), Cassandre (Les Troyens), et al.
Stages:
Wiener Staatsoper, Oper Frankfurt, Bayerische Staatsoper, Oper Leipzig, Staatsoper Hamburg, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Teatro Colón, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro Real, Los Angeles Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos Lissabon, ABAO Bilbao, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Théâtre du Châtelet, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Bard Music Festival, Atlanta Opera, Canadian Opera Toronto, Santa Fe Opera, New National Theatre Tokyo, The Israeli Opera Tel-Aviv-Yafo, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Willy Decker, Michael Shell, Alberto Fassini, Robert Carsen, Lydia Steier, Damiano Michieletto, Laurent Pelly, Christopher Alden, Graham Vick, Francisco Negrin, Richard Jones, Francesca Zambello, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Stephen Lawless, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Philippe Jordan, Kent Nagano, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Corrado Rovaris, Omer Meir Wellber, Daniel Oren, John Fiore, Sebastian Weigle, Florian Erdl, Lorin Maazel, Lawrence Foster, Frederic Chaslin, Gustavo Dudamel, Leonard Slatkin, Bertrand de Billy, Kazushi Ono, Vladimir Jurowski, Eun Sun Kim, Sir Richard Armstrong, Jaap van Zweden, Emmanuelle Haïm, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Herve Niquet, et al.
Find further information about Jennifer Holloway here.
Performances
photo: Arielle Doneson

Aegisth
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, geboren in Zell am See/Österreich, studierte an der Musikhochschule Wien bei Prof. Gerhard Kahry und Kmsg. Kurt Equiluz.
Nach ersten Engagements in Linz, Basel und am Gärtnerplatz in München, debütierte er 1997 an der Pariser Bastille-Oper und daraufhin sang er dort zahlreiche Partien seines Faches. 1999 gab er mit großem Erfolg sein Debüt beim Glyndebourne Festival, wo er mittlerweile über 130 Vorstellungen gesungen hat.
Daneben gastierte er an der Semperoper Dresden, an der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, in Montreal, an der Mailänder Scala, am Théâtre du Capitole, am La Fenice, in Madrid und sowohl an der Bayerischen Staatsoper, als auch bei den Münchner Opernfestspielen.
Kürzlich trat er als Siegfried-Mime an der Canadian Opera Company, als Rheingold-Mime an der Staatsoper Berlin, als Klaus-Narr/Gurre-Lieder beim Bergen Festival, in Göteborg und Hannover, als Hauptmann an der Scala und im Opernhaus Zürich, als Loge semikonzertant in Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester, Nottingham und im Southbank Centre London und als Pollux/Liebe der Danae bei den Salzburger Festspielen auf.
Der Tenor hat mit Regisseuren wie Wilson, McBurney, Audi, Pelly, Flimm, Breth, Kriegenburg, Hermanis, McVickar, Tcherniakov, Krämer, Pountney oder Fura del Baus gearbeitet sowie unter der musikalischen Leitung von Krill Petrenko, Daniel Barenboim, Ingo Metzmacher, Kent Nagano u.a. gesungen.
Performances

Pfleger des Orest
Chao Deng

Bass-baritone
Chao Deng
Birthplace:
Tianjin, China
Studies:
Vocal studies in Tianjin, China; diploma in voice at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg with Cheryl Studer; master studies with Christian Elsner and in the Lied class of Gerold Huber and opera studio at the Hochschule für Musik Weimar with Prof. Dr. Michail Lanskoi; master class exam at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden with KS Prof. Matthias Henneberg.
Master classes:
With Liang Li, Michaelis Doukakis, John Norris, KS Camilla Nylund, KS Helen Donath, KS Brigitte Fassbaender, Sonja Prina, Alberto Triola, Catherine Foster, Georg Zeppenfeld, Juliane Banse, Roberto Scandiuzzi, KS Deborah Polaski.
Awards:
Prize for Opera Singing of the Concerto Foundation Würzburg (2015), Prize Winner of the International Singing Competition of the Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg (2014), Scholarship Holder of the Richard Wagner Association Bayreuth Festival (2014), et al.
Relation to the State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2020/21 season.
Important roles:
Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Escamillo (Carmen), Alidoro (La Cenerentola), Peter (Hänsel und Gretel), Fasolt (Das Rheingold), Comte Capulet (Roméo et Juliette), Häuptling Abendwind (Häuptling Abendwind), Ramfis (Aida), Gianni Schicchi/Betto di Signa (Gianni Schicchi), Papageno/Sprecher /2. Geharnischte (Die Zauberflöte), Frank (Die Fledermaus), Don Fernando (Fidelio), Schaunard (La Bohème), Herr Fluth (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Kilian/Ottokar (Der Freischütz), Buonafede (Il mondo della luna), Förster (Das schlaue Füchslein), Le Duc (Romeo et Juliette), Angelotti (Tosca), Colas (Bastien et Bastienne), Priamus (Les Troyens), Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro), Marullo/Ceprano (Rigoletto), Zuniga (Carmen), De Retz (Les Huguenots), Lord Syndham (Zar und Zimmermann), Spielmann (Königskinder), Journalist (Lulu), Osias, Oberpriester (Judith), et al.
Stages:
Hamburg State Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, Bavarian State Opera, Dresden Semper Opera, German Opera on the Rhine, Dresden Philharmonic, Braunschweig State Theater, German National Theater Weimar, Dresden State Operetta, Erfurt Theater, Weimarhalle, Saar Music Festival, Shanghai Opera House, et al.
Collaboration with directors:
Peter Konwitschny, Lydia Steier, Barrie Kosky, Mariame Clément,Yona Kim, Manfred Weiß, Sabine Hartmannshenn, Hasko Weber, Anette Leistenschneider, Guy Montavon, Andrea Moses, et al.
Collaboration with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Sebastian Weigle, Stefano Ranzani, John Fiore, Stefan Soltész, Xu Zhong, Daniele Callegari, Speranza Scappucci, Giampaolo Bisanti, Ivan Repušić, Riccardo Minasi, Giacomo Sagripanti, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Thomas Leo Cadenbach, Moritz Gnann, Felix Krieger, Christoph Gedschold, Kristiina Poska, Tomáš Netopil, Antonino Fogliani, Omer Meir Wellber, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Stefan Lano, Martin Hoff, Georg Fritzsch, et al.
Find further information about Chao Deng here.
Performances
- Carmen
- Tosca
- Le Nozze di Figaro
- Così fan tutte
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
- Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
- Maria Stuarda
- Lohengrin
- Elektra
photo: Jie Chen

Schleppträgerin
Marie Maidowski

Soprano
Marie Maidowski
Birthplace:
Berlin, Germany
Studies:
Bachelor in singing and music theater with KS Prof. Julie Kaufmann at the Berlin University of the Arts Master in concert singing with KS Prof. Christiane Iven at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich
Master class:
19th Lotte Lehmann Week in Perleberg (2016)
Masterclass with Prof. Marga Schiml in Switzerland (2019)
Masterclass with Prof. Gabriele Lechner in Baden near Vienna (2020)
Prizes:
Scholarship from the Young Musicians Foundation in Mühlheim (2018) Scholarship from the Cusanuswerk study grant (since 2020) Finalist at the German National Singing Competition in the Junior Competition category (2020) Scholarship from the German Stage Association (2023) Staetshuys Fund Prize and Van Amelsvoort Prize for the best interpretation of a work by a female composer at the International Vocal Competition 2023 in `s Hertogenbosch with Lied Duo partner YoungSeob Jeon
Audience and jury prize at the HIDALGO Song Prize 2023 with Lied Duo partner YoungSeob Jeon
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera from the 2024/25 season
Important parts:
Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro), Nurse (Alzheim), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Silvia (L'isola disabitata), Lovis (Der Baumgeist), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Daphne Colgate (Georgia Bottoms), et al.
Stages:
Staatstheater Cottbus, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Cuvilliéstheater Munich, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Frank Hilbrich, Bernarda Horres, Tomo Sugao, Maximilian Berling, Isabel Hindersin, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Errico Fresis, Johannes Zurl, Johanna Soller, Aris Blettenberg, Henri Bonamy, Gad Kadosh, et al.
Find further information about Marie Maidowski here.
Performances
- Boris Godunov
- Jubiläumsgala: 30 Jahre Internationales Opernstudio
- Elektra
- Dollhouse
- Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
- Ariadne auf Naxos
- „Muss denn in diesem Land immer alles politisch sein?“
- Ariadne auf Naxos (concerted)
- Il trovatore
- Parsifal
- Le Nozze di Figaro
- Konzert des Internationalen Opernstudios
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
- The great silence
photo: Jörn Kipping

Junger Diener
Oleksiy Palchykov

Tenor
Oleksiy Palchykov
Birthplace:
Kiev, Ukraine
Studies:
At the Vocal Faculty of the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Atelier Lyrique of the Opéra National de Paris
Prizes:
Grand Prix of the XVI International Lydia Abramova Vocal Student’s Competition “Bella voce” in Moscow, special prize of the Jury at the International Vocal Competition “Debut” in Wiekersheim, Prix Lyrique du Carpeaux, Prix Lyrique de L'AROP, finalist of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 2017/18
Important parts:
Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Alfredo (La Traviata), Fenton (Falstaff), Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Nemorino (L’Elisir d’Amore), Il Conte d’Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Pylade (Iphigénie en Tauride), Paris (La belle Hélène), Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), Cassio (Otello), Narraboth (Salome), Beppe (Pagliacci), Sinowi (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Lykow (The Tsar’s Bride), Gritsko (Sorochintsi Fair), Kudryash (Katia Kabanova), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), et al.
Stages:
The Lyon Opera house, Opera Bastille, Opera Garnier, Athénée-Théâtre, Opernhaus Zürich, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Edinburg International Festival, Garsington Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper, Komische Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Hamburg, Champs Elysees Theatre, National Opera of Monpellier, National Opera of Ukraine, M. Dzhalil Tatar Academic State Opera, Chaliapin Festival, Le Théâtre du Léman, Palazzo dei Congressi Lugano, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Andreas Homoki, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Barrie Kosky, Calixto Bieito, Willy Decker,
Renaud Doucet/André Barbe, Mariame Clement, William Kentridge, Christophe Perton, Àlex Ollé, Laurent Pelly, Olivier Py, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Nello Santi, Philippe Jordan, Kent Nagano, Visiliy Petrenko, Michael Schønwandt, Riccardo Frizza, Kazushi Ono, Paolo Carignani, Alessandro De Marchi, Daniele Callegari, Henrik Nánási, Vakclav Luks, et al.
Find further information about Oleksiy Palchykov here.
Performances
photo: Antonia Sievierova

Alter Diener
William Desbiens

Baritone
William Desbiens
Birthplace:
Québec City, Canada
Studies:
Bachelor in voice. Mannes School of Music in New York, Mascarade Emerging artist program
Prizes:
Finals at the Paris opera competition at the Palais Garnier
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera from the season 2024/25
Important parts:
Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Schaunard (La Boheme), Conte almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Dandini (La cenerentola)
Stages:
Opéra de Québec, Teatro la fenice, Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, Landestheater Linz, Palais Garnier
Cooperation with directors:
Robert Lepage, Fabricio Melano, Damon Nestor Ploumis, Marie Lambert-Le Bihan, Jean-Romain Vesperini, Guillermo
Cooperation with conductors:
Wyn Davis, Jonathan Santagada, Elias Grandy, Kens Lui, Claudio Novati, Thomas Rösner, Jorge Parodi
Find further information about William Desbiens here.
Performances
- Jubiläumsgala: 30 Jahre Internationales Opernstudio
- Elektra
- Der Freischütz
- Bühne frei!
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann
- Eugene Onegin
- Eugen Onegin (concerted)
- Rigoletto
- La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West)
- La Traviata
- Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
- Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
- Konzert des Internationalen Opernstudios
- Salome
- Tosca
- Ariadne auf Naxos
- Madama Butterfly
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia
photo: Jörn Kipping

Aufseherin
Katja Pieweck

Soprano
Katja Pieweck
Birthplace:
Hannover, Germany
Studies:
Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg with Prof. Ks. Judith Beckmann
Prizes:
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer Preis of the Körber-Stiftung (2007), Cultural Prize of the Berenberg Bank Hamburg (2000), First Prize of the International Robert Stolz Singing Competition in Hamburg (2000), Masefield Fellowship of the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 1999/2000, member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera (1997/98 to 1998/99)
Important parts:
Adalgisa (Norma), Mercédès (Carmen), Hexe (Königskinder), Smeton (Anna Bolena), Alisa (Lucia di Lammermoor), Marquise de Berkenfield (La fille du régiment), Sélysette (Ariane et Barbe-Bleue), Arsamene (Xerxes), Sancta Susanna (Klementia), Gertrud/Sandmännchen (Hänsel und Gretel), Frau des Dorfrichters (Jenufa), Valencienne (Die lustige Witwe), Witwe Browe (Zar und Zimmermann), Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), Damigella Pallade (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Schenkwirtin (Boris Godunov), Mutter (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Mère Marie (Dialogues des Carmélites), Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Frugola (Il Tabarro), Goneril (Lear), Berta/Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Marchese Melibea (Il Viaggio a Reims), Ariadne (Ariadne), Adelaide (Arabella), Annina (Der Rosenkavalier), Aufseherin/1. Magd (Elektra), Curra/Preziosilla (La Forza del Destino), Annina (La Traviata), Meg Page/Alice Ford (Falstaff), Giovanna/Maddalena (Rigoletto), Fenena (Nabucco), Emilia (Otello), Fricka (Das Rheingold), Siegrune/Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Magdalena (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Adriano (Rienzi), Eglantine (Euryanthe), Ericlea (Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria), Larina (Eugen Onegin), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Semperoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Staatstheater Mainz, Bayerische Staatsoper, Oper Leipzig, Internationale Herrenchiemsee Festspiele, Staatsoper Hannover, et al.
Zusammenarbeit mit Regisseuren:
Peter Konwitschny, Karoline Gruber, Claus Guth, Willy Decker, Achim Freyer, Roger Vontobel, Stefan Herheim, Michael Thalheimer, et al.
Zusammenarbeit mit Dirigenten:
Simone Young, Sir Simon Rattle, Peter Schneider, Ingo Metzmacher, Gerd Albrecht, Sebastian Weigle, Rolf Beck, Krzysztof Penderecki, et al.
Performances
- Elektra
- Bühne frei!
- Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
- Der fliegende Holländer
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann
- Eugene Onegin
- Eugen Onegin (concerted)
- Rigoletto
- Die Gänsemagd
- Falstaff
photo: Ida Aldrian

Erste Magd
Michal Doron

Michal Doron
Biography will be published shortly.
Performances

Zweite Magd
Ida Aldrian

mezzo-soprano
Ida Aldrian
Birthplace:
Bruck an der Mur, Austria
Studies:
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Leopold Spitzer and Karlheinz Hanser; studies for Stage Performance (Opera and Musical Drama), Art Song and Oratorio with KS Marjana Lipovšek with honors; member of International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera (2012/13–2013/14)
Master class:
With Ann Murray, Bernarda Fink, Reri Grist, Peter Kooij, Andrew Watts, Thomas Hampson, Wicus Slabbert, Alan Titus, Brigitte Fassbaender, et al.
Prizes:
Dr.-Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Preis of Stiftung zur Förderung der Hamburgischen Staatsoper (2014), prize winner of the jury ranking at international singing competition „Stella Maris“ (2014)
Relation to the State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the season 2019/20
Important parts:
Wellgunde (Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung), Siegrune and Rossweiße (Die Walküre), Blumenmädchen and Stimme aus der Höhe (Parsifal ), 2. Maid (Daphne), Feodor (Boris Godunov), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Isabella (L'Italiana in Algeri), Adalgisa (Norma), Idamante (Idomeneo), Third Lady (The Magic Flute), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Penelope (Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria), Mercedes (Carmen), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Laura (Luisa Miller), Flora and Annina (La Traviata), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Meg Page (Falstaff), Dryade (Ariadne auf Naxos), Orlofski (Die Fledermaus), et al.
Stages:
Elbphilharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Kölner Philharmonie, Wiener Konzerthaus, Musikverein Wien, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Grafenegg Festival, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Barocktage Melk, Styriarte, International Brucknerfest Linz, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Andreas Homoki, Georg Schmiedleitner, Laura Scozzi, Mariame Clément, Verena Stoiber, Peter Konwitschny, Stéphane Braunschweig, David Bösch, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Simone Young, Kent Nagano, Martin Haselböck, Marcus Bosch, Yutaka Sado, Pablo Heras-Casado, Christopher Moulds, Cornelius Meister, Fabio Luisi, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Simon Gaudenz, et al.
Find further information about Ida Aldrian here.
Performances
- Schwuppdiwupp - getürmt und umgestupst
- Boris Godunov
- Elektra
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
- Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
- Manon
- 6th Philharmonic Concert
- La Traviata
- Parsifal
- 6th chamber concert
- Tonangeber
- Die Gänsemagd
- Madama Butterfly
photo: Christoph Ziegler

Dritte Magd
Kady Evanyshyn

Mezzo-Soprano
Kady Evanyshyn
Birthplace:
Winnipeg, Canada
Studies:
Bachelor and Master of Music, The Juilliard School
Awards/Competitions:
First Prize of the New Orleans District and Second Prize of the Gulf Coast Region at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (2023), Award from the Gerda Lissner Lieder/Song Competition (2017/18), Winner of the John Erskine Prize at The Juilliard School (2017) and the Tudor Bowl at the Winnipeg Music Festival (2015)
Masterclasses:
Lioba Braun, Brigitte Fassbänder, Elena Garanča, Thomas Hampson, Malcom Martineau, Anne Sofie von Otter, Bo Skovhus, Emmanuel Villaume, and others
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2022/2023 season
Was member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera from 2019/20 to 2022/23
Important parts:
Annio (La clemenza di Tito), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Charlotte (Werther), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Siébel (Faust), Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Mercédès (Carmen), Meg Page (Falstaff), Tisbé (La Cenerentola), Second Woman (Dido and Aeneas), Fjodor (Boris Godunov), Frau Reich (Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Phèdre (Hippolyte et Aricie), and others
Stages:
Opernhaus Zürich, Bregenzer Festspiele, Carnegie Hall, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Opera Holland Park, Verbier Festival, Aspen Music Festival
Song:
World Premiere of “Drei Grabschriften” (Stefano Gervasoni), Performances of “Animus II” (Druckman), “Folk Songs” (Berio) and “Liebeslieder Walzer” (Brahms), Competitor of the 2019 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Song Competition
Cooperation with Directors:
Edward Berkeley, Frank Castorf, Georges Delnon, James Darrah, Axel Ransich, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Jana Vetten, Stephen Wadsworth
Cooperation with Conductors:
Nicolas André, Paolo Arrivabeni, Giampaolo Bisanti, Daniele Callegari, William Christie, Jane Glover, Alexander Joel, Francesco Lanzillotta, Claire Levacher, Jeffrey Milarsky, Evelino Pidò, Teddy Poll, Avi Stein, Stephen Stubbs
Find further information about Kady Evanyshyn here.
Performances
- Carmen
- La clemenza di Tito
- Manon
- 3rd chamber concert
- Mitridate, re di Ponto (concerted)
- Falstaff
- Mitridate, re di Ponto
- Das Paradies und die Peri
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
- Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
- Die Unruhenden
- La Traviata
- Elektra
photo: Brinkhoff/Mögenburg

Vierte Magd
Eliza Boom

Eliza Boom
Biography will be published shortly.
Performances

Fünfte Magd
Hellen Kwon

Soprano
Hellen Kwon
Birthplace:
Seoul, South Korea
Studies:
Hochschule für Musik Köln with Dietger Jacob (1979-1984)
Prizes:
First prize in the Novara International Singing Competition (1984), winner of the Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer Preis (1987), Rolf-Mares-Preis in the category “Exceptional Performances of an Actresses” for her interpretation of “Frau” in Wolfgang Rihm’s “Das Gehege” (2010), Grammy Award Nomination for the recording of Walter von Braunfels’ “Die Vögel” conducted by Lothar Zagrosek, honored with the title of “Hamburger Kammersängerin” by the Hamburg Senate (2011), “Order of Civil” by the Korean Government for exceptional artistic achievements (2013), “Star of Ewha” Prize (2018)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 1987/88
Important parts:
The Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Zdenka (Arabella), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Blonde/Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Donna Anna/Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Despina/Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Elettra (Idomeneo), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Musetta/Mimì (La Bohème), Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly), Liú (Turandot), Violetta Valéry (La Traviata), Gilda (Rigoletto), Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Micaëla (Carmen), Norina (Don Pasquale), Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore), Adele/Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Senta (Der fliegende Holländer), Minni (La Fanciulla del West), Frau (Das Gehege), Salome/Herodias (Salome), Chrysothemis (Elektra), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayreuther Festspiele, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Oper Leipzig, Oper Stuttgart, Oper Köln, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Festwochen, Salzburger Festspiele, Opernhaus Zürich, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Festival d‘Aix-en-Provence, Opéra Comique de Paris, Glyndebourne Festival, Den Norske Opera, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Teatro Filarmonico Verona, The Israeli Opera, Jerusalem Opera Festival, New National Theatere Tokio, Korean National Opera, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Achim Freyer, Peter Konwitschny, Johannes Schaaf, Günther Krämer, Marco Marelli, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Peter Sellars, John Dew, Adolf Dresen, Nikolas Brieger, Johannes Erath, Claus Guth, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Giuseppe Sinopoli, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Horst Stein, Neville Marriner, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Jeffrey Tate, Marcello Viotti, Simone Young, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Kent Nagano, Christian Thielemann, et al.
Performances
- Elektra
- Bühne frei!
- Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
- Die Gänsemagd
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia
photo: Martina Cyman

Orchester
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Orchestra
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg’s largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the “Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre” merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.
During its long history, the orchestra encountered great artist personalities. Apart from composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Telemann, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mahler, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, since the 20th century chief conductors such as Karl Muck, Joseph Keilberth, Eugen Jochum, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Aldo Ceccato, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher and Simone Young have shaped the orchestra’s sound. Renowned conductors of the pre-war era such as Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt gave brilliant performances, as did outstanding conductors of our times: suffice it to mention Christian Thielemann, Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Petrenko, Adam Fischer and Sir Roger Norrington.
Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent Nagano has taken on the position of Hamburg’s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera and since June 2023 also its honorary conductor. In his first season Kent Nagano initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016, Nagano and the Philharmonic toured South America, followed by concert tours to Spain and Japan in 2019, and in the spring of 2023, the Philharmonic State Orchestra made its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under his direction, which was acclaimed by audiences and the press. Since 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg Widmann to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall’s opening festivities. The concert recording has been released by ECM, for which Widmann received the OPUS KLASSIK as Composer of the Year 2019, and ARCHE was performed again in 2023 to great acclaim.
The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, making it Hamburg’s busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.
In 2008 Simone Young and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Wagner as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Mahler, Hindemith and Berg, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Hosokawa, Offenbach, Reimann, Auerbach, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Poulenc and Weber.
The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg’s musical tradition and responsible for the city’s artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg’s schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra’s own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic’s musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow’s music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.
Performances
- Rathausmarkt Open Air
- 1st Academy Concert - Program I
- 1st Academy Concert - Program II
- 1st Academy Concert - Program III
- 4th Academy Concert
- Trionfi
- Carmen
- THE TIMES ARE RACING
- 1st Philharmonic Concert
- Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna
- Boris Godunov
- Special chamber concert
- Tosca
- Jubiläumsgala: 30 Jahre Internationales Opernstudio
- La clemenza di Tito
- Orchesterprobenbesuch
- 2nd Philharmonic Concert
- Don Giovanni
- Jane Eyre
- 3rd Philharmonic Concert
- Elektra
- Der Freischütz
- Luisa Miller
- La Bohème
- SLOW BURN
- 4th Philharmonic Concert
- Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
- The Nutcracker
- New Year's Eve concert
- Der fliegende Holländer
- 5th Philharmonic Concert
- Die Kreide im Mund des Wolfs
- Ariadne auf Naxos
- Manon
- 6th Philharmonic Concert
- Ariadne auf Naxos (concerted)
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann
- Mitridate, re di Ponto
- Eugene Onegin
- Mitridate, re di Ponto (concerted)
- Eugen Onegin (concerted)
- 7th Philharmonic Concert
- PhiSch - das Staatsorchester hautnah...
- Don Pasquale
- Rigoletto
- Maria Stuarda
- La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West)
- Il trovatore
- Falstaff
- 8th Philharmonic Concert
- La Traviata
- The Odyssey
- Parsifal
- Pique Dame
- Opening concert of the Hamburg International Music Festival
- Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank
- Romeo and Juliet
- Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
- Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
- 9th Philharmonic Concert
- Salome
- NATIONAL YOUTH BALLET: Die Unsichtbaren
- Nijinsky
- Frühlings Erwachen
- Così fan tutte
- Le Nozze di Figaro
- 10th Philharmonic Concert
- Demian
- Nijinsky Gala L
- 1st Philharmonic Concert
- The Seagull
- HOUSE WARMING CONCERT
- Das Paradies und die Peri
- 3. Blaues Konzert
- Schulkonzert
- 2nd Philharmonic Concert
- Kids only #1: Erwachsene verboten
- Ruslan und Ljudmila
- Lady of the Camellias
- 3rd Philharmonic Concert
- Surrogate Cities
- L'elisir d'amore
- 4th Philharmonic Concert
- New Year's Eve concert
- 5th Philharmonic Concert
- Monster´s Paradise
- Kids only #2: Überall doch nirgends zuhause
- 6th Philharmonic Concert
- POINT OF NO RETURN
- The great silence
- Lohengrin
- 7th Philharmonic Concert
- Women's love and death
- Madama Butterfly
- 8th Philharmonic Concert
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia
- Special concert music festival
- 9th Philharmonic Concert
- Kids only #3: Ich zieh aus!
- Wonderland
- 10th Philharmonic Concert
- Nijinsky Gala LI
photo: Foto: Felix Broede