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The German mezzo-soprano/contralto, Katharina Heiligtag, was encouraged to pursue her career aspirations during an internship as an assistant director under Johannes Felsenstein at the Prague State Opera. She studied singing at the Musikhochschule Nürnberg-Augsburg with Professor Elisabeth Kovacs and graduated with distinction. During her studies, she devoted herself to a wide range of musical creativity, from the Renaissance to contemporary music. Master-classes with Inga Nielsen, Anna Reynolds, Peter Anton Ling and singing studies with Professor Marina Sandel (Hannover) and Sami Kustaloglu (Berlin) completed her education. She is a scholarship holder of the Richard-Wagner-Verbands and a prize-winner of the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg.
Under the direction of Peter Beat Wyrsch, Katharina Heiligtag has been a member of the ensemble of the award-winning Pocket Opera Company Nürnberg since 2004 and has performed successfully, for example, as Fairy in Fairy Queen, as Juliette in La Passion selon Sades and Clorinda in Il Combattimento di Clorinda e Tancredi. In the lyrical mezzo field she sang, for example, as Hänsel in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, as Zaida in Rossini's Il turco in Italia and as Cherubino in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, at the Theater Nordhausen, Kleinsten Opernhaus München-Pasing' and Theater Magdeburg.
As a concert soloist, Katharina Heiligtag works with renowned orchestras such as the Berliner Symphoniker, Nürnberger Symphoniker and Satori-Ensemble München. As a member of the ensemble Donne Fugate, she devotes herself to the genre of early music and is a guest at various festivals such as the Tagen Alter Musik Nürnberg and the Bodensee-Festival zu Gast. She works closely with the Rundfunkchor Berlin, Norddeutschen Rundfunk Chor and MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, as well as with the Vocalconsort Berlin and RIAS-Kammerchor Berlin.
In Berlin, Katharina Heiligtag sang with the Berliner Symphoniker conducted by Christoph Hagel as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and was heard as an alto in scenic versions of J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion (BWV 245) and Weihnachts-Oratoriums (BWV 248) at the Berliner Dom. In 2017, she sang the alto solo in Haydn's Schöpfung under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle at the Berlin Philharmonie, Salzburg Festival Hall and Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern.
In 2019, together with the mezzo-sopranos Anna-Luise Oppelt and Alice Lackner, Katharina Heiligtag founded the Berliner Trio MeZZZovoce, which is passionately dedicated to the balancing act from pure a cappella sound of the Renaissance to minimal music. She currently lives in Berlin, Germany. |
