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The German contralto, Katharina Magiera, studied first music education with a major in piano, followed by singing studies with Professor Hedwig Fassbender in Frankfurt am Main and the concert exam with Professor Rudolf Piernay in Mannheim. She was a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Live music now, the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and 1st prize winner of the Mendelssohn competition.
Katharina Magiera's wide-ranging concert repertoire includes the Passions and numerous cantatas of J.S. Bach, the Requiems of W.A. Mozart, Verdi, Maurice Duruflé, Dvořák, Schnittke and the oratorios of George Frideric Handel, Felix Mendelssohn, Arthur Honegger and Szymanowski. She has worked with such conductors as Ivor Bolton, Sylvain Cambreling, Paolo Carignani, Constantinos Carydis, Teodor Currentzis, Ádám Fischer, Gabriel Garrido, Leo Hussain, René Jacobs, Kristjan Järvi, Marko Letonja, Alexander Liebreich, Henrik Nánási, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Helmuth Rilling, Christian Thielemann, Robin Ticciati, Constantin Trinks, Krzysztof Urbański, Sebastian Weigle, and Jaap van Zweden. Concert engagements have taken her to the Münchner Philharmoniker, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Richard Strauss Festival, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Salzburg Festival, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
As a Lieder interpreter Katharina Magiera presented in 2016 at OehmsClassics a praised by the press solo album with guitar accompaniment by Professor Christopher Brandt. The recording includes Goethe settings by F. Mendelssohn, H. Wolf, F. Hensel, J. Kinkel, J. Lang and Robert Schumann in own arrangement for voice and guitar.
Katharina Magiera has been a member of Oper Frankfurt's ensemble since 2009-2010 season. Her roles there have included Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor, Tisbe in La Cenerentola, Lisa in Weinberg's Die Passagierin, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Erda in Rheingold, Flosshilde / Schwertleite in Der Ring des Nibelungen, Narrator / St. Catherine in a double bill of Debussy's La damoiselle élue & A. Honegger's Jeanne D’Arc au bûcher, Nancy in Flotow's Martha (CD OehmsClassics), Margret in Alban Berg's Wozzeck, Marcellina in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Third Lady in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Annina in Der Rosenkavalier, alto in G.F. Handel's Messiah, Hänsel in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel and Gretel, Filosofia in L'Orontea, Ježibaba in Rusalka, Cornelia in G.F. Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Dryad in Ariadne auf Naxos, in Wanja in Glinka's Ivan Sussanin, Emilia in Otello, Teresa in La sonnambula. She has appeared as a guest asThird Lady in Die Zauberflöte at the Opéra National in Paris and at the Theater an der Wien, as Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel at the Bayerischen Staatsoper in Munich, as Schwertleite in Die Walküre at the Semperoper Dresden, the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, the Beijing Music Festival and the Salzburg Easter Festival.
Katharina Magiera adds new roles to her repertoire during Oper Frankfurt's 2018-2019 season: Emilia in Otello, Amastre in the first revival of last season's fantastic new production of G.F. Handel's Xerxes, Eduige in a new production of G.F. Handel's Rodelinda, Irene in G.F. Handel's Theodora and can be heard again as 3rd Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Ježibaba in Rusalka, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Margret in Wozzeck, Schwertleite in Die Walküre and Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro. She will also appear as the Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte at the Glyndebourne Festival. She currently lives in Frankfurt, Germany. |
