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The German mezzo-soprano, Marie Henriette Reinhold, was influenced by her musically-minded family from earliest childhood. After taking her school leaving certificate from the Abbey School in Pforta, she first studied musicology and cultural management at the Franz Liszt School of Music in Weimar and Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Muscology in summer 2011. A founding member of the Saxon State Youth Choir, she started taking voice lessons with Kammersänger Professor Roland Schubert from 2008. These lessons and her choral work kindled a love of singing and a wish to turn her hobby into a profession. In consequence, since October 2011 she studied classical voice with Professor Elvira Dreßen at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy" in Leipzig, which she passed with distinction in 2020. She gathered her first experiences with opera in productions there, singing roles as the Third Lady in W.A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and the Countess in Lortzing’s Wildschütz. Master-classes with Jonathan Alder, Alexander Schmalcz, Götz Payer, Thilo Dahlmann and Peter Schreier provided valuable insights into Lied interpretation. She was Junior Prize Winner of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin 2012, a Prize Winner of the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg in 2014, and was awarded a Richard Wagner scholarship in 2017.
Marie Henriette Reinhold is in great demand as a soloist across Germany and abroad. She has appeared as a soloist with the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, the Collegium Vocale Gent, Batzdorfer Hofkapelle, Münchener Bach-Chor, Concerto Köln, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Halle, Bamberger Symphoniker, Baroque ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, Kölner Kammerorchester, Gaechinger Cantorey, Windsbacher Knabenchor, Baroque orchestra La Scintilla, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Kammerchor Stuttgart and Accademia Barocca Lucernensis. She has sung under the baton of many renowned conductors, such as Thomaskantor Andreas Reize, Thomaskantor Gotthold Schwarz, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Christoph Gedschold, Dima Slobodeniouk, Florian Helgath, Frieder Bernius, Philippe Herreweghe, Semyon Bychkov, Herbert Blomstedt, Paavo Järvi, Christian Thielemann, et.al. Her solo appearances have already taken her to the Leipzig Thomaskirche, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Dresden Kreuzkirche and Cologne Philharmonie.
Marie Henriette Reinhold's Opera roles include Dritte Dame in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Gräfin in Lortzing’s Wildschütz, Rustena in Antonio Vivaldi's La verità in cimento, Fricka in Wagner’s Rheingold and Cornelia in George Frideric Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto. The summer of 2019 marks her debut at the Bayreuth Festival as a Flower Maiden in Wagner’s Parsifal. Since 2020 she is singing Grimgerde in Der Ring des Nibelungen there as well. Under the baton of Pablo Heras Casado she will sing there a Flower Maiden and "The Voice from Above" in the new production of Wagners Parsifal 2023.
Marie Henriette Reinhold has many CD recordings to her name on a variety of labels, including Max Reger's Choral Cantatas and his Requiem (Op.144b), Haydn’s Stabat Mater with the Kammerchor Stuttgart under Frieder Bernius, Friedrich Schneider’s oratorio Das Weltgericht, a world premiere recording of Gustav Schreck’s oratorio Christus, der Auferstandene, a live recording of J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion BWV 245 at the St. Thomas Church Leipzig, under the direction of Peter Schreier, and most recently, J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 under the baton of Hans-Christoph Rademann. She currently lives in Leipzig, Germany. |
