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ANGELIKA Kirchschlager
Angelika Kirchschlager enjoys an international career as
one of today’s most important artists, dividing her time
between recitals and opera in Europe, North America and
the Far East. She is internationally recognized as one of the
foremost interpreters of the operas of Richard Strauss and
Mozart. In title roles of operas such as Debussy’s Pelléas et
Mélisande, Nicholas Maw’s Sophie’s Choice and Britten’s
The rape of Lucretia she shows the rich variety of her
voice. As a celebrated recitalist and concert performer her
repertoire ranges from Bach, Berlioz, Brahms, Debussy,
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Dvorák,
Korngold, Mahler, Mendelssohn and Ravel to
Rossini, Schubert, Schumann, Weill and Wolf. She also
appears with the world’s most important orchestras and
conductors including the New York, Berlin and Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestras. She has a wide discography and
has won numerous awards, including a Grammy for the
recording of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with René Jacobs.
For Hyperion she has recorded a disc called ‘Women’s lives
and loves’ (CDA67563) with Felicity Lott, and the first
volume in the label’s survey of the complete songs of
Brahms (CDJ33121), both with Graham Johnson. In 2007
she was made a Kammersängerin of the Vienna State
Opera by the Austrian Government. She is a guest professor
at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she is also
an Honorary Fellow, and teaches at the University of Graz.
Born in Salzburg, Angelika Kirchschlager enrolled at the
Vienna Music Academy in 1984 where she studied voice
with Professor Gerhard Kahry and the late Viennese
baritone Walter Berry. She makes her home in Vienna.
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