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Opéra national de Paris and the Wiener Staatsoper. She also performed
the role as part of a series of engagements with James
Levine and The Metropolitan Opera; and a recording under the
late Carlos Kleiber is available on DVD. Other seminal opera
recordings include Le nozze di Figaro under Levine, Orfeo et
Eurydice under John Eliot Gardiner and Ariadne auf Naxos under
Giuseppe Sinopoli. She continues to be sought-after by the world’s
leading conductors, orchestras and opera houses. Recent highlights
have included her role debut as Charpentier’s Médeé for
Oper Frankfurt in a new production by David Hermann and conducted
by Andrea Marcon, concert performances of Tamerlano
opposite Plácido Domingo at Gran Teatre del Liceu conducted
by William Lacey, and her long-awaited return to Theater Basel
(from where her international career was launched) for Offenbach’s
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein in Christoph Marthaler’s
production conducted by Hervé Niquet. Other recent engagements
include Baba the Turk (The Rake’s Progress) conducted by
Nikolaus Harnoncourt for Theater an der Wien, Countess Geschwitz
(Lulu) at The Metropolitan Opera, conducted by Fabio Luisi
and in May 2011 she appeared with Jonas Kaufmann and the
Berliner Philharmoniker under Claudio Abbado for a televised
performance of Das Lied von der Erde on the 100 th anniversary
of Mahler’s death. A busy concert schedule takes Anne Sofie
von Otter to all corners of the globe and in the current season
she performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Esa-Pekka
Salonen), New York Philharmonic (Alan Gilbert), Berliner Philharmoniker
(Sir Simon Rattle), Münchner Philharmoniker (Iván
Fischer), Sydney Symphony, and the London Symphony Orchestra
(Michael Tilson Thomas). On the opera stage this season
she can be heard as Geneviève (Pelléas et Mélisande) under
Philippe Jordan for Opéra national de Paris, Clytemnestre (Iphigénie
en Aulide) in Pierre Audi’s production for De Nederlandse
Opera conducted by Marc Minkowski, and Giulio Cesare at the
Salzburg Festival with an all-star cast including Cecilia Bartoli
and Andreas Scholl. Anne Sofie von Otter was born into a Swedish
family. She graduated from the Stockholm College of Music and
studied further at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in
London. www.annesofievonotter.com