Caroline Stein - soprano
Caroline Stein's clever use of her clear, pure, and yet sustainable soprano voice, provides an ideal basis for distinct artistic interpretation. The singer has always encompassed the perfect combination of personality, voice, and text. NORDBAYERISCHER KURIER
The lyric coloratura soprano Caroline Stein has made a name for herself through both her comprehensive repertoire of traditional opera, as well as through performances of works by contemporary composers such as Ligeti, Henze, Rihm, and Dusapin. She has worked with many distinguished conductors, among them Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir Simon Rattle, Claudio Abbado, Jonathan Nott and Sir Colin Davis.
Born in Königsstein/Taunus, Caroline Stein studied in Claudio Nicolai's master class in Cologne. She has won multiple competitions like the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang, and in 1998 she was nominated for singer of the year by Opernwelt magazine for her distinguished interpretation of Venus/Chief of the Gepopo in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre in Hanover, a role she later on successfully sang with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre London as well as at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. She has performed at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, San Francisco Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, National Theatre Mannheim, Semperoper, Leipzig Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Vlaamse Opera and the Opéra de Québec.
At the Bayreuth Festival, she gave her debuts as the first Flower-maiden in Wagner's Parsifal and as Woglinde in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Further performances in the role of the Flower-maiden took her to the BBC Proms under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, as well as to the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado. Just recently, she has appeared again as Woglinde at the Opéra Bastille in Paris in a production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen by Günter Krämer under the baton of Philippe Jordan.
Caroline Stein has performed many works by contemporary composers, such as Rihm's Die Eroberung von Mexico, Hindemith's Cardillac, and Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers. Under the baton of Michael Boder, she premiered Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Follow-up performances took place at the Opéra de Lyon and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and a DVD of the production was also released. Together with the Berlin Philharmonic, she received high critical acclaim for her interpretation of Zimmermann's Requiem for a young poet under conductor Peter Eötvös and of Mysteries of the Macabre (Ligeti/Howarth) under Sir Simon Rattle (Lucerne and Salzburg Festivals). Highlights from last season include a concert in the Frauenkirche in Dresden of Toshio Hosokawa's Sternlose Nacht with the Dresden Philharmonic, Ligeti's Requiem with the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España in Madrid and Baldini's As if making a confession with the Plural Ensemble.
Since 2007, she has been collaborating with the choreographer Sasha Waltz in Dusapin's one-woman opera Medea, performing different versions of the work in Lausanne, Vilnius, Paris, Berlin, at the Hollandfestival, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Théâtre de Caen, La Monnaie de Munt Brussels and at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse.
Caroline Stein also made a name for herself in the oratorio field, working with ensembles like the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin for Handel's oratorio Il Trionfo del Tempo. Moreover, she worked with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Claudio Abbado for a Deutsche Grammphon recording of Mozart's Zauberflöte and recorded a CD of music by Ernst Krenek as soloist with the RIAS Kammerchor.
This season, she will premiere a new work by Alberto Posadas at the Auditorio Nacional de Música Madrid with Quatuor Diotima and will perform Luca Francesconi's Etymo II with the Orchestre National de Montpellier. Since 2011, she has been teaching singing at Rostock's Hochschule für Musik und Theater.
The lyric coloratura soprano Caroline Stein has made a name for herself through both her comprehensive repertoire of traditional opera, as well as through performances of works by contemporary composers such as Ligeti, Henze, Rihm, and Dusapin. She has worked with many distinguished conductors, among them Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir Simon Rattle, Claudio Abbado, Jonathan Nott and Sir Colin Davis.
Born in Königsstein/Taunus, Caroline Stein studied in Claudio Nicolai's master class in Cologne. She has won multiple competitions like the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang, and in 1998 she was nominated for singer of the year by Opernwelt magazine for her distinguished interpretation of Venus/Chief of the Gepopo in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre in Hanover, a role she later on successfully sang with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre London as well as at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. She has performed at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, San Francisco Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, National Theatre Mannheim, Semperoper, Leipzig Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Vlaamse Opera and the Opéra de Québec.
At the Bayreuth Festival, she gave her debuts as the first Flower-maiden in Wagner's Parsifal and as Woglinde in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Further performances in the role of the Flower-maiden took her to the BBC Proms under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, as well as to the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado. Just recently, she has appeared again as Woglinde at the Opéra Bastille in Paris in a production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen by Günter Krämer under the baton of Philippe Jordan.
Caroline Stein has performed many works by contemporary composers, such as Rihm's Die Eroberung von Mexico, Hindemith's Cardillac, and Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers. Under the baton of Michael Boder, she premiered Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Follow-up performances took place at the Opéra de Lyon and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and a DVD of the production was also released. Together with the Berlin Philharmonic, she received high critical acclaim for her interpretation of Zimmermann's Requiem for a young poet under conductor Peter Eötvös and of Mysteries of the Macabre (Ligeti/Howarth) under Sir Simon Rattle (Lucerne and Salzburg Festivals). Highlights from last season include a concert in the Frauenkirche in Dresden of Toshio Hosokawa's Sternlose Nacht with the Dresden Philharmonic, Ligeti's Requiem with the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España in Madrid and Baldini's As if making a confession with the Plural Ensemble.
Since 2007, she has been collaborating with the choreographer Sasha Waltz in Dusapin's one-woman opera Medea, performing different versions of the work in Lausanne, Vilnius, Paris, Berlin, at the Hollandfestival, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Théâtre de Caen, La Monnaie de Munt Brussels and at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse.
Caroline Stein also made a name for herself in the oratorio field, working with ensembles like the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin for Handel's oratorio Il Trionfo del Tempo. Moreover, she worked with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Claudio Abbado for a Deutsche Grammphon recording of Mozart's Zauberflöte and recorded a CD of music by Ernst Krenek as soloist with the RIAS Kammerchor.
This season, she will premiere a new work by Alberto Posadas at the Auditorio Nacional de Música Madrid with Quatuor Diotima and will perform Luca Francesconi's Etymo II with the Orchestre National de Montpellier. Since 2011, she has been teaching singing at Rostock's Hochschule für Musik und Theater.
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