Katharina Magiera Contralto

Biography

Katharina Magiera began studying the piano at the age of six. She studied singing at the Frankfurt Conservatory under Hedwig Fassbender. She is a scholarship holder of the « Villa Musica » of the Rhineland-Palatinate. In 2006, she won the special prize at the Mozart competition in Würzburg. In concerts, she sings all the major works of the oratorio repertoire.

She is a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble, where she has sung the Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte), the Maid (Der Zwerg), Douniacha (La Fiancée du tsar), Alisa (Lucia di Lammermoor), Carmela (La Vida breve), Orfeo (Orphée et Eurydice), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), the First Maid (Elektra), a Flower Girl (Parsifal), Flosshilde and Schwertleite (Der Ring), Cornelia (Giulio Cesare), Dryade (Ariane à Naxos), Jezibaba (Rusalka), Marzelline (Fidelio), Vania (Ivan Soussanine), Nancy (Martha), the Narrator (La Damoiselle élue), Teresa (La Somnambule), Emilia (Otello), Margret (Wozzeck), Eduige (Rodelinda), Annina (Le Chevalier à la rose), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel)...

She has been invited to Strasbourg and the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Theater an der Wien, the Glyndebourne Festival, and the BBC Proms in London. In recent seasons, she has performed roles such as Jocaste (Œdipus Rex), the Witch (Die Königskinder), Circe / Melanto (Ulisse), Gaea (Daphné), and Marcellina (Les Noces de Figaro) in Frankfurt, Waltraute (Götterdämmerung) at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl, the First Maid at the Baden-Baden Festival, and at the Berlin Philharmonie.

During the 2024-2025 season, she will notably portray Maddalena (Rigoletto) and Bradamante (Alcina) in Frankfurt.

At the Paris Opera: Die Zauberflöte (Third Lady), 2015, 2022; Die Walküre (Schwertleite), 2020; Elektra (First Maid), 2022; Salomé (Page of Herodias), 2022, 2024

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