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Biography

Ursula Hesse von den Steinen received her vocal training at Hochschule der Künste Berlin. She refined her skills in master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender and Aribert Reimann. During her studies, she received numerous prizes at national and international competitions.

From 1999 until 2002, she was a member of the ensemble at Semperoper in Dresden. Since then, she freelanced and accepted invitations of many European opera houses. Among others, she gave her debut at the Opéra Bastille in Paris as Anna/Die sieben Todsünden. Further engagements were in Amsterdam, Bonn, Hamburg, Paris, Barcelona, Naples, at the Ruhr-Triennale, and at Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels.

During the past seasons, Ursula Hesse von den Steinen has been especially celebrated for her Wagner performances as Fricka in Rheingold and Walküre at the Nuremberg Ring cycle, at Aalto Theater Essen, and in Macao, as Venus in Tannhäuser at Nationaltheater of Mannheim, and her debut as Ortrud in Lohengrin in Bern, as well as for the role premiere of Jitsuko Honda in the opera Hanjo at the RuhrTriennale in the production of Calixto Bieito in the season 2011/12 and at Staatsoper Berlin in 2012/13.
Further successes were her debut as Prince Orlofsky/Die Fledermaus at the Glyndebourne Festival, her performances as Clairon in Strauss’ Capriccio and Dalila/Samson et Dalila at Opera Cologne, as Mary/Wozzeck in Tokyo, Carmen/Carmen at Vienna Volksoper, and as Lucy in the world premiere of Eötvös’ The Tragedy of the Devil at the Bavarian State Opera Munich.
Furthermore, she sang the title role in Henze’s Phaedra at Deutsche Oper am Rhein with outstanding success, as well as Mother Goose/The Rake’s Progress at Opéra National de Paris, Knusperhexe/Hansel and Gretel and Foreign Princess/Rusalka at Komische Oper Berlin, and debuted the role of Adriano in Wagner’s Rienzi in Riga, when the city was the European Capital of Culture.

Ursula Hesse von den Steinen worked with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Herbert Blomstedt, Semyon Bychkov, Vladimir Fedossejew, Michael Gielen, Eliahu Inbal, Marek Janowski, Vladimir Jurowski, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Markus Stenz, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, James Levine, and Sebastian Weigle.

The versatile singer is home on concert stages as well as opera stages. Her repertoire encloses not only classical pieces but also contemporary music. In recent years, she performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonics, Orchestra Rai Torino, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden in Moscow, Lisbon, and Amsterdam.

In season 2017/18 she will sing Glanert’s ‘Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch’ with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and Markus Stenz at the conductor’s stand at the Elbphilharmonie. On the opera stage she will take on the roles of Klytämnestra/Elektra at Theater Basel, Gräfin de la Roche/Die Soldaten under the baton of Francois-Xavier Roth at Opera Cologne, and Podtochina in Barrie Kosky’s staging of Shostakovich’s The Nose at the Komische Oper Berlin.

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Artist Manager

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Repertoire

Repertoire Concert

Bach, J.S.	B minor mass
	BWV 1083 (nach Pergolesi)
	Christmas Oratorio
	St. John Passion
	St. Matthew Passion
Beethoven	Symphony no. 9
Brahms	Alt-Rhapsodie
Bruckner	Te Deum
de Falla	El amor brujo
	Siete Canciones Populares
Hindemith	Des Todes Tod
	Die junge Magd
Händel	Judas Maccabäus
	Messiah
Janacek	Das Tagebuch eines Verschollenen
Mahler	Symphony no. 2
	Symphony no. 3
	Kindertotenlieder
	Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
	Wunderhornlieder
Mendelssohn	Elias
Mozart	Concert arias (e.g. KV 272, 383, 505)
	Requiem
Pergolesi	Stabat Mater
Purcell	Dido and Aeneas
Ravel	Trois Poemes de St. Mallarmé
Reimann	Eingedunkelt (Altsolo nach P.Celan)
Rihm	Lieder nach Paul Celan
Rossini	Petite Messe solennelle
	Stabat Mater
Shostakovich	From Jewish Folk Poetry, Vocal cycle Op. 79
Stravinsky	Pribautki
Wagner	Wesendonck-Lieder
Weber	Nachgelassene Stücke (nach George)
Wolf	Der Corregidor

Repertoire Opera

Berg	Wozzeck	Marie
Bizet	Carmen	Carmen
		Mercedes
Britten	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Hermina
Gluck	Orfeo ed Euridice	Orfeo
Händel	Alcina	Ruggiero
	Xerxes	Amastris
		Xerxes
Monteverdi	L'Orfeo	Messagiera
	L’incoronazione di Poppea	Nerone
Mozart	Betulia liberata	Judita
	Così fan tutte	Dorabella
	Die Zauberflöte	2. Dame, 3. Dame
	Le nozze di Figaro	Cherubino
	Titus	Sextus
Nicolai	Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor	Frau Reich
Offenbach	Les contes d'Hoffmann	Giulietta
		La Muse / Nicklausse
Pintscher	Thomas Chatterton	Mother
Puccini	Gianni Schicchi	Ciesca
		Zita
	Il tabarro	Frugola
	Manon Lescaut	Musiker
Rossini	Il barbiere di Siviglia	Rosina
	Il turco in Italia	Donna Fiorilla
		Zaida
	L' Italiana in Algeri	Isabella
	La Cenerentola	Angelina
Strauss, J.	Die Fledermaus	Prinz Orlofsky
Strauss, R.	Elektra	1.Magd
Ullmann	Der Kaiser von Atlantis	Trommler
Verdi	Don Carlo	Eboli
	Falstaff	Meg Page
	Rigoletto	Maddalena
Wagner	Das Rheingold	Fricka
		Wellgunde
	Der fliegende Holländer	Mary
	Die Meistersinger v. Nürnberg	Magdalene
	Die Walküre	Fricka
		Roßweiße
	Götterdämmerung	2. Norn
		Waltraute
		Wellgunde
	Tannhäuser	Venus

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News

For the first time as Klytämnestra in Basel

Following Herodias, another great Strauss role debut now awaits. Ursula Hesse von den Steinen will be on stage as Klytämnestra in David Bösch’s staging of Elektra at Theater Basel. She can be seen and heard in this highly expressive mother’s role with Erik Nielsen at the conductor’s stand leading the archaic forces of sound on the following dates: January 12th/15th/18th/21st/26th/; February 1st/16th/; March 3rd/13th/21st and April 08th/23rd.