Biography
Bettina Ranch initially studied violin in her hometown of Berlin and only later swiched to singing. She is currently receiving vocal guidance from the opera singer Caroline Merz. She has performed at many significant venues including the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Hamburg, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, and Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, where she drew much of attention with the repertoire ranging from baroque to Wagnererian engagements.In the concert domain, she regularly proves her versatility with a varied repertoire, including works such as Mozart's Masses, Johann Sebastian Bach's Passions and Mass in B minor, Handel's "Messiah," Beethoven's "Missa solemnis," Verdi's Requiem, Dvořák's "Stabat Mater," and works by Gustav Mahler such as "Das klagende Lied" and Symphony No. 2. Bruckner's Te Deum, Franz Schmidt's Book with Seven Seals and Nono's Il Canto sospeso, in which she made her debut at the Salzburger Festspiele.
She has worked with ensembles like the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, International Bach Academy Stuttgart, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Dresdner Philharmonie, Bremer Philharmoniker, the Gewandhaus Orchester, SWR Symphonieorchester, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the RTVE Madrid Symphony Orchestra, DSO Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, and Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. She has collaborated with conductors such as Hartmut Haenchen, Markus Poschner, Simone Young, Tomáš Netopil, Helmuth Rilling, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Rubén Dubrovsky, Paul Goodwin, Peter Rundel, Marc Albrecht, Krzysztof Urbański, Christoph König and Ivor Bolton.
Since the 2016/17 season Bettina Ranch has been a member of the ensemble at the Aalto-Theater in Essen, where she has sung the title roles of Carmen and Orfeo/Euridice, as well as roles such as Fricka/Die Walküre, Adalgisa/Norma, Maddalena/Rigoletto, Fenena/Nabucco, Sesto/La clemenza di Tito, Dorabella/Così fan tutte, Annina/Rosenkavalier, Cain in Scarlatti's Cain and Abel and many others.
Her 2022/23 concert season included numerous debuts with works as Wagner's "Wesendonck-Lieder" (with the Essener Philharmoniker under Erik Nielsen) and Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri" with the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie Chemnitz and MDR Radio Choir under Guillermo García Calvo. She made her house debut with J.S. Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie under Hans-Jörg Albrecht, returned to the Milan Auditorium to sing Mozart's Requiem with Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano under Claus Peter Flor, and performed Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's Symphony "Lobgesang" as well as Mahler's Symphony No. 3 with the Essener Philharmoniker under Tomáš Netopil. At the Eseen Opera House she sung the title role in "Carmen," Ramiro in "La finta giardiniera," Adelaide in "Arabella," and reprised her role as Marcellina in a new production of "Le nozze di Figaro" directed by Floris Visser.
The 2023/24 season will bring exciting projects for Bettina Ranch. The season starts for the artist with a guest performances at the Cologne Opera House, where she sings Dorabella in "Così fan tutte" under Gábor Káli and director Tatjana Gürbaca. At the Essen Opera House, she will make two important role debuts: Amneris in "Aida" and Brangäne in "Tristan und Isolde" under the new music director Andrea Sanguineti. She will also appear in revival productions of "Wozzeck" and Puccini's "Il Trittico."
In concert, she will again perform works by Gustav Mahler as Symphony No. 2 at the Auditorium di Milano under Andrey Boreyko and Symphony No. 8 (Mezzo-soprano 1) at the Duomo di Milano under Claus Peter Flor, both with the Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro Sinfonico di Milano. Additionally, she will join Thomas Berning and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle Bielefeld to sing in a Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's oratorio "Elias", at the Philharmonie Essen, she will perform Bruckner's "Te Deum” wotj the Essener Philharmoniker and Andrea Sanguinetti as conductor. In the summer of 2024, she will embark on a tour to Beijing with the role of Fricka in "Das Rheingold".
Numerous recordings document her career, such as Franz Schmidt's Book with Seven Seals, which was released by Oehms Classics with the Hamburger Philharmoniker/NDR Chor under the musical direction of Simone Young, Joseph Haydn's Il Ritorno di Tobia by Sony Classics with the Salzburg Mozarteumorchester/ Salzburg Bach Choir conducted by Ivor Bolton. Most recently, Mahler's 2nd and 3rd symphonies appeared with her particiaption on OEHMS Classics in 2022 and 2023, with Tomáš Netopil conducting the Essener Philahrmoniker.
Artist Website
www.bettinaranch.comManagement
General ManagementArtist Manager
Natascha van Randenborgh
Associate Director
natascha@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-173-7 76 88 20
Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
Bach, C.P.E. | Magnificat |
Bach, J.C. | Magnificat |
Bach, J.S. | h-moll-Messe |
Johannes-Passion | |
Kantaten (div.) | |
Magnificat | |
Matthäus-Passion | |
Weihnachtsoratorium | |
Beethoven | 9. Sinfonie |
Messe C-Dur Op. 86 | |
Missa solemnis | |
Bernstein | Chichester-Psalms |
Brahms | Alt-Rhapsodie |
Liebeslieder-Walzer | |
Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer | |
Lieder (div.) | |
Bruckner | Messe in d-Moll |
Messe in f-Moll | |
Te Deum | |
Duruflé | Requiem |
Dvořák | Requiem |
Stabat Mater | |
Messe D-Dur | |
Gade | Korsfarerne/ Kreuzfahrer |
Gessel | Vater ich will, dass wo ich bin BG PAN Ms. Cath.f.46 |
Haydn | Arianna a Naxos |
Die Sieben Worte | |
Il ritorno di Tobia / Anna | |
Harmoniemesse | |
Nelsonmesse | |
Paukenmesse | |
Schöpfungsmesse | |
Stabat Mater | |
Händel | Dettinger Te Deum |
Israel in Ägypten | |
Jephtha / Storgè | |
Johannes-Passion | |
Messiah | |
Solomon | |
Neun deutsche Arien | |
Hoffmann | Nun lob meine Seele den Herren BG Ms. Joh. 162 |
Homilius | Johannes-Passion |
Weihnachtsoratorium | |
Lang | Fichten |
Liszt | Die Legende der heiligen Elisabeth / Sophie |
Mahler | Das klagende Lied |
2. Sinfonie | |
3. Sinfonie | |
8. Sinfonie | |
Martin | 6 Monologe aus Jedermann |
Mendelssohn | 3 geistliche Lieder Op.96 |
Elias | |
Lobgesang | |
Paulus | |
Sommernachtstraum | |
Mohrheim | Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen BG PAN Ms. Joh. 385 |
Mozart | Betulia Liberata / Giuditta |
c-moll-Messe | |
Davidde penitente | |
Krönungsmesse | |
Messias | |
Missa Solemnis | |
Requiem | |
Thamos | |
Vesperae | |
Nicolai | Messe in D |
Nono | Il canto sospeso |
Palmeri | Misa A Buenos Aires / Misatango |
Penderecki | Credo |
Pergolesi | Stabat Mater |
Pucklitz | Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt BG PAN Ms. Joh 245 |
Rossini | Petite Messe solennelle |
Schreier | Er ist nicht |
Schmidt | Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln |
Schumann | Das Paradies und die Peri |
Faust-Szenen | |
Spanische Liebeslieder | |
Spanisches Liederspiel | |
Lieder (div.) | |
Rheinische | |
Schubert | Magnificat |
Messe in As | |
Messe in B | |
Messe in Es | |
Ständchen | |
Spohr | Die letzten Dinge |
Suppè | Requiem |
Telemann | Deutsches Magnificat |
Matthäus-Passion | |
Verdi | Requiem |
Vivaldi | Dixit Dominus |
Magnificat | |
Stabat Mater | |
Wagner | Wesendonk - Lieder |
Zelenka | Lamentatio II |
Zimmermann | Die Soldaten - Vokalsinfonie |
Repertoire Opera
Bellini | Norma | Adalgisa |
Bizet | Carmen | Carmen |
Dusapin | Medea | Medeastimme 4 |
Donizetti | Lucia di Lammermoor | Alisa |
Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice | Orfeo |
Gounod | Faust | Marthe Schwertlein |
Graupner | Berenice und Lucilla | Lucilla |
Händel | Alcina | Bradamante |
Ariodante | Ariodante | |
Giulio Caesare | Cornelia | |
Giulio Cesare | ||
Lotario | Matilde | |
Semele | Ino | |
Juno | ||
Xerxes | Amastris | |
Marschner | Hans Heiling | Gertrude |
Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | Dritte Dame |
La Betulia liberata | Giuditta | |
La clemenza di Tito | Sesto | |
Cosí fan tutte | Dorabella | |
La finta Giardiniera | Ramiro | |
Le nozze di Figaro | Marcellina | |
Offenbach | Les contes d'Hoffmann | Stimme aus dem Grab |
Giulietta - (Mezzofassung) | ||
Un Mari á la Porte | Susanne | |
Prokofiev | L'amour des trois oranges | Clarice |
Puccini | Il trittico | Frugola |
La Principessa | ||
Purcell | Dido and Aeneas | Sorceress |
Spirit | ||
Scarlatti | Il primo omicidio | Cain |
Smetana | Die verkaufte Braut | Ludmila |
Strauss, J. | Die Fledermaus | Prinz Orlofsky |
Strauss, R. | Elektra | 1. Magd |
Arabella | Adelaide | |
Valtinoni | Die Schneekönigin | Blumenfrau / Frau aus Lappland |
Verdi | Aida | Partie Amneris |
Nabucco | Fenena | |
Rigoletto | Maddalena | |
La Traviata | Annina | |
Luisa Miller | Federica | |
Otello | Emilia | |
Vivaldi | L'Olimpiade | Licida |
Wagner | Das Rheingold | Erda, Fricka, Flosshilde |
Die Walküre | Fricka, Schwertleite, Siegrune | |
Götterdämmerung | 1.Norn, Flosshilde, Waltraute | |
Ring an einem Abend | Fricka, Waltraute |
Discography
Haydn "Harmoniemesse"Erschienen Oktober 2016 bei Rondeau
Reussisches Kammerorchester
Kammerchor der Frauenkirche Dresden
Matthias Grünert
Ina Siedlaczek / Tobias Hunger / Tobias Berndt
Franz Schmidt "Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln"
Erschienen Januar 2016 bei OehmsClassics
Philharmoniker Hamburg
NDR-Chor / Staatschor Latvia
Simone Young
Klaus Florian Vogt / Georg Zeppenfeld / Inga Kalna / Bettina Ranch / Dovlet Nurgeldiyev
Muzyczne Dziedzictwo Miasta Gdańska Vol. VI
Kantaty Na Święto Zesłania Ducha Świętego i
Wniebowstąpienie
Erschienen Dezember 2015 bei SARTON
Goldberg Baroque Ensemble
Andrzej Mikołaj Szadejko-dyrygent
Adam Pastuszka-koncertmistrz
Ingrida Gápová-sopran
Klaudia Trzasko-sopran
Bettina Ranch-alt
Georg Poplutz-tenor
Stefan Geyer-bas
Johann Georg Hoffmann (1700-1780)
Kantata na niedzielę Cantate Nun lob meine Seel den Herren
Friedrich Christian Mohrheim (1719-1780)
Kantata na Wniebowstąpienie Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen
Gessel (XVIII w.)
Kantata na Wniebowstąpienie Vater ich will, dass wo ich bin
Anonim (XVII w.)
Kantata na Święto Zesłania Ducha Świętego Veni Sancte Spiritus
Johann Daniel Pucklitz (1705-1774)
Kantata na Święto Zesłania Ducha Świętego Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt
Anonim (XVIII w.) –
Kantata na Święto Zesłania Ducha Świętego Veni Sancte Spiritus
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News
A new Ring is being forged!
Beijing is getting a new Ring, and several BOM artists are helping to forge it! The new staging by Italian stage director Stefano Poda features Bettina Ranch as Fricka, Tómas Tómasson as Alberich and Robert Bork as Donner, alongside colleagues such as Egils Siliņš (Wotan), Arnold Bezuyen (Mime) and Christian Franz (Loge).The production is conducted by Lü Jia and can be experienced at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts on the following nights:
August 28/30 & September 01/03, 2024
Further information:
www.chncpa.org/...
Between Ireland and Cornwall with Tristan and Isolde
Following Bettina Ranch's highly acclaimed Amneris in Aida, the next major role debut will now take place at her home theatre in Essen, Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. The premiere, directed by Barrie Kosky and conducted by GMD Andrea Sanguineti, will take place on 21 April 2024.Further performance dates:
www.theater-essen.de
Top-class Amneris debut!
For the Berlin mezzo-soprano, the still new year begins with an exciting role debut. Under the new Italian GMD of the Aalto-Theater and the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrea Sanguineti, she sings Amneris in Aida. The revival premiere on 16 February 2024 in the cult staging by Dietrich W. Hilsdorf was a triumph for Bettina Ranch and one can already look forward to her next role debut as Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde on 21 April in Essen, where she will be able to draw attention to herself a second time in the dramatic mezzo repertoire.Performance dates Aida: 24.2./7.3./7.4.2024
Performance dates Tristan and Isolde: 21.4./28.4./5.5./12.5.2024
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Press
Tristan und Isolde / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 15.05.24 / cult.news
"Nous avons rarement vu une Brangäne occupant à ce point sa place, de manière aussi spectaculaire et l'ovation spéciale qui l'a accueillie a étè sincère et spontanée [...]"
Tristan und Isolde / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 22.04.24 / onlinemerker.de
"Sehr selten durfte ich bisher eine Brangäne auf so hohem sanglichen Niveau erleben. Neben der optisch attraktiven Erscheinung glänzte Bettina Ranch mit höhensicherem Mezzosopran, schenkte ihrem Wachgesang mit wunderschönem Timbre ein weiches, traumhaftes, ebenmäßiges Fluten des herrlichen Materials, trumpfte ebenso mächtig auf und in keiner Phase verlor die bestens fokussierte Stimme an Schönheit und klangvoller Substanz. Bravo!"
CD: Mahler 3 / Essener Philharmoniker - Tomáš Netopil / 15.06.23 / deropernfreund.de
"Ein besonderes Highlight dieser Aufnahme sind die verschiedenen Chöre und die Altistin, die in Mahlers dritter Sinfonie zum Einsatz kommen. Bettina Ranch als Alt-Solistin bringt einen satt tönenden Stimmklang und eine authentische Ausdruckskraft in ihr Solo. Ihre Textverständlichkeit ist mustergültig, sodass dieser Satz eine tiefe Eindringlichkeit erfährt."
Il Trittico/ Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 23.01.22 / opernmagazin.de
"Frugola in Il Tabarro [...] Fürstin in Suor Angelica [...] zwei glänzende Rollendebüts"
Dido & Aeneas / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 02.01.22 / omm.de
"Bettina Ranch gestaltet die Zauberin, Didos Alter Ego, mit sattem Mezzosopran"
La Clemenza di Tito / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 22.06.17 / waz.de
"einen Auftritt[...], der nicht nur die Kritiker zu Lobeshymnen hinriss"
La Clemenza di Tito / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 06.06.17 / literaturundfeuilleton.wordpress.com
"allen voran Publikumsliebling Bettina Ranch"
La Clemenza di Tito / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 05.06.17 / waz.de
"wird zum Triumph für Bettina Ranch"
La Clemenza di Tito / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 03.06.17 / theaterpur.net
"an diesem Abend sicher prima inter pares"
Nabucco / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 17.04.17 / operaticsonline.com
"her sense of bel canto is impeccable"
Norma / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 12.10.16 /
opernnetz.de
"in allen Lagen weiche und mühelos ansprechende Stimme"
Norma / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 08.10.16 / der-neue-merker.eu
"von feinem Glanz geadeltem Gesang"