Biography
The soprano, Martina Welschenbach, was born in Stuttgart, Germany. She studied music at the Stuttgart Conservatory, at the Guildhall School of Music, and at the Royal College of Music in London.Whilst still studying, she gave guest performances in minor roles at Staatstheater Stuttgart and at the National Theater in Zagreb. She has won grants from the Konstantin and Kid Lambert foundation and from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
In 2005, she joined the International Opera Studio at the opera house in Zürich. Within a few weeks, she was engaged as a member of the ensemble at the opera house. By the season of 2008/09, Welschenbach changed to the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she has performed in roles such as Musetta/La Bohème, Gretel/Hansel and Gretel, Oscar/Un ballo in maschera, Ännchen/Der Freischütz, and Echo/Ariadne auf Naxos, as well as Clorinda/La Cenerentola, Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro, Zerlina/Don Giovanni, Micaëla/Carmen, Pamina/Die Zauberflöte, Woglinde/Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, Karolka/Jenufa, Solveig/Peer Gynt, Liu/Turandot, and Vixen/Cunning Little Vixen.
Throughout her career, Martina Welschenbach has worked with such renowned stage directors as Claus Michael Gruber, Jens-Daniel Herzog, Martin Kuschej, Carlo Lievi, Christof Loy, Giancarlo del Monaco, and David Pountney and conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Fedosejev , Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Cornelius Meister, Ingo Metzmacher, Carlo Rizzi, Donald Runnicles, Nello Santi, Peter Schneider, Franz Welser-Möst, Jonathan Nott, and Sir Simon Rattle.
In the season 2012/13, she made her debut as Freia in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, successfully breaking ground in German repertoire.
Guest engagements and concerts led her to Vienna, Paris, Lucerne, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Eutin, Leipzig, and Gera. Highlights include her acclaimed debut at the Opéra National de Paris as Regina in Mathis der Maler under Christoph Eschenbach, the role of Thekla/Wallenstein with the ORF under Cornelius Meister at the Vienna Konzerthaus, her role debut as Fiordilig/Così fan tutte in a concert version under Marcus Bosch, the role debut of Tatjana/Eugene Onegin in several concertante performances with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie, as well as her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with Claude Debussys’ La Damoiselle élue under the baton of Donald Runnicles.
From season 2015/16 on, Martina Welschenbach works freelance, but remains an acclaimed guest singer at Deutsche Oper Berlin, her roles including Mimì/La Bohème, Europa/Die Liebe der Danae, Irene in Wagner’s Rienzi, Senta/Der fliegende Holländer, Freia/Das Rheingold, Helmwige/Die Walküre as well as Fiordiligi/Così fan tutte and Gretel/Hansel and Gretel. Another important role debut was the title role in the new production of Lulu at Wuppertaler Bühnen in Germany.
In the current season, she will, among other things, be embodying Chrysothemis/Elektra at Theater Bonn, Irene/Rienzi at Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as Senta/Der fliegende Holländer in Rennes and Nantes.
Artist Website
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Natascha van Randenborgh
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Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
| Bach, J.S. | Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen |
| Kaffeekantate | |
| Britten | Ceremony of Carols |
| Fauré | Requiem |
| Grieg | Peer Gynt / Solveig |
| Mahler | Symphony no. 4 |
| Mendelssohn | Elijah |
| Mozart | Coronation Mass |
| Exultate Jubilate | |
| Requiem | |
| Vespere solennes de Confessore | |
| Orff | Carmina Burana |
| Suter | Le Laudi oli.25 |
Repertoire Opera
| Berg | Lulu | Lulu |
| Berlioz | Les Troyens | Hécube |
| Bizet | Carmen | Micaëla |
| Britten | Peter Grimes | Niece |
| Hindemith | Mathis der Maler | Regina |
| Humperdinck | Hansel and Gretel | Gretel |
| Königskinder | Innkeeper's daughter | |
| Janacek | Jenufa | Karolka |
| The Cunning Little Vixen | Vixen | |
| Mozart | Così fan tutte | Fiordiligi |
| Die Zauberflöte | 1st Lady | |
| Pamina | ||
| Papagena | ||
| Don Giovanni | Donna Anna | |
| Zerlina | ||
| La finta giardiniera | Ramiro | |
| Le nozze di Figaro | Contessa | |
| Susanna | ||
| Puccini | La Bohème | Mimi |
| Musetta | ||
| Turandot | Liù | |
| Rossini | La Cenerentola | Clorinda |
| Strauss, R. | Ariadne auf Naxos | Echo |
| Die Liebe der Danae | Europa | |
| Elektra | 5th Maid | |
| Intermezzo | Anna | |
| Tchaikovski | Eugene Onegin (Concert) | Tatjana |
| Verdi | Don Carlo | Tebaldo |
| Nabucco | Anna | |
| Rigoletto | La contessa di Ceprano | |
| Un ballo in maschera | Oscar | |
| Wagner | Das Rheingold | Freia |
| Woglinde | ||
| Die Meistersinger v. Nürnberg | Eva | |
| Die Walküre | Ortlinde | |
| Götterdämmerung | Woglinde | |
| Parsifal | 1st Esquire | |
| Flowermaiden | ||
| Rienzi | Irene | |
| Tannhäuser | Shepherd | |
| Weber | Der Freischütz | Ännchen |
| Weinberger | Wallenstein | Thekla |
| Zandonai | Francesca da Rimini | Samaritana |
News
Wagnerian waves of sound at the river Spree
Martina Welschenbach was a part of the final concert of the Musikfest Berlin at Philharmonie Berlin. Under the baton of Donald Runnicles and, among others, alongside Bryn Terfel (Wotan) and Anja Harteros (Sieglinde) she sang the part of Helmwige in a concertante performance of the 3. act of Die Walküre.Following this concert she has returned to her Berlin parent house, the Deutsche Oper, where she performed the role of Senta in Christian Spuck’s staging of The Flying Dutchman.
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