Biography
The German mezzo-soprano Silvia Hauer comes from Kehl am Rhein and studied at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe in her adolescence. She then studied at the conservatories in Freiburg and Vienna, specializing in opera, song and oratorio. In 2010 she won the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin, Jugend musiziert and held multiple scholarships, including the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, the DAAD and the Richard Wagner Association. In 2010 she won the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin.After guest engagements at the Komische Oper Berlin, she was a member of the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera, where she sang roles such as Annina (La Traviata) Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) Sandmännchen (Hänsel und Gretel) and Carolina (Elegy for young lovers). She worked with conductors such as Kent Nagano, Asher Fish, Dan Ettinger or Paolo Carignani, and was a scholarship holder of the Liedakademie der Heidelberger Frühling, the Mozart-Akademie, the Festival Aix-en-Provence and the Britten Pears Young Artist Program at the Aldeburgh Festival. In 2013/14 she was part of the Potsdamer Winteroper in Mozart's Betulia Liberata (Carmi) under the baton of Antonello Manacorda in well as in new productions of Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino) under Clemens Heil. She sang Carmen (Mercedes) under Markus Poschner at the Theater Bremen. At the Komische Oper she sang in 2016 in La Clemenza di Tito (Annio) under Hendrik Nánási and in 2018 at the Nationaltheater Mannheim in Elektra (1.Magd) under Alexander Soddy.
Since the 2015/2016 season, Silvia Hauer has been a member of the ensemble of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and has performed in roles such as Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Bradamante (Alcina), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Orlowsky (Die Fledermaus) and Olga (Eugene Onegin). At the International May Festival 2019 she was heard as Sesto (La Clemenza di Tito), Maddalena (Rigoletto) and Suzuki (Madama Butterfly). Here she works on an ongoing basis with Uwe Laufenberg and Konrad Junghänel.
The 2019/20 season marked her debut as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier conducted by General Music Director Patrick Lange and directed by Nicolas Brieger.
Silvia Hauer can be regularly heard in concerts and recitals, including under the auspices of the Rheingau Music Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Menuhin Festival, and the Konzerthaus Berlin. Her concert repertoire ranges from Bach's Passions to contemporary music.
Involved in many world premieres, she appeared in Jörg Widmann's Babylon at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Alexander Muno's Vom Meer at the Theater Heidelberg, and Luca Lombardi’s Cinque frammenti di Saffo with Gerold Huber at Killmeyer-Festes im Gasteig München.
She regularly gives song recitals in multiple languages. In January 2018 she performed a song recital ("Weimar in the Pacific") with Gerold Huber in the Alten Aula der Universität Heidelberg with works by German and Austrian composers in exile in Los Angeles. This was recorded by the SWR and broadcast on several television stations. A live recording of her recital program "L'heure exquise" with So-Jin Kim was broadcast by SWR2 in 2019.
Past engagements include the following roles at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden: Hänsel/Hänsel und Gretel, Polina and Daphnis/Pique Dame, Dorabella/Così fan tutte, Sesto/La clemenza di Tito. She was also heard in the symphonic repertoire of Janaček's Missa Glagolitica. In the past season 2022/23 she performed the following roles: Maddalena/ Rigoletto, Octavian/ Der Rosenkavalier and the title role in Carmen.
In the upcoming 2023/24 season, Silvia Hauer will take on a variety of roles at her regular theater. Her engagements include Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel and Mrs. Meg Page in Falstaff.
Artist Website
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Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
Adam | Christmas Truce – Weihnachtsfriede 1914 |
Bach, J.S. | BWV 85: „Ich bin ein guter Hirte“, |
BWV 132: „Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn“ | |
Christmas Oratorio | |
Magnificat | |
St. John Passion | |
St. Matthew Passion | |
Bruckner | Te Deum |
Charpentier | Te Deum |
Duruflé | Requiem |
Händel | Messiah |
Haydn | Missa brevis in F, Hob.XXII:1 |
Harmoniemesse, Hob.XXII:14 | |
Hindemith | Ite, angeli veloces |
Unheimliche Aufforderung für Sopran und Streichquartett | |
Keiser | St. Mark Passion |
Kempter | Pastoralmesse in G |
Kodály | Missa brevis |
Mayr | La Passione |
Mendelssohn | Die erste Walpurgisnacht, op.60 |
Elias, op.70 | |
Mozart | Betulia Liberata / Carmi |
Missa brevis in B, KV 275 | |
Missa brevis in G, KV 140 | |
Missa in c, KV 427 | |
Missa in C, Orgelsolo-Messe, KV 259 | |
Mass in C, KV 337 | |
Requiem | |
Spatzenmesse, KV 220 | |
Nicolai | Te Deum |
Pergolesi | Salve Regina |
Stabat Mater, EB 60 | |
Rossini | Stabat Mater |
Schubert | Messe in B, D 324 |
Messe in G, D 167 | |
Messe in As-Dur, D 678 | |
Vivaldi | Gloria D-Dur, RV 589 |
Wagner | Sieben Kompositionen zu Goethes Faust (H.W. Henze) |
Wesendonck-Lieder (high version after Felix Mottl and low version for chamber orchestra after H.W. Henze | |
Zach | Missa Solemnis ex D |
Repertoire Opera
Bizet | Carmen | Mercedes |
Le Docteur Miracle | Véronique | |
Dvorak | Rusalka | 2nd + 3rd wood sprite |
Händel | Alcina | Bradamante |
Henze | Elegie für junge Liebende | Carolina |
Humperdinck | Hansel and Gretel | Hansel, Sandmännchen |
Janacek | Cunning little vixen | Forester's wife / Owl / Pasek |
Jenufa | Barena | |
Katja Kabanowa | Varvara | |
Massenet | Manon | Rosette |
Mozart | Così fan tutte | Dorabella |
Die Zauberflöte | 2nd lady, 3rd lady | |
La clemenza di Tito | Annio | |
Le nozze di Figaro | Cherubino | |
Puccini | Madama Butterfly | Kate Pinkerton |
Ravel | L ́Enfant et les sortilèges | Pâtre |
Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Rosina |
La Cenerentola | Angelina | |
Strauss, J. | Die Fledermaus | Orlofsky |
Strauss, R. | Der Rosenkavalier | Octavian, 3rd noble orphan |
Die Frau ohne Schatten | A voice from above | |
Elektra | 1st Maid | |
Tschaikowski | Eugen Onegin | Olga |
Verdi | La traviata | Annina |
Flora | ||
Otello | Emilia | |
Wagner | Das Rheingold | Flosshilde |
Götterdämmerung | Flosshilde + 2nd Norn | |
Widmann | Babylon | Planet, Affe |
Zemlinsky | Der Zwerg | 2. Mädchen |
News
Eternally young story
Silvia Hauer (Carmen) and Heather Engebretson (Micaëla) are the protagonists in the Carmen revival at Staatstheater Wiesbaden under the musical direction of Yoel Gamzou and in the staging of Uwe Eric Laufenberg. Alongside them on stage are Aaron Cawley as Don José and Jordan Shanahan as Escamillo, among others.All performance dates:
03/08/18/25/30 June & 04/09 July, 2023
Further information via following link:
www.staatstheater-wiesbaden.de/...
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Pique Dame / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 03.02.22 / fr.de
"[...] Hauer mit ihrer tiefgoldenen Stimme. Für sich genommen klingt sie warm, nuancenreich und erschütternd reif, in strahlender Tiefe überzeugt sie zudem im Duett mit Elena Bezgodkova" Barbier von Sevilla / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 11.09.20 / ioco.de
"Ein Glücksfall ist Silvia Hauer als Rosina"
Barbier von Sevilla / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 08.09.20 / faz.net
"Silvia Hauer als Rosina, die treffend ihr Mezzo-Fundament mit lockeren Koloraturen verbindet."
Der Rosenkavalier / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 17.11.19 / magazin.klassik.com
Der Rosenkavalier / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 14.11.19 / ioco.de
"begeistert als liebreizender Octavian [...] mit jugendlichem Übermut, vollmundig, sinnlich, auftrumpfend und gleichzeitig verletzlich, wo nötig auch deftig."
Madama Butterfly / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 13.05.19 / opernmagazin.de
"sang eine fabelhafte Suzuki, die den Schmerz und die Verbundenheit zur Butterfly szenisch famos darstellt und stimmlich mit großem Volumen und warmen Timbre diese Gefühle vermittelt"
La Clemenza di Tito / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 03.05.19 / wormser-zeitung.de
"Silvia Hauer managed to present a complex character study of Sesto" (Translated)
La Clemenza di Tito / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 02.05.19 / onlinemerker.com
"Silvia Hauer sings with a dark timbred Mezzo in a concentrated and beautiful sound, increasingly flaming and makes her figure the focal point of the opera" (Translated)
La Clemenza di Tito / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 02.05.19 / hboscaiolo.blogspot.com
"Emphasizing Sesto, a breeches role sung and played by the outstanding Mezzo-Soprano Silvia Hauer" (Translated)
Liederabend / Schumannfest Bonn / 21.06.16 / general-anzeiger-bonn.de
"hingebungsvoll und technisch stets souverän"
Katja Kabanowa / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 19.01.16 / fr.de
"die glockenreine, ungemein sympathische Warwara"
Katja Kabanowa / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 16.01.16 / der-neue-merker.eu
"ein auffälliges und großes Debüt"
Konzert / St. Pauls Church, Covent Garden / 24.10.14 / thoroughlymodernmilly.com
"superb singing and also her wonderful acting"