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Anna STEIGER |
Anna Steiger performs regularly in opera, concert, and recital throughout Europe and the United States.
Since making her highly successful
debut at Glyndebourne in the title role of Monteverdi’s "Incoronazione
di Poppea" she has returned to sing in many productions there in
roles such as Concepcion in "L’Heure Espagnole".
She then began to sing at other Opera houses in the UK, at Covent Garden
in "Parsifal", "Jenufa" and The Knot Garden, and at
the English National Opera in Makropoulos Case.
Since then, she has sung roles as: Despina in Amsterdam, Stuttgart and Zurich, Zerlina in Seattle, Stuttgart and Nancy, Governess in "The Turn of the Screw" at La Fenice, Venice, Jenny in Mahagonny in Los Angeles, Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos in St Louis, Concepcion at the NY City Opera as well as in Geneva, Serpetta in La Finta Giardiniera in Frankfurt and Lausanne, Damigella in the Incoronazione di Poppea at the Salzburg Festival.
In 1994/1995 she decided to follow
her natural vocal leaning towards the mezzo-soprano repertoire with some
success, singing:
Maddalena in Rigoletto at the Opera Monte Carlo
Magdalene in Meistersingers in Stuttgart
Marcellina in Figaro at Monte Carlo, Amsterdam,and Teatro Real of Madrid
Giunone in Agrippina in Palermo
Tisbe in Cenerentola at Bastille and Geneva
Pierrot Lunaire for the Opera de Montpellier
Baronne in Chapeau de Paille by Nino Rota in Toulouse
Ragonde in Comte Ory in Toulouse
Auntie in Peter Grimes in Nancy
Dorothee in Massenet’s Cendrillon in Geneva
Marquise in Fille du Regiment in St Gallen
Kunstgewerblerin in Lulu at Bastille
Flora in Traviata in Amsterdam
Meg Page in Falstaff in Amsterdam
Melanto in Ritorno d’Ulisse
at BAM in NY with Netherlands Opera
La Libellule, La Tasse Chinoise and La Mere in L’Enfant et les Sortileges
at la Fenice, Venice.
Future plans include:
Baronne in Chapeau de Paille in Toulouse
Auntie in Peter Grimes in Toulouse
Tisbe at Bastille
Lulu at Bastille
Streetcar Named Desire in St Gallen
Faust in Avignon
Romeo and Juliette in Orange
Tisbe in Marseille
She has sung many times with Nicolaus
Harnoncourt, and recorded with him the role of Despina for Teldec with
the Concertgebouw Orchestra.
She has also performed with important conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner,
Simon Rattle, Riccardo Chailly, Bruno Campanella, Alberto Zedda, Bernard
Haitink, Kent Nagano, Michael Tilson-Thomas.
She has made a videodisc of Varese’s Offrandes with Pierre Boulez
and the IRCAM of Paris.