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Evelyn HERLITZIUS |
Evelyn Herlitzius was born in Osnabruck.
She initially received training to become a dancer before she began studying
voice with Professor Hans Kagel and Eckart Lindemann in Hamburg.
Very early on in the Soprano's career, extensive opportunities to give
concerts arose both on the national and international level.Since 1989,
Evelyn Herlitzius has been a grant-holder of the "Oskar and Vera
Ritter Foundation" and was awarded her Diploma in Opera "cum
laude" in the Summer of 1990 from the Hamburg School of Music.
She won 1st place in the "Nuremberg Meistersinger Competition"
in 1993.
Evelyn Herlitzius made her Opera debut in the Autumn of 1993 as "Elisabeth" in Wagner's "Tannhauser" at the Flensburg Regional Theatre. She was then commended in the 1994 OPERAWORLD Yearbook as Most Promising Young Talent for her "brilliant performance as ELISABETH in Wagner's Tannhauser".
In October 1994, the Soprano made her debut at the Hamburg State Opera House as "Ortlinde" in Wagner's "The Valkyrie" with music conducted by Gerd Albrecht.
In December 1994, Evelyn Herlitzius appeared in
a debut performance at the Saarland City Theatre in Saarbrücken as
"Marie" in "Wozzeck" (A. Berg). Since then, she has
performed this role in two other productions for the Opera Houses in Kiel
and Gelsenkirchen.
The singer debuted at the Badischen City Theatre in Karlsruhe in April
1995 as "Gutrune" in "The Twilight of the Gods".
In July 1996, she appeared
for the first time at the "Bregenzer Performance Festival" as
"Leonore" in "Fidelio", after she had already played
the part in July 1995 under the direction of Sir Georg Solti for a UN
Gala Concert in Geneva. She went on to perform new productions staged
at the Opera House in Kiel ("Der Rattenfänger") in June
1996 and in Saarbrucken ("Fidelio") In March 1997.
The Singer's debut at the Bavarian City Opera House in Munich took place
in May 1997 with Henze's "Venus and Adonis".
Since 1997 Evelyn Herlitzius has been working under a 3-year contract
with the Saxony State Opera (designed by Semper) in Dresden.