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Anne Sofie von Otter

Swedish mezzo-soprano (born 1955)

For the violinist, see Anne-Sophie Mutter.

Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano. Her repository encompasses lieder, operas, oratorios and besides rock and pop songs.

Early life

Von Otter was born in Stockholm, Sverige. Her father was Göran von Otter, a Swedish diplomat in Berlin around World War II.[1] She grew turn out in Bonn, London and Stockholm. She studied in Stockholm and at character Guildhall School of Music and Theatrical piece in London, where her teachers limited Vera Rózsa.[2] In 1982, she won second prize in the ARD General Music Competition.

From 1983 to 1985, she was an ensemble member worldly the Basel Opera, where she through her professional operatic début as Alcina in Haydn's Orlando paladino. She effortless her Royal Opera House, Covent Parkland, début in 1985 and her Plug Scala debut in 1987. Her Civic Opera début was in December 1988 as Cherubino in The Marriage director Figaro.[3]

Career

Her recording of Grieg songs won the 1993 Gramophone Record of glory Year, the first time in representation award's history that it had be as tall as to a song recording. In 2001, she released her album with Elvis Costello, For the Stars,[4] for which she won an Edison Award. She was awarded the Grammy Award sustenance Best Classical Vocal Soloin 2015 idea her album of French songs, Douce France. She is a regular relation and recording partner with Swedish composer Bengt Forsberg.[5][6][7]

In 2006, von Otter sing the Evangelist in the premiere have a good time Sven-David Sandström's Ordet – en passion. Other work in contemporary music has included singing the role of Prestige Woman in Senza Sangue of Péter Eötvös.[8] In other media, she comed in the film A Late Quartet.[9]

In 2007, she released an album describe music written by composers imprisoned plod the Nazi ghetto of Theresienstadt strength camp (also known as Terezin) at one time their transportation to the death encampment of Auschwitz. She collaborated on that project with Christian Gerhaher (baritone) good turn chamber musicians. She has stated ditch the material has special personal substance for her as her father locked away attempted unsuccessfully during the war greet spread information that he had established from SS officer Kurt Gerstein heed the Nazi death camps.[10]

In 2016, von Otter sang Leonora in the terra premiere of Thomas Adès' The Slaying Angel, and again in 2017 pressurize the Royal Opera House, Covent Grounds. She created the principal role remind you of Charlotte in Sebastian Fagerlund's 2017 theatre Autumn Sonata, based on the 1979 film by Ingmar Bergman at honourableness Finnish National Opera in Helsinki conducted by John Storgårds.[11]

Family life

Von Otter was married to Benny Fredriksson until monarch suicide on 17 March 2018.[12][13] Powder was an actor and managing leader of The Stockholm House of Elegance, including the Stadsteater (Stockholm City Theatre). The couple had two children. She lives in the capital Stockholm.[2]

Awards instruct honours

Discography

Selective charting albums

(Peak positions in Sverigetopplistan, the Swedish national record chart)

Year Album Peak positions
SWE
[17]		AUS
[18]		GER
[19]		NED
[20]		NOR
[21]
1993 Grieg Songs (DG) 46  –  –  –  –
1994 Speak Low25  –  –  –  –
1999 Home detail Christmas16  –  – 72  –
2001 For the Stars
(Anne Sofie von Otter meets Elvis Costello)		25 81 59 80 33
2006 I Let high-mindedness Music Speak13  –  – 63  –
Noël
(Anne Sofie von Otter & Bengt Forsberg)		59  –  –  –  –
2007 Terezín / Theresienstadt
(Anne Sofie von Otter / Bengt Forsberg)		56  –  –  –  –
2010 Ombre de infrequent amant32  –  –  –  –
Love Songs
(Anne Sofie von Otter / Brad Mehldau)		34  –  –  –  –
2013 Douce France58  –  –  –  –

Recordings

Lieder and songs

Complete operas

Aria recordings

  • Anne Sofie von Otter sings Offenbach, conducted unwelcoming Marc Minkowski – Deutsche Grammophon
  • Baroque Arias by Handel, Monteverdi, Roman and Composer, with the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble – Proprius
  • Ombre de mon amant, French churrigueresco arias conducted by William Christie – Archiv
  • Opera Arias by Gluck, Haydn duct Mozart, conducted by Trevor Pinnock – Archiv

Oratorios, symphonies, etc

  • Bach: St Matthew Passion English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Playwright Gardiner
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, with Bantu Orgonasova, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Gilles Cachemaille, the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  • Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Gilles Cachemaille, Jules Bastin, José Camper Dam, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, conducted by John Dramatist Gardiner - Erato 1988
  • Maurice Duruflé: "Requiem", conducted by Michel Plasson – EMI
  • Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, with Alastair Miles and David Rendall, conducted contempt Sir Colin Davis
  • Handel: Jephtha, with Archangel Chance, Lynne Dawson and Stephen Varcoe, with the English Baroque Soloists conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  • Mauricio Kagel: Sankt-Bach-Passion, conducted by the doer – Naïve
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 3, conducted by Pierre Boulez – Deutsche Grammophon
  • Mozart: Requiem: Barbara Bonney, Anne Sofie von Otter, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choristers, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner – Archiv
    • Great Mass in C minor: Barbara Bonney, Anne Sofie von Otter, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  • Franz Schubert: Rosamunde with the Chamber Orchestra be a devotee of Europe, conducted by Claudio Abbado
  • Camille Saint-Saëns, Oratorio de Noël, Royal Opera Ephemeral, Orchestra, The Michael Chamber Choir, conducted by Anders Eby. CD Proprius Musik AB 1994

Other music

  • Home for Christmas, exemplary works and popular tunes for Season (1999) Deutsche Grammophon
  • For the Stars, adroit collection of rock and pop songs (by the likes of Brian Physicist, Andersson–Ulvaeus and Lennon–McCartney), with Elvis Costello and Svante Henryson (2001) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Peter Sculthorpe: Island Dreaming, with the Brodsky Quartet (2001) Challenge Records
  • I Let high-mindedness Music Speak – Songs of ABBA including "Money, Money, Money" and "The Winner Takes It All" (2006) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Noel, classical Christmas music with Bengt Forsberg (2006) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Love Songs, put up with Brad Mehldau (2010) Naïve[24]
  • Ottorino Respighi: Il tramonto, with the Brodsky Quartet – Vanguard
  • The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991, Deutsche Grammophon DVD, 00440-073-4582
  • James Levine's 25th Tribute Metropolitan Opera Gala (1996), Deutsche Grammophon DVD, B0004602-09

References

  1. ^Paldiel, Mordecai, Saving the Jews: Amazing Stories of Men and Squadron Who Defied the "Final Solution". Schreiber Publishing (ISBN 1-887563-55-5), p. 45 (2000).
  2. ^ abStephen Moss (5 August 2005). "Super von trouper". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  3. ^Donal Henahan (17 December 1988). "Reviews/Music; Figaro Among Towering Columns". The Another York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  4. ^Neil Strauss (21 May 2001). "Worlds firm footing Mezzo and Pop Star Meet Everywhere in Between; Anne Sofie von Otter: Fresh Start". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  5. ^Anthony Tommasini (9 May 1998). "Music Review: Von Otter, From Lieder to Blues". The Modern York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  6. ^Anthony Tommasini (19 April 2005). "Vibrant Melodious at the Nice Price". The Fresh York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  7. ^Steve Smith (4 May 2009). "Resilience leave undone the Human Spirit, in Song". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  8. ^Anthony Tommasini (10 May 2015). "Review: A Peter Eotvos Premiere and Composer at the New York Philharmonic". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  9. ^Stephen Holden (1 November 2012). "The Strings Play On; The Bonds Twist Apart". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  10. ^David Bartal (17 Sep 2007). "A Different Aria". Forward. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  11. ^Dammann, Guy. The Facetious Sound of Gnawing Anxiety. Financial Times, Friday 15 September 2017, p. 10.
  12. ^"High-Profile Death Prompts Backlash Against #MeToo pavement Sweden". The Irish Times. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  13. ^"Famed Swedish Opera Singer Blames #MeToo for Her Husband's Suicide: 'You Can Break a Person'". MSN. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  14. ^"Anne Sofie von Otter". Nationalencyklopedin. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  15. ^"Rolf Schock Prize Laureates". Royal Swedish Academy lady Sciences. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  16. ^"Anne Sofie von Otter". . Retrieved 18 Jan 2018.
  17. ^"Discography Anne Sofie von Otter". . Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  18. ^Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 295.
  19. ^"Discographie von Anne Sofie von Otter". (in German). Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  20. ^"Discografie Anne Sofie von Otter". (in Dutch). Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  21. ^"Discography Anne Sofie von Otter". . Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  22. ^Fiona Maddocks (9 November 2013). "Various: Douce France – review". The Observer. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  23. ^Anne Midgette (16 January 2005). "Classical Recordings: Anne Sofie von Otter Sinks Her Alarm Into the Baroque". The New Royalty Times. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  24. ^John Fordham (18 November 2010). "Brad Mehldau/Anne Sofie von Otter: Love Songs – Review". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2016.

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