SOPRANO
Dorothea Röschmann
Representation: Austria | Concert
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
- +43 (0)5 06 80-012
- machreich@machreich-artists.com
GALLERY
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Flensburg, Germany, Dorothea Röschmann was a member of the Ensemble at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin where in 2017, having sung over 20 roles at the theatre, she was awarded the title of Kammersängerin. She has been a frequent guest at the Salzburg Festival since her debut in 1995 singing Susanna with Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
At the Wiener Staatsoper, she has appeared as Countess Almaviva, Donna Elvira, Susanna, Marschallin and Jenufa. Her many roles at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich include Zerlina, Susanna, Ännchen, Marzelline, Anne Trulove, Elvira, Rodelinda and, in 2019, her role debut as Alceste. Elsewhere in Europe she has appeared at La Monnaie, Brussels, the Opéra Bastille Paris, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden singing Pamina, Fiordiligi, Countess and Donna Elvira. At Teatro alla Scala Milan she has sung Countess Almaviva, Florinda/Fierrabras, and Donna Elvira on tour with the company to the Bolshoi Theatre with Daniel Barenboim. In the U.S. she has appeared many times at the Metropolitan Opera, New York as Susanna, Pamina, Elvira and Ilia, and sang the title roles of Handel’s Theodora and Purcell’s Dido at Carnegie Hall. She has appeared frequently in concert in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Cincinnati and San Diego. Adding to her extensive operatic repertoire, recent role debuts include Elisabeth/Tannhäuser at the Semperoper Dresden and at the Hamburgische Staatsoper, Ariadne at the Edinburgh International Festival and at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and Isolde in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy.
A prolific concert artist, she has recently sung Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Montréal Symphony Orchestra and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Rafael Payare, Isolde in Act III in a concert performance of Tristan und Isolde with Robin Ticciati / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Wesendonck Lieder with Kristiina Poska / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. She could be heard as Isolde in Act II in concert with Robin Ticciati / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in 2023/24 as well as Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder (Tove)with Sir Simon Rattle / Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and his Erwartung with Patrick Hahn / Wiener Symphoniker. Other concert highlights include Schumann’s Faustszenen and Marie in Berg’s Wozzeck with Daniel Harding/Berliner Philharmoniker and Mahler’s Symphony No.4 on tour in Europe with Mariss Jansons/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. She has performed Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder with Daniel Barenboim in Berlin, Daniel Harding in Milan, Antonio Pappano in Rome, Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Rotterdam and Zubin Mehta in Valencia.
She is a renowned recitalist and her recent appearances include London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Het Concertgebouw, the Wiener Konzerthaus and in Antwerp, Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Cologne, Brussels, Oslo, Stockholm, Oxford, and at the Edinburgh, Munich, and Schwarzenberg Festivals. She has sung in recital with Daniel Barenboim at the Schiller Theater and Boulez Saal in Berlin. With Mitsuko Uchida she has performed at the Lucerne Festival, Wigmore Hall and on tour in the U.S culminating in a recital at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The live recording from Wigmore Hall won the Best Solo Vocal Album at the 2017 Grammy Awards.
Other recordings include Ariadne with Lothar Koenigs; Countess Almaviva with Harnoncourt; Pamina and Nannetta with Abbado; Strauss Vier letze Lieder with Nézet-Séguin; Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem with Rattle (winner of a Grammy and Gramophone Award); Mahler Symphony No.4 with Harding; Handel's Neun Deutsche Arien with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Handel’s Messiah with McCreesh; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with David Daniels and Fabio Biondi and a disc of Schumann songs with Ian Bostridge and Graham Johnson. She has released two acclaimed CDs on the Sony Classical label; in 2014, her debut recital album ‘Portraits’ with Malcolm Martineau, and in 2015, a greatly anticipated Mozart arias disc with Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
2024 | 2025
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DISCOGRAPHY
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Arias
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Daniel Harding
Label: Sony | 2015
Robert Schumann: Frauenlieben und Leben & Alban Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder
Piano: Mitsuko Uchida
Label: Decca | 2015
Portraits: Songs by Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Wolf
Piano: Malcolm Martineau
Label: Sony | 2014
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
DVD
Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Dorothea Röschmann, Anna Prohaska, Lauri Vasar, Marianne Crebassa
Staatskapelle Berlin | Staatsopernchor Dresden
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Director: Jürgen Flimm
Label: Accentus | 2018
CONTACT
Representation: Austria | Concert
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
- +43 (0)5 06 80-012
- machreich@machreich-artists.com
