Ida Aldrian

Ida Aldrian © Christoph Ziegler

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Austrian mezzo-soprano Ida Aldrian was born in Bruck an der Mur and received her first singing lessons with Sigrid Rennert. As a student at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Leopold Spitzer and Karlheinz Hanser, she graduated with distinction in Stage Performance as well as Lied and Oratorio with KS Marjana Lipovšek. She attended master classes with Ann Murray, Bernarda Fink, Reri Grist, Peter Kooij, Andrew Watts, Thomas Hampson, Wicus Slabbert, Alan Titus and Brigitte Fassbänder, among others.

After appearing in several productions of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera between 2012 and 2015, she became a permanent ensemble member of the Staatstheater Nürnberg for the following three seasons. Her varied roles included Penelope (Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria), Idamante (Idomeneo), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Isabella (L'italiana in Algeri), Adalgisa (Norma), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Mercédès (Carmen), Prince Orlowsky (Die Fledermaus) and Maddalena (Rigoletto).

Ida Aldrian made her debut as the Third Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Staatsoper Berlin, a role she subsequently took to Opernhaus Zürich. After stepping in last-minute as Dorabella for the new Hamburg State Opera production of Così fan tutte staged by Herbert Fritsch, she became a permanent ensemble member in 2019/2020 and can be heard this season as Fjodor (Boris Godunow), Zweite Magd (Elektra), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Rosette (Manon) and Flora Bervoix (La Traviata). At the Handel Festival Halle, Ida Aldrian made her debut in the title role of Handel's Ariodante with the Lautten Compagney Berlin conducted by Wolfgang Katschner.

Equally devoted to the concert stage, Ida Aldrian has worked with numerous European ensembles and orchestras such as Concentus Musicus Wien, L'Orfeo Barockorchester, the Wiener Akademie orchestra, the Haydn and Minetti Quartets, the baroque orchestras Capella Leopoldina, Neue Hofkapelle Graz and Barucco, the Norwegian ensemble Barokksolistene, the Bach Consort Wien and the French ensemble Pygmalion.

Key highlights of her concert career to date have included a New Year's Eve matinee with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano and a concert tour of the Balthasar Neumann Choir & Ensemble led by Thomas Hengelbrock. Further notable performances included Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Simone Young in Hamburg and Mozart’s Requiem under Pablo Heras-Casado in Salzburg. At the Styriarte Festival she appeared in Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, while at the Brucknerfest Linz and Theater Magdeburg she sang in Telemann’s Miriways, and was engaged as Singer in Residence at the Trigonale and Osterklang Festival.

Further engagements took Ida Aldrian to the Vienna Konzerthaus with Robert Schumann's Requiem für Mignon under Cornelius Meister and the Vienna RSO. At the Vienna Musikverein she sang as soloist in Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion and St John Passion, as well as his Mass in B minor under Martin Haselböck, and in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night's Dream under Fabio Luisi and the Wiener Symphoniker. At the International Baroque Days at Melk Abbey she could be heard in Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt under the direction of Christopher Moulds, while at the Attergauer Kultursommer, the Donaufestwochen in Strudengau and at the Festival Musica Sacra in St. Pölten she sang the solo part in Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah. Together with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra under its principal conductor Simon Gaudenz, the mezzo-soprano made her debut as a soloist in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3. As part of the Wagner-Lesarten project, she gave guest performances with Concerto Köln as Wellgunde in Wagner's Das Rheingold and Die Walküre under the baton of Kent Nagano in Cologne, Prague, Amsterdam, Lucerne, at the Ravello Festival and the Dresden Music Festival. In the current season, Ida Aldrian is also making her debut with the Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra as a soloist in Mahler's Second Symphony ("Resurrection Symphony").

As an artist with a particular devotion to Lied singing, Ida Aldrian has appeared at numerous venues including the Vienna and Graz Musikverein. At the Ocean Sun Festival on the MS Europa, she was accompanied for the first time by Helmut Deutsch, with whom she has since given recitals at the Staatstheater Nuremberg, deSingel International Art Centre in Antwerp, the Deutschlandsberg Klavierfrühling concert series and the Lied Festival "Der Zwerg" in Sindelfingen. In autumn 2019, Ida Aldrian was a guest at Schloss Walpersdorf together with the baritone Konstantin Krimmel and Helmut Deutsch at the piano as part of a song gala. Together with the tenor Jan Petryka, Ida Aldrian performed a duo recital at the Musikverein Regensburg.

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DISCOGRAPHY

Erich J. Wolff: Complete Songs, Vol. 2

Ida Aldrian (mezzo-soprano), Klaus Simon (piano)
Label: Naxos | August 2024

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20Dec2024
Ida Aldrian
HAMBURG - Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
Hamburgische Staatsoper | Großes Haus, 07:00 pm

Engelbert Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel

Kartal Karagedik, Peter
Katja Pieweck, Gertrud
Ida Aldrian, Hänsel
Olivia Boen, Gretel
Jürgen Sacher, Knusperhexe
Aebh Kelly. Sandmännchen
Marie Maidowski, Taumännchen

Adam Hickox, conductor
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Kinderchor, Alsterspatzen | Kinder- und Jugendchor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Luiz de Godoy, chorus master children's choir

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21Dec2024
Ida Aldrian
HAMBURG - W. A. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Hamburgische Staatsoper | Großes Haus, 07:00 pm