SOPRANO
Marlis Petersen
Representation: Concerts | Recitals
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
- +43 (0)5 06 80-012
- machreich@machreich-artists.com
GALLERY
BIOGRAPHY
The main focus of Marlis Petersen’s repertoire is the field of classical coloratura, however, she has also made a name for herself as an interpreter of contemporary music. After studying at the Music Academy Stuttgart and with Sylvia Geszty, she supplemented her training in the specialized areas of opera, new music and dance. She started her career as a member of the ensemble at Städtische Bühnen Nuremberg, where she sang roles such as Ännchen, Blonde, Adele, Rosina, Lulu and Queen of the Night. From 1998 to 2003, she was engaged at Deutsche Oper am Rhein Dusseldorf.
Marlis Petersen gave her debut at the Vienna State Opera with Lulu. She also sang this central role of her repertoire in Peter Konwitschny’s much admired staging in Hamburg, at the Chicago Lyric Opera and in a new production in Athens. Today, she is a regular guest at the most important opera houses worldwide, e.g. Opéra de Paris, Théâtre de la Monnaie Brussels, State Operas of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Vienna, Theater an der Wien, Metropolitan Opera New York, Los Angeles Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera and at the Festivals of Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence.
Important roles of her repertoire are e.g. Lulu, Violetta (Traviata), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Adele and Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Marguerite (Les Huguenots), Manon, Thaïs and Elettra (Idomeneo). Recently, she enjoyed sensational success in a new Lulu production at the Bavarian State Opera, which she repeated at the Metropolitan Opera New York as an extraordinary farewell from this role. Outstanding attention was also paid to her Traviata in the Peter Konwitschny production in Graz and Vienna as well as her debut in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at the Theater an der Wien, highly acclaimed both by the press and the public. Marlis Petersen participated in important world premieres such as Werner Henze’s Phaedra in Berlin and Brussels, Manfred Trojahn’s La grande magia at Semperoper Dresden and Aribert Reimann’s Medea at the Vienna State Opera.
Highlights of the past seasons included her role debut as Richard Strauss' Salome at the Bavarian State Opera under the baton of Kirill Petrenko, followed by Korngold's Die tote Stadt again with Kirill Petrenko and directed by Simon Stone. In January 2020 she returned to the Theater an der Wien for a new production of Richard Strauss’ Salome. Marlis Petersen started into the 2020-2021 season with a new production of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt at La Monnaie in Brussels, followed by a huge success for her role debut as Marschallin in Richard Strauss's new production Rosenkavalier at the Bavarian State Opera, which could finally be heard live in front of an audience in May 2022. Another highlight was her role debut as Emilia Marty in a new production of Janáček’s Věc Makropulos under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, staged by Claus Guth at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.
On the concert stage, the soprano has already worked with the greatest conductors worldwide such as Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Antonio Pappano, Kirill Petrenko, Jeffrey Tate, Daniel Harding, Ingo Metzmacher, Thomas Hengelbrock, Louis Langrée amongst others. Passionate also for historical performance practice, she has a close relationship to specialists such as René Jacobs, Ton Koopman, Trevor Pinnock and Helmuth Rilling.
Marlis Petersen has worked with orchestras such as the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Berlin Radio Orchestra, the RAI Orchestra Turin, the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Academy of Early Music and the Ensemble Modern Frankfurt.
In addition to the major opera roles that are scheduled in the coming months, Marlis Petersen is more and more committed to the concert and Lied repertoire. She presented the recital programme Dimensions World with Stephan Matthias Lademann at the piano in Stuttgart, at the Wiener Musikverein and at London's Wigmore Hall. The follow-up program Anderswelt was presented together with Camillo Radicke at the piano during the Munich Opera Festival, at the Frankischer Sommer, in Eisenstadt, Berlin and at London's Wigmore Hall. During the last two years Marlis Petersen presented the third edition of her Dimension-programme called “Innerworld” together with Matthias Lademann at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Frankfurter Oper, the Philharmonie in Cologne, in Dortmund, Potsdam at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, at BOZAR in Brussels, at the Wigmore Hall, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Bregenz Festival and the Schubertiade in Vilabertran. For the 2022/2023 season recitals at the Berlin and Paris Philharmonie as well as at the Ludwigsburg Festival are planned.
In the 2019-2020 season Marlis Petersen had the great honour to be featured as Artist in Residence at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2013, Marlis Petersen received the very first Austrian Music Theatre Award for her interpretation of the three female main roles in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Theater an der Wien and in 2020, she was awarded “Singer of the year” for the fourth time by Opernwelt magazine. 2021 she was received the title “Bayerische Kammersängerin” by the Operahouse in Munich.
2022 | 2023
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DISCOGRAPHY
Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore
Marlis Petersen, Maximilian Schmitt, Dimitry Ivashschenko, Robin Johannsen, Johannes Weisser, Tareq Nazmi, Johannes Chum, Florian Feth, Julian Popken, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Freiburger Barockorchester
Conductor: René Jacobs
Label: Harmonia Mundi | 2019
Dimensionen – Innenwelt
Works by Richard Strauss, Hugo Wolf, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Max Reger, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner u. a.
Piano: Stephan Matthias Lademann | Violin: Gregor Hübner
Label: Solo Musica | 2019
Dimensionen – Anderswelt
Works by Carl Loewe, Johannes Brahms, Max Reger, Nikolai Medtner, Hugo Wolf, Alexander Zemlinsky, Franz Schreker, Hans Sommer et al.
Piano: Camillo Radicke
Label: Solo Musica | 2018
Dimensionen – Welt
Works by Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Hans Sommer, Johannes Brahms, Sigurd von Koch, Richard Wagner, Clara Schumann
Piano: Stephan Matthias Lademann
Label: Solo Musica | 2017
VIDEOS
CALENDAR
Marlis Petersen, Soprano
Konstantin Krimmel, Baritone
Angela Gassenhuber, Philip Mayers, Piano
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Jochen Sandig, Artistic Director
Gijs Leenaars, Musical Director
Sasha Waltz, Choreography
Brad Hwang, Staging
Sasha Waltz & Guests
Marlis Petersen, Soprano
Konstantin Krimmel, Baritone
Angela Gassenhuber, Philip Mayers, Piano
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Jochen Sandig, Artistic Director
Gijs Leenaars, Musical Director
Sasha Waltz, Choreography
Brad Hwang, Staging
Sasha Waltz & Guests
Marlis Petersen, Soprano
Konstantin Krimmel, Baritone
Angela Gassenhuber, Philip Mayers, Piano
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Jochen Sandig, Artistic Director
Gijs Leenaars, Musical Director
Sasha Waltz, Choreography
Brad Hwang, Staging
Sasha Waltz & Guests
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D Major, KV 504 "Prague Symphony"
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Ah! perfido", Op. 65
Igor Strawinsky: Jeu de cartes - Ballett in drei Runden / Suite
Richard Strauss: „Mädchenblumen“, Op. 22
Marlis Petersen, Soprano
Nürnberger Symphoniker
Jonathan Darlington, Conductor
Alban Berg: Wozzeck
Peter Mattei, Wozzeck
John Daszak, Tambourmajor
Tansel Akzeybek, Andres
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Hauptmann
Jens Larsen, Doktor
Daniel Noyola, 1. Handwerksbursche
Andrew Hamilton, 2. Handwerksbursche
Ulrich Reß, Der Narr
Marlis Petersen, Marie
Rinat Shaham, Margret
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
Andreas Kriegenburg, staging
Stellario Fagone, choir
Miron Hakenbeck, dramaturgy
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Bayerischer Staatsopernchor
Kinderchor der Bayerischen Staatsoper
CONTACT
Representation: Concerts | Recitals
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
- +43 (0)5 06 80-012
- machreich@machreich-artists.com
