Mioko Fujimura (Mihoko Fujimura) |

Mihoko Fujimura

Mioko Fujimura was born in Japan. She received her musical education in Tokyo and at the Munich Higher School of Music. In 1995, having won awards in many vocal competitions, she became a soloist at the Graz Opera House, where she worked for five years and performed many operatic roles. The singer received wide international recognition after her performance in 2002 at the Munich and Bayreuth Opera Festivals. Since then, Mioko Fujimura has been a welcome guest as famous opera scenes (Covent Garden, La Scala, the Bavarian and Vienna State Operas, the Chatelet theaters in Paris and Real in Madrid, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin) , as well as festivals in Bayreuth, Aix-en-Provence and Florence (“Florentine Musical May”).

Performing at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth for nine years in a row, she presented to the public such operatic heroines as Kundry (Parsifal), Branghen (Tristan and Isolde), Venus (Tannhäuser), Frikk, Waltraut and Erda (Ring Nibelung). In addition, the singer’s repertoire includes the roles of Idamant (Mozart’s Idomeneo), Octavian (Richard Strauss’s Rosenkavalier), Carmen in Bizet’s opera of the same name, and a number of Verdi heroines’ roles – Eboli (Don Carlos), Azucena (Il trovatore) and Amneris (“Aida”).

The artist’s concert performances are accompanied by world-famous symphonic ensembles conducted by Claudio Abbado, Myung-Vun Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Adam Fischer, Fabio Luisi, Christian Thielemann, Kurt Masur, Peter Schneider, Christoph Ulrich Meyer. The main place in her concert repertoire is given to the music of Mahler (2nd, 3rd and 8th symphonies, “Song of the Earth”, “Magic Horn of a Boy”, a cycle of songs to the words of Friedrich Rückert), Wagner (“Five songs on verses Matilda Wesendonck”) and Verdi (“Requiem”). Among her recordings is the part of Branghena (Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde) with conductor Antonio Pappano (EMI Classics), Schoenberg’s Songs Gurre with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maris Jansons, Mahler’s 3rd Symphony with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Nott. On the label Fontec a solo album of the singer was recorded with works by Wagner, Mahler, Schubert and Richard Strauss.

This season, Mioko Fujimura performs on opera stages in London, Vienna, Barcelona and Paris, participates in symphony concerts with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Janick Nézet-Séguin and Christoph Ulrich Meyer), the London Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Daniel Harding), the Orchester de Paris (conductor – Christophe Eschenbach), Philadelphia Orchestra (conductor – Charles Duthoit), Montreal Symphony Orchestra (conductor – Kent Nagano), Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra (conductor – Yuri Temirkanov and Kurt Masur), Tokyo Philharmonic (conductor – Myung -Vun Chung), the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (conductor – Maris Jansons), the Munich and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras (conductor – Christian Thielemann).

According to the press release of the information department of the IGF