Nadja Michael |

Nadia Michael

Nadja Michael was born and raised on the outskirts of Leipzig and studied singing in Stuttgart and Bloomington University in the USA. In 2005, she moved from mezzo-soprano roles to a higher repertoire; before that, she performed on the leading stages of the world such roles as Eboli (“Don Carlos” by Verdi), Kundri (“Parsifal” by Wagner), Amneris (“Aida” by Verdi), Delilah (“Samson and Delilah” by Saint-Saens), Venus ( “Tannhäuser” by Wagner) and Carmen (“Carmen” by Bizet).

Currently, the singer continues to perform at the most prestigious festivals in the world and regularly appears on the leading opera stages – in recent years she has sung at the Salzburg Festival, at the Arena di Verona summer festival, at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival. Together with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, she has performed the roles of Branghena (Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde) and Dido (Berlioz’s Les Troyens) conducted by Daniel Barenboim and Zubin Mehta. In February 2007, she made her debut at Milan’s La Scala theater with great success as Salome in Richard Strauss’s opera of the same name; this engagement was followed by the role of Leonora in Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Vienna State Opera. 2008 brought her success in the roles of Salome at the London Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Medea (Cherubini’s Medea) at La Monnaie in Brussels, and Lady Macbeth (Verdi’s Macbeth) at the Bavarian State Opera.

In 2005 Nadia Michael received the Prix´d Amis for her performance as Maria (Wozzeck by Berg) in Amsterdam and was recognized as the best singer of the 2004-2005 season.

In 2005, the Munich newspaper Tageszeitung named the singer “Rose of the Week” after her brilliant performance in “Songs of the Earth” by G. Mahler with Zubin Meta, she received the same title in October 2008 for her debut in Verdi’s Macbeth at the Bavarian State opera. In January 2008 Nadja Michael received the Kulturpreis prize from Axel Springer publishing house’s in the opera category, and in December she received the Die goldene Stimmgabel award for her performance as Salome at the Royal Opera House in London, Covent Garden. In addition, she received the ITV AWARD 2009 for this work.

Until 2012, the singer’s schedule includes the following engagements: Salome in the opera of the same name by Richard Strauss at the San Francisco Opera and the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Iphigenia (Iphigenia in Taurida by Gluck) at the La Monnaie Theater in Brussels, Medea (Medea in Corinth) Simone Maira) at the Bavarian State Opera, Lady Macbeth (Macbeth by Verdi) at the Chicago Lyric Opera and the New York Metropolitan Opera, Leonora (Beethoven’s Fidelio) at the Netherlands Opera, Venus and Elisabeth (Wagner’s Tannhäuser) at the Bologna Teatro Comunale, Maria (Berg’s Wozzeck) at the Berlin State Opera and Medea (Cherubini’s Medea) at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris.

Source: Moscow Philharmonic website