Rosendal Chamber Music Festival 2024

Dorothea Röschmann

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.  She returned to the Salzburg Easter Festival in 2016 for Desdemona/Otello.

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 in 2021, Ariadne at the Edinburgh International Festival.  In the 2022/23 season she will return to the Hamburgische Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, and will make a notable debut at the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy.

A prolific concert artist, in the 2019/20 season she sang Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder  with Karina Canellakis and the Orchestre de Paris, Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder (Tove) with Jonathan Nott and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s ‘Ah! Perfido’ and Choral Fantasy with Louis Langrée and the Cincinnati Symphony, Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony, and Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, in London and on tour in Europe.

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.  Other concert highlights include Schumann’s Faustszenen with Daniel Harding / Berliner Philharmoniker, Wozzeck (Marie) with Harding/ Berliner Philharmoniker and Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra, and Mahler 4 on tour in Europe with Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

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’sMessiah 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.
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Festival Performances Year 2024

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10, No. 3
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)

Beethoven: Folk Songs
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Alina Ibragimova (violin), Christian Poltéra (cello), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)

Beethoven: 12 Variations on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen', Op.66
Christian Poltéra (cello), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
Quatuor van Kuijk

Marius Neset: Morning Mist
Marius Neset (saxophone)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein"
Enrico Pace (piano)

Interval

Beethoven: Lieder
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

Beethoven: Sonata for piano and cello No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5, No. 2
Christian Poltéra (cello), Enrico Pace (piano)

Beethoven: Folke Songs
Dorothea Röschmann (sopran0), Antje Weithaas (violin), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)

Interval

Marius Neset: Who We Are (2020) commisioned by the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival
Ingrid Søfteland Neset (flute), Marius Neset (saxophone), Christian Poltéra (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

Beethoven: Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op. 70, No. 2
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Christian Poltéra (cello), Enrico Pace (piano)