Katharina Magiera
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Katharina Magiera, who studied in Frankfurt with Hedwig Fassbender, has been a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt since 2009/10. Her roles during the 2024/25 season include the Mother, Bradamante and a Flowermaiden in new productions of Berg's Lulu, Handel's Alcina and Wagner's Parsifal, Maddalena in Rigoletto and the Narrator / St. Katherine in a Debussy / Honegger La Damoiselle élue / Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher double bill. Last season she sang Marcellina in a new Le nozze di Figaro, Gaea (role debut) in the last revival of our wonderful production of Struass' Daphne and repeated her portrayal of Nancy in Flotow's Martha (get the CD! OehmsClassics). Roles the previous season included 3rd Lady and a Maid in new productions of Die Zauberflöte and Elektra, Hänsel and Amastre in Xerxes. She also sang Herodias' Page (Salome) and 3rd Lady at the Opéra National de Paris, Schwertleite (Die Walküre) at the Semperoper in Dresden and the Witch (Humperdinck's Königskinder) and a Rhinemaiden and Waltraute (role debut) in a new Götterdämmerung at the Tirol Summer Festival in Erl and, back in Frankfurt, Jokaste (role debut) in Oedipus Rex, the Witch in Humperdinck's Königskinder, Circe / Melantho in our »Rediscovery of the Year 2020« (Opernwelt) production of Dallapiccola's Ulisse and Frugola (Il Tabarro) and Ciesa (Gianni Schicchi). Other roles in recent seasons included Eduige (Rodelinda), Emilia (Verdi's Otello) and the Sphinx in Enescu's Oedipe. Her repertoire includes Ježibaba (Rusalka), Margret (Wozzeck - get the CD! OehmsClassics), Annina (Der Rosenkavalier), Lisa (Weinberg'sThe (female) Passenger), Teresa (La sonnambula), and Wanja (Glinka's Iwan Sussanin). She has also appeared in Frankfurt in recital (Goethe - get the CD! OehmsClassics). Guest engagements have included her debut with the Chœur and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, under Krzysztof Urbański and ppearances at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, the Theater an der Wien, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Semperoper in Dresden, Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, Beijing Music Festival and Salzburg Easter Festival, working with conductors including Christian Thielemann, Ádám Fischer and Andrés Orozco-Estrada.