Elizabeth Reiter
soprano
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The American soprano Elizabeth Reiter joined the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2013/14. During last two seasons she added new roles to her repertoire including Amanda & Fiorella in new productions of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre & Offenbach's The Bandits, the title role & 1st Lady in new productions of Carl Orff'sThe Clever Woman & Die Zauberflöte, her triumphant first Tatianas in Eugene Onegin and wonderful portrayal of Asteria in Tamerlano, which was followed by her moving and spirited portrayal of the Vixen. During the 2024/25 season she sings Leonora and Leonore, in Nielsen's Masquerade and a new production of Dittersdorf's Doctor and Pharmacist and repeats her portrayals of the title role of Debussy's La Damoiselle élue and St. Margaret in Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher. Future guest engagements include her return to Opera Philadelphia to sing Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. Other roles sung by this extremely versatile artist during her time in Frankfurt have included Melissa in a new production of Amadigi, Frasquita in Carmen, 1st Witch in Dido and Aeneas, Armida (Rinaldo), Humperdinck's Gretel, Valencienne (The Merry Widow), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Anne Trulove (The Rake’s Progress), Renee / Alice in Neuwirth's Lost Highway, and a Walküre. Elizabeth Reiter's guest engagements have taken her to places including the Den Norske Opera Oslo, the Staatsoper in Stuttgart, Theater Dortmund, the Oper im Steinbruch St. Margarethen, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Staatstheater in Kassel, Opera Memphis, Chicago Opera and the 2024 Tirol Summer Festival in Erl. Recent concert work has included Handel arias with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, orchestral songs by Joseph Marx and Erich Korngold with the Jenaer Philharmonie and Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. While studying at the Curtis Institute of Music roles included Zerlina (Don Giovanni) under James Levine at Tanglewood Music Center and The Dragonfly (L’enfant et les sortilèges) under Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival and she enjoyed success at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the Liederkranz Vocal Competition.
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