Tanja Ariane Baumgartner
BERLIN STATE OPERA - Parsifal
[…] a phenomenal Kundry… Baumgartner confidently masters the dreaded… screams and sings her part… with great luminosity and a warm, rounded tone. And thanks to the size of her voice, she harmonizes perfectly with Andreas Schager's Parsifal.
Klassik begeistert (April 13, 2025)Vienna State Opera - Die Frau ohne Schatten
The role of the nurse was sung by Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, who has both the many highs and the necessary lows. She is... also a fascinating actress.
Online Merker (24.10.23)Season 25/26 and Highlights
WDR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA COLOGNE
Strauss - Salome - Herodias
Sep 1 (Bucharest)/ 6 (Cologne)
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA
Wagner - Parsifal - Kundry
PREMIERE Oct 25
Oct 28, Nov 2/7/13
LYRIC OPERA CHICAGO
Strauss - Salome - Herodias
PREMIERE Jan 25
Jan 29; Feb 3/6/11/14
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FESTSPIELHAUS BADEN-BADEN
Wagner - Lohengrin - Ortrud
PREMIERE March 28
March 31, April 5
TEATRO DEL MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
Mahler - Song of the Earth - Mezzo
Apr 23
KARLSRUHE STATE THEATRE
Mahler - Symphony No. 3
May 31, Jun 1
ORCHESTRA PHILHARMONIQUE DE RADIO FRANCE
Wagner - Tristan and Isolde - Brangäne
July 11 (Montpellier)
Biography
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner is one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of our time. With her role portrayals of Fricka ( Rheingold/Walküre ), her brilliant Kundry ( Parsifal ), her Klytämnestra ( Elektra ) and Nurse ( Die Frau ohne Schatten ) and her spectacular Ortrud ( Lohengrin ) she has sung her way to the top of the dramatic mezzo-sopranos at the most important international houses and festivals.
The 2025/26 season begins for Tanja Ariane Baumgartner as Herodias with concert performances of Salome with the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Bucharest and Cologne. Following this, the San Francisco Opera has engaged her as Kundry in Parsifal under Eun Sun Kim. She returns to the Lyric Opera Chicago as Herodias and will sing Ortrud in the new production of Lohengrin (Johannes Erath/Joana Mallwitz) at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden In concert, she can be heard in Lied von der Erde under Zubin Mehta at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in Mahler's Symphony No. 3 at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, and in concert performances of Tristan as Brangäne on Radio France under Jaap van Zweden in Montpellier.
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Highlights of recent seasons include Ortrud ( Lohengrin ), Fricka ( The Ring of the Nibelung ), Brangäne ( Tristan and Isolde ) and Nurse ( Die Frau ohne Schatten ) at the Vienna State Opera, Mrs. Quickly ( Falstaff ), Countess Geschwitz ( Lulu ) and Charlotte ( The Soldiers ) and Mother ( Il prigioniero ) at the Salzburg Festival, Lisa ( Die Passagierin ) at the Bavarian State Opera, Brangäne and Leonore in the world premiere of Glanert 's The Jewess of Toledo at the Semperoper Dresden , Kundry ( Parsifal ) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and at the Tokyo Spring Festival, Venus ( Tannhäuser ) in Hamburg in the new production by Tcherniakov and at the Zurich Opera House, Brangäne ( Tristan and Isolde) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Mary ( The Flying Dutchman ) and Clairon ( Capriccio ) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Carmen at Covent Garden London, Judith ( Bluebeard's Castle ) at the Edinburgh Festival, Agaue ( The Bassarids) at the Komische Oper Berlin, Kostelnicka ( Jenufa ) in Santiago de Chile, as well as her debut with Schönberg's Erwartung at the WDR.
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner was part of the ensemble of the Oper Frankfurt Her successes there include the title role in Schoeck's Penthesilea , the nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten , Eboli ( Don Carlo ), Azucena ( Trovatore ), Principessa de Bouillon ( Adriana Lecouvreur ), Clairon ( Capriccio ), Gaea in Daphne , Preziosilla, the Foreign Princess ( Rusalka ), Brangäne, Cornelia ( Giulio Cesare in Egitto) , Gora in the German premiere of Reimann's Medea (released on CD by OehmsClassics) , Iokaste ( Oedipe ) and Charlotte ( Werther ).
Concerts have taken the mezzo-soprano to the Salzburg Festival with Mahler's Song of the Earth , with the Vienna Philharmonic in the Musikverein Wien and the Vienna Konzerthaus, as well as with the Munich Philharmonic in Munich and Hamburg. She performed Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. She sang Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 under the direction of Sebastian Weigle in Tokyo, in Paris with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and at the Berlin Konzerthaus under Joana Mallwitz, among others . She most recently sang Verdi's Requiem under Thomas Guggeis in Frankfurt. She performed Glanert's Paris Symphony with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner initially studied violin at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, then singing in Karlsruhe, Vienna and Sofia. She is a professor of singing at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern.
2025/26
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