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 among the leading mezzo-sopranos of our time. With her portrayals of Fricka (Rheingold/Walküre), her formidable Kundry (Parsifal), her Klytämnestra (Elektra) and Amme (Die Frau ohne Schatten), and her spectacular Ortrud (Lohengrin), she has established herself as one of the foremost dramatic mezzo-sopranos at the most important international opera houses and festivals.
The 2025/26 season opens for Tanja Ariane Baumgartner as Herodias in concert performances of Salome with the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Bucharest and Cologne. She will then appear at San Francisco Opera as Kundry in Parsifal under Eun Sun Kim. As Herodias she returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago, and she will present herself as Ortrud in the new production of Lohengrin (Johannes Erath/Joana Mallwitz) at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. On the concert stage, she can be heard in Das Lied von der Erde under Zubin Mehta at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, and as Brangäne in concert performances of Tristan at Radio France under Jaap van Zweden in Montpellier.
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Highlights of recent seasons include Ortrud (Lohengrin), Fricka (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde), and the Amme (Die Frau ohne Schatten) at the Vienna State Opera; Mrs. Quickly (Falstaff), Countess Geschwitz (Lulu), Charlotte (Die Soldaten), and Mother (Il prigioniero) at the Salzburg Festival; Lisa (The Passenger) at the Bavarian State Opera; Brangäne and Leonore in the world premiere of Glanert’s Die Jüdin von Toledo at the Semperoper Dresden; Kundry (Parsifal) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and at the Tokyo Spring Festival; Venus (Tannhäuser) in Hamburg in Tcherniakov’s new production and at Zurich Opera; Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Mary (Der fliegende Holländer) 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 with the WDR.
From 2009 to 2020, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble. Her successes there included, among others, the title role in Schoeck’s Penthesilea, the Amme in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Eboli (Don Carlo), Azucena (Il 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), Jocasta (Oedipe), and Charlotte (Werther).
Concert engagements have included Das Lied von der Erde at the Salzburg Festival, with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, and with the Munich Philharmonic in Munich and Hamburg. In Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 she appeared with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. She has sung Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Sebastian Weigle in Tokyo, in Paris with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and at the Konzerthaus Berlin under Joana Mallwitz. She most recently performed Verdi’s Requiem under Thomas Guggeis in Frankfurt. With Glanert’s Pariser Symphonie she appeared with the Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam.
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner initially studied violin at the Freiburg University of Music, then voice in Karlsruhe, Vienna, and Sofia. She is a professor at the Basel Academy of Music/FHNW.
2025/26
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