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 26/27 and Highlights
ORCHESTRA PHILHARMONIQUE DE RADIO FRANCE
Wagner – Tristan and Isolde
Sep 25
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO GIUSEPPE VERDI
Mahler – The Song of the Earth
Oct 30, Nov 1
Zurich Opera House
Strauss – Elektra
Nov 22/26, Dec 2/5/10/13/16
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GRAN TEATRE DEL LICEU
Wagner – Das Rheingold
Feb 7/10/13/15/18/21Zurich Opera House
Guest performance in Paris
Wagner - The Ring of the Nibelung ( Das Rheingold / Die Walküre)
March 9/10Guest performance in New York
Wagner - The Ring of the Nibelung ( Das Rheingold / Die Walküre)
March 18/19VIENNA STATE OPERA
Wagner – Tristan and Isolde
Apr 4/8/11/15Berg – Lulu
May 17/20/23/26
Biography
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner is one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of our time. With her portrayals of Fricka ( Rheingold/Die Walküre ), her brilliant Kundry ( Parsifal ), her Klytämnestra ( Elektra ) and Nurse ( Die Frau ohne Schatten ) and her spectacular Ortrud ( Lohengrin ) have sung her way to the top of the dramatic mezzo-sopranos at the most important international opera houses and festivals.
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner's 2026/27 season begins with concert performances of Tristan und Isolde with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, where she will sing the role of Brangäne under the baton of Jaap van Zweden. At the Vienna State Opera, she will also take on the role of Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde , as well as Countess Geschwitz in Alban Berg's Lulu . At the Zurich Opera House, she will appear as Klytämnestra She will appear on stage in Richard Strauss's Elektra in a new production by Lydia Steier. Further opera engagements will take her to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, where she will sing Fricka in Das Rheingold under the direction of Tobias Kratzer, and to the Glyndebourne Festival, where she will perform the role of Kostelnička in Janáček's Jenůfa in a new production by Barrie Kosky. With the Zurich Opera House, she will also appear as Fricka in a concert performance of the Ring Cycle at the Philharmonie de Paris and Carnegie Hall in New York. In concert, she will sing Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde in Milan under the musical direction of Emmanuel Tjeknavorian.
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Highlights of past seasons include Ortrud ( Lohengrin ), Fricka ( Der Ring des Nibelungen ), Brangäne ( Tristan und Isolde ) and Nurse ( 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 ( Die Passagierin ), Mary ( The Flying Dutchman ) and Clairon ( Capriccio ) 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, at Tokyo Spring Festival and at the San Francisco Opera, Herodias in concert performances of Salome with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, as well as at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ortrud in the new production of Lohengrin (Johannes Erath/Joana Mallwitz) in the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , Venus ( Tannhäuser ) in Hamburg in the new production by Tcherniakov as well as at the Zurich Opera House, Brangäne ( Tristan und Isolde ) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carmen at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 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 Schoenberg's Erwartung at WDR.
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner was a member of the ensemble from 2009 to 2020. Oper Frankfurt Among her successes there are the title role in Schoeck's Penthesilea , Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten , Eboli ( Don Carlo ), Azucena ( Trovatore ), Principessa de Bouillon ( Adriana Lecouvreur ), Clairon ( Capriccio ), Gaea in Daphne , Preziosilla, 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 ).
Concerts have taken the mezzo-soprano to the Salzburg Festival with Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde , and with the Vienna Philharmonic to the Musikverein Wien and the Vienna Konzerthaus, as well as with the Munich Philharmonic to Munich and Hamburg. She appeared as a guest soloist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 2. She sang Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 under the baton of Sebastian Weigle in Tokyo, in Paris with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and at the Berlin Konzerthaus under Joana Mallwitz. She most recently sang Verdi's Requiem under Thomas Guggeis in Frankfurt. She performed Glanert's Prague Symphony with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 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.
2026/27
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