Name Dorothea Roschmann | Role Soprano | |
Education Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Hamburg Movies Mozart: Die Zauberflote, Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro Albums Ein Deutsches Requiem, Matthaus-Passion BWV 244 Nominations Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year – Vocal or Choral Performance Similar People Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Christine Schafer, Michael Schade, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Anna Prohaska |
"Porgi, amor" and "Dove sono" (Dorothea Roschmann)
Dorothea Roschmann (born 17 June 1967) is a German opera soprano from Flensburg.
Contents
- Porgi amor and Dove sono Dorothea Roschmann
- Education and early life
- Recent career
- Awards
- Songs
- References
Education and early life

Roschmann studied at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Hamburg, under Barbara Schlick at the Akademie fur Alte Musik in Bremen, and subsequently in Los Angeles, New York, Tel Aviv, and under Vera Rozsa in London. She has been working as a Lieder and concert singer, both in Germany and abroad, since 1986. She gained international recognition in 1995 with her debut at the Salzburg Festival, where she sang the role of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and staged by Luc Bondy.
Recent career

She was a member of the ensemble at the Berlin State Opera for many years, where she had great successes singing Micaela in Carmen, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Zerlina and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Annchen in Der Freischutz and many others.

She has appeared as in Le Nozze Di Figaro at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan in March 2012. She previously also sang as Contessa d'Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, which she first performed in 2004 at the Ravenna Festival and then in 2006 at the Royal Opera House (director: David McVicar; conductor: Antonio Pappano) and Salzburg (again with Harnoncourt conducting, and staged by Claus Guth).

As a concert singer she took part in the project of Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir to record the complete vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
On September 10, 2011, she took part in the performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, in a New York Philharmonic concert at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. The free concert, presented to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York City, was conducted by Alan Gilbert and telecast on PBS on that anniversary.
Awards
Songs
Das Klagende Lied; Ein Spielmann zog einst des Weges daher
St John Passion - BWV 245 - Pt I: Part II: Ruht wohl - ihr heiligen Gebeine
Vier letzte Lieder: II September
St John Passion - BWV 245 - Pt I: Part II: Recitative: Da sprach Pilatus zu ihm - Nicht diesen - sondern Barrabam - Barrabas aber war ein Morder
Stabat Mater: VIII: Fac et ardeat cor meum
Salve Regina in A minor: III Eia ergo - advocata nostra
St John Passion - BWV 245 - Pt I: Part I: Recitative: Auf dass das Wort erfullet wurde
'Salve Regina' g-Moll - Hob XXIII/1: Largo 'Et Jesum'
St John Passion - BWV 245 - Pt I: Part I: Chorale: O grosse Liebe
St John Passion - BWV 245 - Pt I: Part II: Chorale: Er nahm alles wohl in acht
Gebet - Op 139 - D 815
Mozart: Die Zauberflote - K620 / Act 2 - Morden soll ich? Herr - strafe meine Mutter nicht
Don Giovanni - K 527 - Act II: In quali eccessi - o Numi Mi tradi quell'alma ingrata
Mozart: Die Zauberflote - K620 / Act 1 - "Bei Mannern - welche Liebe fuhlen"
Croesus
Das Klagende Lied; Beim Weidenbaum - im kuhlen Tann
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro - K492 - Original Version - Vienna 1786 / Act 3 - Sull'aria
Missa Es-Dur 'In honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae' Hob XXII/4 'Great Organ Mass': Kyrie
St John Passion - BWV 245 - Pt I: Part II: Aria: Es ist vollbracht!
Stabat Mater: XII: Quando corpus morietur
Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben Op42 - 6 Susser Freund - du blickest mich verwundert an
Dvorak: Moravske dvojzpevy - 11 Zajata
Idomeneo - K 366 - Act III Scene 1: Solitudini amiche Zeffiretti lusinghieri
La clemenza di Tito - K 621 - Act II: Ecco il punto - o Vitellia Non piu di fiori
Missa Es-Dur 'In honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae' Hob XXII/4 'Great Organ Mass': Agnus Dei
Gott der Weltschopfer - Op 112 - No 2 - D 986
St John Passion - BWV 245 - Pt I: Part II: Chorale: Ach Herr - lass dein lieb Engelein
Missa brevis B-Dur 'Sancti Joaniss De Deo' Hob XXII/7 'Little Organ Mass': Kyrie
Mahler: Das Klagende Lied / Part 2 - Von hohen Felsen erglanzt das Schlos
St John Passion - BWV 245 - Pt I: Part II: Chorale: Ach grosser Konig
Mozart: Die Zauberflote - K620 / Act 2 - Tamino - wollen wir nicht speisen? Tamino - Du hier?
Missa Es-Dur 'In honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae' Hob XXII/4 'Great Organ Mass': Benedictus