Ute Selbig

Leading soprano of the Dresden Semper Oper enjoys renown for a radiant voice, superb musicianship and dramatic conviction. She has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago, Seattle, St. Louis, Milwaukee and Indianapolis Symphonies and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra as well as all important European Orchestras. Celebrated Mozart interpretations include Fiordiligi, Contessa, Donna Elvira, Pamina and Ilia, enjoying particular success with the letter two at San Diego Opera. She received further accolades in Strauss’ Arabella as Zdenka at the Grand Theatre de Geneve and the State Opera House Munich, and in the title role of Puccini’s Suor Angelica in Dresden. In 2004-2005 she made her Canadian opera debut as Fiordiligi with Vancouver Opera. She is be honoured for Wagners Freia and her spectacular debut as Eva in October 2007 in the Semperoper. Ms. Selbig performs the vast Bach literature, through Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the Brahms-, Dvorak- and Faure-Requiem, and Mahler’s Fourth and Second Symphony and all other important Soprano-concert repertoire. She appears with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Dresden Staatskapelle and Turin Radio Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and at the Salzburg, Lucerne, Kissingen and Ludwigsburg festivals. Distinguished collaborators include Sir Colin Davis, Peter Schreier, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Kent Nagano, Fabio Luisi and Franz Welser-Möst. Ms. Selbig performed the first time in Japan with the Dresden Philharmonic and the Dresden Kreuzchor and again in 2004 and 2008 with the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Leipziger Thomanerchor. She was awarded the Christel-Goltz-Preis of the Dresden Semper Oper and the title “Bachpreisträgerin” in Leipzig’s International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition. She sings the music by Bach in Milano as well as in Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, in Century Hall in Tokio as well as in Los Angeles. In 1999 she was named Kammersängerin, the highest honor for a singer in Germany and Austria.