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Yvonne Naef
mezzo
Has
been acclaimed as one of the most important and sought after dramatic mezzos of
our time upon her debut as Azucena in the new production of Verdi's IL
TROVATORE at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and later she returned to the
company for Thomas' HAMLET.
March 2004 marked yet another milestone in her career when she bowed for the
first time at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, singing Fricka in both,
RHEINGOLD and WALKÜRE and Waltraute in GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG und the musical
direction of James Levine.
Being a regular guest with the foremost operatic stages and concert halls around
the globe she has been seen in new productions with Zurich Opera (UN BALLO IN
MASCHERA, KHOVANSHCHINA), with Hamburg State Opera (BORIS GODUNOV, Berio's LA
VERA STORIA, IL TROVATORE, CARMEN), Salzburg Festival (LES TROYENS, DON CARLO),
the Théâtre de la Monnaie (ŒDIPUS REX) and Bayreuth Festival (RING). She has
sung at the Teatro alla Scala (LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN), the Vienna State Opera (TANNHÄUSER,
DON CARLO), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (AIDA, IL TROVATORE), the Monte Carlo Opera
(ANNA BOLENA), the Nederlandse Opera, the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and
at London's Royal Albert Hall (RHEINGOLD in concert with Sir Simon Rattle). The
most recent seasons engagements include new productions of TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
with the Opéra National de Paris, Dukas' ARIANE ET BARBE-BLEUE and UN BALLO IN
MASCHERA with Zurich Opera, as well as her return to the Metropolitan Opera for
further performances of WALKÜRE along with various concerts in Paris, London,
Zurich, Hamburg, Vienna, Tanglewood, Boston and New York.
Being a very fine and versatile concert soloist, she performs a repertoire
ranging from Old Music to Contemporary composers.
Yvonne Naef has worked with conductors such as James Levine, Christian
Thielemann, Lorin Maazel, Sylvain Cambreling, Gerd Albrecht, Michael Gielen,
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Dennis
Russell Davies,
Franz Welser-Möst, Carlo Rizzi, Valeri Gergiev, Vladimir
Fedoseyev,
Nello Santi, Sir Roger Norrington, Christoph Eschenbach, Kent Nagano and Jeffrey
Tate at Vienna's Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Salzburg Festival, at the Gasteig
in Munich, the Philharmony in Berlin, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Hamburg's Musikhalle,
Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Lucerne Music Festival
and Tanglewood Festival - her debut at Carnegie Hall will follow later in 2004.
A native of Switzerland she made her stage debut in Rossinis' CENERENTOLA and in
the early years of her career, she was a member of the opera companies of St.
Gallen/Switzerland and Wiesbaden/Germany.
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