Tanja Ariane Baumgartner · Singing

BIOGRAPHY

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner first studied violin at the conservatory in Freiburg, then singing in Karlsruhe, Vienna and Sofia. She is a professor of singing at the Bern University of the Arts.

She was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble from 2009 to 2020. Her successes there include the title role in Schoeck's Penthesilea, the Amme in "Die Frau ohne Schatten", Clairon and Gaea in "Daphne", Preziosilla, Die fremde Fürstin ("Rusalka"), Carmen, Cornelia ("Giulio Cesare in Egitto"), Gora in the German premiere of Reimann's "Medea" (released on CD by OehmsClassics), Iokaste in "Oedipe", Tigrana in "Edgar" (Puccini) and Charlotte (Werther).

Highlights of recent seasons include Ortrud ("Lohengrin") and Fricka ("Der Ring des Nibelungen") at the Vienna State Opera, Mrs. Quickly ("Falstaff") at the Salzburg Festival, Kundry ("Parsifal") at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Venus ("Tannhäuser") in Hamburg in Tcherniakov's new production and at the Zurich Opera, Brangäne ("Tristan und Isolde") at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Mary ("Der fliegende Holländer") at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Clairon ("Capriccio") in the new production at the Bavarian State Opera for the 2022 Opera Festival, at the Theater an der Wien and at Covent Garden London, Carmen at Covent Garden London, Judith ("Bluebeard's Castle") at the Edinburgh Festival, Gräfin Geschwitz ("Lulu") and Charlotte ("Die Soldaten") at the Salzburg Festival, Agaue ("Die Bassariden") at the Komische Oper Berlin, Kostelnicka ("Jenufa") in Santiago de Chile, Eboli ("Don Carlos"), Maddalena ("Rigoletto"), Azucena ("Il Trovatore"), Principessa de Bouillon (Adriana Lecouvreur) and Brangäne ("Tristan und Isolde") at the Frankfurt Opera.

Concerts have taken the mezzo-soprano to the Salzburg Festival with Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" and to Munich and Hamburg with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. She performed Glanert's Paris Symphony with the Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam. She sang Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 under the direction of Sebastian Weigle in Tokyo and in Paris with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

The 2023/24 opera season starts for Tanja Ariane Baumgartner with two important roles at the Vienna State Opera: Brangäne ("Tristan und Isolde") under Philippe Jordan and Amme ("Die Frau ohne Schatten") under Christian Thielemann. In Bergen she will sing Klytämnestra under Kirill Petrenko.  At the Semperoper Dresden, she will interpret Leonore in the world premiere of "Die Jüdin von Toledo" by Detlev Glanert. At the Bavarian State Opera, the artist will make her role debut as Zia Principessa in Puccini's "Il trittico / Suor Angelica". Tanja Ariane Baumgartner will give a second world premiere with "Melancholie des Widerstands" by Marc-André Dalvie at the Berlin State Opera. The much sought-after artist is also very active in the concert field: With Schönberg's "Erwartung" she makes another role debut with WDR under Ingo Metzmacher, in Frankfurt she can be heard in Verdi's "Requiem" under Thomas Guggeis, in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie she sings Mahler's 8th Symphony under Semyon Bychkov and at the Konzerthaus Berlin she sings Beethoven's 9th Symphony under Joana Mallwitz.