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Ida Aldrian
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- Alexander Brunner
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BIOGRAPHY
Ida Aldrian was born in Bruck an der Mur (Austria). She attended the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and studied under Leopold Spitzer, Karlheinz Hanser and KS Marjana Lipovšek. She also took part in master classes under Ann Murray, Bernarda Fink, Reri Grist, Peter Kooij, Andrew Watts, Thomas Hampson, Wicus Slabbert, Alan Titus, and Brigitte Fassbaender.
After having appeared in various productions of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera, Ida Aldrian was subsequently part of the ensemble of the Staatstheater Nürnberg where she sang various roles including Penelope (Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria), Idamante (Idomeneo), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Isabella (L'italiana in Algeri), Adalgisa (Norma), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Mercédès (Carmen), Prinz Orlowsky (Die Fledermaus) and Maddalena (Rigoletto).
In addition, Ida Aldrian gave her house debut at the Berlin State Opera as Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. During the season 2018/2019 she took over the role of Dorabella at very short notice in Herbert Fritsch’s new production of Così fan tutte at the Hamburg State Opera, whose ensemble she has joined shortly after and where during the current season she will appear as Mercédès (Carmen), Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Meg Page (Falstaff), Suora Infermiera (Suor Angelica) and La Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi). As Mozart’s Third Lady, Ida will also give her house debut with the Zürich Opera House.
A passionate artist also on the concert stage, Ida Aldrian has so far worked with several European ensembles and orchestras such as Concentus Musicus Wien, L’Orfeo Barockorchester, Orchester Wiener Akademie, the Haydn and Minetti Quartet, Bach Consort Wien, Capella Leopoldina, Neue Hofkapelle Graz, Barucco, the Norwegian ensemble Barokksolistene and the French Ensemble Pygmalion.
Important highlights of her concert activities so far have been a New Year's Eve matinee with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano and a concert tour of the Balthasar Neumann Choir & Ensemble led by Thomas Hengelbrock. Ida further performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Simone Young in Hamburg and Mozart’s Requiem under Pablo Heras-Casado in Salzburg. She appeared at the Styriarte Festival with Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and sang in Telemann’s Miriways at the Brucknerfest Linz, being also a Singer in Residence at the Trigonale and Osterklang Festival.
Further engagements saw her appearing at the Wiener Konzerthaus with Schumann's Requiem for Mignon under Cornelius Meister, at the Vienna Musikverein in Bach's St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion, in Bach’s Mass in B minor led by Martin Haselböck as well as in Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's A Midsummer Night's Dream under Fabio Luisi and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. At the festival Internationale Barocktage Stift Melk she took part in Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt under the baton of Christopher Moulds, at the Attergauer Kultursommer, the Donaufestwochen in Strudengau and the Festival Musica Sacra in St. Pölten as appeared as soloist in Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's oratorio Elijah. Together with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra under its principal conductor Simon Gaudenz, Ida made her debut as a soloist in Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony. As part of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in historical performance practice, she took over the part of Wellgunde in Wagner’s Das Rheingold in two concert performances with Concerto Köln conducted by Kent Nagano.
Ida Aldrian dedicates herself with great passion also to the Lied genre, having so far appeared at the Vienna Musikverein and the Musikverein für Steiermark in Graz, at the Ocean Sun Festival and the Staatstheater Nurnberg along with Helmut Deutsch, with whom she gave further recitals at Antwerp’s deSingel, the Deutschlandsberger Klavierfrühling and the Lied festival “Der Zwerg” in Sindelfingen. In autumn 2019, she took part in a gala recital at Schloss Walpersdorf in Lower Austria together with Konstantin Krimmel and Helmut Deutsch, followed by an ensemble recital with the tenor Jan Petryka at Musikverein Regensburg.
At the Handel Festival Halle 2022 Ida Aldrian debuted in the title role of Handel’s Ariodante with the Lautten Compagney Berlin conducted by Wolfgang Katschner.
2022 | 2023
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DISCOGRAPHY
Georg Philipp Telemann: Miriways
Ida Aldrian, Markus Volpert, Ulrike Hofbauer, Julie Martin du Theil, Gabriele Hierdeis, Stefan Zenkl, Susanne Drexl, Ilja Werger
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Conductor: Michi Gaigg
Label: CPO | 2014
Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly
DVD
Alexia Voulgaridou, Cristina Damian, Teodor Ilincai, Lauri Vasar, Ida Aldrian, Jürgen Sacher, Viktor Rud, Jongmin Park, Thomas Florio
Philharmoniker Hamburg | Chorus of the Staatsoper Hamburg
Conductor: Alexander Joel
Director: Vincent Boussard
Label: Arthaus Musik | 2014
Joseph Haydn: Out of Hainburg
Works by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Joseph Haydn, Johann Joesp Fux, Michael Haydn, Johann Georg Reutter
Barbara Fink, Ida Aldrian, Daniel Johannsen, Klemens Sander
Dolce Risonanza
Conductor: Florian Wieninger
Label: Gramola | 2012
CALENDAR
Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Matthew Polenzani, Hoffmann
Pretty Yende, Olympia / Antonia / Giulietta / Stella
Jana Kurucová, La Muse / Nicklausse
Erwin Schrott, Lindorf / Coppélius / Dr. Miracle / Dapertutto
Andrew Dickinson, Andrès / Cochenille / Frantz / Pitichinaccio
Ida Aldrian, La Mère
N.N., Maître Luther / Crespel
Seungwoo Simon Yang, Nathanaël
Jürgen Sacher, Spalanzani
Daniel Schliewa, Wilhelm / Wolfram
Han Kim, Le Capitaine des Sbirres
Nicholas Mogg, Schlémil / Hermann
Kent Nagano, musical direction
Daniele Finzi Pasca, direction
Mellissa Vettore, co-direction
Hugo Gargiulo, stage design
Matteo Verlicchi, associate stage design
Giovanna Buzzi, costumes
Ambra Schumacher, associate costumes
Daniele Finzi Pasca, Marzio Picchetti, lighting
Roberto Vitalini, video
Maria Bonzanigo, choreography
Savina Kationi, Ralf Waldschmidt, dramaturgy
Eberhard Friedrich, choir
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Matthew Polenzani, Hoffmann
Pretty Yende, Olympia / Antonia / Giulietta / Stella
Jana Kurucová, La Muse / Nicklausse
Erwin Schrott, Lindorf / Coppélius / Dr. Miracle / Dapertutto
Andrew Dickinson, Andrès / Cochenille / Frantz / Pitichinaccio
Ida Aldrian, La Mère
N.N., Maître Luther / Crespel
Seungwoo Simon Yang, Nathanaël
Jürgen Sacher, Spalanzani
Daniel Schliewa, Wilhelm / Wolfram
Han Kim, Le Capitaine des Sbirres
Nicholas Mogg, Schlémil / Hermann
Kent Nagano, musical direction
Daniele Finzi Pasca, direction
Mellissa Vettore, co-direction
Hugo Gargiulo, stage design
Matteo Verlicchi, associate stage design
Giovanna Buzzi, costumes
Ambra Schumacher, associate costumes
Daniele Finzi Pasca, Marzio Picchetti, lighting
Roberto Vitalini, video
Maria Bonzanigo, choreography
Savina Kationi, Ralf Waldschmidt, dramaturgy
Eberhard Friedrich, choir
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Matthew Polenzani, Hoffmann
Pretty Yende, Olympia / Antonia / Giulietta / Stella
Jana Kurucová, La Muse / Nicklausse
Erwin Schrott, Lindorf / Coppélius / Dr. Miracle / Dapertutto
Andrew Dickinson, Andrès / Cochenille / Frantz / Pitichinaccio
Ida Aldrian, La Mère
N.N., Maître Luther / Crespel
Seungwoo Simon Yang, Nathanaël
Jürgen Sacher, Spalanzani
Daniel Schliewa, Wilhelm / Wolfram
Han Kim, Le Capitaine des Sbirres
Nicholas Mogg, Schlémil / Hermann
Kent Nagano, musical direction
Daniele Finzi Pasca, direction
Mellissa Vettore, co-direction
Hugo Gargiulo, stage design
Matteo Verlicchi, associate stage design
Giovanna Buzzi, costumes
Ambra Schumacher, associate costumes
Daniele Finzi Pasca, Marzio Picchetti, lighting
Roberto Vitalini, video
Maria Bonzanigo, choreography
Savina Kationi, Ralf Waldschmidt, dramaturgy
Eberhard Friedrich, choir
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Béla Bartók: Streichquartett Nr. 1 a-Moll, Sz 40
Johannes Brahms: Ophelia-Lieder, WoO 22
Paul Hindemith: Melancholie op. 13 für Frauenstimme und Streichquartett / nach Gedichten von Christian Morgenstern
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Streichquartett G-Dur, KV 387
Hibiki Oshima, violin
Felix Heckhausen, violin
Maria Rallo Muguruza, viola
Clara Grünwald, violoncello
Ida Aldrian, mezzo-soprano
The young musicians in the Amaris Quartet, from the ranks of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, are joined in this chamber concert by mezzo-soprano Ida Aldrian, who hails from the ensemble of the Staatsoper Hamburg. While the programme opens and closes with pure string quartets by Béla Bartók and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, compositions feature in between for string quartet and voice.
Sombre emotions resonate from the songs of Johannes Brahms, which are based on texts from William Shakespeare‘s »Hamlet«, and Paul Hindemith‘s »Melancholia« inspired by poems about loneliness by Christian Morgenstern. Aribert Reimann‘s transcription of the Brahms songs for voice and string quartet remains loyal to the romantic original. Although Bartók and Mozart did not base their string quartets around a particular narrative, the emotional gestures they convey relate directly to the song compositions: At the time of writing his work, Bartók was tormented by his unrequited love for the violinist Stefi Geyer. In fact, in a letter to her he even described the first movement as a »mourning lament«. Mozart‘s composition dates from 1782, a rather fateful year for the Classical period that marked a young generation of new artists breaking onto the scene. Set within the context of Friedrich Schiller premiering his play »Die Räuber«and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishing his famous »Erlkönig« poem, Mozart‘s composition can be seen as a new departure, as it were, towards a drama that also found expression in purely instrumental music.
FURTHER INFORMATION & TICKETSTonangeber
A series for pupils aged 9-13, sponsored by the Friends and Patrons of the Hamburg Philharmonic.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy/Aribert Reimann
Der Herbstwind rüttelt die Bäume op. 34,6
Ida Aldrian, Singing
Hibiki Oshima, Violin
Felix Heckhausen, Violin
Maria Rallo Muguruza, Viola
Clara Grünwald, Cello
