Tanja Ariane Baumgartner

Worldwide representation

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner is one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of our time. With her role portraits of Fricka (Rheingold/Walküre), her brilliant Cassandre (Les Troyens), her Klytämnestra (Elektra) and Amme (Die Frau ohne Schatten) and her spectacular Ortrud (Lohengrin), she has sung her way to the top of the dramatic mezzo-sopranos at the most important international houses and festivals.

The 2023/24 season starts for Tanja Ariane Baumgartner with two important roles at the Vienna State Opera: Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) under Philippe Jordan and Amme (Frau ohne Schatten) under Christian Thielemann. In Bergen, she will sing Klytämnestra under Kirill Petrenko.  At the Semperoper Dresden, she will interpret Brangäne under Thielemann and Leonore in the world premiere of Die Jüdin von Toledo by Detlev Glanert. 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 will give another important debut at the WDR under Ingo Metzmacher, in Frankfurt she can be heard in Verdi's Requiem under Thomas Guggeis, in Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie she will sing Mahler's 8th Symphony under Semyon Bychkov and at the Konzerthaus Berlin she will sing Beethoven's 9th Symphony under Joana Mallwitz.

Highlights of the past seasons include Ortrud (Lohengrin) and Fricka (Der Ring des Nibelungen) at the Bayreuth Festival and 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 as well as at 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 Theater an der Wien and Covent Garden London, Carmen at Covent Garden London, Judith (Bluebeard's Castle) at the Edinburgh Festival, Countess Geschwitz (Lulu) and Charlotte (The Soldiers) at the Salzburg Festival, Agaue (The Bassarids) at the Komische Oper Berlin, Kostelnicka (Jenufa) in Santiago de Chile, Eboli (Don Carlos), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Azucena (Trovatore), Principessa de Bouillon (Adriana Lecouvreur) and Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) at the Frankfurt Opera.

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner was a member of the ensemble of Oper Frankfurt from 2009 to 2020. Her successes there include, in addition to those mentioned above, among others the title role in Schoeck's Penthesilea, Amme in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Clairon, Gaea in Daphne, Preziosilla, Fremde Fürstin (Rusalka), Carmen, Cornelia (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Gora in the German premiere of Reimann's Medea (released on CD by OehmsClassics), Iokaste (Oedipe), Tigrana (Puccini-Edgar) and Charlotte (Werther).

Concerts have taken the mezzo-soprano to the Salzburg Festival with Mahler's Lied von der Erde and to Munich and Hamburg with the Munich Philharmonic. 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.

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner first studied violin at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, then voice in Karlsruhe, Vienna and Sofia. She is professor of voice at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern.

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