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 exciting Kundry (Parsifal), 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 theatres and festivals.

The 2024/25 season begins for Tanja Ariane Baumgartner with her house debut at La Scala in Milan as Annina (Der Rosenkavalier) under the baton of Kirill Petrenko. She returns to Geneva as Herodias (Salome). At the Tokyo Spring Festival she appears as Kundry (Parsifal) and sings the alto in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. Further concert engagements have taken Ms Baumgartner to the Vienna Symphony Orchestra with Mahler's Symphony No. 8 under Philippe Jordan and to the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Semyon Bychkov, to the Singapore Symphony Orchestra with Mahler's Symphony No. 2 and to the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra with Mahler's Lied von der Erde.

Highlights of the past seasons include Ortrud (Lohengrin), Fricka (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) and Amme (Die Frau ohne Schatten) at the Vienna State Opera, Mrs Quickly (Falstaff), Countess Geschwitz (Lulu), Charlotte (Die Soldaten) and Madre (Il prigioniero) at the Salzburg Festival, Brangäne and Leonore in the world premiere of Glanerts Jüdin von Toledo at the Semperoper Dresden, Kundry (Parsifal) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Venus (Tannhäuser) in Hamburg in a new production by Tcherniakov and at the Zurich Opera House, Brangäne at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Mary (Der fliegende Holländer) and Clairon (Capriccio) at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Carmen at Covent Garden London, Judith (Bluebeard's Castle) at the Edinburgh Festival, Agaue (The Bassarids) at the Komische Oper Berlin, Kostelnicka (Jenufa) in Santiago de Chile, as well as her debut with Schönberg's Erwartung at WDR.

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble from 2009 to 2020. Her successes there include, among others the title role in Schoeck's Penthesilea, Amme (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Eboli (Don Carlo), Azucena (Trovatore), Principessa de Bouillon (Adriana Lecouvreur), Clairon (Capriccio), Gaea (Daphne), Preziosilla, Fremde Fürstin (Rusalka), Brangäne, Cornelia (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Gora in the German premiere of Reimann's Medea (released on CD by OehmsClassics), Iokaste (Oedipe) and Charlotte (Werther).

 The mezzo-soprano has performed Mahler's Lied von der Erde at the Salzburg Festival and with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in Munich and Hamburg. She sang Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 under the baton of Sebastian Weigle in Tokyo, in Paris with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and at the Berlin Konzerthaus under Joana Mallwitz. She last sang Verdi's Requiem under Thomas Guggeis in Frankfurt. She performed Glanert's Paris Symphony with the Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam. 

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

 2024/25

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