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Friederike Meinel
1+ albums
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Friederike Meinel (Mezzosoprano) was born in Jena; both her parents are physicians. She first studied at the HdK (Academy of the Arts) in Berlin with Ingrid Figur and then with Rudolf Piernay in Mannheim (concert proficiency exam). She was a pupi in Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's and Aribert Reimann's master classes for several years. Among her other important teachers were Ingrid Bjoner and Helmut Kretschmar. Friederike Meinel won international contests and prizes, for instance the Paula- Lindberg-Salomon singing competition, the Yamaha scholarship singing competition, as well as the O.E. Hasse-prize, which was awarded to her by the O.E. Hasse Foundation and the Academy of Arts. Already the winner of the Richard-Wagner-scholarship, she was furthermore awarded the Jütting scholarship. Friederike Meinel was a member of the Young Ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. She was a member of the company of the Opera House Wuppertal and subsequently a member of the company of the Cologne Opera House. She sang the parts of Donna Elvira in “Don Giovanni", La Malaspina in “Luci mi traditrici", various parts (Norns, Rhine Maidens, Valkyries etc.) in “Ring des Nibelungen". Among the mezzo soprano's important roles are Octavian in “Der Rosenkavalier" and Charlotte in “Werther". The singer gave her Vienna debut at the Vienna Festival in the title role of “Penthesilea - Ein Traum", conducted by Ulf Schirmer. She sang the part of Hilde in “Celan" at the Semperoper in Dresden with Marc A
