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Anett Fritsch

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In the current season, Anett Fritsch has already performed in Romeo Castellucci’s new production of Das Rheingold at La Monnaie in Brussels and with Giovanni Antonini and the ensemble Il Giardino Armonico in Haydn’s The Seasons at the Lucerne Festival, the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Bremen Music Festival, in Wroclaw, Bucharest and Antwerp. At the Volksoper Wien, she is also singing the new production of Die lustige Witwe as Hannah Glawari in the current season, as well as Mimì (La bohème), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) and others. She also returns to the Staatsoper Berlin as Freia (Das Rheingold) before she can be heard in Hasse’s Piramo e Tisbe with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

 

Anett Fritsch had a great success giving her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival with the part of Almirena in Händel’s Rinaldo and with the part of Merione in Gluck’s Telemaco at the Theater an der Wien. She also made a triumphant debut as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at the Teatro Real Madrid, a production which was also very successful at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and in 2014 appeared at the Wiener Festwochen. The tour through Europe as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with René Jacobs and the Freiburger Barockorchester received a great international response. In 2014 Anett Fritsch made her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, in 2015 she returned to Salzburg as Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro, in Munich she sang Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro).

 

In recent seasons, Anett Fritsch was guest at the Teatro Real in Madrid as Ilia (Idomeneo), Donna Elvira, Contessa, Pamina and Marzelline (Fidelio), as Contessa at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, in Santiago de Chile as Pamina and at the Opéra de Lausanne as Almirena (Rinaldo). She gave her debut as Donna Elvira at La Scala in Milan and at the Bastille in Paris, and made her debut as Zdenka in Strauss’ Arabella at the Zurich Opera House. Anett Fritsch returned to the Theater an der Wien as Contessa, as Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), as Alice Ford in the Salieri opera Falstaff and as Anima in the new production of Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo by Robert Carsen and under the musical direction of Giovanni Antonini. She also sang Anima under Maestro Antonini at the Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Wroclaw. Anett Fritsch previously appeared at the Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin in Purcell’s King Arthur under René Jakobs and returned in the 2022/23 season with her role debuts as Freia and Ortlinde (Die Walküre) in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production of the Ring. Anett Fritsch celebrated great successes at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam as Ginevra in Handel’s Ariodante, as well as Fiordiligi and Donna Elvira. Further guest appearances have taken her to Bilbao as Emma in Fierrabras and Arminda in La finta giardniniera, as well as Marzelline, and to Toulouse as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. She made her debut at the Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine as Contessa.

 

Highlights on the concert platform in recent years have been Philippe Boesmans’ Trakl Lieder with the La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sylvain Cambreling at the Bozar in Brussels, with Andrea Marcon and the La Cetra Barockorchester in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Basel, with Bach’s St. John Passion in Rotterdam, as well as numerous concerts with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

 

Anett Fritsch studied at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Music Academy in Leipzig with KS Prof. Jürgen Kurth. In 2001 she was awarded the first prize at the Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig. She was a laureate at the international competition of the Chamber Opera at Schloss Rheinsberg in 2006 and 2007, where she sang the parts of Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. In the season 2007/08 the Oper Leipzig engaged Anett Fritsch for various parts. From 2009 to 2015 Anett Fritsch was part of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where she sang among others Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites) Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and Marie (La fille du régiment).

February 2024 – For the most recent biography, please contact Iris Jedamski