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| | Pinter Brigitte | | mezzosoprano |  
| 'The wonderful Mezzo of Brigitte Pinter moved us to tears with miraculously controlled intensity and a timbre of velvety glow' wrote Le Figaro about the young singers performance of Mahler's 2nd Symphony at Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris. The article 'Keep your eye on the German wing' in Opera News points out the versatility of the young dramatic mezzo, whose repertory ranges from Mozart to Ligeti and Dallapiccola. |
| The young Austrian Mezzo Brigitte Pinter will appear as Penelope in Monteverdis Ulisse with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and in Wagner's Ring with Franz Welser-Möst and Robert Wilson at Zurich Opera this season. Furthermore she will give her debuts as Venus in Wagners Tannhäuser in Basel and as Eglantine in C.M. von Webers Euryanthe in Cagliari as well as her debut with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra performing Beethoven's 9th Symphony in the Konzerthaus Vienna. With Maestro Lorin Maazel and the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio she will sing Mahler's 8th Symphony at the Gasteig in Munich. Furthermore she will be a guest at Frankfurt Opera and Bregenzer Festspiele and she will give a Galaconcert with Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in Tokyo. |
| In January 2001 Miss Pinter gave her debut as Gräfin Geschwitz in Alban Berg's Lulu at Teatro Massimo in Palermo, where she also performed Mahler's Kindertoten-lieder. With great success she appeared as Penelope in the creation of Leinen aus Smyrna by Edward Rushton at Zurich Opera and the Opera Festival Munich. |
| Brigitte Pinter gave her stage debut in Schuberts Opera Fierrabras at the Wiener Festwochen with Claudio Abbado (on CD with Deutsche Grammophon). Abbados personal recommendation enabled her to continue her studies at the renowned Juilliard School of Music in New York (Voice with Alan Seale). She was granted a Fulbright Scholarship from the United States and a promotional Scholarship from the Vienna Academy of Music , where she began her studies. |
| In 1994 Pinter was a prize winner in the International Belvedere Competition for Operasingers in Vienna. The following year brought a great success for the young singer: she gave her debut as Sister Jeanne in Krzysztof Pendereckis opera The Devils Of Loudun in Vienna higly acclaimed by press and audience. |
| In 1996 Miss Pinter gave her New York Debut at Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) with a solorecital featuring works by Wagner and Mahler. At very short notice she took over the role of Mescalina in György Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" at Salzburg Festival 1997 (conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen / stage-direction: Peter Sellars). @She sang Mahler's "Das Lied von Erde" for the first time at the Carinthian Summer Festival 1997 and took over the role of Nourrice in Paul Duka's opera "Ariane et Barbe-Bleue" at the Hamburg State Opera (conductor: Ingo Metzmacher). In the same year she created the main-part in the world-premiere of the opera "Diary of Ronald Hansen" which composer Dirk D'Ase had written for her. |
| Since 1996 she has been performing within the touring-production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" (conductor: Ralf Weikert / stage-direction: Christian Boesch / sets and costumes: Ernst Fuchs) which was staged in Vienna, Munich, Bremen, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Zurich and Helsinki so far. |
| In 1998 Brigitte Pinter sang the leading female characters in Luigi Dallapiccola's one-act-operas "Il Prigioniero" and "Volo di Notte" in Vienna; she went on tour through France with conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus and his Lille Orchestra singing the contralto-part in Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony receiving excellent reviews for a concert at Theatre des Champs Elysées in Paris. |
| In 1999 Brigitte Pinter made her successful debuts at the Vienna Musikverein (Leonard Bernstein's "Songfest" conducted by Dennis Russell Davies), at St. Gallen Theatre (as Witch and as Foreign Princess in Antonin Dvorak's "Rusalka" conducted by Jiri Kout and staged by Philippe Arlaud) as well as at the Stuttgart State Opera (as Fata Morgana in Prokofjev's "The Love to Three Oranges" conducted by Janos Kulka). She sang the female lead in Saint-Saens opera "Samson et Dalila" with the NDR Hannover and appeared in further concerts in Vienna. |
| March 2000 met the artist with a Weill-programme at the Vienna Konzerthaus. In April she sang Brahms' "Contralto-Rhapsody" as well as orchestral-songs by Richard Strauss at the Cologne Philharmony and in June Dirk D'Ases Turrini-Lieder at their worldpremiere, as well as Mahler's Rückert Lieder and Second Symphony in the Vienna Festival in Erewan. |
| In summer 2000 she gave her debut with the Austrian Moerbisch Festival singing the role of Czipra in Johann Strauß' operetta "The Gipsy Baron"(TV Production). |
| In addition to already mentioned concert-pieces Brigitte Pinter's repertory also includes all vocal symphonies and all orchestral songs by Gustav Mahler, Richard Wagners "Wesendonck-Lieder", Giuseppe Verdis "Messa da Requiem", Ludwig van Beethovens 9th Symphony and "Missa Solemnis" as well as the part of Waldtaube in Schönbergs "Gurrelieder". |
| Brigitte Pinter recently performed with Claudio Abbado, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Ingo Metzmacher, Theodor Guschlbauer, Ralf Weikert, Jiri Kout, Janos Kulka and many more with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Moscow Symphony, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Lille and the Vienna Radio-Symphony-Orchestra@ |
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