Magdalena Hinterdobler

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Magdalena Hinterdobler
Born1986 (age 37–38)
Straubing, Bavaria, Germany
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OccupationOperatic soprano
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Magdalena Hinterdobler (born 1986) is a German operatic soprano, based at the Oper Frankfurt, where she has performed leading roles including Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Elisabetta in Verdi's Don Carlo and Grete in Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge. She appeared as Anna in the world premiere of Gerd Kühr's Paradiese.

Life and career[edit]

Hinterdobler was born in Straubing, Bavaria, in 1986.[1] She attended a gymnasium focused on music and was a member of its chamber choir, conducted by Gerold Huber, the father of the pianist Gerold Huber.[2] She began voice lessons at age 14.[1] Hinterdobler took part in oratorio performances with the choir, with tours to Italy, and in opera productions, performing more and more demanding roles as a soloist.[2] She achieved prizes at Jugend musiziert and the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin.[1] She enrolled at the University of Music and Theatre Munich as a young student while still going to school, in the class of Erika Wiens.[1] She studied voice there with several former members of the Tölzer Knabenchor, who influenced the class towards team spirit.[2] She performed with the Münchener Kammerorchester conducted by Christoph Poppen at age 17, and sang regularly with the Augsburger Kammerorchester and the Niederbayerisches Kammerorchester. She was a soloist in Bach's Mass in B minor with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as part of the Landsberger Bachtage.[1]

From 2008 Hinterdobler also studied at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding from 2008,[1] voice with Andreas Schmidt, and lied with Helmut Deutsch.[3] She made her debut at the Prinzregententheater with the academy in 2008 in Wiener Blut by Johann Strauss.[1] She also appeared there in Mozart's La finta giardiniera in another student project.[2] In 2014 she starred as Midili Hanum in Leo Fall's Die Rose von Stambul at the Prinzregententheater; when a CD recording of one of the performances was released in 2022, Fanfare called her "the best singer in the cast".[4]

Hinterdobler became a member of the ensemble of the Leipzig Opera in 2014, and remained there until 2022.[3][5] She appeared there in title roles in Dvořák's Rusalka and Marie in Smetana's The Bartered Bride. She performed as Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, in Mozart roles and as Puccini's Mimì in La bohème and Liù in Turandot.[3] She performed in 2017 as Ännchen in Weber's Der Freischütz, and a reviewer described her aria as a "delicious account".[6] During the COVID-19 pandemic, she took part in a concert version of Der Ring an einem Abend, the short version of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen by Loriot instead of two complete cycles as planned by music director Ulf Schirmer in 2021; she performed as Ortlinde in Die Walküre and as Gutrune in Götterdämmerung in the live-stream.[7][8] In July 2021 she took part in the world premiere of Gerd Kühr's Paradiese as Anna, again conducted by Schirmer; a reviewer from the Süddeutsche Zeitung who described her role in great detail summarised that she filled "the Prenzlauer Berg bourgeois idyll with her colorful, sensual soprano as an erotic elemental force" ("M. H. füllt als erotische Urgewalt das Prenzlauer Berg-Spießeridyll mit ihrem farbenreichen, sinnlichen Sopran.")[9]

Hinterdobler appeared at the Oper Frankfurt as Eva in a new production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in 2022, directed by Johannes Erath and conducted by Sebastian Weigle.[10][11] Orpheus magazine reviewed her performance as "full of soprano sunshine above all the other voices".[12] She became a member of the ensemble in 2023,[13] and appeared there as Elisabetta in Verdi's Don Carlo and Chrysothemis in Elektra by Richard Strauss, the latter alongside Aile Asszonyi in the title role.[13] When the two women appeared in the same roles in a production of the Tyrolean State Theatre in 2023, a reviewer from the Online Merker noted that she portrayed her character "gloriously, with a luminous soprano, good vocal expression and also a multi-faceted and emotionally committed performance" ("glanzvoll, mit einem leuchtenden Sopran, gutem stimmlichem Ausdruck und ebenfalls einer facettenreichen und emotional engagierten Darstellung"), adding: "This will be a great role for her!"[14]

Hinterdobler was cast as Grete in Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge (Görge the Dreamer) in Frankfurt in 2024, directed by Tilmann Köhler and conducted by Markus Poschner.[15][16] Zemlinsky's work was not performed when it was composed in 1907 at the Vienna State Opera as planned by Gustav Mahler, then the music director, and was revived only in 1980.[15][16] The title character Görge is an outsider in a village, as a bookworm, dreamer and intellectual.[15][16] Hinterdobler portrayed Grete, whom Görge is supposed to marry but she is unable to comprehend him.[17] Reviewer Curtis Rogers, writing for The Classical Source website, noted that she took "a more straightforwardly bold, sassy approach to the role".[18] Writing in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Jan Brachmann described her singing as "fresh, beautiful and so exemplary diction" ("frisch, schön und so vorbildlich textverständlich").[15]

Recordings[edit]

Among Hinterdobler's recordings is Leo Fall's operetta Die Dollarprinzessin live from the Prinzregententheater in Munich in 2012, with Ulf Schirmer conducting the Munich Radio Orchestra,[19] and according to a reviewer from Gramophone the only complete recording of the work.[20] Another reviewer noted that the singers were "all well up to the task", and that she in the role of Daisy sang and acted "with great character", adding "Things do seem to come to life whenever she is in the picture".[19] Similarly, she appeared as Bertha in a recording of Max Bruch's rarely played opera Die Loreley live from Munich, conducted by Stefan Blunier [de].[21]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Biographien – Magdalena Hinterobler", Konzertsaison 2008/09 (PDF) (program notes) (in German), Munich Radio Orchestra, p. 12, retrieved 12 May 2024
  2. ^ a b c d Enderle, Maximilian (27 February 2023). ""Alles bedingt sich gegenseitig" / Magdalena Hinterdobler, Sopran". Magazin (in German). Oper Frankfurt. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Magdalena Hinterdobler / Soprano". Theater Chemnitz. 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024. [promotional source?][better source needed]
  4. ^ Altena, James A. (January–February 2022). "Fall Die Rose von Stambul". Fanfare. Vol. 45, no. 3. pp. 283–284.
  5. ^ "Magdalena Hinterdobler / Soprano". Leipzig Opera. Retrieved 20 April 2024. [promotional source?][better source needed]
  6. ^ Shirley, Hugo (6 March 2017). "Verve and commitment from Oper Leipzig's new Freischütz". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 27 April 2024.
  7. ^ "Richard Wagner/ Loriot "Der Ring an einem Abend"" (PDF). Leipzig Opera. 9 April 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  8. ^ Billand, Klaus (19 April 2021). "Leipzig: Der Ring an einem Abend / Loriot/Wagner. Stream / Orchestral gut, stimmlich teilweise enttäuschend". Online Merker (in German). Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  9. ^ Spinola, Julia (13 July 2021). "Hoffentlich gibt es kein Jenseits". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  10. ^ Rosén, Friedeon (7 November 2022). "Frankfurt / Opernhaus: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Premiere". Online Merker (in German). Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  11. ^ Rittershaus, Monika (6 November 2022). "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg". Online Musik Magazine (in German). Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  12. ^ Maier, Florian (9 November 2022). "Rezension: Oper Frankfurt – "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"". Orpheus (in German). Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  13. ^ a b "Magdalena Hinterdobler / Soprano". Oper Frankfurt. 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024. [promotional source?][better source needed]
  14. ^ Billand, Klaus (12 June 2023). "Eine packende "Elektra" in Innsbruck!". Online Merker (in German). Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  15. ^ a b c d Brachmann, Jan (27 February 2024). "Ein Lichtgedicht". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  16. ^ a b c Schmule, Stefan (16 March 2024). "Der Traumgörge". Online Musik Magazine (in German). Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  17. ^ Sternburg, Julia von (26 February 2024). "Der Traumgörge an der Oper Frankfurt – Die einen und alle anderen". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  18. ^ Rogers, Curtis (27 February 2024). "Oper Frankfurt – Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge". classicalsource.com. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  19. ^ a b Parr, Mike (December 2019). "Leo Fall (1873–1925) / Die Dollarprinzessin". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  20. ^ Bratby, Richard (February 2020). "Fall Die Dollarprinzessin (Schirmer)". Gramophone. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  21. ^ Cathey, Boyd (July 2019). "Max Bruch, Die Loreley, and the German Romantic Tradition". newenglishreview.org. Retrieved 10 May 2024.

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