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With the financial support of the British Council and the Belgian Foundation for Talent, soprano Sophie Karthäuser completed her studies with Noelle Barker at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
After her first Barbarina at the Théâtre royal de la Monnaie she was heard in the same house in L’enfant et les sortilèges with Marcello Viotti as well as in Monteverdi's L’Orfeo (La Musica, Euridice and Echo) with René Jacobs, as Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Kazushi Ono, Hanako in Hosokawa's world creation Hanjo and as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with René Jacobs (2005). "...Without a doubt the real queen of this 'Magic Flute' is Pamina, played by the pretty young soprano Sophie Karthäuser (Belgium). A refreshing, sweet and sensitive Pamina with bright highs - A bit of sensitivity in this cruel world..." Marie-Aude Roux - Le Monde.
Furthermore she sang Eritea in Cavalli's Eliogabalo with René Jacobs at the Innsbruck Festival (2004), Pamina at the Opéra in Lille (2005), made her debut as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at the Lyon National Opera with William Christie (2006) and sang the same role at the Festival de Beaune (2007) and in Strasbourg (2008). She made her debut as Ilia in Idomeneo at the Opéra national du Rhin in 2007 and sang it again at the Aix-en-Provence Festival with Marc Minkowski in 2009 (with ARTE TV). At the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées she appeared as Aéglé in Lully’s Thésée with Emmanuelle Haïm in 2008.
In concert she performs with Riccardo Chailly, William Christie, Diego Fasolis, John Fiore, Roy Goodman, Theodor Guschlbauer, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas Hengelbrock, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Emmanuel Krivine (Fauré Requiem for ARTE TV), Sigiswald Kuijken, Louis Langrée, Sir Neville Marriner, Kent Nagano, Jérémie Rohrer, Andreas Spering, Guy van Waas, Christian Zacharias and Lothar Zagrosek. Furthermore she sang Tamiri in Il re pastore with Les Folies Françoises and Schürmann's Ludovicus Pius with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
Her discography includes: Grétry arias for Ricercar (awarded with the “diapason découverte”), Haydn Il ritorno di Tobia for Naxos (German Record Critics' Annual Award), Mozart opera arias with the Orchestra of La Monnaie for Cypres, Haydn The Creation for Virgin, Boccherini Stabat mater for Ricercar and Handel Faramondo for Virgin. In 2010 she will record Ariodante (Dalinda) and present a solo recital of works by Rameau with Alan Curtis.
Sophie Karthäuser ranks among the international elite of lieder singers; she has given recitals with Eugene Asti at the Théâtre Royal and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Opéra de Flandre, the Opéra de Lille and Cologne's Philharmonie. In March 2010 she will appear at the Frankfurt Opera with Cedric Tiberghien, with whom she appeared at the Beaune Festival in 2009.
Engagements 2009/10: September/October 2009 Tour, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, Handel Susanna (title role); 16 and 17 September 2009 Leipzig, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Kurt Masur, Mendelssohn Elijah; October-December 2009 Monteverdi Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, Haydn The Creation/The Seasons; 22 and 26 January 2010 Salzburg, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Mozart Idomeneo; 3 and 9 February 2010 Le Cercle de l' Harmonie, Jérémie Rohrer, Recital; February 2010 Orchestre National d'Île de France, Takuo Yuasa, Mozart Mass in C minor (Sopr 1); 23 March 2010 Recital, Frankfurt, Cedric Tiberghien (piano); 5, 7, 9, 11 and 14 May 2010 Paris Théatre des Champs-Elysées, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset, La Calisto (title role), July 2010 Aix-en-Provence, Pygmalion and excerpts from Hippolyte et Aricie, William Christie.
Season 2009/2010 (representation: Concert Germany, Austria and german speaking Switzerland)
http://www.sophiekarthauser.com
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