Doris Soffel

Doris Soffel (born 12 May 1948, Hechingen, Germany) is a German mezzo-soprano.

Doris Soffel

Doris Soffel first played the violin, then switched to singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. She was member of the Stuttgart Opera ensemble from 1973 to 1982. Her international breakthrough was as Sesto in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito at the Royal Opera House, London in 1982. She sang Fricka in the Bayreuth Festival 1983 and was the only German coloratura mezzo with an international career, singing in works by Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini. She sang world premieres by contemporary composers like Aribert Reimann and Krysztof Penderecki and had performances worldwide of Gustav Mahler's vocal works. From 1994, more dramatic roles like Judith in Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlo and Amneris in his Aïda. Since 1999 she belongs to the most important interpreters of operas by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss (e.g. Ortrud, Kundry, Fricka, Herodias and Amme). In 2007 she sang the female principal part (Marfa) in the Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina in Munich. She appears on about 60 CDs and several DVDs.

Doris Soffel was awarded the title Kammersängerin and holds the Royal Swedish Order of Northern Star.

Repertoire

Opera

Ortrud, Lohengrin
ComposerOperaPart
Béla BartókA Kékszakállú herceg vára (Bluebeard's Castle)Judit
Vincenzo BelliniNormaAdalgisa
Alban BergLuluGräfin Geschwitz
Hector BerliozLes TroyensDidon
Georges BizetCarmenCarmen
Francesco CileaAdriana LecouvreurLa Principessa di Bouillon
Gaetano DonizettiAnna BolenaGiovanna di Seymour
La FavoritaLeonora di Guzman
Maria StuardaElisabetta
Antonín DvořákRusalkaHexe Jezibaba
Friedrich von FlotowMartha oder Der Markt zu RichmondNancy
Christoph Willibald GluckOrfeo ed EuridiceOrfeo
George Frideric HandelHerculesDejanira
Leoš JanáčekKáta KabanováKabanicha
Pietro MascagniCavalleria rusticanaSantuzza
Jules MassenetHérodiadeHérodiade
WertherCharlotte
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartCosì fan tutteDorabella
La Clemenza di TitoSesto
Die ZauberflöteZweite Dame
Modest MussorgskyBoris GodunowMarina Mnisek
ChowantschinaMarfa
Krzysztof PendereckiUbu RexMère Ubu
Amilcare PonchielliLa GiocondaLaura Adorno
Francis PoulencDialogues des CarmelitesMadame de Croissy
Aribert ReimannTroadesKassandra
Gioachino RossiniCenerentolaAngelina
Il Barbiere di SivigliaRosina
L'Italiana in AlgeriIsabella
Mosè in EgittoSinaide
Camille Saint-SaënsSamson et DalilaDalila
Othmar SchoeckPenthesileaPenthesilea
Louis SpohrJessondaAmazili
Johann StraussDie FledermausPrinz Orlofsky
Richard StraussElektraKlytämnestra
Ariadne auf NaxosDer Komponist
CapriccioClairon
Die Frau ohne SchattenDie Amme
Der RosenkavalierOctavian
SalomeHerodias
Igor StravinskyOedipus RexJocaste
Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyOrleanskaja DevaJeanne d'Arc
Pique DameGräfin
Giuseppe VerdiAidaAmneris
Don CarlosEboli
Un ballo in MascheraUlrika
Il TrovatoreAzucena
Richard WagnerGötterdämmerungWaltraute
LohengrinOrtrud
ParsifalKundry
Das RheingoldFricka
Rienzi: Der letzte der TribunenAdriano
Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf WartburgVenus
Tristan und IsoldeBrangäne
Die WalküreFricka
Hugo WolfDer CorregidorFrasquita
Alexander ZemlinskyEine Florentinische TragödieBianca

Concerts

Johann Sebastian BachPassionen und OratorienMezzo
Ludwig van BeethovenMissa solemnis D-dur op.123Mezzo
Symphonie No. 9Alto
Hector BerliozMort de CleopâtreMezzo
Nuits d´étéMezzo
Damnation de FaustMarguerite
Johannes BrahmsLieder BrahmsMezzo
Anton BrucknerMass No. 3 in F minorAlto
Joseph HaydnHarmoniemesse B-dur Hob.XXII:13Alto
Heiligmesse B-dur Hob XXII:10Alto
Missa Sanctae Caeciliae C-durAlto
Karl Amadeus HartmannSymphonie 1 Versuch eines Requiem (on texts by Walt Whitman)Alto
Gustav MahlerDas Lied von der ErdeMezzo
KindertotenliederMezzo
Sinfonie Nr.2 c-moll (Auferstehung)Alto
Sinfonie Nr.8 Es-dur (Sinf.der Tausend)Alto
Symphonie No. 3Mezzo
Rückert-LiederMezzo
Lieder eines fahrenden GesellenMezzo
Hermann ReutterLiederMezzo
Franz SchubertLieder und LiederzyklenMezzo
Erwin SchulhoffLandschaften/MenschheitMezzo
Robert SchumannLieder und LiederzyklenMezzo
Arnold SchoenbergGurreliederWaldtaube
Wolfgang von SchweinitzLiederzyklus "Papiersterne"Mezzo
Alexander ScriabinSymphonie Nr. 1 E-DurMezzo
Richard StraussLieder und LiederzyklenMezzo
Giuseppe VerdiRequiemMezzo
Richard WagnerWesendonk-LiederMezzo
Alexander ZemlinskyMaeterlink OrchesterliederMezzo

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