Biography
Berlin-born mezzo-soprano, Bettina Ranch, initially studied violin and subsequently changed to singing.Over the last years, she has given successful guest performances at renowned opera houses such as the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Hamburg State Opera, the Aalto-Theater Essen, the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, and the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, where she was engaged amongst others for Mozart and Wagnerian roles as well as major roles in the different baroque operas by Georg Friedrich Handel.
In the concert field, she sang in particular the masses by Mozart, the Bach Passions and Mass in B minor, the Messiah, the Verdi-Requiem and Dvořák’s Stabat Mater but also performed works such as Mahler’s symphonic cantata The Song of Mourning (Das klagende Lied) and his 2nd symphony, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Franz Schmidt’s The Book with Seven Seals, as well as Nono’s Il Canto sospeso at the Salzburg Festival. On these occasions, she worked repeatedly with renowned ensembles and orchestras such as the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart, the Chamber Academy Potsdam, the Dresden Philharmonic,SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Bremen Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the RTVE Orchestra Madrid, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the DSO Berlin, the RIAS Chamber Choir, and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and under prominent conductors such as Hartmut Haenchen, Markus Poschner, Simone Young, Helmuth Rilling, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Paul Goodwin, Peter Rundel, and Ivor Bolton.
Since the season 2016/2017 Bettina Ranch is a member of ensemble at Aalto-Theater Essen where she already sang roles such as the title role of Carmen, Fricka and Schwertleite/Die Walküre as well as the latter in Ring an einem Abend, Ludmilla/The bartered Bride, Gertrude/Hans Heiling, Adalgisa/Norma, Maddalena/Rigoletto, Emilia/Otello, Federica/Luisa Miller, Voice of the Mother/Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Princess Clarice/The Love for Three Oranges, Fenena/Nabucco, 1st Maid/Elektra, and Sesto/La clemenza di Tito.
In the season 2019/20 she is once again active in both the opera and concert field. At her parent house in Essen she will take on the title of Carmen, Emilia/Otello, Fricka and Waltraute/Ring an einem Abend, Dorabella/Così fan tutte, Marcellina in the new production Le nozze di Figaro and Annina/Der Rosenkavalier each under the baton of Tomáš Netopil, Kain in the new production of Scarlatti’s Kain und Abel, as well as Marthe in Gounod’s Faust under Sébastien Rouland. Furthermore, she will interpret Siegrune/Die Walküre at Danish National Opera Amsterdam under Marc Albrecht.
In addition, she will sing Mahler’s 3rd symphony and Beethoven’s 9th symphony under the baton of Tomáš Netopil at the Philharmonie Essen, as well as Beethoven’s 9th symphony under Markus Poschner in Dresden.
Artist Website
www.bettinaranch.comManagement
General ManagementArtist Manager

Natascha van Randenborgh
Associate Director
natascha@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-173-7 76 88 20
Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
Bach, C.P.E. | Magnificat |
Bach, J.C. | Magnificat |
Bach, J.S. | B minor mass |
Cantatas (various) | |
Christmas Oratorio | |
Magnificat | |
St. John Passion | |
St. Matthew Passion | |
Beethoven | Mass in C major Op. 86 |
Missa solemnis | |
Symphony no. 9 | |
Bernstein | Chichester-Psalms |
Brahms | Alt-Rhapsodie |
Liebeslieder-Walzer | |
Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer | |
Bruckner | Mass in D minor |
Te Deum | |
Duruflé | Requiem |
Dvorak | Requiem |
Stabat Mater | |
Haydn | Arianna a Naxos |
Die Sieben Worte | |
Il ritorno di Tobia / Anna | |
Harmoniemesse | |
Nelsonmesse | |
Paukenmesse | |
Schöpfungsmesse | |
Stabat Mater | |
Händel | Dettinger Te Deum |
Israel in Egypt | |
Jephtha / Storge | |
Messiah | |
Solomon | |
St. John Passion | |
Homilius | Christmas Oratorio |
St. John Passion | |
Lang | Fichten |
Liszt | Die Legende der heiligen Elisabeth / Sophie |
Mahler | Das klagende Lied |
Martin | 6 Monologe aus Jedermann |
Mendelssohn | 3 geistliche Lieder Op.96 |
Elias | |
Lobgesang | |
Paulus | |
Sommernachtstraum | |
Mozart | Betulia Liberata / Giuditta |
C minor mass | |
Coronation Mass | |
Davidde penitente | |
Messias | |
Missa Solemnis | |
Requiem | |
Thamos | |
Vesperae Solennes | |
Nicolai | Mass in D major |
Penderecki | Credo |
Pergolesi | Stabat Mater |
Rossini | Petite Messe Solennelle |
Schreier | Er ist nicht |
Schmidt | Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln |
Schumann | Das Paradies und die Peri |
Faust-Szenen | |
Spanische Liebeslieder | |
Spanisches Liederspiel | |
Schubert | Magnificat |
Mass in A flat major | |
Mass in B flat major | |
Mass in E flat major | |
Ständchen | |
von Suppé | Requiem |
Verdi | Requiem |
Vivaldi | Dixit Dominus |
Magnificat | |
Stabat Mater | |
Telemann | Deutsches Magnificat |
St. Matthew Passion | |
Zelenka | Lamentatio II |
Repertoire Opera
Bellini | La straniera | Isoletta |
Norma | Adalgisa | |
Dusapin | Medea | Medeastimme 4 |
Graupner | Berenice und Lucilla | Lucilla |
Händel | Alcina | Bradamante |
Ariodante | Ariodante | |
Giulio Caesare | Cornelia | |
Giulio Cesare | ||
Lotario | Matilde | |
Semele | Ino | |
Juno | ||
Xerxes | Amastris | |
Monteverdi | Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria | Penelope |
L´Orfeo | Messagiera | |
La Speranza | ||
Proserpina | ||
Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | 3.Dame |
La Betulia liberata | Giuditta | |
La clemenza di Tito | Sesto | |
Offenbach | Les contes d'Hoffmann | La voix de la tombe |
Prokofiev | L'amour des trois oranges | Clarice |
Scarlatti | Il primo omicidio | Cain |
Strauss, R. | Elektra | 1. Magd |
Valtinoni | Die Schneekönigin | Blumenfrau / Frau aus Lappland |
Verdi | Nabucco | Fenena |
Rigoletto | Maddalena | |
Wagner | Das Rheingold | Erda |
Flosshilde | ||
Die Walküre | Schwertleite | |
Götterdämmerung | Flosshilde |
Discography
Haydn "Harmoniemesse"Erschienen Oktober 2016 bei Rondeau
Reussisches Kammerorchester
Kammerchor der Frauenkirche Dresden
Matthias Grünert
Ina Siedlaczek / Tobias Hunger / Tobias Berndt
Franz Schmidt "Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln"
Erschienen Januar 2016 bei OehmsClassics
Philharmoniker Hamburg
NDR-Chor / Staatschor Latvia
Simone Young
Klaus Florian Vogt / Georg Zeppenfeld / Inga Kalna / Bettina Ranch / Dovlet Nurgeldiyev
Muzyczne Dziedzictwo Miasta Gdańska Vol. VI
Kantaty Na Święto Zesłania Ducha Świętego i
Wniebowstąpienie
Erschienen Dezember 2015 bei SARTON
Goldberg Baroque Ensemble
Andrzej Mikołaj Szadejko-dyrygent
Adam Pastuszka-koncertmistrz
Ingrida Gápová-sopran
Klaudia Trzasko-sopran
Bettina Ranch-alt
Georg Poplutz-tenor
Stefan Geyer-bas
Johann Georg Hoffmann (1700-1780)
Kantata na niedzielę Cantate Nun lob meine Seel den Herren
Friedrich Christian Mohrheim (1719-1780)
Kantata na Wniebowstąpienie Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen
Gessel (XVIII w.)
Kantata na Wniebowstąpienie Vater ich will, dass wo ich bin
Anonim (XVII w.)
Kantata na Święto Zesłania Ducha Świętego Veni Sancte Spiritus
Johann Daniel Pucklitz (1705-1774)
Kantata na Święto Zesłania Ducha Świętego Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt
Anonim (XVIII w.) –
Kantata na Święto Zesłania Ducha Świętego Veni Sancte Spiritus
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News
Bettina Ranch

Orfeo at the season premiere in Essen
Bettina Ranch sings Orfeo for the first time on September 26, 2020 at the Aalto-Musiktheater Essen in the season premiere "Orfeo ed Euridice" by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Paul-Georg Dittrich stages the piece together with the video designer Vincent Stefan, the musical director is Tomáš Netopil.Further performances: September 30th; October 3rd, 18th, 25th, 29th; November 1st, 7th, 8th; December 13zh, 27th, 2020
More information under:
www.theater-essen.de/...
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Press
La Clemenza di Tito / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 22.06.17 / waz.de
"einen Auftritt[...], der nicht nur die Kritiker zu Lobeshymnen hinriss"
La Clemenza di Tito / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 06.06.17 / literaturundfeuilleton.wordpress.com
"allen voran Publikumsliebling Bettina Ranch"
La Clemenza di Tito / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 05.06.17 / waz.de
"wird zum Triumph für Bettina Ranch"
La Clemenza di Tito / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 03.06.17 / theaterpur.net
"an diesem Abend sicher prima inter pares"
Nabucco / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 17.04.17 / operaticsonline.com
"her sense of bel canto is impeccable"
Norma / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 12.10.16 /
opernnetz.de
"in allen Lagen weiche und mühelos ansprechende Stimme"
Norma / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 08.10.16 / der-neue-merker.eu
"von feinem Glanz geadeltem Gesang"