Biography
German mezzo-soprano Silvia Hauer was a junior student at the Karlsruhe University of Music and studied singing at the universities of music in Freiburg and Vienna.In 2010, she won the Federal Singing Competition in Berlin. After guest engagements at the Komische Oper Berlin, she was a member of the opera studio of the Bavarian State Opera. She received scholarships from the Liedakademie Heidelberger Frühling, the Mozart Academy, the Festival Aix-en-Provence and the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme.
Since the 2015/2016 season, Silvia Hauer has been a member of the ensemble at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden and has made her debut in roles such as Dorabella/Così fan tutte, Bradamante/Alcina, Hänsel/Hänsel und Gretel, Orlowsky/Die Fledermaus and Olga/Eugen Onegin. At the 2019 International May Festival, she appeared as Sesto/La Clemenza di Tito, Maddalena/Rigoletto and Suzuki/Madama Butterfly. She works regularly with Uwe Laufenberg and Konrad Junghänel.
Her concert repertoire ranges from Bach's Passions to contemporary music, and she has performed at the Rheingau Music Festival, the Konzerthaus Berlin, in Hamburg, with the Philharmonic Choir Münster, the Lucerne Festival and the Philharmonie Berlin, among others. She has sung world premieres at the Bavarian State Opera (Jörg Widmann's Babylon) and at the Heidelberg Theatre (Alexander Munos' Vom Meer), as well as the world premiere of Luca Lombardi's Cinque frammenti di Saffo at the Gasteig in Munich. She also gives regular recitals and works with pianists Gerold Huber, So-Jin Kim and Pauliina Tukiainen
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Engagements in recent seasons include the following roles at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden, her home theatre: Hänsel/Hänsel und Gretel), Polina and Daphnis/Pique Dame, Dorabella/Così fan tutte, Sesto/La clemenza di Tito), Cherubino/Le nozze di Figaro, Mrs. Meg Page/Falstaff, as well as Octavian/Der Rosenkavalier and the title role in Carmen. She also appeared in Frankfurt as Maddalena/Rigoletto. In the symphonic repertoire, she has sung Janaček's Missa Glagolitica, among other works.
In the 2025/26 season, Silvia Hauer will appear at her home theatre as the Mayor/Carola Weisgut in Cvijovic's operetta Alles Liebe, as Pipetto in Donizetti's Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali and as the 1st Thrush in Braunfels' Die Vögel.
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Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
Adam | Christmas Truce – Weihnachtsfriede 1914 |
Bach, J.S. | BWV 85: „Ich bin ein guter Hirte“, |
BWV 132: „Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn“ | |
Christmas Oratorio | |
Magnificat | |
St. John Passion | |
St. Matthew Passion | |
Bruckner | Te Deum |
Charpentier | Te Deum |
Duruflé | Requiem |
Händel | Messiah |
Haydn | Missa brevis in F, Hob.XXII:1 |
Harmoniemesse, Hob.XXII:14 | |
Hindemith | Ite, angeli veloces |
Unheimliche Aufforderung für Sopran und Streichquartett | |
Keiser | St. Mark Passion |
Kempter | Pastoralmesse in G |
Kodály | Missa brevis |
Mayr | La Passione |
Mendelssohn | Die erste Walpurgisnacht, op.60 |
Elias, op.70 | |
Mozart | Betulia Liberata / Carmi |
Missa brevis in B, KV 275 | |
Missa brevis in G, KV 140 | |
Missa in c, KV 427 | |
Missa in C, Orgelsolo-Messe, KV 259 | |
Mass in C, KV 337 | |
Requiem | |
Spatzenmesse, KV 220 | |
Nicolai | Te Deum |
Pergolesi | Salve Regina |
Stabat Mater, EB 60 | |
Rossini | Stabat Mater |
Schubert | Messe in B, D 324 |
Messe in G, D 167 | |
Messe in As-Dur, D 678 | |
Vivaldi | Gloria D-Dur, RV 589 |
Wagner | Sieben Kompositionen zu Goethes Faust (H.W. Henze) |
Wesendonck-Lieder (high version after Felix Mottl and low version for chamber orchestra after H.W. Henze | |
Zach | Missa Solemnis ex D |
Repertoire Opera
Bizet | Carmen | Mercedes |
Le Docteur Miracle | Véronique | |
Dvorak | Rusalka | 2nd + 3rd wood sprite |
Händel | Alcina | Bradamante |
Henze | Elegie für junge Liebende | Carolina |
Humperdinck | Hansel and Gretel | Hansel, Sandmännchen |
Janacek | Cunning little vixen | Forester's wife / Owl / Pasek |
Jenufa | Barena | |
Katja Kabanowa | Varvara | |
Massenet | Manon | Rosette |
Mozart | Così fan tutte | Dorabella |
Die Zauberflöte | 2nd lady, 3rd lady | |
La clemenza di Tito | Annio | |
Le nozze di Figaro | Cherubino | |
Puccini | Madama Butterfly | Kate Pinkerton |
Ravel | L ́Enfant et les sortilèges | Pâtre |
Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Rosina |
La Cenerentola | Angelina | |
Strauss, J. | Die Fledermaus | Orlofsky |
Strauss, R. | Der Rosenkavalier | Octavian, 3rd noble orphan |
Die Frau ohne Schatten | A voice from above | |
Elektra | 1st Maid | |
Tschaikowski | Eugen Onegin | Olga |
Verdi | La traviata | Annina |
Flora | ||
Otello | Emilia | |
Wagner | Das Rheingold | Flosshilde |
Götterdämmerung | Flosshilde + 2nd Norn | |
Widmann | Babylon | Planet, Affe |
Zemlinsky | Der Zwerg | 2. Mädchen |
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Eternally young story
Silvia Hauer (Carmen) and Heather Engebretson (Micaëla) are the protagonists in the Carmen revival at Staatstheater Wiesbaden under the musical direction of Yoel Gamzou and in the staging of Uwe Eric Laufenberg. Alongside them on stage are Aaron Cawley as Don José and Jordan Shanahan as Escamillo, among others.All performance dates:
03/08/18/25/30 June & 04/09 July, 2023
Further information via following link:
www.staatstheater-wiesbaden.de/...
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Pique Dame / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 03.02.22 / fr.de
"[...] Hauer mit ihrer tiefgoldenen Stimme. Für sich genommen klingt sie warm, nuancenreich und erschütternd reif, in strahlender Tiefe überzeugt sie zudem im Duett mit Elena Bezgodkova" Barbier von Sevilla / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 11.09.20 / ioco.de
"Ein Glücksfall ist Silvia Hauer als Rosina"
Barbier von Sevilla / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 08.09.20 / faz.net
"Silvia Hauer als Rosina, die treffend ihr Mezzo-Fundament mit lockeren Koloraturen verbindet."
Der Rosenkavalier / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 17.11.19 / magazin.klassik.com
Der Rosenkavalier / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 14.11.19 / ioco.de
"begeistert als liebreizender Octavian [...] mit jugendlichem Übermut, vollmundig, sinnlich, auftrumpfend und gleichzeitig verletzlich, wo nötig auch deftig."
Madama Butterfly / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 13.05.19 / opernmagazin.de
"sang eine fabelhafte Suzuki, die den Schmerz und die Verbundenheit zur Butterfly szenisch famos darstellt und stimmlich mit großem Volumen und warmen Timbre diese Gefühle vermittelt"
La Clemenza di Tito / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 03.05.19 / wormser-zeitung.de
"Silvia Hauer managed to present a complex character study of Sesto" (Translated)
La Clemenza di Tito / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 02.05.19 / onlinemerker.com
"Silvia Hauer sings with a dark timbred Mezzo in a concentrated and beautiful sound, increasingly flaming and makes her figure the focal point of the opera" (Translated)
La Clemenza di Tito / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 02.05.19 / hboscaiolo.blogspot.com
"Emphasizing Sesto, a breeches role sung and played by the outstanding Mezzo-Soprano Silvia Hauer" (Translated)
Liederabend / Schumannfest Bonn / 21.06.16 / general-anzeiger-bonn.de
"hingebungsvoll und technisch stets souverän"
Katja Kabanowa / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 19.01.16 / fr.de
"die glockenreine, ungemein sympathische Warwara"
Katja Kabanowa / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 16.01.16 / der-neue-merker.eu
"ein auffälliges und großes Debüt"
Konzert / St. Pauls Church, Covent Garden / 24.10.14 / thoroughlymodernmilly.com
"superb singing and also her wonderful acting"