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Biography

Ursula Hesse von den Steinen received her vocal training at Hochschule der Künste Berlin. She refined her skills in master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender and Aribert Reimann. During her studies, she received numerous prizes at national and international competitions.

From 1999 until 2002, she was a member of the ensemble at the Semperoper in Dresden, building her repertoire under conductors such as Antonio Pappano, Pinchas Steinberg, Semyon Bychkov, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Riccardo Chailly, and Michael Boder. From there her path rapidly led her to all the important European stages in Amsterdam, Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Brussels, Barcelona, Toulouse, Glyndebourne, and Paris, singing the fach-roles of the German and Italian repertoire.

With a sensational debut as Fricka/Rheingold in Karlsruhe, Ursula Hesse von den Steinen began her development in the Wagner-fach. Since then she sang Fricka in various Walküre productions, including in Riga (Stefan Herheim), Essen (Dietrich Hilsdorf) and Nuremberg. In Mannheim she could be seen as Venus in Tannhäuser, followed by Adriano/Rienzi in Riga. Most recently she debuted as Ortrud in Lohengrin in Bern.

Highlights of the past seasons were Herodias/Salome in Klagenfurt, Klytämnestra/Elektra at Theater Basel, Foreign Princess/Rusalka and Mother Goose/The Rake’s Progress at the Komische Oper Berlin Margret/Wozzeck at De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam, and Matilde/Lotario at the International Handel Festival Göttingen, and in the concert field Glanert’s Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch with the orchestra of Concertgebouw Amsterdam as well as with the Hamburger Symphoniker at the Elbphilharmonie, both under the baton of Markus Stenz.

In the concert field, the artist worked with such institutions as Concerto Köln, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Sächsische Staatskapelle, Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre National de France under Michael Gielen, Vladimir Jurowski, Markus Stenz, Eliahu Inbal, Riccardo Chailly, and Pierre Boulez.

CD recordings with lieder by Reimann, Rihm, Webern, and Widmann as well as the „Echo“ awarded recording Das lange Weihnachtsmahl by Hindemith under Marek Janowski and Glanert’s Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch under Markus Stenz document her career.

Engagements in recent seasons include at the Komische Oper Berlin: Pelagea Grigoryevna Podtochina in the Nose, the Queen in the premiere of Jaromír Weinberger's Schwanda the Bagpiper. In addition, she was in Munich as Annina in Der Rosenkavalier and as Ursuline's Sister Claire in the premiere of Pendecki's The Devils of Loudun. Last season 2022/23 she sang Clytemnestra in a new production of Elektra in Erfurt, as well as Claire in Die Teufel von Loudun at the Bavarian State Opera and the mezzo-soprano in Messa da Requiem in Düsseldorf.

In the upcoming 2023/24 season she will appear in a new production of the Trittico at the Bavarian State Opera.

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Artist Website

www.ursulahessevondensteinen.de
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Management

General Management

Artist Manager

Boris Orlob
Managing Director
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Repertoire

Repertoire Concert

Bach, J.S.	B minor mass
	BWV 1083 (nach Pergolesi)
	Christmas Oratorio
	St. John Passion
	St. Matthew Passion
Beethoven	Symphony no. 9
Brahms	Alt-Rhapsodie
Bruckner	Te Deum
de Falla	El amor brujo
	Siete Canciones Populares
Hindemith	Des Todes Tod
	Die junge Magd
Händel	Judas Maccabäus
	Messiah
Janacek	Das Tagebuch eines Verschollenen
Mahler	Symphony no. 2
	Symphony no. 3
	Kindertotenlieder
	Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
	Wunderhornlieder
	Das Lied von der Erde
Mendelssohn	Elias
Mozart	Concert arias (e.g. KV 272, 383, 505)
	Requiem
Pergolesi	Stabat Mater
Purcell	Dido and Aeneas
Ravel	Trois Poemes de St. Mallarmé
Reimann	Eingedunkelt (Altsolo nach P.Celan)
Rihm	Lieder nach Paul Celan
Rossini	Petite Messe solennelle
	Stabat Mater
Shostakovich	From Jewish Folk Poetry, Vocal cycle Op. 79
Stravinsky	Pribautki
Wagner	Wesendonck-Lieder
Weber	Nachgelassene Stücke (nach George)
Wolf	Der Corregidor

Repertoire Opera

Berg	Lulu	Gräfin Geschwitz
	Wozzeck	Marie
Bizet	Carmen	Carmen
		Mercedes
Britten	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Hermina
Dvorak	Rusalka	Foreign Princess
		Jezibaba
Gluck	Orpheus und Eurydike	Orpheus
Händel	Alcina	Ruggiero
	Xerxes	Amastris
		Xerxes
Monteverdi	L'Orfeo	Messagiera
	L’incoronazione di Poppea	Nerone
Mozart	Betulia liberata	Judita
	Così fan tutte	Dorabella
	Die Zauberflöte	2. Dame, 3. Dame
	Le nozze di Figaro	Cherubino
	Titus	Sextus
Nicolai	Die lustigen Weiber	Frau Reich
Offenbach	Les contes d'Hoffmann	Giulietta
		La Muse / Nicklausse
Pintscher	Thomas Chatterton	Mutter
Puccini	Gianni Schicchi	Ciesca
		Zita
	Il tabarro	Frugola
	Manon Lescaut	Musiker
Rossini	Il barbiere di Siviglia	Rosina
	Il turco in Italia	Donna Fiorilla
		Zaida
	L' Italiana in Algeri	Isabella
	La Cenerentola	Angelina
Shostakovich	The Nose	Podtotschina
Strauss, J.	Die Fledermaus	Prinz Orlofsky
Strauss, R.	Elektra	Klytämnestra
		1. Magd
	Salome	Herodias
Ullmann	Der Kaiser von Atlantis	Trommler
Verdi	Don Carlo	Eboli
	Falstaff	Meg Page
	Rigoletto	Maddalena
Wagner	Das Rheingold	Fricka
		Wellgunde
	Der fliegende Holländer	Mary
	Die Meistersinger v. Nürnberg	Magdalene
	Die Walküre	Fricka
		Roßweiße
	Götterdämmerung	2. Norn
		Waltraute
		Wellgunde
	Lohengrin	Ortrud
	Tannhäuser	Venus
Weill	Die 7 Todsünden	Anna

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News

Walhall in Dortmund

Dortmund is not only in football fever because of the Champions League semi-finals, but is also eagerly awaiting the premiere of Peter Konwitschny's interpretation of Wagner's Rheingold with Ursula Hesse von den Steinen as Fricka this week. Alongside Tommi Hakala as Wotan, Matthias Wohlbrecht as Loge and Joachim Goltz as Alberich, she can be seen on stage in Dortmund from 9 May 2024 under the musical direction of Gabriel Feltz.

Further performance dates:
19./24.05., 01./08.06.24, 09.03.25

Further information can be found here:
www.theaterdortmund.de

Highly romantic

Ursula Hesse von den Steinen starts her season with the role of the messenger in Korngold’s masterpiece „Das Wunder der Heliane” directed by Jakob Peters-Messer under the musical direction of Jac van Steen at the Reisoper in the Nederlands.

Performances are in Enschede on September 30th, in Eindhoven on October 6th, in Maastricht on October 14th, in Leeuwarden on October 20th, in Utrecht on October 28th, in Breda on October 31st, in Zwolle on November 3rd, in The Hague on November 6th, in Amsterdam on November 9th and in Apeldoorn on November 11th, 2023.

Following this performance tour, she will sing one of her signature roles, Herodias in a new production of “Salome” directed by Isabel Ostermann at the Staatstheater Braunschweig and under the baton of Srba Dinić.

Performances are: December 9th, 15th, 22nd and 30th, 2023, as well as 5th, 10th, 19th, 21st and 26th January and 1st and 11th February, 2024.