Christina Landsamer

The German soprano, who made her American debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra last December, will debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra later this season. Following initial guest performances at the Stuttgart State Opera, Landshamer sang at Strasbourg’s Opéra National du Rhin (Marzelline/Fidelio), Berlin’s Komische Oper (Susanna/The Marriage of Figaro), Vienna’s Theater an der Wien (Clarice/Haydn’s Il mondo della luna under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, DVD), Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet (staged Messiah), the Salzburg Festival (Guardian of the Threshold/ Die Frau ohne Schatten, Frasquita/Carmen), the Baden-Baden Festival (Najade/Ariadne auf Naxos), and the 2014 Glyndebourne Festival (Almirena/Rinaldo). The soprano made her much-praised role debut as Pamina/The Magic Flute at the Netherlands Opera (new production, DVD) and sang the same role at Bavarian State Opera in 2015. She has recently portrayed Ännchen/Der Freischütz at Dresden’s Semperoper (DVD) and at Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. A highly sought-after concert singer, Landshamer works regularly with major conductors such as Thomas Hengelbrock, Christian Thielemann, Sir Roger Norrington, and Alan Gilbert. Landshamer’s CDs include Haydn’s The Seasons and The Creation under Philippe Herreweghe, Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise with the BR Symphony Orchestra under Pablo Heras-Casado, and Carmen under Sir Simon Rattle. Among her DVDs are Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, both with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under Riccardo Chailly. In spring 2016 her first lieder CD with songs by Ullmann and Schumann will be released.

American & Lyric debut: Sophie/ Der Rosenkavalier (2015|16)

Last updated: February 8, 2016
Photo: Marco Borggrev