Anke Briegel (Soprano)

Born: 1983 - Ulm, Germany

The German soprano, Anke Briegel, studied since 2002, singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, first with Mechthild Kerz and later with Professor Dr. Peter Anton Ling. As part of her training she also took part in various master-classes with Aribert Reimann, Professor Ingrid Kremling, Professor Sabine Ritterbusch and Professor Kelly Klesie part and studied as an Erasmus scholarship one year singing at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence, Italy. In 2001 she was 2^nd Prize winner at the Bach Competition, Leipzig, and in 2004 finalist at the National Singing Competition in Berlin.

Anke Briegel appears regularly as a soloist in concerts both at home and abroad, in 2008 at the Teatro della Pergola, Florence and in 2009 at the Bachwoche Stuttgart. In 2005 she debuted as Varvara Dobrosjolowa in Sedelnikov’s Arme Leute (Poor People) at the Hamburg State Opera, in 2006 as Amor in Gluck's Orfeo and Barbarina in and Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Theater Bielefeld.

Source: Staatsoper Hannover Website, English translation by Aryeh Oron (May 2010)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (May 2010)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Ralf Popken

Soprano

F.N. Brauns: Markus-Passion

Links to other Sites

Anke Briegel (Staatsoper Hannover) [German]