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The French soprano, Alice Ungerer, gained her first stage experience in the radio children's choir in Paris and, after intensively studying literature and musicology (2007-2010), finally decided on singing. She studied for her Bachelor of Music degree in Classical Singing in the classes of Professor Carola Guber and Professor Kammersängerin Regina Werner-Dietrich at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig (2011-2015); and then completed a double Master of Music degree in Opera Singing and Vocal Pedagogy in the class of Professor Carola Guber and Professor Ilse-Christine Otto, which she successfully completed in 2018. As part of the HMT Leipzig mentoring program (MENTOSA), she received individual support from her mentor Kammersänger Martin Petzold. Her first CD, “Christmas at Home” (2014) was recorded with Martin Petzold. From 2013 to 2019 she was a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now e.V., in 2015 she won the Bayreuth scholarship and the DAAD prize, and in 2016 she won the Germany scholarship. She is currently taking singing lessons with Sandrine Piau, Cécile de Boever and Mireille Deguy.
Alice Ungerer regularly appears as a soloist in song recitals and oratorios, including in the Thomaskirche under the direction of Professor Georg Christoph Biller with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Thomanerchor Leipzig, at the Bachfest Leipzig under the direction of Christiane Bräutigam (Leipzig), in the Goethe-Institut or in the Grand Temple Protestant in Lyon. She made her first operatic experiences as a soloist in December 2014 in Barcode by Manuel Duraõ (premiere) as Frau Müller, in March 2016 in San Giovanni Battista by Alessandro Stradella as Herodiade, in May 2016 in Kommilitonnen! by Peter Maxwell Davies as Doctor and Officer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig. In June 2017 she took part in one of the main roles, Chrysille, in the opera “Verliebtes Schäferspiel” by Johann Sebastiani at the Bachfest Leipzig. In 2019 she founded the collective OPERNWAHN with Pimpinone (Role of Vespetta) by Georg Philipp Telemann as the first edition, which was resumed at the Bachfest Leipzig in 2022.
Alice Ungerer moved back to France (Lyon) in 2019. There she won 2nd prize in the Leopold Bellan Competition in 2020. She founded the Brücken Association in 2021 and will perform a monthly cantata by J.S. Bach from September 2021 to October 2022 as a soloist and artistic director in Lyon. At the end of 2022 she will be performing in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte as a boy at the Royal Opera of Versailles under the direction of Hervé Niquet.
In addition to her solo work, Alice Ungerer also performs in ensembles, including with 1684 (Director: Gregor Meyer), Dresdner Kammerchor (Director: Hans-Christoph Rademann), Opernchor in Leipzig (extra choir), Vocalconsort Berlin, La Chapelle Harmonique (Director: Valentin Tournet), Spirito (Lyon ). |
