Gabriele Schnaut
| Gabriele Schnaut | |
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| Born |
24 February 1951 Mannheim, Germany |
| Education |
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| Occupation | Classical singer (mezzo-soprano and dramatic soprano) |
| Years active | 1976 – present |
Gabriele Schnaut (born 24 February 1951) is a German classical singer who started her operatic career as a mezzo-soprano in 1976 and changed to dramatic soprano in 1985. She has appeared internationally and performed at the Bayreuth Festival from 1977 to 2000. She recorded works by composers of the 20th century and appeared in the premieres of operas by Wolfgang Rihm and Jörg Widmann.
Born in Mannheim, Schnaut grew up in Mainz and received violin and singing lessons as a child. She studied first at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory () of Mainz, majoring in violin, and at the same time musicology at the University of Mainz. From 1971 she studied singing at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Elsa Cavelti. Her first permanent engagement was as a mezzo-soprano in 1976 at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.
In 1977 Schnaut made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival, singing Waltraute and the Second Norne in the Jahrhundertring staged by Patrice Chéreau. She appears in these roles in the film Der Ring des Nibelungen. She performed at the festival in 1980 Wellgunde in Götterdämmerung, in 1985 Venus in Tannhäuser and the Third Norne, in 1986 Sieglinde in Die Walküre, in 1987 Ortrud in Lohengrin, and in 2000 Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Schnaut was a member of the Staatstheater Darmstadt (1978–80), the Nationaltheater Mannheim (1980–88), where she performed the part of Ophelia in the premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Die Hamletmaschine. From 1988 she was a member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, from 1995 a member of the Hamburgische Staatsoper, at present of the Bayerische Staatsoper (as of 2013).
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