A Russian mezzo is ARD winner
mainResults of the important German singing competition:
1 Natalya Boeva, Russia, mezzo
2 Milan Siljanov, Switzerland, bass
3 Ylva Sofia Stenberg, Sweden, Soprano and Mingjie Lei, China, Tenor
The winner (pictured) is a member of the Munich Chamber Opera.
Jury:
Ann Murray (Chair)
Laura Aikin
John Mark Ainsley
Bernarda Fink
Michael Nagy
Gerhild Romberger
Matti Salminen
She is exquisite. Hope to hear a lot of her in the next years.
She has a world class timbre, round, smooth, a very good technique, she differentiates and her charisma is wonderful and she seems to be a nice person.
She can be heard backwards and forward on Sept. 19
Finale from 12th of Sept.
https://www.br-klassik.de/concert/ausstrahlung-1520944.html
Semifinale
https://www.br.de/ard-musikwettbewerb/20180910-ard-musikwettbewerb-gesang-semifinale-natalya-boeva-100.html?time=8.427561
2nd round
https://www.br-klassik.de/concert/ausstrahlung-1543784.html
All rounds
https://www.br.de/ard-musikwettbewerb/audio-video/ard-wettbewerb-2018-on-demand-100.html
Great voice, can’t wait to hear more baroque from her.
Thanks for posting
I would like to perform more baroque and have already some plans about it).
All the best, looking forward to hearing it.
Any plans for Rossini?
Congratulations!
I don’t know what the Munich chamber opera is (you might think of the Bayerische Theaterakademie?) –
starting this season, Natalya Boeava is member of the Augsburg Staatstheater:
https://staatstheater-augsburg.de/biografie_natalya_boeva
I look forward to hearing more of her.
Kammeroper München
http://www.kammeroper-muenchen.com
Thank you, Max!
Turns out I actually do know of them, but the name didn’t stick in my ageing brain –
being a double bass player I always think of them as Nabil Shehatas company…
Funnily enough, in my case it initially took the mention of Nabil Shehata until the ‘Groschen had fallen’ with me.
Oh gawd, not another mezzo. They are a dime a dozen. Yawn.
Jeez, Caravaggio! You seem to spend an awful lot of time yawning. Time to go to bed, perhaps? Joking aside, what’s wrong with mezzos? In opera, they (and the baritones) are the sonic bedrock, carrying the musical (and often narrative) flow, while the tenors and sopranos are performing their tricks, In other words I’d rather hear the Norns than the Rhinemaidens, Erda rather than Freia, Iago rather than Otello (YES!). In other words: we need more great mezzos, not fewer.
Yesssss, thank you
We need a great singer, period. Doesn’t matter in which vocal category. Many of the soloists and stars of today wouldn’t make it past chorus auditions 20-30 years ago. The opera is crumbling under the weight of mediocrity in singing and production values
Ok, of course God will hear your comment and only produce Sopranos in future.
We, in fact, do have too many lyric Sopranos – most of all of poor quality in techniwue and/or timbre!!
Good mezzos are highly appreciated as we have only few outstanding ones in competitions and on stage, so you do not have a clue of classical singing, but complain furtheron, this strengthens your Ego…