Dorothea Röschmann
Born in Flensburg, Germany, Dorothea Röschmann made her critically acclaimed debut at the
1995 Salzburg Festival as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, conducted by Nikolaus
Harnoncourt, and has since returned to sing Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di
Figaro), Ilia (Idomeneo), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Nannetta
(Falstaff), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), and Servilia and Vitellia (La
clemenza di Tito), with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Harding, Sir Charles
Mackerras, and Christoph von Dohnányi.
At the Metropolitan Opera, she has sung Susanna, Pamina, Donna Elvira, and Ilia with James
Levine; at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, her roles have included Pamina and
Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) with Sir Colin Davis, and Countess Almaviva with
Antonio Pappano. At La Scala in Milan, she has performed as Countess Almaviva, and has also
sung Donna Elvira with the company in Moscow. At the Vienna State Opera, she has appeared
as the Countess and Susanna; at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, she has sung Zerlina
(Don Giovanni), Susanna, Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Marzelline
(Fidelio), Anne Trulove (The Rake's Progress), and the title role in
Rodelinda. She is also closely associated with the Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin,
where her roles have included Ännchen with Zubin Mehta; Nannetta with Claudio Abbado; and
Pamina, Fiordiligi, Susanna, Zerlina, Donna Elvira, Eva (Lohengrin), and Elsa
(Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) with Daniel Barenboim. She has also appeared at
La Monnaie in Brussels as Norina (Don Pasquale) and at Opéra Bastille in Paris as
the Countess and Pamina.
This season, Ms. Röschmann will perform the role of the Marschallin (Der
Rosenkavalier) at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin with Sir Simon Rattle, and Countess
Almaviva in Los Angeles with Gustavo Dudamel. Her future plans include returns to the
Bavarian State Opera, Royal Opera House, and Vienna State Opera.
Recent concert appearances include performances with the Berliner Philharmoniker led by
Sir Simon Rattle and Bernard Haitink; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with Pierre Boulez,
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Daniel Barenboim; Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Mr. Barenboim;
Munich Philharmonic with James Levine, The Cleveland Orchestra with Franz Welser-Möst;
Vienna Symphony Orchestra with Georges Prêtre; Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala with
Pinchas Steinberg and Mr. Barenboim; Rotterdam Philharmonic with Yannick Nézet-Séguin;
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Daniel Harding, and the New York Philharmonic with
Sir Colin Davis. Forthcoming concert engagements include performances with the New York
Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert, Berliner Philharmoniker and Mr. Harnoncourt, and Orchestra
Filarmonica della Scala with Mr. Harding.
Ms. Röschmann's recordings include Countess Almaviva with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Pamina and
Nannetta with Claudio Abbado, Puccini's Suor Angelica with Antonio Pappano,
Strauss's Four Last Songs with Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Brahms's A German
Requiem with Sir Simon Rattle (winner of a Grammy and a
Gramophone Award), Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with Daniel Harding, Handel's
Neun Deutsche Arien with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Handel's
Messiah with Paul McCreesh, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with David
Daniels and Fabio Biondi, and a disc of Schumann songs with Ian Bostridge and Graham
Johnson.