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Ida Aldrian
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GALLERY
BIOGRAPHY
Austrian mezzo-soprano Ida Aldrian received her first singing lessons from Sigrid Rennert. As a student at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Leopold Spitzer and Karlheinz Hanser, she graduated with distinction in Stage Performance as well as Lied and Oratorio with KS Marjana Lipovšek. She attended master classes with Ann Murray, Bernarda Fink, Reri Grist, Peter Kooij, Andrew Watts, Thomas Hampson, Wicus Slabbert, Alan Titus and Brigitte Fassbänder, among others.
After appearing in several productions of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera between 2012 and 2015, she became a permanent ensemble member of the Staatstheater Nürnberg for the following three seasons. Her varied roles included Penelope (Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria), Idamante (Idomeneo), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Isabella (L'italiana in Algeri), Adalgisa (Norma), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Mercédès (Carmen), Prince Orlowsky (Die Fledermaus) and Maddalena (Rigoletto).
Ida Aldrian made her debut as the Third Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Staatsoper Berlin, a role she subsequently took to the Zurich Opera. After stepping in last-minute as Dorabella for the new Hamburg State Opera production of Così fan tutte staged by Herbert Fritsch, she became a permanent ensemble member in 2019/2020 and can be heard this season as the Princess in Iris ter Schiphorst's The Goose Girl, as Hänsel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, as the Third Lady in Mozart's The Magic Flute and as Suzuki in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. As Siegrune in Wagner's Die Walküre, directed by Calixto Bieito and conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado, Ida Aldrian will also make her house debut at the Opéra de Paris this season.
Equally devoted to the concert stage, Ida Aldrian has worked with numerous European ensembles and orchestras such as Concentus Musicus Wien, L'Orfeo Barockorchester, the Wiener Akademie orchestra, the Haydn and Minetti Quartets, the baroque orchestras Capella Leopoldina, Neue Hofkapelle Graz and Barucco, the Norwegian ensemble Barokksolistene, the Bach Consort Wien and the French ensemble Pygmalion.
Key highlights of her concert career to date have included a New Year's Eve matinee with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano and a concert tour of the Balthasar Neumann Choir & Ensemble led by Thomas Hengelbrock. Further notable performances included Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Simone Young in Hamburg and Mozart’s Requiem under Pablo Heras-Casado in Salzburg. At the Styriarte Festival she appeared in Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, while at the Brucknerfest Linz and Theater Magdeburg she sang in Telemann’s Miriways, and was engaged as Singer in Residence at the Trigonale and Osterklang Festival.
Further engagements took Ida Aldrian to the Vienna Konzerthaus with Robert Schumann's Requiem für Mignon under Cornelius Meister and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. At the Vienna Musikverein she sang as soloist in Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion and St John Passion, as well as his Mass in B minor under Martin Haselböck, and in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night's Dream under Fabio Luisi and the Wiener Symphoniker. At the International Baroque Days at Melk Abbey she could be heard in Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt under the direction of Christopher Moulds, while at the Attergauer Kultursommer, the Donaufestwochen in Strudengau and at the Festival Musica Sacra in St. Pölten she sang the solo part in Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah. Together with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra under its principal conductor Simon Gaudenz, the mezzo-soprano made her debut as a soloist in Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony, while in his Second Symphony (‘Resurrection Symphony’) she made her debut with the Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra under Andreas Hotz.
As part of the ‘Wagner Readings | Wagner Cycles’ project, she made guest appearances as Wellgunde in Wagner's Das Rheingold and Siegrune in Die Walküre under the direction of Kent Nagano in Cologne, Prague, Amsterdam, Lucerne, at the Ravello Festival and the Dresden Music Festival, and will also be heard again this season as Wellgunde in Götterdämmerung, which concludes the tetralogy. At the Handel Festival in Halle, Ida Aldrian proved her stylistic versatility as Ariodante in Handel's eponymous opera with the Lautten Compagney Berlin under the direction of Wolfgang Katschner.
As an artist with a particular devotion to Lied singing, Ida Aldrian has appeared at numerous venues including the Vienna and Graz Musikverein. At the Ocean Sun Festival on the MS Europa, she was accompanied for the first time by Helmut Deutsch, with whom she has since given recitals at the Staatstheater Nuremberg, deSingel International Art Centre in Antwerp, the Deutschlandsberg Klavierfrühling concert series and the Lied Festival "Der Zwerg" in Sindelfingen. In autumn 2019, Ida Aldrian was a guest at Schloss Walpersdorf together with the baritone Konstantin Krimmel and Helmut Deutsch at the piano as part of a song gala. Together with the tenor Jan Petryka, Ida Aldrian performed a duo recital at the Musikverein Regensburg.
2025 | 2026
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DISCOGRAPHY
Erich J. Wolff: Complete Songs, Vol. 2
Ida Aldrian (mezzo-soprano), Klaus Simon (piano)
Label: Naxos | August 2024
Mahler, Scartazzini: Complete Symphonies Vol. 2
Jana Baumeister (soprano), Evelyn Krahe (contralto), Ida Aldrian (contralto)
Philharmonischer Chor der Jenaer, Philharmonie Knabenchor der Jenaer Philharmonie, Jenaer Philharmonie,
Conductor: Simon Gauden
Label: Odradek Records | November 2023
Kammerkonzert: Music of Arnold Schoenberg
Pina Napolitano, Ida Aldrian, Christoph Filler
Wiener Concert-Verein
Conductor: Michael Zlabinger
Label: Odradek Records | Ocktober 2023
Georg Philipp Telemann: Miriways
Ida Aldrian, Markus Volpert, Ulrike Hofbauer, Julie Martin du Theil, Gabriele Hierdeis, Stefan Zenkl, Susanne Drexl, Ilja Werger
L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Conductor: Michi Gaigg
Label: CPO | 2014
CALENDAR
Ida Aldrian, Prinzessin
Katja Pieweck, die Königin
Hellen Kwon, Kammerjungfrau
Tigran Martirossian, König
Peter Galliard, Schlächter
Aebh Kelly, der Gänsehüter
Carlo Silvester Duer, Falada, das Pferd | Prinz
Claudia Chan, conductor
Tobias Kratzer, production
Matthias Piro, co-production
Rainer Sellmaier, stage and costumes
Michelle Stoop, dramaturgy
Musiker:innen des Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters Hamburg
Iris ter Schiphorst's opera for children was premiered in Vienna in 2010. Together with her librettist Helga Utz, the Hamburg-born composer created a touching and captivatingly imaginative work of music theater from the Grimm fairy tale. A princess, accompanied by her maid, sets off from the protection of her parental home to meet her bridegroom. Despite a difficult journey and numerous obstacles, everything turns out well in the end and she is able to marry her prince. Tobias Kratzer is staging Die Gänsemagd as part of the opening of the opera stabile's artistic direction and season one day after Das Paradies und die Peri, the opening production on the main stage. Musical theater for the youngest generations is not a niche product for him, but a top priority. Here, young audiences experience it at close quarters: As a flock of geese, the children become part of the action, immersing themselves in the story together with the musicians and ensemble singers - opera as a lively, accessible art form full of enchanting melodies that shows how valuable resilience, self-confidence and trust in others are on the journey through life.
FURTHER INFORMATION & TICKETSIda Aldrian, Prinzessin
Katja Pieweck, die Königin
Hellen Kwon, Kammerjungfrau
Tigran Martirossian, König
Peter Galliard, Schlächter
Aebh Kelly, der Gänsehüter
Carlo Silvester Duer, Falada, das Pferd | Prinz
Claudia Chan, conductor
Tobias Kratzer, production
Matthias Piro, co-production
Rainer Sellmaier, stage and costumes
Michelle Stoop, dramaturgy
Musiker:innen des Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters Hamburg
Iris ter Schiphorst's opera for children was premiered in Vienna in 2010. Together with her librettist Helga Utz, the Hamburg-born composer created a touching and captivatingly imaginative work of music theater from the Grimm fairy tale. A princess, accompanied by her maid, sets off from the protection of her parental home to meet her bridegroom. Despite a difficult journey and numerous obstacles, everything turns out well in the end and she is able to marry her prince. Tobias Kratzer is staging Die Gänsemagd as part of the opening of the opera stabile's artistic direction and season one day after Das Paradies und die Peri, the opening production on the main stage. Musical theater for the youngest generations is not a niche product for him, but a top priority. Here, young audiences experience it at close quarters: As a flock of geese, the children become part of the action, immersing themselves in the story together with the musicians and ensemble singers - opera as a lively, accessible art form full of enchanting melodies that shows how valuable resilience, self-confidence and trust in others are on the journey through life.
FURTHER INFORMATION & TICKETSIda Aldrian, Prinzessin
Katja Pieweck, die Königin
Hellen Kwon, Kammerjungfrau
Tigran Martirossian, König
Peter Galliard, Schlächter
Aebh Kelly, der Gänsehüter
Carlo Silvester Duer, Falada, das Pferd | Prinz
Claudia Chan, conductor
Tobias Kratzer, production
Matthias Piro, co-production
Rainer Sellmaier, stage and costumes
Michelle Stoop, dramaturgy
Musiker:innen des Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters Hamburg
Iris ter Schiphorst's opera for children was premiered in Vienna in 2010. Together with her librettist Helga Utz, the Hamburg-born composer created a touching and captivatingly imaginative work of music theater from the Grimm fairy tale. A princess, accompanied by her maid, sets off from the protection of her parental home to meet her bridegroom. Despite a difficult journey and numerous obstacles, everything turns out well in the end and she is able to marry her prince. Tobias Kratzer is staging Die Gänsemagd as part of the opening of the opera stabile's artistic direction and season one day after Das Paradies und die Peri, the opening production on the main stage. Musical theater for the youngest generations is not a niche product for him, but a top priority. Here, young audiences experience it at close quarters: As a flock of geese, the children become part of the action, immersing themselves in the story together with the musicians and ensemble singers - opera as a lively, accessible art form full of enchanting melodies that shows how valuable resilience, self-confidence and trust in others are on the journey through life.
FURTHER INFORMATION & TICKETSIda Aldrian, Prinzessin
Katja Pieweck, die Königin
Hellen Kwon, Kammerjungfrau
Tigran Martirossian, König
Peter Galliard, Schlächter
Aebh Kelly, der Gänsehüter
Carlo Silvester Duer, Falada, das Pferd | Prinz
Claudia Chan, conductor
Tobias Kratzer, production
Matthias Piro, co-production
Rainer Sellmaier, stage and costumes
Michelle Stoop, dramaturgy
Musiker:innen des Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters Hamburg
Iris ter Schiphorst's opera for children was premiered in Vienna in 2010. Together with her librettist Helga Utz, the Hamburg-born composer created a touching and captivatingly imaginative work of music theater from the Grimm fairy tale. A princess, accompanied by her maid, sets off from the protection of her parental home to meet her bridegroom. Despite a difficult journey and numerous obstacles, everything turns out well in the end and she is able to marry her prince. Tobias Kratzer is staging Die Gänsemagd as part of the opening of the opera stabile's artistic direction and season one day after Das Paradies und die Peri, the opening production on the main stage. Musical theater for the youngest generations is not a niche product for him, but a top priority. Here, young audiences experience it at close quarters: As a flock of geese, the children become part of the action, immersing themselves in the story together with the musicians and ensemble singers - opera as a lively, accessible art form full of enchanting melodies that shows how valuable resilience, self-confidence and trust in others are on the journey through life.
FURTHER INFORMATION & TICKETSIda Aldrian, Prinzessin
Katja Pieweck, die Königin
Hellen Kwon, Kammerjungfrau
Tigran Martirossian, König
Peter Galliard, Schlächter
Aebh Kelly, der Gänsehüter
Carlo Silvester Duer, Falada, das Pferd | Prinz
Claudia Chan, conductor
Tobias Kratzer, production
Matthias Piro, co-production
Rainer Sellmaier, stage and costumes
Michelle Stoop, dramaturgy
Musiker:innen des Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters Hamburg
Iris ter Schiphorst's opera for children was premiered in Vienna in 2010. Together with her librettist Helga Utz, the Hamburg-born composer created a touching and captivatingly imaginative work of music theater from the Grimm fairy tale. A princess, accompanied by her maid, sets off from the protection of her parental home to meet her bridegroom. Despite a difficult journey and numerous obstacles, everything turns out well in the end and she is able to marry her prince. Tobias Kratzer is staging Die Gänsemagd as part of the opening of the opera stabile's artistic direction and season one day after Das Paradies und die Peri, the opening production on the main stage. Musical theater for the youngest generations is not a niche product for him, but a top priority. Here, young audiences experience it at close quarters: As a flock of geese, the children become part of the action, immersing themselves in the story together with the musicians and ensemble singers - opera as a lively, accessible art form full of enchanting melodies that shows how valuable resilience, self-confidence and trust in others are on the journey through life.
FURTHER INFORMATION & TICKETS
