Stefanie C. Braun
Munichborn Soprano Stefanie C. Braun, completed her voice studies with the Laurea Grande at the Conservatorio Bendetto Marcello in Venice in the class of Maestro Sherman Lowe. Master classes with KS Brigitte Fassbaender and KS Kurt Moll, and regular lessons with professor Rudolf Piernay and Kiri Te Kanawa are part of her professional training as well as rewarded scholarships in programs such as the International Vocal Arts Institute in New York, Israel and Italy, at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival in 2003 and 2005, at the Fondazione Levi in Venice 2001 and at the Richard Wagner Association Munich in 2008. In Berkeley she sang Alice and Desdemona in Verdi`s operas Falstaff and Otello and made her appearence with smaller Munichbased opera ensembles in Mozartroles such as Fiordiligi, Contessa, Donna Elvira and Pamina. Her active oratory and concert career includes pieces by composers like Handel, Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart as well as contemporary repertoire eg. by Hindemith, Berio and Hiller (Philharmonie im Gasteig/Munich, Schloßkonzerte Ludwigsburg/Stuttgart, Basilica di San Marco/Venice) amongst others under the baton of conductors such as Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Eva Pons, George Schmöhe, Professor Hanns Martin Schneidt, and directors such as Professor Hellmuth Matiasek, Nicolas Brieger, Ruedi Hausermann, Julia Riegel, Sebastian Hirn. Since the beginning of the operatic season 2008/09 the soprano has been part of the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera, where she made her debut in a new production of B. Martinu`s opera The Greek passion as Lenio. She made her U.S. debut as Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro at Washington National Opera in 2010 and can be heard as Rosalinde at the Stauffer Festival. |
