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For the violinist, see Anne-Sophie Mutter.
Anne Sofie von Otter

Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano.

Biography

Von Otter was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was the diplomat Göran von Otter and she grew up in Bonn, London and Stockholm. After studying in Stockholm and Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, she was engaged by the Basel Opera, where she made her operatic début in 1983 as Alcina in Haydn's Orlando paladino. She made her Royal Opera House, Covent Garden début in 1985 and her La Scala debut in 1987. Her Metropolitan Opera début was in 1988 as Cherubino.[1]

She has had notable success in roles of Mozart, Handel, and Monteverdi. In recitals, she excels in the music of Mahler, Brahms, Grieg, Wolf and Sibelius. In 2001 she released an album with Elvis Costello, for which she won an Edison Award. Among the conductors she has worked with repeatedly are William Christie, Marc Minkowski, Claudio Abbado, John Eliot Gardiner, and Myung-Whun Chung. Most of her recitals and many of her recordings have been collaborations with Swedish pianist Bengt Forsberg. In 2003 Von Otter was awarded a Rolf Schock Prize in the musical arts category.

In 2006, von Otter sang the Evangelist in the premiere of Sven-David Sandström's Ordet – en passion, on 24 March in Stockholm.[2]

In 2007, she released a highly-praised album of music written by composers imprisoned in the Nazi "model" ghetto of Theresienstadt concentration camp (also known as Terezin) prior to their transportation to the death camp of Auschwitz. She collaborated on this project with Christian Gerhaher (baritone) and chamber musicians. She has explained that the material has special personal meaning for her as her father, a Swedish diplomat in Berlin during World War II, had attempted unsuccessfully during the war to spread information that he had received from SS officer Kurt Gerstein about the Nazi death camps.[3]

She is married to Benny Fredriksson, an actor and theatre director, and has two children.

Recordings

Lieder and songs

  • Alban Berg: 7 frühe Lieder & Der Wein conducted by Claudio Abbado (1995) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Hector Berlioz: Mélodies with Cord Garben (piano) (1994) and Les nuits d'été conducted by James Levine (1995) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Hector Berlioz: Les nuits d'été conducted by Marc Minkowski (2011) Naïve
  • Johannes Brahms: Lieder with Bengt Forsberg (piano) (1990) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Cécile Chaminade: Mots d'amour with Bengt Forsberg (piano) (2001) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Edvard Grieg: Songs/Lieder with Bengt Forsberg (piano) (1993) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Erich Korngold: Rendezvous with Korngold with Bengt Forsberg (piano) & Friends (1999) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Ingvar Lidholm: Songs and Chamber Music conducted by Björn Sjögren (1996) Caprice Records
  • Gustav Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Thomas Quasthoff conducted by Claudio Abbado (1999) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder conducted by Pierre Boulez (2004) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade conducted by Pierre Boulez (2002) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Arnold Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder conducted by Simon Rattle (2002) EMI
  • Franz Schubert: Lieder, with Bengt Forsberg (piano) (1997) and Lieder with Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado (2003) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Robert Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben with Bengt Forsberg (piano) (1995) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Jean Sibelius: Anne Sofie von Otter sings Sibelius with Bengt Forsberg (piano) BIS
  • Kurt Weill: Speak Low: Songs by Kurt Weill conducted by John Eliot Gardiner (1994) Deutsche Grammophon
  • Hugo Wolf: Spanisches Liederbuch with Olaf Bär (baritone) and Geoffrey Parsons (piano) (1995) EMI
  • various: Boldemann Gefors Hillborg conducted by Kent Nagano (2008) Deutsche Grammophon
  • various: La Bonne chanson – French Chamber Songs with Bengt Forsberg (piano) and others (1996) Deutsche Grammophon
  • various: Brahms / Schumann with Barbara Bonney (soprano), Kurt Streit (tenor), Olaf Bär (baritone), Helmut Deutsch and Bengt Forsberg (piano duet) (1994) EMI
  • various: Folksongs with Bengt Forsberg (piano) (2000) Deutsche Grammophon
  • various: Lieder / Mélodies by Beethoven Meyerbeer Spohr with Melvyn Tan (fortepiano) (2001) Archiv
  • various: Lieder by Wolf and Mahler with Ralf Gothoni (piano) (1989) Deutsche Grammophon
  • various: Love's Twilight – Late Romantic Songs by Berg Korngold Strauss with Bengt Forsberg (piano) (1994) Deutsche Grammophon
  • various: Mahler Zemlinsky Lieder conducted by John Eliot Gardiner (1996) Deutsche Grammophon
  • various: Mozart – Haydn: Songs & Canzonettas with Melvyn Tan (fortepiano) (1995) Archiv
  • various: Music for a While – Baroque Melodies (2004) Deutsche Grammophon
  • various: Terezín / Theresienstadt with Bengt Forsberg (piano), Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber (piano) and others (2007) Deutsche Grammophon
  • various: Watercolours – Swedish Songs with Bengt Forsberg (piano) (2003) Deutsche Grammophon
  • various: Wings in the Night – Swedish Songs with Bengt Forsberg (piano) (1996) Deutsche Grammophon

Complete Operas

Aria recordings

  • "Anne Sofie von Otter sings Offenbach", conducted by Marc Minkowski – Deutsche Grammophon
  • "Baroque Arias" by Handel, Monteverdi, Roman and Telemann, with the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble – Proprius
  • "Ombre de mon amant", French baroque arias conducted by William Christie – Archiv
  • "Opera Arias" by Gluck, Haydn and Mozart, conducted by Trevor Pinnock – Archiv

Oratorios, Symphonies, etc

Other music

References

  1. ^ The Metropolitan Opera Association Database
  2. ^ Broman PF. Ordet – en passion. Introduction to Swedish Radio performance, accessed 4 January 2010
  3. ^ Lebrecht, Norman. "Tales of the Recording Angel." 31 October 2007. The Lebrecht Report. Accessed on 17 August 2011 at: http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/071031-NL-angel.html

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