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Simone Schröder
Simone Schröder (born 1964) is a German contralto in opera and concert, and an academic teacher. She has been associated with the Bayreuth Festival from her student days in 1992, performing in three different productions of ''Parsifal''. She has appeared regularly at the Staatsoper Berlin and the Semperoper, and appeared as a guest at opera houses including La Scala in Milan, New National Theatre Tokyo and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Life and career Born in Altdöbern, Schröder completed her vocal training at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin as well as with Elsbeth Plehn at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, and with Irmgard Hartmann-Dressler in Berlin. She won prizes of singing competitions, including the Franceso Vinas Competition in Barcelona and the Salzburg International Mozart Competition. She sang at the Staatsoper Berlin first in the 1997/98 season, as the Page in ''Salome'' by Richard Strauss, conducted by Daniel Barenboi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altdöbern
Altdöbern (Lower Sorbian language, Lower Sorbian ''Stara Darbnja'') is a municipality in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, in southern Brandenburg, Germany. Geography Altdöbern lies in Lower Lusatia, but is not part of its Sorbs, sorbian inhabited area. The flat landscape is dominated by large forests and Lusatian Lake District, new lakes created from the remainings of former Open-pit mining, opencast lignite mines since the 1990s. One of these is 880 Hectare, ha (2200 acre) large ''Altdöberner See'', east of the town. Its flooding is planned to be finished in the 2020s. The municipality of Altdöbern also contains the settlements Pritzen, Peitzendorf and Chransdorf and the villages Ranzow and Reddern. The municipalities of Altdöbern, Bronkow, Luckaitztal, Neupetershain, Neupetershain (Nowe Wiki) and Neu-Seeland together form the collective municipality Amt Altdöbern. Culture and architecture The baroque castle of Altdöbern (''Schloss Altdöbern'') with its surroundi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |