Annette Seiltgen (born 26 June 1964 in

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) is a German operatic

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dramatic soprano A dramatic soprano is a type of operatic soprano with a powerful, rich, emotive voice that can sing over, or cut through, a full orchestra. Thicker vocal folds in dramatic voices usually (but not always) mean less agility than lighter voices but a ...

Career

Seiltgen grew up in an artistic environment. Her father, , was intendant and long-time director of the

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, her mother is the opera, concert and oratorio singer

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. During her school days in

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, where she attended the Reuchlin-Gymnasium,''Fragestunde mit Sopranistin Annette Seiltgen''
Article from 24 November 2014 in the ''Kulturkanal Ingolstadt'', retrieved on 16 September 2016. she played in the statistery (?) of the theater and sang in several choirs. Seiltgen studied singing with her mother at the Leopold Mozart Centre in Augsburg. She received her first engagement as a mezzo-soprano at the

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. Subsequently she moved to the

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in Munich. From 1996 to 2011 she was a member of the

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ensemble. There she sang all the great roles of the lyrical and dramatic mezzo repertoire among others: Ruggiero ''(

Alcina ''Alcina'' (Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis, HWV 34) is a 1735 opera by George Frideric Handel. Handel used the libretto of ''L'isola di Alcina'', a work set to music in 1728 in Rome by Riccardo Broschi, which he had acquired a year later during his t ...

),'' Sesto ''(

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),'' Venus ''(

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),'' Octavian ''(

Der Rosenkavalier (''The Knight of the Rose'' or ''The Rose-Bearer''), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from Louvet de Couvrai's novel ''Les amours du cheva ...

),'' the composer ''(

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),'' Adalgisa ''(

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),'' Fricka ''(

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)'' as well as Brangäne ''(

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).'' Seiltgen has made guest appearances in Berlin (

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), Darmstadt, Dortmund, Essen, Frankfurt, Hanover, Koblenz, Leipzig, Mannheim, Mainz, Munich (

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), Nuremberg, Passau and Stuttgart, as well as on the music stages of Amsterdam, Buenos Aires (

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), Geneva, Madrid, Maastricht, Nice, Savonlinna, Santiago de Chile and Strasbourg. She is currently a member of the ensemble of the

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. In addition to her stage presence, the artist is also active as a concert singer. Her concerts have been recorded by the

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, the

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, the

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and the

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