Caroline Stein is a German operatic

coloratura soprano A coloratura soprano is a type of operatic soprano voice that specializes in music that is distinguished by agile runs, leaps and trills. The term '' coloratura'' refers to the elaborate ornamentation of a melody, which is a typical component o ...

and an academic voice teacher. She has appeared internationally, including contemporary opera, creating the Angel in Dusapin's ''

Faustus, the Last Night ''Faustus, the Last Night'' is an opera in English by French composer Pascal Dusapin, inspired by '' Doctor Faustus'' (c. 1588) by Christopher Marlowe. The work was premiered on 21 January 2006 by the Berlin State Opera, a coproduction with the Op� ...

'' at the

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Career

Stein took piano and ballet lessons. She studied at the

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with Claudio Nicolai from 1983 to 1988. She first joined the ensemble of the Theater Würzburg, and moved to the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden in 1989, where she recorded in 1993 ''

Der tapfere Soldat ''The Chocolate Soldier'' (German: ''Der tapfere Soldat''

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or ''Der Praliné-Soldat'') is an operetta composed in 1908 by Oscar Straus (composer), Oscar Straus based on George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play, ''Arms and the Man' ...

'' by Oscar Straus with the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln conducted by Siegfried Köhler, alongside John Dickie and Johannes Martin Kränzle. She appeared at the

first in 1990 as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's '' Die Zauberflöte''. She was a member of the Staatsoper Hannover from 1991 to 1999. Stein appeared at the

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, as a Flower Maiden in ''Parsifal'' from 1999 to 2001, and as Woglinde in '' Der Ring des Nibelungen'' from 2002 to 2004. She performed as a guest, in 1991 as Blonde in Mozart's '' Die Entführung aus dem Serail'' at the Quebec Opera, in several stagings by

Harry Kupfer Harry Alfred Robert Kupfer (12 August 1935 – 30 December 2019) was a German opera director and academic. A long-time director at the Komische Oper Berlin, he worked at major opera houses and at festivals internationally. Trained by Walter Felse ...

at the Komische Oper Berlin, such as ''Die Zauberflöte'' and Henze's '' König Hirsch''. She made her debut at The Proms in 2000, singing Mozart's Mass in C minor and Alban Berg's ''

Altenberg Lieder Alban Berg's ''Five Orchestral Songs after Postcards by Peter Altenberg'' (German: ''Fünf Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskarten von Peter Altenberg''), Op. 4, were composed in 1911 and 1912 for medium voice, or mezzo-soprano. They are considered a ...

'' with the

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, conducted by

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. In 2004, she appeared as Hilda Mack in Henze's ''

Elegie für junge Liebende ''Elegy for Young Lovers'' (German: ') is an opera in three acts by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Background The opera was first performed in a German translation by Louis, Prince of Hesse and by R ...

'' at the Berlin State Opera. In contemporary opera, she appeared there as the Angel in the premiere of Dusapin's ''

'' in 2006. Stein was nominated for Singer of the Year in 1989 by '' Opernwelt'' for her two parts in the German premiere of Ligeti's '' Le Grand Macabre''. She was awarded a prize in the national competition Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin in 1990. Stein was a professor of voice at the Musikhochschule Rostock from 2010, and was appointed in 2012 professor of voice at the

Musikhochschule Lübeck A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger ins ...

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Caroline Stein
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