Elisabeth Scholl (born 1966 in Kiedrich) is a German

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and academic teacher.

Career

Elisabeth Scholl was the first girl to sing with the boys choir Kiedricher Chorbuben. From 1982 to 1987 she sang the role of the First Boy in Mozart's ''

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'' at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. After her

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she studied musicology, English studies and history of art at the

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz () is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It has been named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. it had approximately 32,000 students enrolled in around 100 a ...

and took private singing lessons with Eduard Wollitz. She continued her studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with

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and Richard Levitt and attended master classes with Ingrid Bjoner, Helmut Deutsch, Luisa Bosabalian, Ileana Cotrubas and

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (; 28 May 1925 – 18 May 2012) was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music. One of the most famous Lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period, he is best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's ...

. She has collaborated with ensembles such as Freiburger Barockorchester, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Concerto Köln, and Cantus Cölln. Elisabeth Scholl has appeared at European festivals, such as the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Lucerne Festival,

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, Handel Festival, Halle, Handel Festival Göttingen, Handel Festival Karlsruhe, and

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. She has collaborated with conductors such as René Jacobs,

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, Frieder Bernius, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Bruno Weil, Nicholas McGegan and Neville Marriner. She has appeared with local choirs of the

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. In 1998 she sang with her brother Andreas Scholl in Bach's '' St Matthew Passion'' in St. Martin, Idstein, with Max Ciolek as the Evangelist and Max van Egmond as the

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In 2008 she appeared there as soprano II in Mozart's '' Great Mass in C minor'', along with Katia Plaschka as soprano I. In 2009 she was the soprano soloist (Gabriel, Eve) in Haydn's '' Die Schöpfung'' with Daniel Sans (Uriel), Andreas Pruys (Raphael, Adam) and the Neue Rheingauer Kantorei in the Basilika of Schloss Johannisberg. In 2010 she sang with her brother in Handel's ''

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'' in the Marktkirche,

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, with Andreas Karasiak and the Wiesbadener Knabenchor. Since 2009 she has been a teacher of Baroque singing at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg. From 2018, she has also been professor of voice at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz.

Recordings

* Alessandro Grandi: ''Vulnerasti cor meum: Sacred music by Alessandro Grandi'', Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Elisabeth Scholl, María Cristina Kiehr,

, Andreas Scholl, Gerd Türk, Otto Rastbichler, Ulrich Messthaler), conductor René Jacobs, (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi) 1991 * Handel: '' Athalia'', Elisabeth Scholl (Athalia), Junge Kantorei, Barockorchester Frankfurt, Joachim Carlos Martini (

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) 1996 * Bach: ''

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'', Evangelist: Christoph Prégardien, Caterina Calvi, Werner Van Mechelen, La Petite Bande, conductor Sigiswald Kuijken, (Columbia Music Entertainment) 1997 * Handel: '' Deborah'', Junge Kantorei, Barockorchester Frankfurt, Joachim Carlos Martini (

) 1999 * Bach: ''

'', Evangelist: Jan Kobow, Gerhild Romberger, Sebastian Noack, Knabenchor Hannover, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Barockorchester L'ARCO, conductor Heinz Hennig, (Studio Wedemark) 1999 * ''Von Goethe inspiriert – Lieder von Komponistinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts'', Burkhard Schaeffer (piano) (SALTO) 1999 * Bach: '' St Matthew Passion'', Evangelist: Gerd Türk,

: Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Nathalie Stutzmann, Andreas Karasiak, Thomas Mohr, Knabenchor Hannover & Thomanerchor Leipzig (direction: Georg Christoph Biller), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Barockorchester L'ARCO, conductor Heinz Hennig, (Thorofon) 2000 *

Reinhard Keiser Reinhard Keiser (9 January 1674 – 12 September 1739) was a German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas. Johann Adolf Scheibe (writing in 1745) considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg ...

: ''Opera Arias and Instrumental Works'', La Ricordanza (DG) 2001 *

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: ''Magnificat und Tantum ergo'', La Stagione Frankfurt, Dresdner Kammerchor, Michael Schneider (Capriccio Records) 2002 *

Alessandro Scarlatti Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque music, Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the Neapolitan sch ...

: ''Inferno – Cantate drammatiche'', Modo Antiquo (cpo) 2006 * Giovanni Battista Ferrandini: ''Cantate per Passione'', Echo di Danube (Accent) 2006 * Bach: '' St John Passion'', arranged by

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, Evangelist: Jan Kobow, Veronika Winter, Gerhild Romberger, Ekkehard Abele, Rheinische Kantorei, conductor Hermann Max, (Cpo) 2007Bach: Johannes-passion / Max, Winter, Scholl, Kobow, Et Al
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References

External links

Elisabeth Scholl
website {{DEFAULTSORT:Scholl, Elisabeth German operatic sopranos German women academics Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni Living people 1966 births People from Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis 20th-century German women opera singers 21st-century German women opera singers