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Maria Friderike Radner (; 7 May 1981 – 24 March 2015) was a German
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who performed internationally in opera and in concerts. She studied at the
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in Düsseldorf, Germany. Both ''Stern'' magazine and Munich's ''
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'' described her as an "extremely talented interpreter of
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music". Possessing the "rare pitch of a true alto", she frequently appeared as Erda in Wagner's ''
Der Ring des Nibelungen (''The Ring of the Nibelung''), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner. The works are based loosely on characters from Germanic heroic legend, namely Norse legendary sagas and the ''Nibelung ...
'' at the Leipzig Opera, Schwertleite in ''
Die Walküre (; ''The Valkyrie''), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's '' Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (English: ''The Ring of the Nibelung''). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on ...
'' at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze with
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, and in
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's Symphony No. 2 (''Resurrection'') conducted by Antonio Pappano in Rome and Milan. Her debut at the
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in 2012 in ''
Götterdämmerung ' (; ''Twilight of the Gods''), WWV 86D, is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four music dramas titled (''The Ring of the Nibelung'', or ''The Ring Cycle'' or ''The Ring'' for short). It received its premiere at the on 17 August 1876, as p ...
'' was part of that company's documentary ''
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''. Radner, her husband and infant son were among the 150 people killed in March 2015 when
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was deliberately crashed by its pilot.


Early life and education (1981–2000)

Maria Friderike Radner was born in
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and had a brother, Bozidar, and a sister, Anna. Her father Klaus Radner and his wife had immigrated from Austria and started a trading company. They were not particularly interested in music. During long drives to Austria, Maria would sing for hours. At school she was a "rather unobtrusive, popular student" who enjoyed music lessons but found mathematics difficult. Her talent for singing remained unnoticed at school, but when she was 14, her parents introduced her to
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Angelo Melzani, who told her, "I will get you into opera." As a teen she took part in the Rhenish Carnival and the Largest Fair on the Rhine ('). Her father remembered her calling him excitedly after winning first prize in a beer-tent karaoke competition. She attended St. Ursula Gymnasium in Düsseldorf, finishing in 2000.


Vocal education (2000–2008)

Radner pursued German studies for one semester, but left because she disliked it. She started training in an import–export business and had the best grades at the vocational school, but felt that it did not suit her. She applied to the
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for music in Düsseldorf and was one of seven selected from 200 applicants. Her voice teacher, Michaela Krämer, considered her to be a mezzo-soprano. Radner's father obtained additional voice lessons for her with
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in Düsseldorf, and later with mezzo-soprano Marga Schiml, both of whom are experts in
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and ''
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er''. They recognized that she was really a contralto. Radner's mother died in 2003 after a long illness. Almost a year later, Radner earned her diploma. In the 2006 Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin, she won the €3,000 third prize in the concert category and a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Society in Bayreuth to attend the 2007
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. In the concert division of the 2007 Cantilena Singing Competition, she placed second out of 120 vocalists from 19 countries. In 2008 she played Cornelia in Handel's '' Giulio Cesare in Egitto'' at the Theater Hagen. It was to be her only engagement as an ensemble member at a theatre. She decided that it was "not her world", not because it was no fun, but because she wanted to earn more, and she went independent. Radner was still a student in 2008 when she made her first public appearance under
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at the
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in Valencia, singing
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's oratorio ''Philitaei a Jonatha disperse''. She gave a recital in June 2008. In August 2008 Radner performed the title role in Handel's '' Solomon'' at the
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. Local newspapers praised her as "outshining" the other, more established British soloists ('' Vorarlberger Nachrichten'', 19 August 2008) and as possessing the "rare pitch of a true alto, having an impressive charisma and great musicality" (''Vorarlberger Neue Tageszeitung'', 20 August 2008). In 2009 she performed in a new production of ''
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'' under
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in Valencia and in
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's ''
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'' under the direction of Antonio Pappano at
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in Rome.


Career (2009–2015)

After graduating with distinction, Radner performed Schumann's Faust scenes under Jesús López-Cobos at the
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. She sang in Beethoven's '' Symphony No. 9'' conducted by
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at the
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. She performed a recital at
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on 16 August 2009 with works by Schubert, Brahms, Liszt and Wagner's '' Wesendonck Lieder''. In December 2009 she sang the third lady in Mozart's ''
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'' under Tomáš Netopil at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich in five performances. The conductor Sir Simon Rattle cast her as First Norn and Flosshilde in ''
Götterdämmerung ' (; ''Twilight of the Gods''), WWV 86D, is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four music dramas titled (''The Ring of the Nibelung'', or ''The Ring Cycle'' or ''The Ring'' for short). It received its premiere at the on 17 August 1876, as p ...
'' at the 2009 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and again at the Salzburger Osterfestspiele in 2010. In 2009 and 2010, Radner was part of a new production of Stravinsky's ''
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'' by the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. She then sang Beethoven's ''
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'' under
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at the
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Amsterdam. In 2010, she gave her first performance as Erda in a concert adaptation of ''
Das Rheingold ''Das Rheingold'' (; ''The Rhinegold''), WWV 86A, is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's '' Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (English: ''The Ring of the Nibelung''). It was performed, as a single opera, at the Nationa ...
'' at the Leipzig Opera, a role she performed every year from then until her death. In the same year she sang in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 (the ''Resurrection'') under Pappano in Rome and Milan. In the summer of 2010 she was part of a new production of
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at her first summer Salzburg Festival under Daniele Gatti and ''
Die Frau ohne Schatten ' (''The Woman without a Shadow''), Op. 65, is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with a libretto by his long-time collaborator, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It was written between 1911 and either 1915 or 1917. When it premiered at the ...
'', conducted by Christian Thielemann. In October 2010 she appeared as Dryad in ''
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'' at the
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, conducted by
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. Radner performed the third lady in ''Die Zauberflöte'' at La Scala, conducted by
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and recorded on DVD, during March and April 2011, and ''Rheingold's'' Erda in
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conducted by Stefan Soltesz in April. At the Salzburg Festival in July and August she was "a voice from above" and a servant in
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's ''Die Frau ohne Schatten'' under Christian Thielemann. She performed Martha in Tchaikovsky's ''
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'' and "death" in ''Le Rossignol'', both under Ivor Bolton. In November 2011 she sang ''
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's'' Erda in Leipzig under
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. In January 2012 Radner made her debut at the
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in
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in ''Götterdämmerung''. The production was documented in the film ''
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'' by Robert Lepage and the 11 February 2012 performance was recorded and broadcast by radio. In March 2012, she participated in ''Die Frau ohne Schatten'' at La Scala under Marc Albrecht. In the fall of 2012, she was at the
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in London performing in three Wagner operas conducted by Pappano: the Erda in ''Siegfried'' and ''Rheingold'' during September and October, and the first norn in ''Götterdämmerung'' during October and November 2012. She sang in Dvorak's Requiem under
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in Lyon, and in Mahler's Symphony No. 3 under Sebastian Weigle in Frankfurt am Main. In January 2013 Radner appeared as the
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Schwertleite in ''
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'' at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze under Zubin Mehta, and in March she again portrayed Erda in ''Das Rheingold'', conducted by Ingo Metzmacher at the
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. She traveled to Bucharest in September, where she sang Erda in a concert performance of ''Das Rheingold'' with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin under the direction of Marek Janowski. The 2013–2014 season also included '' Dvorak's Stabat Mater'' with Santa Cecilia in Rome under Netopil. From January to May 2014, in Geneva, Radner performed Erda in ''Siegfried'', and in May in ''Das Rheingold'' conducted by Metzmacher. In April 2014 she performed as Anna in the Berlioz opera ''
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'' at La Scala under Pappano. Radner gave her final performance as the earth goddess Erda on 23 March 2015 in Wagner's ''Siegfried'' at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. She had been scheduled to appear at Bayreuth in the summer of 2015.


Personal life

Scottish mezzo-soprano
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summarized "Maria Radner, my beloved friend" in ''
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'': "She was the most generous-spirited person I have ever met. Hysterical laughter, an obsession with all things Burberry, unadulterated passion for Bayern Munich and the warmest of hugs were things you could always be guaranteed of when you were with her. Her son and partner were her whole life." Further down Cargill qualified the latter, in that "Music was Maria's entire life until she met her partner and they had their son." The authors of an article in the German weekly ''
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'' echoed this sentiment when they wrote that "Radner was a happy mother. Radner had a side, that many internationally successful opera stars are not privy to: her own family." ''Stern'' described photos of her private life, published one week prior in ''
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'', showing the young woman embraced by her partner Sascha Schenk in the soccer stadium with a scarf of
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, and him holding their infant son, who is sitting on a motorbike. ''Stern'' wrote that "privately Radner was able to simply be Maria, the wife of insurance specialist Sascha S." According to Opernnetz "Radner had moved with
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to Wuppertal-Kronenberg." ''Bild'' wrote "They lived in
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. She was travelling a lot professionally, while he looked after his insurance clients in Wuppertal." Radner and Schenk had one son, Felix, born on 12 September 2013.


Death

Radner died on 24 March 2015, along with her husband Sascha Schenk, their 18-month-old son Felix, and her colleague
Oleg Bryjak Oleg Bryjak ( uk, Олег Брижак, 27 October 1960 – 24 March 2015) was a Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer. Born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, into an ethnic Ukrainian family, he moved to Germany in 1991 to join the Badisches Staa ...
, when
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crashed near
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,
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, France. The First Officer had a history of depression, barricaded himself into the cockpit, and deliberately crashed the plane into the mountains. They were en route to Düsseldorf after Radner's and Bryjak's two performances in Wagner's ''Siegfried'' at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Radner's voice teacher Michaela Krämer said "she was a magnificent artist and yet remained unassuming, helpful and natural". The Metropolitan Opera issued a brief statement, mourning her "untimely and tragic death" and calling her "a gifted artist who touched the lives of many". The Deutsche Oper am Rhein expressed sympathy.


Discography

* Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin Choir / Wagner – Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold. 28 May 2013.
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. * Gürzenich-Orchester Köln / Markus Stenz, conductor: Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8. Oehms Classics; recording of a September 2011 live performance in the Philharmonie Köln. Maria Radner as Maria Egyptiaca (Part 2, Acta Sanctorum).


References


External links


Maria Radner
on IAAC Italartist Austroconcert accessed on 2016-07-29 *, Erda in Wagner's ''Das Rheingold'' with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conducted by Marek Janowski, audio 5:20 minutes, recorded by PentaTone classics, undated. *, "
Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix "" is a popular mezzo-soprano aria from Camille Saint-Saëns's opera '' Samson and Delilah'', known in English as "Softly awakes my heart", or more literally "My heart opens itself to your voice". It is sung by Delilah in act 2 as she attempts t ...
" (Saint-Saëns: ''Samson et Dalila'') audio 5:43 minutes, undated. *, accompanied by pianist Simon Lepper. Rosenblatt Recitals, London, video 3:33 minutes, 13 January 2010. *, Mahler Symphony No. 3, accompanied by Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, audio 8:27 minutes, undated. *, Mahler's '' Des Knaben Wunderhorn'', audio 4:43 minutes, undated. *, Wagner's ''Götterdämmerung'' with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, audio 4:18 minutes, undated. *
Trauer um Wagner-Sänger / Oleg Bryjak und Maria Radner verunglückt
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