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| occupation = Classical singer (mezzo-soprano and dramatic soprano) | years_active = 1976 – present | known_for = }} Gabriele Schnaut (born 24 February 1951) is a German classical singer who started her operatic career as a mezzo-soprano in 1976 and changed to dramatic soprano in 1985. She has appeared internationally and performed at the Bayreuth Festival from 1977 to 2000. She recorded works by composers of the 20th century and appeared in the premieres of operas by Wolfgang Rihm and Jörg Widmann. == Career == Born in Mannheim, Schnaut grew up in Mainz and received violin and singing lessons as a child. She studied first at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory (de) of Mainz, majoring in violin, and at the same time musicology at the University of Mainz.〔 From 1971 she studied singing at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with . Her first permanent engagement was as a mezzo-soprano in 1976 at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.〔 In 1977 Schnaut made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival, singing Waltraute and the Second Norne in the ''Jahrhundertring'' staged by Patrice Chéreau.〔〔 She appears in these roles in the film ''Der Ring des Nibelungen''.〔 She performed at the festival in 1980 Wellgunde in ''Götterdämmerung'', in 1985 Venus in ''Tannhäuser'' and the Third Norne, in 1986 Sieglinde in ''Die Walküre'', in 1987 Ortrud in ''Lohengrin'', and in 2000 Brünnhilde in ''Der Ring des Nibelungen''.〔 Schnaut was a member of the Staatstheater Darmstadt (1978–80), the Nationaltheater Mannheim (1980–88), where she performed the part of Ophelia in the premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's ''Die Hamletmaschine''.〔 From 1988 she was a member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf,〔 from 1995 a member of the Hamburgische Staatsoper, at present of the Bayerische Staatsoper (as of 2013).〔 In private study with in East Berlin she developed to a dramatic soprano.〔 In 1985 she sang the title role of Wagner's ''Tristan und Isolde'' at the Theater Dortmund.〔 In 1994 she appeared at La Scala in the title role of ''Elektra'' by Richard Strauss and as Brünnhilde in ''Die Walküre''. In this role she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1996.〔 She performed the part such as Kundry in ''Parsifal'' at the Wiener Staatsoper from 1996.〔 In Hamburg she sang both the dyer's wife and the nurse in ''Die Frau ohne Schatten'' by Richard Strauss.〔 In 1992 she appeared on the occasion of the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, both as Venus in Wagner's ''Tannhäuser'' in a Hamburg production staged by Harry Kupfer,〔 and in the part of ''Waldvogel'' in Arnold Schönberg's ''Gurre-Lieder''.〔 She performed the title roles of ''Tosca''〔 and ''Turandot'', recorded on DVD at the Salzburg Festival in 2002.〔 In Munich she performed the part of Emilia Marty in Janáček's ''Věc Makropulos'' and mezzo roles Klytämnestra in ''Elektra'' and Herodias in ''Salome''. In 2006 she sang the premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's ''Das Gehege'',〔 a monodrama commissioned by the State Opera to be combined in a double bill with ''Salome'', both directed by William Friedkin.〔 She appeared as Euphrat in the premiere of Jörg Widmann's ''Babylon'' in October 2012, conducted by Kent Nagano.〔 In 2013 she portrayed the desperate character of the sacristan Buryja in Janáček's ''Jenufa'' like a heroine from ancient tragedy, but with tentative gestures of affection, as a review notes.〔 She has been teaching voice at the ''Universität der Künste Berlin''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gabriele Schnaut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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