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Ensemble - Deutsche Oper Berlin

Heidi Stober

Heidi Stober

In der Saison 2024/25 wird Heidi Stober ihr Debüt am Royal Opera House Covent Garden geben, wo sie Gretel in HÄNSEL UND GRETEL singen wird, sowie Auftritte an der Deutschen Oper Berlin als Zdenka in ARABELLA und als Pat Nixon in NIXON IN CHINA, an der Semperoper Dresden als Pamina in DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE und in der Titelrolle von Thea Musgraves MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS an der English National Opera. Im Konzertbereich wird sie ihr Debüt mit dem San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in Mahlers Symphonie Nr. 2 unter Esa-Pekka Salonen geben, Mozarts Requiem mit dem Musikkollegium Winterthur in der Schweiz unter Roberto González-Monjas aufführen, Pamina mit Sir Donald Runnicles und dem Grand Teton Music Festival sowie Beethovens Symphonie Nr. 9 mit dem Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra interpretieren. Als Solistin wird Heidi Stober beim Oxford International Song Festival, am New England Conservatory in der Jordan Hall und mit dem Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago auftreten.

In der Spielzeit 2023/24 kehrte Heidi Stober als Musetta in LA BOHÈME unter der Leitung von Carlo Rizzi an die Metropolitan Opera zurück, feierte in einer Neuproduktion von NIXON IN CHINA als Pat Nixon an der Deutschen Oper Berlin Premiere und sang die Titelrolle der Rahel in Detlev Glanerts Uraufführungsoper DIE JÜDIN VON TOLEDO an der Semperoper Dresden in einer Inszenierung von Robert Carsen. Ebenfalls in Dresden sang sie Aufführungen der Pamina und debütierte am Opernhaus Zürich in Andreas Homokis Inszenierung von SWEENEY TODD als Johanna. Im Konzert sang sie Mozarts Requiem an der Lyric Opera of Chicago unter der Leitung von Enrique Mazzola. In Boston sang sie Beethovens Symphonie Nr. 9 mit Boston Baroque und Haydns Lord-Nelson-Messe auf einer Spanien-Tournee mit Omer Meir Wellber und der Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

Zu den Höhepunkten der vergangenen Spielzeiten zählt ihre langjährige Zusammenarbeit mit der Deutschen Oper Berlin, wo sie Eva in DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG, Donna Elvira in DON GIOVANNI, Micaëla in CARMEN, Marguerite in FAUST, Pamina, Susanna in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, Oscar in UN BALLO IN MASCHERA und Liù in TURANDOT sang. An der Metropolitan Opera sang sie Gretel, Pamina, Despina in COSI FAN TUTTE und Oscar, an der San Francisco Opera Blanche in DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES, Zdenka und Angelica in ORLANDO, Gretel, Norina in DON PASQUALE, Pamina, Oscar, Nannetta in FALSTAFF, Susanna, Magnolia in SHOWBOAT, Atalanta in XERXES und Johanna in SWEENEY TODD sowie Sophie in WERTHER. An der Lyric Opera of Chicago sang Heidi Stober Gretel, Dalinda in ARIODANTE und Valencienne in THE MERRY WIDOW, an der Houston Grand Opera Cleopatra in GIULIO CESARE, Micaëla, Susanna, Norina, Musetta, Atalanta und Drusilla in L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA. An der Semperoper Dresden sang sie Fiordiligi in COSÌ FAN TUTTE mit Omer Meir Wellber, Susanna, Adina, Pamina, die Titelrolle in ALCINA und Micaëla und an der Santa Fe Opera Sandrina in LA FINTA GIARDINIERA, La Folie in PLATÉE, Tigrane in RADAMISTO, Musetta, Zdenka und Ada in der Uraufführung von Theodore Morrisons OSCAR, die sie an der Opera Philadelphia wiederaufnahm. An der Staatsoper Hamburg sang sie Despina in COSÌ FAN TUTTE, Adina an der Wiener Staatsoper, Antigone in Enescus OEDIPE an der Niederländischen Nationaloper, Donna Elvira mit dem Hyōgo Performing Arts Center in Japan, Anne Truelove in THE RAKE'S PROGRESS mit dem St. Paul Chamber Orchestra und die Titelrolle in SEMELE beim Garsington Opera Festival.

Als ausdrucksstarke und leidenschaftliche Konzert- und Liedinterpretin hat Heidi Stober Mahlers Symphonie Nr. 2 (Grand Teton Music Festival, Deutsche Oper Berlin), Mahlers Symphonie Nr. 4 (NDR Radiophilharmonie, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Milwaukee Symphony, Grand Teton Music Festival), Beethovens Symphonie Nr. 9 (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Milwaukee Symphony, Grand Teton Music Festival) aufgeführt, weiters Brahms‘ Requiem (Houston Symphony, Tucson Symphony), Samuel Barbers „Knoxville: Summer of 1915“ (Oslo Philharmonic, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin), Mozarts Requiem (Los Angeles Philharmonic), Strawinskys Kantate (Los Angeles Philharmonic), Händels „Messiah“ (New York Philharmonic, Boston Baroque) sowie ein Solo-Rezital in der Carnegie Hall. Zu den Dirigenten, mit denen sie häufig zusammenarbeitet, gehören Sir Donald Runnicles, Eun Sun Kim, Harry Bicket, Gustavo Dudamel, Omer Meir Wellber, Marc Albrecht, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Nicola Luisotti, Evan Rogister, Patrick Hahn, Patrick Summers, Nicholas Carter, Mark Wigglesworth, Edo de Waart, Jonathan Darlington und Daniel Carter.

Heidi Stober stammt ursprünglich aus Waukesha, Wisconsin, und besuchte die Lawrence University und das New England Conservatory. Sie setzte ihre professionelle Ausbildung als Mitglied des Houston Grand Opera Studio fort und lebt in Berlin.

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DEC

Advents-Verlosung: Das 22. Fensterchen

On 7 March 2025, the first part of Tobias Kratzer's Strauss trilogy, ARABELLA, celebrates its revival as part of our ‘Richard Strauss in March’ weeks, with Jennifer Davis as Arabella , Heidi Stober as Zdenka/Zdenko, Thomas Johannes Mayer as Mandryka, Daniel O'Hearn as Matteo and, as in the premiere series, Doris Soffel and Albert Pesendorfer as the Waldner couple. Today we are giving away our DVD, which will not be available in shops until 14 February 2025. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to NAXOS for giving us the very special opportunity to put ARABELLA in our lottery pot for you almost eight weeks before the official sales launch.

In today's Advent Calendar window, we are giving away two DVDs of ARABELLA – a lyrical comedy in three acts by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. If you would like to win one of the two DVDs, please write an e-mail with the subject ‘The 22nd window’ to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de.

Vienna, circa 1860. The financially strapped Count Waldner is lodging with his family in a Viennese hotel. His only path to solvency is for him to secure an advantageous marriage for one of his two daughters – and the family can only afford to present Arabella, the eldest, in the upper circles of society. To conceal the family’s indigence, the parents have raised Zdenka as a boy, dressing her accordingly. Arabella is not short of suitors but has resolved to wait for ‘Mr Right’. When Mandryka, an aristocrat from a distant region, arrives, he and Arabella are instantly smitten. Arabella only asks to be able to bid farewell to her friends and suitors at the Fasching ball that evening. At the ball, Arabella says goodbye to her admirers. There is also the young officer Matteo, with whom Zdenka is secretly in love and with whom she has formed a friendship under the guise of her disguise as a boy. Matteo, however, desires Arabella and is distraught when he realises the hopelessness of his love. Zdenka devises a plan: she fakes a letter from Arabella in which she promises Matteo a night of love together. But instead she wants to wait for him herself in the darkness of the hotel room. Mandryka learns of Arabella's alleged infidelity and goes to the hotel with the ball guests to surprise Arabella in flagrante delicto. Arabella, innocent of this, is initially shocked and saddened by Mandryka’s suspicions but forgives him when the mix-up is revealed for what it is. The two agree to marry, as do Zdenka and Matteo.

Richard Strauss’s orchestral richness and opulence coupled with the period Viennese setting of the work led to ARABELLA being falsely pigeonholed as a light-hearted comedy of errors from its 1933 premiere onwards. In the estimation of Tobias Kratzer, however, who triumphed at the Deutsche Oper with his production of Alexander von Zemlinsky’s THE DWARF, this final collaboration between Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal marks a collision of two world views: the traditional roles of men and women on the one hand – as expressed in Arabella’s famous solo “Und du sollst mein Gebieter sein” – and a modern idea of social interaction on the other – as illustrated by Zdenka with her questioning of gender-based identities. Here, Kratzer turns the spotlight on this disunity between the various character portrayals in ARABELLA and explores these role-specific tensions on a continuum stretching from 19th-century Vienna to the present day. In the category of stage design, Manuel Braun, Jonas Dahl and Rainer Sellmaier were honoured with the renowned German Theatre Award DER FAUST 2023 for this production.

In this recording, under the baton of Sir Donald Runnicles, you will experience Albert Pesendorfer, Doris Soffel, Sara Jakubiak, Elena Tsallagova, Russell Braun, Robert Watson, Thomas Blondelle, Kyle Miller, Tyler Zimmerman, Hye-Young Moon, Lexi Hutton, Jörg Schörner and others, as well as the chorus and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The performances on 18 and 23 March 2023 were recorded by rbb Kultur and Naxos for this DVD.

We would like to thank the Naxos label for the great collaboration over the past few years, which documents recordings of DER ZWERG, DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE, FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, DER SCHATZGRÄBER, DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG and ANTIKRIST. Richard Strauss' ARABELLA and INTERMEZZO will be released in the course of 2025.



Closing date: 22 December 2024. The winners will be informed by email on 23 December 2024. The DVDs will then be sent by post. There is no right of appeal.