Mandy Fredrich & Matthias Samuil
Biography Mandy Fredrich & Matthias Samuil
Mandy Fredrich
is one of the most sought-after German singers of her generation. She studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre with Prof. Robert Gambill and Prof. Regina Werner-Dietrich, as well as in Rome and Amsterdam with Renata Scotto and Margreet Honig.
Mandy Fredrich celebrated her international breakthrough as Queen of the Night at the Salzburg Festival under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt. This was followed by engagements at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the New National Theatre in Tokyo, the Zurich Opera House, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the state operas in Munich and Hamburg as well as at the Bregenz Festival, where she performed the roles of Antonia and Giulietta in Stefan Herheim's outstanding production of »Les contes d'Hoffmann«.
She was a member of the Stuttgart State Opera ensemble for three years, where she sang the major lyric soprano roles such as Agathe, Donna Anna, Contessa, Fiordiligi, Micaëla, Antonia and Iphigénie as well as an acclaimed Marguerite (»Faust«) in Frank Castorf's new production. She is still connected to the house as a guest and was last seen as Gutrune (»Götterdämmerung«).
Within a short space of time, her remarkable career has taken her to other important opera stages in Europe: the Vienna State Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Marguerite), the Royal Opera in Copenhagen (Marguerite and Donna Anna), the Opéra de Lyon (Contessa) and for operetta gala concerts to Milan's Teatro alla Scala.
Mandy Fredrich has a particularly close working relationship with the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, where she enjoyed great success as the Queen of the Night and Marzelline as well as Frau Fluth in »Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor« under Daniel Barenboim and as Gutrune in Dmitri Tcherniakov's new production of »Der Ring des Nibelungen« under Christian Thielemann and Philippe Jordan.
The versatile singer is also a welcome guest on international concert stages, where her repertoire includes the great oratorios by Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Brahms as well as Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Weinberg's Kaddish Symphony and Strauss' orchestral songs. Particular highlights were performances under Zubin Mehta at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (9th Symphony and »The Creation«), under Ivan Repušić and the Munich Radio Orchestra (»Die schöne Galathée«) and under Sylvain Cambreling and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra (»Das Paradies und die Peri«, »The Creation« and 9th Symphony) and last but not least the semi staged »Cosi fan tutte« at the Auditorium de Lyon where she thrilled the audience as Fiordiligi.
The soprano cultivates her passion for lieder singing in a special way. She attracted great attention with the song recital »Du wirst nicht weinen - Vom Beginn und Ende der Liebe« at the Nikolaisaal Potsdam, zentrum lied Cologne, at the Potsdam Easter Festival with Eric Schneider and as part of the International Hugo Wolf Academy Stuttgart with Alan Hamilton.
She performed her current song programme »Traumglück« for the first time at the Mercatorhalle Duisburg alongside her long-standing collaborative pianist Matthias Samuil.
