The German soprano, Ulrike Fulde, studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig with Hans-Joachim Beyer and in the postgraduate class of Kammersängerin Regina Werner-Dietrich.
A busy concert schedule has taken Ulrike Fulde to Koblenz for the Mendelssohn-Festspielen and to Halle (Saale) for the Händelfestspielen, where she sang as a soloist and received the Handel Scholarship Award (Händel Förderpreis) of the city of Halle in 2004.
As a guest artist at the Oper Leipzig, Ulrike Fulde sang the role of Fiordiligi in W.A. Mozart's Cosí fan tutte in a production by Joachim Herz, as well as the part of Taumännchen (Dewman) in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel. In 2003 she performed the role of Pamina in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte as a guest at the Theatro Castro Alves (Salvador/Brazil) and that of Radamanto in L’Orfeo by Carl Heinrich Graun) in Bayreuth. In Claudia Zahn’s production of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw, she sang the role of the Governess. In addition to her oratorio concerts with the Gewandhaus organist Michael Schönheit, Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller, as well as university music directors David Timm, Ron-Dirk Entleuner, Jens Lorenz and Gothard Stier, she enjoys singing Lieder. In 2007 she gave Lieder recitals at the Cape Classic Festival in South Africa to aid socially disadvantaged people. As a soloist, she performed contemporary works with the MDR conducted by Roland Kluttig. |