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The German lyrical coloratura soprano, Marie-Christine Haase, began her musical career at the age of 9 on the clarinet and studied this instrument as a second subject to her main subject singing at the Hochschule für Künste in her native city of Bremen with Professor Gabriele Schreckenbach, Professor Thomas Mohr and Professor Krisztina Láki. The soprano is one of the best young artists of the Deutschen Arbeitsvermittlung (ZAV), reached the final round of the Deutschen Bundeswettbewerb für Gesang in Berlin in 2010 and was nominated in 2013 in the magazine Opernwelt in the category Young Singer of the Year.
Engagements have already taken Marie-Christine Haase to the Hamburgische Staatsoper, Staatstheater Mainz (July 2014-July 2018), Theater Dortmund, Theater Chemnitz, Theater Hagen, Theater Stralsund, Staatstheater Oldenburg, as well as the Landestheater Coburg, Stadttheater Bremerhaven AND Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern. She attracted particular attention through her performance in the title role Simplicius Simplicissimus in Karl Amadeus Hartmann's opera of the same name, as well as in the world premiere of Sidney Corbett's Das Große Heft. Her sung repertoire includes Zerlina in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Adina in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore, Musetta in Puccini's La Boheme, Eurydice in the Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in der Unterwelt, Zeller's Orpheus in der Unterwelt, the nightingale in Walter Braunfels' opera Die Vögel, Juliette Vermont in Léhar's Der Graf von Luxemburg, (Theater Dortmund, 2014), as well as the soprano parts in J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion (BWV 245), Johannes Brahms' Deutschem Requiem, in the by Gabriel Fauré's Requiem and in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.
Most recently Marie-Christine Haase sang the Queen of the Night in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (Theater Osnabrück, 2016-2017), Tytania in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Staatsoper Hamburg, June 2017), Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, Infantin Donna Clara in Alexander Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg, Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma (Critical Version), as well as in the German First performance Perela-Uomo di fumo by Pascal Dusapin and the Merab in the scenic implementation of the award-winning George Frideric Handel' Saul by Lydia Steier.
Marie-Christine Haase recently made her debut as Antonia in Les Contes d`Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven (September 2021), in Sängerin/Sie/Edith in Aribert Reimann's Ein Traumspiel by at the Oper Halle and in 2020 in Belinda / 1st Witch / Spirit by Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Theater Osnabrück (June 2020). In the 2021-2022 season she was also the first soprano in Luigi Nono's Al gran sole carico d'amore at the Staatstheater Mainz. At the beginning of 2022, she was engaged as a rehearsal cover for the role of the Infanta in Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (January 2022). |
