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The Hungarian soprano and voice teacher, Anna Korondi, began her singing studies in Budapest, her native city. She continued her studies at the Vienna Conservatory with Margarethe Bence and David Lutz, and graduated with distinction in 1993.
Anna Korondi was a member of the company at the Komische Oper in Berlin from 1993 to 1997, then of the company at the Bonn Opera from 1997 to 1999. The next year she made her debut at the Bavarian State Opera singing the title role in the world premiere of Aribert Reimann’s La Casa de Bernarda Alba conducted by Zubin Mehta (in a production by Harry Kupfer). At the 2001 Salzburg Festival she played Adele (Die Fledermaus) in a production by Hans Neuenfels, conducted by Marc Minkowski.
Today Anna Korondi, whose repertoire extends from Baroque to contemporary music, is invited to perform with the great European orchestras and in important festivals (Bachfest Leipzig, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival). Korondi appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as a Flower Maiden in Wagner's Parsifal, first in 2004 in the production by Christoph Schlingensief, conducted by Pierre Boulez, then in 2008 in the production by Stefan Herheim. She has worked under such conductors as Howard Arman, Frans Brüggen, Adam Fischer, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Philippe Herreweghe, Yakov Kreizberg, Erwin Ortner, Eliahu Inbal, Marcello Viotti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Helmuth Rilling. She is also in great demand as a Lieder singer. She has appeared the Komische Oper in Berlin and at the 2003 Schwetzingen Festival.
Anna Korondi has been an Academic voice teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin from 2013. Among the singers who have studied with her and/or attended her master-classes: Caroline De Comi (Soprano), Delia Haag (Soprano). |
