Friederike Meinel
Friederike Meinel
Person from Germany
Genres: opera, Wagner, Richard Wagner, oper, mezzosopran
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About Friederike Meinel
Friederike Meinel (Mezzosoprano) was born in Jena; both her parents are physicians. She first studied at the HdK (Academy of the Arts) in Berlin with Ingrid Figur and then with Rudolf Piernay in Mannheim (concert proficiency exam). She was a pupi in Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's and Aribert Reimann's master classes for several years. Among her other important teachers were Ingrid Bjoner and Helmut Kretschmar. Friederike Meinel won international contests and prizes, for instance the Paula- Lindberg-Salomon singing competition, the Yamaha scholarship singing competition, as well as the O.E. Hasse-prize, which was awarded to her by the O.E. Hasse Foundation and the Academy of Arts. Already the winner of the Richard-Wagner-scholarship, she was furthermore awarded the Jütting scholarship. Friederike Meinel was a member of the Young Ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. She was a member of the company of the Opera House Wuppertal and subsequently a member of the company of the Cologne Opera House. She sang the parts of Donna Elvira in “Don Giovanni", La Malaspina in “Luci mi traditrici", various parts (Norns, Rhine Maidens, Valkyries etc.) in “Ring des Nibelungen". Among the mezzo soprano's important roles are Octavian in “Der Rosenkavalier" and Charlotte in “Werther". The singer gave her Vienna debut at the Vienna Festival in the title role of “Penthesilea - Ein Traum", conducted by Ulf Schirmer. She sang the part of Hilde in “Celan" at the Semperoper in Dresden with Marc Albrecht conducting, and the world première of “Glas im Bauch" at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Among the conductors she worked with in the course of her opera career are Jun Märkl, Peter Schneider, and Jeffrey Tate. Friederike Meinel concertized with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Orchestra, the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic. She made guest appearances at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Rudolfinum in Prague, the Cuvillès-Theatre in Munich, the Prinzregenten Theatre in Munich, the Berlin Concert House, the large broadcasting hall of the radio station WDR in Cologne, the Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg, and the Heidelberger Frühling (spring Festival). Song recitals brought the young singer to Cologne, where she gave an evening performance of “Franz Schubert -Die Lieder" in a concert series of the Cologne Philharmonic and the WDR under the artistic direction of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, as well as to Chicago, where she could be heard at the Ravina Festival.
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