Elisabeth Breuer
The Austrian soprano received her training at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and took the world’s big stages by storm. Whether in Mozart’s “Il Re Pastore” in Venice, in Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” in Wiesbaden, or as an interpreter of the works of Bach, Handel, or Haydn - the Austrian is a sought-after star of classical music.
About the artist
Beguiling soprano voice
On Stage
On the concert podium, Elisabeth Breuer has established herself as a much sought-after interpreter of the works of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart.
Performances have taken the Austrian soprano to renowned concert halls such as the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Vienna Musikverein and the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Munich Philharmonie am Gasteig, the Berwaldhallen Stockholm, the Musiikkitalo in Helsinki, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Milan Auditorium, the International Bach Foundation St. Gallen or to renowned festivals such as the Bachfest Leipzig, the Musikfest Stuttgart, the Herrenchiemsee-Festspiele or the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
Conductors and orchestras
She sings under renowned conductors such as Daniel Harding, Franz Welser-Möst, Ton Koopman, Reinhard Goebel, Andrew Manze, Dennis Russel Davies, Asher Fish, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Federico Maria Sardelli, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Hansjörg Albrecht or Peter Dijkstra and performs with important orchestras such as the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the MDR Sinfonieorchester, the Norddeutsche Radiophilharmonie, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the La Folia Baroque Orchestra, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra or the L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra.
2022/23 season
In the 2022/23 season, Elisabeth Breuer will continue to work closely with Ton Koopman on the concert stage, making her debut with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra with Bach's Christmas Oratorio under his baton. With him and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra she can also be heard on a tour in Europe with Handel's Messiah, and later with works by Bach at the Bach Festival in Leipzig.
Together with the L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra under Johannes Hiemetsberger, she will perform Johannes Brahms' Requiem at the Musikverein in Graz, as well as in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. The soprano sings Alessandro Scarlatti's Stabat Mater in Perugia under Enrico Bronzi and she will perform Mozart's Mass in C minor for the first time in Hamburg's Laeiszhalle.
In addition to numerous concert projects, another season highlight is her debut at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where Elisabeth Breuer can be heard as Valencienne in the Lehár operetta The Merry Widow. She also celebrates a swinging turn of the year as Comtesse Stasi in the Kálmán operetta Die Csárdásfürstin at the Brucknerhaus in Linz.
opera stage
Her most recent successes on the opera stage include Elisa in Mozart's Il Re Pastore at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Rezia in Haydn's L'Incontro improvviso at the Donaufestwochen, Hyppolithe in Schürmann's Die getreue Alceste at Winter in Schwetzingen under Christina Pluhar, or the role of Eurilla in Vivaldi's La Ninfa e il Pastore at the Festival Opera Barga under Federico Maria Sardelli.
In addition to her stylistically confident performance of her core repertoire in concert, Elisabeth Breuer enjoys keeping her versatility on the opera stage. Her most important roles include Norina, Musetta, Gretel, Despina, Constance (Dialogues des Carmélites), Bellezza (Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno), Donna Fulvia (La pietra di paragone), Anne Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank), Adele or the soprano part in Carmina Burana, which she performed at important opera houses such as the Teatro Regio di Torino, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, the Cologne Opera House, the Neue Oper Wien or the Landestheater Linz, where she was an ensemble member from 2009 to 2016.
She has been able to demonstrate her acting talent in collaborations with renowned directors such as David Pountney, Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, Anthony Pilavachi, Amon Miyamato or Carlus Padrissa and La Fura dels Baus.
Career
Elisabeth Breuer studied voice at the University of Performing Arts in Graz with Elisabeth Batrice. In 2021 she graduated as a certified mental trainer.
For her ambitious work and her talent she has been awarded several prizes and distinctions. In the 2015/16 season, visitors to the Linz Music Theatre voted her the audience's favourite, for which she was awarded the Richard Tauber Medal. In 2014 she received the Young Ensemble Prize of the Friends of Linz Music Theatre and in 2013 she was nominated for the Austrian Music Theatre Prize for her performance of Constance (Dialogues des Carmélites).
Recordings
Recordings, such as the CD with Beethoven's Egmont released in 2019, which she recorded with the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra under Aapo Häkkinen for the Ondine label, the CD with songs by Beethoven, recorded with pianist Bernadette Bartos and released on Naxos in 2020, or the recording of Vivaldi's Serenata a tre with the Ensemble Modo Antiquo under Federico Maria Sardelli, released in September 2022 on Glossa, complete her artistic work.
