Elisabeth Kulman
Elisabeth Kulman is one of the world’s most sought-after singers. She inspires audiences and critics alike with her exquisite and colourful timbre, charismatic stage presence and musical versatility.
She studied at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna with Helena ?azarska, making her debut in 2001 as Pamina at the Volksoper and becoming a successful soprano. Since 2005 Elisabeth Kulman has sung leading mezzo-soprano and contralto roles and quickly became popular with the public, as well as developing an extensive repertoire, both as a member of the Ensemble of the Vienna State Opera and elsewhere. Her repertoire includes roles in a range of operas, from Gluck through Wagner and Verdi to Weill. Her orchestral repertoire includes the Bach Passions and Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, Dvo?ák’s Stabat Mater and Mahler’s orchestral songs, as well as Schnittke’s Faust cantata Seid nüchtern und wachet.
Since 2010 Elisabeth Kulman has been a freelance artist and is in much demand in major musical cities worldwide, including Vienna, Paris, London, Munich, Berlin, Tokyo, Salzburg and Moscow. She sings regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including Zubin Mehta, Kirill Petrenko, Christian Thielemann, Philippe Jordan, Herbert Blomstedt, Mariss Jansons, Kent Nagano and Marek Janowski. She also enjoyed a particularly close association with the late Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
Since 2015 Elisabeth Kulman has concentrated her artistic activity on recitals, working with her longstanding pianist Eduard Kutrowatz, as well as concert appearances and opera. She has a particular love of unconventional projects, such as Mussorgsky Dis-Covered with an international jazz quartet, Mahler lieder and Wer wagt mich zu höhnen? (Who dares to mock me?) with Ensemble Amarcord Wien and Hungaro Tune with a symphony orchestra and jazz soloists. Her new solo programme La Femme c’est moi presents music of various genres, from Carmen to the Beatles.
Current as of August 2018