Kirchschlager bids farewell to the opera stage
Mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager uses a podcast from Zurich Opera House to bid farewell to the stage.
After more than thirty years on stage and a great international career, she has decided to retire from the stage. In future, she wants to devote herself entirely to her professorship for song, oratorio and concert at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts.
Sweeney Todd at Zurich Opera House is her farewell production. She talks about this and her signature role Octavian, her passion for song and her new, somewhat quieter life in Vienna in the Opera House podcast.
The mezzo-soprano began her musical training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and studied singing with Walter Berry and Gerhard Kahry at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna from 1984. In 2007 she was appointed Kammersängerin of the Vienna State Opera, and in 2009 she was made an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London. She devotes particular attention to lieder and concert singing.
Link to the podcast:
https://www.opernhaus.ch/backstage/zwischenspiel-ein-podcast-aus-dem-opernhaus-zuerich/folge-62/
