The leading soprano of the Dresden State Opera, German soprano UTE
SELBIG has achieved international renown for her radiant voice, superb musicianship and dramatic conviction. Her
North American career includes concerts with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago, Saint Louis, Milwaukee and Indianapolis Symphonies;
and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; and an acclaimed recital at Boston's Gardner Museum. Collaborations with Gerard Schwarz
include debuts at the Seattle Opera (Ännchen in Der Freischütz), AMostly Mozart@ Festival (Mozart Requiem
telecast ALive from Lincoln Center,@ and Seattle Symphony (Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri). Among recent highlights
were her first-ever Agathe in Weber's Der Freischütz, Christof Perick conducting the Charlotte Symphony, Marzelline
in Beethoven's Fidelio at the San Diego Opera, Tippett's A Child of Our Time, the Brahms and Mozart Requiems
in Dresden; Bach's St. Matthew Passion in Rome, Japan and Leipzig, and Bach's Magnificat in Florence.
In opera, Ms. Selbig is an especially celebrated Mozart interpreter, her roles
including Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Ilia
(Idomeneo) and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), enjoying particular success in many of these roles at the San
Diego Opera. In addition she scored tremendous successes as Zdenka in Strauss' Arabella at the Grand Théâtre de Genève,
and in the title role of Puccini's Suor Angelica in Dresden. In the 2004-2005 season she made her Canadian debut,
performing Fiordiligi with the Vancouver Opera, earning unanimous critical acclaim.
An equally accomplished concert soloist, Ms. Selbig's repertoire includes
the great Bach Masses, Cantatas, Oratorios and Passions; Mendelssohn's Elijah and Lobgesang Symphony;
Beethoven's Mass in C and Ninth Symphony; the Brahms, Dvocák, Fauré and Mozart Requiems, Haydns
Die Schöpfung, and Mahler's Fourth Symphony. She regularly appears with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Dresden
Staatskapelle and Turin Radio Orchestras; Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National
de France and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Sir Colin Davis, Edoardo Müller, Peter Schreier, Peter Schneider and Franz Welser-Möst
are among the distinguished conductors with whom she collaborates. In addition she has been welcomed at the Salzburg, Luzern
and Ludwigsburg Festivals.
Ms. Selbig's awards and distinctions include the Christel-Goltz-Preis for
her consistently outstanding contributions to the Dresden State Opera; and First Prize in Leipzig's International Johann-Sebastian-Bach
Competition. In 1999 she was made a Kammersängerin, the highest honor a singer can receive in Germany and Austria.
