Lioba Braun was born on 4 September 1957 and is a German opera singer and academic teacher at the Hochschule fur Musik und Tanz Koln and the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Munchen.
14 Facts About Lioba Braun
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Lioba Braun became internationally known appearing as Brangane at the Bayreuth Festival in 1994, and performed the soprano part of Isolde on stage first in 2012.
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Lioba Braun's voice was discovered when she was age 27, by voice teacher Lotte Lehmann who then trained her.
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Lioba Braun worked at theatres such as Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Volksoper in Vienna and Vienna State Opera.
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Lioba Braun was noticed internationally when she appeared at the 1994 Bayreuth Festival as Brangane in Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
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Lioba Braun performed there Waltraute, Siegrune and the second Norne in Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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Lioba Braun sang at La Scala, Teatro Real Madrid, Liceu in Barcelona, in Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart, Zurich, Rome and Los Angeles.
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Lioba Braun performed the part first on stage at the Nurnberg Opera in 2012, conducted by Marcus Bosch.
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Lioba Braun appeared as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier by Strauss.
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Lioba Braun has collaborated with conductors Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-whun Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Simon Rattle, and Giuseppe Sinopoli.
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Lioba Braun has been a professor of voice at the Hochschule fur Musik und Tanz Koln and the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Munchen from 2010.
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Lioba Braun was in 1995 the first soloist to record Reger's Die Weihe der Nacht, with the Bamberg Symphony and Choir conducted by Horst Stein.
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Lioba Braun's recordings have further included Lioba Braun singt Wagner, conducted by Peter Schneider in 2005, Mozart's Requiem, conducted by Christian Thielemann in 2006, the Alto Rhapsody by Johannes Brahms, conducted by Helmuth Rilling in 2006, and Mahlers Second and Eighth Symphonie conducted by Jonathan Nott in 2009 respectively 2011.
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Lioba Braun achieved a prize in the German national competition Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in 1986.