Mihoko Fujimura is a Japanese operatic mezzo-soprano who made an international career based in Europe.
11 Facts About Mihoko Fujimura
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Mihoko Fujimura was recognized internationally after her 2002 debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Fricka in Wagner's Ring cycle.
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Mihoko Fujimura was a member of the Oper Graz from 1995 to 2000, appearing in roles such as Dorabella in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Azucena in Il trovatore, the title role of Bizet's Carmen, and Suzuki in Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
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Mihoko Fujimura sang as a guest at the Cologne Opera, Staatsoper Karlsruhe, Staatsoper Stuttgart from 2000, Oper Leipzig from 2001, and internationally at the New National Theatre Tokyo, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
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Mihoko Fujimura made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2002, as Fricka in Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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Mihoko Fujimura added the roles of Waltraute and Erda in the Ring there, Brangane, and Kundry in Parsifal in 2008.
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Mihoko Fujimura has been a regular guest at the Royal Opera House in London, La Scala in Milan, the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
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Mihoko Fujimura is active in concert, lied and oratorio, in a repertoire including Verdi's Requiem, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, Ruckert-Lieder, and Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder, and Schonberg's Gurre-Lieder.
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Mihoko Fujimura has worked with orchestras including the Munchner Philharmoniker, the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Rome, Orchestre de Paris, the Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the Bamberger Symphoniker.
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Mihoko Fujimura has collaborated with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Semyon Bychkov, Myung-whun Chung, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Adam Fischer, Daniele Gatti, Michael Gielen, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding, Mariss Jansons, Fabio Luisi, Kurt Masur, Kent Nagano, Jonathan Nott, Donald Runnicles, Peter Schneider, Christian Thielemann and Franz Welser-Most.
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Mihoko Fujimura performed Fricka on a live recording of Die Walkure at the Bavarian State Opera in 2002, conducted by Zubin Mehta.