Wiebke Lehmkuhl was born on 1983 and is a German contralto in opera and concert who has appeared at international leading opera houses and festivals, including as Wagner's Magdalene at the Bayreuth Festival, as Erda in Paris, and as Annina at the Salzburg Festival.
11 Facts About Wiebke Lehmkuhl
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Wiebke Lehmkuhl was the alto soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the 2017 opening of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
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Wiebke Lehmkuhl appeared there in Schonberg's Moses und Aron, as the voice from above in Wagner's Parsifal, as La voix de la mere in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, as Erda in Wagner's Das Rheingold, Annina in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, and in Vivaldi's La verita in cimento, conducted by Ottavio Dantone.
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Wiebke Lehmkuhl gave guest performances, such as Third Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflote in 2011 at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg conducted by Rene Jacobs, and made her debut at the Salzburg Festival with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in 2012 in the same role, which she performed at the Paris Opera in 2014.
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In 2013, Wiebke Lehmkuhl returned to Salzburg for a concert performance of Szenen aus dem Leben der Heiligen Johanna by Walter Braunfels, and appeared as Annina in 2014 in a highly acclaimed Rosenkavalier production by Harry Kupfer with Franz Welser-Most conducting.
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Wiebke Lehmkuhl appeared at the Festival Re Majeure, where she made her role debut as Gluck's Orfeo, conducted by Marc Minkowski.
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Wiebke Lehmkuhl performed at festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Klassik am See, the Lucerne Festival and the festival La Folle Journee in Nantes, and in halls such as the Wiener Musikverein and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, with the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich and the Bamberger Symphoniker.
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Wiebke Lehmkuhl has worked with conductors such as Daniele Gatti, Reinhard Goebel, Frans Bruggen, Andreas Spering and Riccardo Chailly.
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Wiebke Lehmkuhl appeared in the 2017 opening concert of the Elbphilharmonie in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock.
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Wiebke Lehmkuhl recorded Bach's Christmas Oratorio in 2009 with the Rheinische Kantorei, the Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max.
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Wiebke Lehmkuhl performed Bach's St Matthew Passion in Vienna with Jordan.