Nadine Weissmann - NOSPR

The German-British mezzo-soprano was born in Berlin and studied at the RAM and at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her engagement as Erda and Schwertleite in the 2013-2017 Castorf Ring Cycle at the Bayreuth Festival launched her onto the forefront of Wagnerian singers. Engagements have taken her to the Salzburg, Edinburgh, and Adelaide Festivals, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Bilbao, Paris, Marseille, Monte-Carlo, Tokyo, Seoul, Geneva, Amsterdam, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Baden-Baden, Weimar, and Helsinki. Her repertoire includes Carmen, Dalila, Ulrica, Mrs. Quickly, Herodias, Baba the Turk, Laura, Ježibaba, Federica, Old Lady, Duenna, and Geneviève. Concert repertoire includes Bernstein’s Jeremiah-Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mahler’s Symphonies No. 2 and No. 8, and Verdi’s Requiem. She has worked with conductors Michael Boder, Jesús López Cobos, Christoph Eschenbach, Ádám Fischer, Lawrence Foster, Marek Janowski, Kirill Karabits, Fabio Luisi, Lothar Koenigs, Kirill Petrenko, Donald Runnicles, and Christian Thielemann, in productions by Robert Carsen, Frank Castorf, Achim Freyer, Claus Guth, Barrie Kosky, Marco Arturo Marelli, and Olivier Py.