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Teresa Seidl
Soprano
Throughout Europe, Teresa Seidl's performances have met with audience and critical acclaim. Of a "Magic Flute" performance with the Frankfut Opera, The Financial Times reported: "A Pamina of rich noble tone and faultless voice production, 'Ach ich fühl"s was outstanding." Opern Welt printed "Teresa Seidl sang ideally. Her voice possesses a necessary silvery sheen; she is above all convincing with her floating piano and lyrical cantilena."
In November, at a memorial concert for Yehudi Menuhin Ms. Seidl sang Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in the presence of HRH Prince Charles at the Royal Albert Hall in London with Mirolsav Rostropich conducting. Later this year the same work was repeated in San Jose, California. Other engagements Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in Santa Barbara and the Mozart Requiem and Coronation Mass at the renowned Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland.
In 1999 Ms. Seidl performed the Coronation Mass under the baton of Michel Plasson in Toulouse, France and the Mozart Requiem in Paris with Tomas Vasary. Both concerts were memorials for Yehudi Menuhin who was scheduled to conduct them. Hampton Court, London was the setting for an operetta gala featuring Ms. Seidl and was followed by a summer concert tour of Rossini's Stabat Mater. In 1998 Ms. Seidl performed the Beethoven Ninth Symphony for the opening of the European Commission in The Hague under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin. Other performances included Haydn's Creation at the Rheingau Festival in Wiesbaden, Germany and a nationally televised broadcast at the Dubrovnik Festival in Croatia. She toured Brazil, Argentina and South Africa with a Viennese Operetta Gala including a sold out performance at the famed Teatro Colon in Buenos Aries. The year was closed with a New Year's gala in the Düsseldorf Ton Halle, Gernany.
Other career highlights include a semi-staged version of Lehar's Merry Widow with Yehudi Menuhin conducting his farewell performance at his famed Alpenfest in Switzerland. She returned to the concert stage numerous times with Maestro Menuhin to perform such works as Beethoven's Ninth (Strasbourg, France, Madrid, Spain and Stuttgart, Germany) Handel's Messiah (Hannover, Germany, Thessoliniki, Greece and the opening of the Jules Verne Auditorium at Expo '98 in Lisbon, Portugal). Schubert's Masses in G and A-flat were performed and recorded in Lithuania and Germany.
As a principal singer with the Bremen Opera company, Ms. Seidl sang over twenty roles in the lyric soprano repertoire including Micaela, Anne Truelove, Rosalinde and Donna Anna. With Peter Schneider she has sung Sophie (der Rosenkavalier),one of her most celebrated roles. She has guested extensively with the opera companies in Düsseldorf, Hamburg,Berlin,Hannover, Karlsruhe, Braunswchweig, Kiel, Leipzig (performingUdo Zimmerman's contemporary piece "Pax Questuosa") and Frankfurt where she debuted with Pamina (Magic Flute).
An accomplished concert singer, Ms. Seidl has performed Haydn's Creation with Berlin Radio Symphony, the BBC and Cracow Philharmonic, the Brahm's Requiem with the Bamberger Symphony and numerous performances with the Hamburg Symphony including Mendelssohn's Elijah and Dvorak's Stabat Mater. Ms. Seidl made her Carnegie Hall debut with Mendelssohn's Hyme of Praise and Mozart's Requiem. CD's include Haydn's Creation, Schubert's Masses in G and A-flat, a musical review entitled "1924", George Reutter's Symphony Nr.2, and "a Christmas concert" with "musica viva".
Ms. Seidl's touring for American Voices has included projects in Beirut and Tokyo.
Press Quotes:
"An unqualified welcome, too, for Teresa Seidl, a Pamina of rich noble tone and faultless voice production."
The Financial Times
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