Elizabeth Reiter
soprano
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The American soprano Elizabeth Reiter joined the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2013/14. She recently added roles to her repertoire including Amanda & Fiorella in new productions of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre & Offenbach's The Bandits, the title role & 1st Lady in new Carl Orff'sThe Clever Woman & Die Zauberflöte, her triumphant first Tatianas in Eugene Onegin and wonderful portrayal of Asteria in Tamerlano, which was followed by her moving and spirited portrayal of the Vixen. This season she sings Leonora and Leonore, in Nielsen's Masquerade and a new production of Dittersdorf's Doctor and Pharmacist and repeats her portrayals of the title role of Debussy's La Damoiselle élue and St. Margaret in Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher. During the 2025/26 season you can hear her as Despina and Agnés in new productions of Così fan tutte and George Benjamin's Written on Skin and she'll be thrilling audiences again as Fiorella in Offenbach's The Bandits and in the title role of Orff's The Clever Woman. Recent guest engagements have taken her to Den Norske Opera in Oslo, Stuttgart State Opera, Theater Dortmund, the Deutsch Oper am Rhein, Staatstheater in Kassel, Opera Memphis, the Chicago Opera Theatre, the Tirol Festival in Erl and she was invited back by Opera Philadelphia to sing Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. Other roles sung by this extremely versatile artist during her time in Frankfurt included Melissa in a new Amadigi, Frasquita in Carmen, 1st Witch in Dido and Aeneas, Armida (Rinaldo), Humperdinck's Gretel, Valencienne (Merry Widow), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Anne Trulove (Rake’s Progress), Renee / Alice in Neuwirth's Lost Highway, and a Walküre. Recent concert work has included Handel arias with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, orchestral songs by Joseph Marx and Erich Korngold with the Jenaer Philharmonie and Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. She trained at the Curtis Institute of Music.
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