Annette Schönmüller
mezzo-soprano
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The wonderful mezzo-soprano Annette Schönmüller is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she made her debut as a Siren in the 2014 world premiere of Rolf Rihm's Sirens, returning for Circe & Melantho in Dallapiccola's Ulisse (a last minute jump-in) and the Kurfürstin in the recent new production of Henze's The Prince of Homburg, to sing the Mother-in-Law in this new production of Fortner's Bluthochzeit / Blood Wedding. She enjoyed a triumph with the Woman (role debut) in Luigi Nono's Intolleranza at Oper Wuppertal in 2021 which was preceded by Fabián Panisello's monodrama Les Rois Mages at the New Opera in Vienna. This versatile artist's recent engagements have taken her to places including the Theater an der Wien (Peter Maxwell Davies' The Medium), Zurich Opera, the Komische Oper Berlin, Staatstheater in Darmstadt, Oper Wuppertal, the Munich Biennale, the Konzerhaus in Berlin and Vienna, the Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Wien Modern and Salzburg Biennale festivals. She made her debut at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart in 2023/24 in Die Frau ohne Schatten and enjoyed great success with Ophelia in Wolfgang Rihm's Die Hamletmaschine at the Staatstheater in Kassel. She performed at Theater Basel and the Festspielhaus in Baden Baden for the first time in 2025, in Eggert's Football Oratorio and Boulez's Le marteau sans maitre. She appeared in Heinz Holliger's Lunea at Zurich Opera - »World Premiere of the Year 2018« (Opernwelt) (the CD of which won an »Opus Klassik« and International Classical Music Award in 2023). Her discography includes the opera Paradise reloaded (Lilith) - Peter Eötvös wrote the lead role for her voice.