Biography
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner is one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of our time. With her role portraits of Fricka (Rheingold/Walküre), her brilliant Kundry (Parsifal), her Klytämnestra (Elektra) and Amme (Die Frau ohne Schatten) and her spectacular Ortrud (Lohengrin), she has sung her way to the top of the dramatic mezzo-sopranos at the most important international houses and festivals.
The 2024/25 season starts for Tanja Ariane Baumgartner with her house debut at La Scala in Milan as Annina in Rosenkavalier conducted by Kirill Petrenko. She then returns to Geneva as Herodias (Salome). She makes a guest appearance at Tokyo Spring Festival as Kundry (Parsifal) and sings the alto in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. Ms. Baumgartner performs further concert engagements with Mahler's 8th Symphony under Philippe Jordan, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and with Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.
Highlights of recent seasons include Ortrud (Lohengrin), Fricka (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) and nurse (Die Frau ohne Schatten) at the Vienna State Opera, Mrs. Quickly (Falstaff), Countess Geschwitz (Lulu) and Charlotte (Die Soldaten) and Mother (Il prigioniero) at the Salzburg Festival, Brangäne and Leonore in the premiere of Glanerts Die Jüdin von Toledo at the Semperoper Dresden, Kundry (Parsifal) at the Grand Theatre de Genève, Venus (Tannhäuser) in Hamburg in the new production of Tcherniakov and at the Zurich Opera House, Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Mary (Der fliegende Holländer) and Clairon (Capriccio) at the Bavarian State Opera Munich, Carmen at Covent Garden, Judith (Bluebeard's Castle) at the Edinburgh Festival, Agaue (The Bassarids) at the Komische Oper Berlin, Kostelnicka (Jenufa) in Santiago de Chile, as well as their debut with Schoenberg's Expectation at WDR.
Who could have resisted the seductive charms of Tanja Ariane Baumgartner’s Tigrana? Her visual presence is combined with a wonderful musicality, her dark and warm shimmering, seamless mezzo-soprano – a magnificent voice
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner was part of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble from 2009 to 2020. Her successes there include the title role in Schöcks Penthesilea, Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Eboli (Don Carlo), Azucena (il Trovatore), Principessa de Bouillon (Adriana Lecouvreur), Clairon (Capriccio), Gaea in Daphne, Preziosilla, the Foreign Princess (Rusalka), Brangäne (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Gora in the German premiere of Reimanns Medea (released on CD by OehmsClassics), Jocasta (Oedipe) and Charlotte (Werther).
She has performed Mahler's Lied von der Erde at the Salzburg Festival and with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in Munich and Hamburg. She sang Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 under the baton of Sebastian Weigle in Tokyo, in Paris with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and at the Berlin Konzerthaus under Joana Mallwitz. She last sang Verdi's Requiem under Thomas Guggeis in Frankfurt. She performed Glanert's Paris Symphony with the Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam.