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Doris Soffel
Doris Soffel (born 12 May 1948, Hechingen, Germany) is a German mezzo-soprano.
Doris Soffel first played the violin, then switched to singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. She was member of the Stuttgart Opera ensemble from 1973 to 1982. Her international breakthrough was as Sesto in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito at the Royal Opera House, London in 1982. She sang Fricka in the Bayreuth Festival 1983 and was the only German coloratura mezzo with an international career, singing in works by Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini. She sang world premieres by contemporary composers like Aribert Reimann and Krysztof Penderecki and had performances worldwide of Gustav Mahler's vocal works. From 1994, more dramatic roles like Judith in Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlo and Amneris in his Aïda. Since 1999 she belongs to the most important interpreters of operas by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss (e.g. Ortrud, Kundry, Fricka, Herodias and Amme). In 2007 she sang the female principal part (Marfa) in the Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina in Munich. She appears on about 60 CDs and several DVDs.
Doris Soffel was awarded the title Kammersängerin and holds the Royal Swedish Order of Northern Star.
DorisSoffel (born 12 May 1948, Hechingen, Germany) is a German mezzo-soprano. DorisSoffel first played the violin, then switched to singing at the Hochschule...
adaptation Humphrey Burton Hermann Prey Kiri Te Kanawa Hildegard Heichele DorisSoffel Josef Meinrad 1986 West Germany Otto Schenk Eberhard Wächter Pamela Coburn...
of Mahler's Third Symphony at the Frankfurt Alte Oper, with soloist DorisSoffel, the women's choir of the Frankfurter Kantorei and the hr-Sinfonieorchester...
Kölner Rundfunk Chor Kölner Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Krisztina Laki DorisSoffel Robert Swensen Thomas Quasthoff Phoenix 1991 (1991) Roger Norrington...
German radio at the Semperoper in Dresden. Gerd Albrecht/Helen Donath/DorisSoffel/Werner Hollweg/Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Victor von Halem – 1985 – Koch...
Klaus Florian Vogt, John Daszak, Valery Alexeev, Anatoly Kotcherga, DorisSoffel Kent Nagano Bayerisches Staatsorchester Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper...
European Chamber Soloists (Brilliant Classics 82192) Fabio Luisi, with DorisSoffel and Wolfgang Muller-Lorenz, MDR Symphony Orchestra (Querstand VKJK0428)...
Adalbert Kraus, and Beethoven's Missa solemnis, with Sylvia Geszty, DorisSoffel, David Rendall, and the Collegium Aureum. Widmer was the narrator the...
Choir of the Staatsoper Stuttgart and Südfunk-Chor, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, DorisSoffel, Ryszard Karczykowski, Stafford Dean, conductor Mstislaw Rostropowitsch...
by the character tenor Robert Tear in the title role, mezzo-soprano DorisSoffel as Mother Ubu, soprano Pamela Coburn as Queen Rosamunde. It was not well...
Deutsche Grammophon 1980) – as Papageno Lortzing: Der Wildschütz, with DorisSoffel, Peter Schreier, Edith Mathis, Hans Sotin, Georgine Resick, Staatskapelle...
Orchestra and chorus Deutsche Grammophon 4776006 2005 Richard Decker, DorisSoffel, Wolfgang Schöne, Matthias Hölle, Mikolaj Zalasinski Gabor Ötvös Teatro...
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