{"id":13600,"date":"2025-01-26T09:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T09:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/?p=13600"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:11:57","slug":"bio-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/en\/bio-en\/","title":{"rendered":"BIO EN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5992 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-533x800.jpg\" alt width=\"533\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-1000x1500.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-373x560.jpg 373w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-1200x1800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\"><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5992 alignright lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20533%20800%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"533\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20533%20800%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-1000x1500.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-373x560.jpg 373w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-1200x1800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743.jpg 1365w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/DSC2743-533x800.jpg\">The Ukrainian-German soprano Kateryna Kasper i<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">s distinguished by her stylistic versatility in opera, oratorio, and song. She regularly performs at leading opera houses, concert halls, and festivals worldwide, and is known for her nuanced interpretations and expressive range.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 16px;\">Recent highlights include acclaimed debuts as M\u00e9lisande in <b>Debussy\u2019s Pell\u00e9as et M\u00e9lisande<\/b> (her UK operatic debut) at the <strong>Longborough Festival Opera<\/strong>, directed by Jenny Ogilvie and conducted by Anthony Negus, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque;\">as Elettra in <strong>Mozart\u2019s Idomeneo <\/strong>with the Freiburger Barockorchester at <strong>Teatro Real<\/strong> in <strong>Madrid<\/strong>, <strong>Liceu<\/strong> in <strong>Barcelona<\/strong>, and at the <strong>Elbphilharmonie<\/strong>. She also performed as Piacere in <strong>Handel\u2019s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno<\/strong> with the B&#8217;Rock Orchestra under Ren\u00e9 Jacobs at the <strong>Tongyeong International Music Festival<\/strong>, the <strong>Seoul Arts Center<\/strong>, and <strong>Tokyo Opera City<\/strong>. At the <strong>Staatsoper Berlin<\/strong>, she appeared as Kaiserin Arianna in <strong>Vivaldi\u2019s Il Giustino<\/strong> as well as Mica\u00ebla in <strong>Bizet\u2019s Carmen <\/strong>at the <strong>Oper Frankfurt<\/strong>. Further engagements brought her to the <strong>Salzburger Festspiele<\/strong> as Soprano I in <strong>Mozart\u2019s Mass in C minor<\/strong>. She also sang <strong>Mahler\u2019s Resurrection Symphony <\/strong>at the<strong> Gstaad Menuhin Festival<\/strong>&nbsp;under the direction of Jaap van Zweden.<br><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 16px;\">Over the past two seasons, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque;\"> Kasper performed the role of Isacco in <strong>Myslive\u010dek\u2019s<\/strong> impressive <strong>Abramo ed Isacco<\/strong> with Collegium 1704 under V\u00e1clav Luks at the <strong>Rudolfinum<\/strong> in <strong>Prague<\/strong> and the <strong>Concertgebouw<\/strong> in<strong> Amsterdam<\/strong>.<br>She recently made her <strong>Canadian debut<\/strong> with <strong>Handel\u2019s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo<\/strong> with the Arion Baroque Orchestra in <strong>Montr\u00e9al<\/strong>, followed by performances with the Kammerorchester Basel in <b>Basel <\/b>and <b>Vienna<\/b>.<br>Her oratorio work includes an extensive tour with <strong>Bach\u2019s St. Matthew Passion <\/strong>with the Freiburger Barockorchester under Francesco Corti through <strong>Europe and South Korea,<\/strong> <strong>Bach\u2019s Christmas Oratorio<\/strong> at the <strong>Wiener Konzerthaus<\/strong> with the Wiener Symphoniker and in the <strong>Isarphilharmonie<\/strong> in Munich under Patrick Hahn, <strong>Haydn\u2019s Creation<\/strong> at the <strong>Tonhalle Z\u00fcrich<\/strong>, and <b>The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross<\/b> with the RIAS Kammerchor at the <strong>Konzerthaus Berlin<\/strong>, which will be released on CD.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6227\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6227\" src=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-800x533.jpg\" alt width=\"558\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-840x560.jpg 840w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6227 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20558%20372%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"558\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20558%20372%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-840x560.jpg 840w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/221117_33121-scaled-1-800x533.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 10px;\">\u00a9Martin Mu\u0308ller<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 19px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque; color: #000000;\">Upcoming Season<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 16px;\">This season<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 16px;\">, the singer has numerous important operatic and concert engagements planned. She will make two significant role debuts: as Cleopatra in <strong>Handel\u2019s Giulio Cesare<\/strong>, returning to her home opera house, and as Donna Anna in <strong>Mozart\u2019s Don Giovanni <\/strong>at the <strong>Vlaamse Opera<\/strong> in Antwerp and Ghent. She will also once again perform as Arianna in <strong>Vivaldi\u2019s Il Giustino <\/strong>with the Freiburger Barockorchester under Ren\u00e9 Jacobs on tour, with stops in Valencia, at the <strong>Teatro Real Madrid<\/strong>, the <strong>Konzerthaus Freiburg<\/strong>, at the <strong>Musikfestival Heidelberger Fr\u00fchling<\/strong>, and at <strong>DeSingel<\/strong> in Antwerp. In <strong>Handel\u2019s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo<\/strong>, she will take on the role of Aci at the <strong>H\u00e4ndel-Festspiele in Halle<\/strong> as well as in Barcelona and Seville. Further concerts include <strong>Brahms\u2019 German Requiem<\/strong> with the Bochumer Symphoniker and <strong>Bach\u2019s St. John Passion<\/strong> with the Orquesta Filarm\u00f3nica de Gran Canaria under the direction of Karel Mark Chichon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 19px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque; color: #000000;\">Opera Engagements<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16268 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ascanio_in_alba_111-e1754771419661-596x800.jpg\" alt width=\"543\" height=\"729\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16268 alignleft lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20543%20729%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"543\" height=\"729\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ascanio_in_alba_111-e1754771419661-596x800.jpg\"><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 10px;\">(c) Monika Rittershaus<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 16px;\">From 2014 to 2024, Kasper was a member of the ensemble at her home opera house, <b>Oper Frankfurt<\/b>, where she embodied a wide range of roles spanning from Baroque to contemporary opera. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque;\">These included Anima in <strong>Cavalieri\u2019s Rappresentazione di anima e di corpo<\/strong>, Giacinta in <strong>Cesti\u2019s L\u2019Orontea<\/strong>, Romilda, Oriana, Angelica, and Tigrane in <strong>Handel\u2019s Xerxes, Amadigi, Orlando<\/strong>, and<strong> Radamisto<\/strong><b>;<\/b><b> <\/b>Angelica in <strong>Vivaldi\u2019s Orlando furioso<\/strong><b>;<\/b><b> <\/b>Susanna, Pamina, Zerlina, Venus in<b> <\/b><b>Mozart\u2019s <\/b><strong>Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberfl\u00f6te, Don Giovanni, Ascanio in Alba;<\/strong> Antonida in <strong>Glinka\u2019s Ivan Susanin<\/strong>; the title role in <strong>Flotow\u2019s Martha<\/strong>; Gretel in <strong>Humperdinck\u2019s H\u00e4nsel und Gretel<\/strong>; Nannetta in <strong>Verdi\u2019s Falstaff<\/strong>; Sophie in <strong>Strauss\u2019 Der Rosenkavalier<\/strong>; Titania in <strong>Britten\u2019s A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/strong>, and the Young Woman in the world premiere of <b>Der Goldene Drache <\/b>&#8211; a role written for her by <b>P\u00e9ter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s<\/b> and presented in co-production with <strong>Ensemble Modern<\/strong>. She has also performed operetta roles such as Countess Anastasia in <strong>K\u00e1lm\u00e1n\u2019s Die Cs\u00e1rd\u00e1sf\u00fcrstin <\/strong>and Valencienne in <strong>Leh\u00e1r\u2019s Die lustige Witwe.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 16px;\">Operatic engagements have taken Kateryna Kasper&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque;\">to the festivals in <strong>Edinburgh<\/strong>, <strong>Bregenz<\/strong>, <strong>Bergen<\/strong>, and <strong>St. Margarethen<\/strong>, as well as to the <strong>Los Angeles Opera<\/strong>, the <strong>Staatsoper Berlin <\/strong>and the <strong>Nationaltheater Mannheim.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque;\">On a <strong>European tour<\/strong> with the B&#8217;Rock Orchestra under Ren\u00e9 Jacobs, she performed the role of Orasia in <strong>Telemann\u2019s Orpheus<\/strong>, with performances at the <strong>Liceu&nbsp;in Barcelona<\/strong> and the <strong>Concertgebouw<\/strong> <strong>in Amsterdam.<noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16498 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-640x800.png\" alt width=\"537\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-640x800.png 640w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-10x12.png 10w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-19x24.png 19w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-1000x1250.png 1000w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-448x560.png 448w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-600x750.png 600w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\"><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16498 alignright lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20537%20671%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"537\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20537%20671%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 537w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-640x800.png 640w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-10x12.png 10w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-19x24.png 19w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-1000x1250.png 1000w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-448x560.png 448w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-600x750.png 600w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4.png 1080w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-640x800.png\"><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 19px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque; color: #000000;\">Concert and Lieder<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Kateryna Kasper has a wide-ranging concert repertoire from Bach\u2019s oratorios and passions to Mahler\u2019s symphonies, and from Haydn and Mozart to Brahms, Mendelssohn, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, Poulenc, and Henze. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">She has collaborated with many leading orchestras and ensembles, including <strong>AKAMUS, Collegium 1704, Ensemble Modern, Holland Baroque, <\/strong><strong>Konzerthausorchester Berlin<\/strong>, <strong>London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquestra Gulbenkian Lisbon, Orquestra Sinf\u00f3nica do Porto,<\/strong> and <strong>Turku Philharmonic Orchestra<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"428\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 16px;\">She has appeared at the <strong data-start=\"194\" data-end=\"217\">Bachwoche Stuttgart<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"223\" data-end=\"245\">Grafenegg Festival<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"251\" data-end=\"295\">H\u00e4ndel-Festspiele in Halle and Karlsruhe<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"301\" data-end=\"338\">Klangvokal Musikfestival Dortmund<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"344\" data-end=\"375\">Telemann Festival Magdeburg<\/strong>, and the <strong data-start=\"385\" data-end=\"427\">Tongyeong International Music Festival<\/strong>. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 16px;\">Concert appearances have taken her to renowned venues such as the <strong data-start=\"500\" data-end=\"523\">Alte Oper Frankfurt<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"529\" data-end=\"556\">Elbphilharmonie Hamburg<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"562\" data-end=\"608\">Philharmonie in Cologne, Moscow, and Paris<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"614\" data-end=\"635\">Seoul Arts Center<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"641\" data-end=\"680\">Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-Elys\u00e9es in Paris<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"686\" data-end=\"706\">Tokyo Opera City<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Brandon Grotesque; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">She devotes herself to art song with great passion, focusing on German and Ukrainian Romantic repertoire. Together with pianist Dmitry Ablogin, she recorded an <b>album of songs by the Mendelssohn siblings<\/b>, including several world premiere recordings of Fanny Hensel.<noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15517 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894-800x766.jpg\" alt width=\"581\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894-800x766.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894-768x735.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894-13x12.jpg 13w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894-585x560.jpg 585w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894-600x574.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894.jpg 888w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\"><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15517 alignright lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20581%20557%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"581\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20581%20557%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 581w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894-800x766.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894-768x735.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894-13x12.jpg 13w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894-585x560.jpg 585w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894-600x574.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894.jpg 888w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/266311587_10165813575085181_2104344325355061329_n-e1756211082894-800x766.jpg\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque; color: #000000;\"><strong>Collaborations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque; color: #000000;\">She has been working with <strong>conductors <\/strong>such as Ivor Bolton, Roland B\u00f6er, Hubert Buchberger, Constantinos Carydis, Bjarte Eike, Simone di Felice, Bernhard Forck, Michael Form, Howard Griffiths, Patrick Hahn, James Hendry, Michael Hofstetter, Karsten Januschke, Julia Jones, Hartmut Keil, Eun Sun Kim, V\u00e1clav Luks, Giuseppe Mentuccia, Fausto Nardi, Geoffrey Paterson, Rapha\u00ebl Pichon, Christoph Poppen, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Helmuth Rilling, Michael Schneider, Steven Sloane, Andreas Spering, Nathalie Stutzmann, Constantin Trinks, Felice Venanzoni, Sebastian Weigle, Sebastian Zierer, Jaap van Zweden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque; color: #000000;\">Equally fruitful collaborations she enjoyed with <strong>stage directors <\/strong>such as Andrea Bernard, Nina Brazier, Brigitte Fassbaender, Barbora Hor\u00e1kov\u00e1, Claus Guth, Ted Huffman, Netia Jones, Dorothea Kirschbaum, Barrie Kosky, Tilmann K\u00f6hler, Harry Kupfer, Jim Lucassen, Hendrik M\u00fcller, Jenny Ogilvie, Cornelius Obonya, Carolin Pienkos, Hans Walter Richter, Victoria Stevens, Elisabeth St\u00f6ppler, and Walter Sutcliffe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque; color: #000000;\">Special musical relationships connect her with the conductor Ren\u00e9 Jacobs and her chamber music partners, the Frankfurt ensemble <strong>th\u00e9\u00e2tre sans rideau<\/strong>, <strong>Trio Vivente<\/strong> (Kristin von der Goltz, Anne Katharina Schreiber, Jutta Ernst), the <strong>Eliot Quartet<\/strong>, and pianists Dmitry Ablogin, Hilko Dumno, Marcelo Amaral, Tobias Truniger and Lars J\u00f6nsson.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 19px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque; color: #000000;\">Discography<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque; color: #000000;\">Kasper\u2019s <strong>debut album \u2018O w\u00fc\u00dft ich doch den Weg zur\u00fcck \u2026\u2019<\/strong> (Ah! If I but Knew the Way Back &#8230;) features romantic songs about childhood and fairy tales, recorded with Hilko Dumno on the historic Steinway of Richard Wagner in <strong>Bayreuth<\/strong>. In 2022, she released recordings of <strong>Shostakovich and Weinberg cycles<\/strong> with <strong>Trio Vivente<\/strong>, <strong>Weber&#8217;s Freisch\u00fctz<\/strong> with the <strong>Freiburg Baroque Orchestra<\/strong> under Ren\u00e9 Jacobs (awarded the <strong>Opus Klassik<\/strong>), and her second <strong>lieder album \u2018Ein s\u00fc\u00dfes Deingedenken\u2019 (A Tender Memory of Thee)<\/strong>, featuring <strong>songs by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn <\/strong>with Dmitry Ablogin playing on a historic fortepiano from 1835.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 19px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque; color: #000000;\">Education and Awards<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Brandon Grotesque; color: #000000;\">Kasper studied&nbsp;with Raisa Kolesnik at the <b>Prokofiev Music Academy<\/b> in<b> Donetsk<\/b>,<b> Ukraine<\/b>, and subsequently in <b>Nuremberg<\/b> with Edith Wiens and in <b>Frankfurt <\/b>with Hedwig Fassbender, supported by a <b>DAAD scholarship<\/b>. She won the prestigious <strong>Mirjam-Helin International Singing Competition in Helsinki in 2014<\/strong>, preceded by prizes at the<strong> IVC \u2019s-Hertogenbosch<\/strong> (2010) and <strong>The Queen Sonja International Music Competition in Oslo<\/strong> (2011).<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8606\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8606\" src=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-533x800.jpg\" alt width=\"514\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-2000x3000.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-1000x1500.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-1800x2700.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\"><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8606 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20514%20771%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"514\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20514%20771%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-2000x3000.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-1000x1500.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-1800x2700.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-scaled.jpg 1707w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC2510-7-533x800.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">\u00a9Andreas Kasper<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian-German soprano Kateryna Kasper is distinguished by her stylistic versatility in opera, oratorio, and song. She regularly performs at leading opera houses, concert halls, and festivals worldwide, and is known for her nuanced interpretations and expressive range. Recent highlights include acclaimed debuts as M\u00e9lisande in Debussy\u2019s Pell\u00e9as et M\u00e9lisande (her UK operatic debut) at the Longborough Festival Opera, directed by Jenny Ogilvie and conducted by Anthony Negus, as Elettra in Mozart\u2019s Idomeneo with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contents"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13600"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17012,"href":"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13600\/revisions\/17012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk26.dieservices.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}