Hermine Haselböck

Hermine Haselböck (born 7 March 1967 in Melk, Lower Austria) is an Austrian mezzo-soprano in opera, concert and lied.

Career

After graduating from Stiftsgymnasium Melk[1] Haselböck studied with Rita Streich at the Vienna Music Academy and continued at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, with Ingeborg Ruß, finishing with diplomas for both performing and vocal education. She received further vocal training by Brigitte Fassbaender, Sena Jurinac, Marjana Lipovšek, Christa Ludwig and Eva Randová, and took master classes with Kurt Equiluz, Kurt Widmer and Edith Sélig-Papée.

Her operatic career began with the role of Mercedes in Carmen, when Nikolaus Harnoncourt discovered her for his production at styriarte in 2005. She performed Dorabella (Così fan tutte) at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and the Second Lady (The Magic Flute) at the Mozart Festival Reinsberg, the Theater an der Wien and the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg. 2006 she sang the role Frauenschatten in Erwin Schulhoff's Flammen. Two trouser roles followed, Hansel (Hansel and Gretel, Volksoper Wien) and Ramiro (La finta giardiniera, National Opera Tokyo and Bruckner Festival Linz). 2009 she first sang Magdalene (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), 2012 Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) and 2013 Azucena (Il Trovatore) at the Tyrolian Festival Erl and Gertrud/Mother, (Hansel and Gretel at the Graz Opera House. 2013 she debuted as Floßhilde (Rheingold) in the Sala Santa Cecilia in Rome and made 2014 her debut as Fricka in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at the Tyrolian Festival Erl, Austria. 2015 she performed Flosshilde in Das Rheingold with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under the conduct of Jaap van Zweden. In 2015, she was singing the role of Fricka at the first staged performance of Das Rheingold and Die Walküre in Beijing and Shanghai. In 2016 followed the role of the daughter in the Austrian premiere of Ella Milch-Sheriff's Baruchs Schweigen at the EntarteOpera Festival, Vienna.

Haselböck has collaborated with orchestras such as the Wiener Symphoniker, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Orchestre National de Lille, the RSO Vienna, the MDR Sinfonieorchester, the Hongkong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Residence Orchestra Den Haag, the Dresdner Philharmonie, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, and under conductors such as Bertrand de Billy, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Martin Haselböck, Manfred Honeck, Gustav Kuhn, Fabio Luisi, Kirill Petrenko, Martin Sieghart, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Christian Thielemann, Franz Welser-Möst, Jaap van Zweden.

Symphonic and lieder repertoire plays an important role, performed in the Brucknerhaus Linz, Carnegie Hall, Frauenkirche in Dresden, Gewandhaus, Konzerthaus Vienna, Mozarteum Salzburg, Musikverein Vienna, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and Teatro San Carlo Naples. Her repertoire includes the major works by Bach, Haydn, Händel, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Mahler, Mozart, Schubert, Zemlinsky (Maeterlinck Songs), Wagner (Wesendoncklieder) and Verdi (Requiem).

Haselböck has long been active in vocal pedagogy. She taught voice at the Richard Wagner Conservatory in Vienna and has been Guest Professor of Voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz since 2017. In 2020, she expanded her teaching activities to include the Johann Joseph Fux Conservatory in Graz. From 2022 to 2024, she was Professor of Voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW). Since 2025, she has been a Full Professor of Voice and Head of the Voice Department at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG). Her pedagogical work is further distinguished by her service on juries at international competitions and her leadership of masterclasses.

Awards

In 2005, Haselböck was awarded for her debut CD "Songs by Zemlinsky" the International Zemlinsky Award at the Musikverein Vienna[2] and the Pasticcio Prize of the Austrian classical radio station.[3]

In 2014, Haselböck's CD recording of Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kindertotenlieder, Rückert Lieder, Russell Ryan, piano, 2011: bridge records 9341 received the Supersonic award of the magazine Pizzicato, Luxemburg.[4]

Discography

References

  1. ^ "Hermine Haselböck – CV at medeaproductions.com". Retrieved 7 April 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ^ "fonds & preis". zemlinsky.at (in German). Retrieved 6 March 2026.
  3. ^ "Hermine Haselböck". Kunstuniversität Graz. Retrieved 6 March 2026.
  4. ^ Franck, Rémy (26 July 2014). "Eine geborene Mahler-Interpretin". Pizzicato (in French). Retrieved 6 March 2026.

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