Ida Aldrian
Guest of the OperaBiography
The Austrian mezzo-soprano Ida Aldrian was born in Bruck an der Mur. She studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Leopold Spitzer and Karlheinz (Opera and Musical Drama) and Marjana Lipovšek (Lied and Oratorio) and attended master classes with Ann Murray, Bernarda Fink, Peter Kooij, Thomas Hampson and Brigitte Fassbaender, among others. Since 2019/2020 she has been a permanent member of the State Opera Hamburg, where she can be heard this season in roles such as Maddalena (Rigoletto), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Lola (Cavalleria rusticana) and Mercédès (Carmen). Equally devoted to the concert stage, Ida Aldrian has worked with numerous European ensembles such as the Concentus Musicus Wien, L'Orfeo Barockorchester and Orchester Wiener Akademie, among others. Key highlights of her concert career to date have included a New Year's Eve matinee with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano and a concert tour of the Balthasar Neumann Choir & Orchestra led by Thomas Hengelbrock. At the Vienna Musikverein she sang as soloist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion and St John Passion, furthermore she performed in Mendels-sohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Wiener Symphoniker under Fabio Luisi. She gave guest performances with Concerto Köln as Wellgunde in Das Rheingold under the baton of Kent Nagano in Cologne, Amsterdam, Lucerne, at the Ravello Festival and the Dresden Music Festival. As an artist with a particular devotion to Lied singing, Ida Aldrian has appeared at numerous venues including the Vienna and Graz Musikverein.