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The German-Greek soprano and musicologist, Miriam Alexandra [bourgeois Miriam-Alexandra Wigbers, née Müller], studied singing and school music at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe. In 2009, she was awarded 1st Prize in the international Handel competition in Göttingen (together with Koschitzki & Ritter)
In 2012 Miriam Alexandra could be heard as Belinda at the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich. She was engaged as a soloist at the Central Saxon Theater from 2013. She was heard there as Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, as Susanna in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, as Sophie in Richard Stauss' Rosenkavalier, as Lisa in Kálmán's Countess Mariza and Christel in Zeller's bird dealer. In the 2015-2016 season she sang the leading role of Mathilde in the opera Das Waldmädchen by Carl Maria von Weber, which was believed to be lost.
Miriam Alexandra became known to a wider public through the release of her debut CD "Deutsche Lieder" with German-language lieder settings by Pauline Viardot, which was released in 2017 in co-production with Deutschlandradio Kultur on the Oehms Classics label. In 2014 she received her PhD thesis on Pauline Viardot. phil. PhD. The CD was presented as “CD of the month” in the opera magazine Opernwelt. She is very interested in performance-related issues and prefers to work at the interface between theory and practice as well as women composers of the 19th century. In 2019 she released a CD with all of Clara Schumann's songs together with Peter Gijsbertsen and Jozef De Beenhouwer. |
