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The German mezzo-soprano, Yvonne Berg, studied after music education and Roman studies in concert and opera singing with Professor Arthur Janzen at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and with Isabelle Guillaud at the Conservatoire C.N.S.M.D. in Paris. Following this, she completed her concert exam in the Lied Duo Master Class by Irwin Gage at the Hochschule Saarbrücken. Master-classes and studies with Ingeborg Danz, Ingeborg Hallstein, Franz Hawlata, René Kollo, Edda Moser, Gabriele Schnaut, Robert Schunk and Cheryl Studer complemented her training.
Yvonne Berg performs as a guest both in concert and in opera at home and abroad. So she was already repeatedly at the Philharmonie Essen and Philharmonie Köln, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Frauenkirche Dresden and Théâtre du Champs-Elysées Paris, among others. In addition to the roles of secular and sacred concert literature by J.S. Bach, L.v. Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, George Frideric Handel, Haydn and W.A. Mozart, she also devotes herself intensively to Lied singing. Her focus is on the classical-romantic repertoire as well as on unjusly neglected Lieder. She was also a member of the Dresdner Kammerchor (Director: Hans-Christoph Rademann)
Opera engagements have included roles as Isabella in Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri at the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen; at the Aalto Theater Essen as Diane in Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers; at the Barock- Festival Winter in Schwetzingen as Lucio in Antonio Vivaldi's Opera Tito Manlio; and as Ruggiero in the opera Alcina by G.F. Handel at the Bayreuther Osterfestival. In a Franco-German production with the Bayerischer Rundfunk, she performed the role of Nella in Puccini's opera Gianni Schicchi and repeatedly sang the Flower Girl in Richard Wagner's Parsifal at the Richard-Wagner-Festival in Wels / Austria.
After changing her voice from lyrical mezzo-soprano to youthful soprano, Yvonne Berg is currently engaged in opera roles such as W.A. Mozart's Donna Anna and Contessa Almaviva, Aida in Giuseppe Verdi's opera of the same name as well as roles of the German course Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, Agathe in Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber and Elsa in Lohengrin and Elisabeth in Tannhäuser.
CD and radio productions document her artistic range. |
