Sibylla Rubens
Soprano Sibylla Rubens began in the 1990s to establish a career as a concert and Lieder singer, and, to a lesser extent, opera. She studied at the State Musikhochschule in the town of Trossingen and continued at the Hochschule for Music and Fine Arts in Frankfurt am Main. Her interests after graduation are evident from her continued studies: master classes in Lieder interpretation with Irwin Cage (a great Lieder accompanist and coach), other master classes with Edith Mathis (a great Lieder singer), and continuing studies since 1992 with another noted Lieder singer, Elsa Cavelti, in Basle, Switzerland.
Rubens has sung in festivals and concerts all over Europe. She sings the great oratorios and other full-scale works of the Baroque to Romantic era, including Bach cantatas and passions, Mozart masses, Magnificat, and Requiem, Handel's Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Haydn's Creation and Seasons, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Lobgesang, Schumann's Scenes from Faust, Brahms' German Requiem and Fauré's Requiem, and Mahler's Fourth Symphony. In addition, she has performed Alfred Schnittke's Requiem and in Denisov's arrangement of Schubert's Lazarus.
She works with both "original instruments" and standard orchestras and their conductors. These include such stars of the concert stage as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Helmuth Rilling, and the Stuttgart Bach Academy, the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe and the Chapelle Royale, Hartmut Haenchen, the NDR Symphony Orchestra of Hannover, the Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leopold Hager, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra under Michael Gielen, Herbert Blomstedt and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Frans Brüggen and the Orchestre de Paris, and Christopher Hogwood and the Beethoven Akademie.
Rubens is in demand for summer music festivals, and has been praised for her singing of the Mozart roles of Marcellina (Marriage of Figaro) and Pamina (The Magic Flute) at the Stuttgart State Opera. Beginning in April 2001 she began a tour series of Lieder evenings with bass Thomas Quasthoff.
Rubens records on the Hänssler Classics label, and also has appeared on the Harmonia Mundi, Erato, and Decca labels. Her discography includes cantatas, the B minor Mass, and the Christmas Oratorio of J.S. Bach, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem and Idomeneo, Schubert's E flat major Mass and Lazarus, and, with Quasthoff, Hugo Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch.
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Discography
17 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Bachkantate, BWV 51: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (Live)
Orchester der J.S. Bach-Stiftung, Rudolf Lutz, Sibylla Rubens
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by J. S. Bach-Stiftung on May 15, 2019
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Erwartung
Sibylla Rubens, Carl-Martin Buttgereit
Classical - Released by Kaleidos Musikeditionen on Sep 14, 2018
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Die Schöpfung (La Création)
Sibylla Rubens, Jan Kobow, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Tolz Boys' Choir, Cappella Coloniensis, Bruno Weil
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by Ars Produktion on Jul 5, 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Lieder à plusieurs voix (Volume 2)
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Naxos on Aug 3, 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Edition des Lieder (Intégrale, volume 26) : Poètes Romantiques (Volume 3)
Sibylla Rubens, Ulrich Eisenlohr , Nikolaus Friedrich
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Naxos on Apr 12, 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Raretés, fragments et versions alternatives
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Naxos on Mar 18, 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Requiem - Der Königssohn - Nachtlied
Classical - Released by SWR Classic on May 3, 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
MAHLER: Symphony No. 2 (Norrington)
Sibylla Rubens, Iris Vermillion, MDR Rundfunkchor - Risto Joost, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Roger Norrington
Classical - Released by SWR Classic on Jan 1, 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
MOZART / SCHUBERT / HUTTENBRENNER: Lieder
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by SWR Classic on Jan 1, 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
BACH, J.S.: Overture (Suite) No. 1 / HANDEL: Armida Abbandonata
Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Sibylla Rubens, Thomas Hengelbrock
Classical - Released by SWR Classic on Jan 1, 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Haydn: Jahreszeiten (Die) (The Seasons)
Classical - Released by Naxos on Mar 21, 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Mendelssohn, Felix: The Symphonies
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Claudia Mahnke, Christoph Poppen, Sibylla Rubens, Christoph Prégardien, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Classical - Released by Oehms Classics on May 27, 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Lieder à plusieurs voix (Volume 1)
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Naxos on Jun 1, 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (new version)
Sibylla Rubens, Renee Morloc, Markus Schäfer, Markus Eiche, Orchestre -Bach de Munich, Hansjorg Albrecht
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Oehms Classics on Oct 4, 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Lorenz Christoph Mizler: Lieder & Oden
Classical - Released by CPO on Aug 27, 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Lieder Edition (Volume 5)
Classical - Released by Naxos on Oct 28, 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo