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Sarah Wegener

The versatile Germay-based soprano Sarah Wegener performs opera, concert music, chamber music, art song, and contemporary music. In the latter field, she has had close creative relationships with several major German composers. Wegener is of German-British background. She studied the double bass at an unnamed institution. She took up that instrument after a music school headmaster asked her whether she wanted to hear what it sounded like and plucked a string. After a period of study, she experienced an episode in which she stayed at home for nine months, exhausted and making no music, until one day, she began singing. She enrolled at the Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart, studying with Bernhard Jaeger-Böhm and also taking the song interpretation class of Cornelis Witthoeft; lieder singing has made up a substantial portion of her concert activity ever since. Wegener took master classes with Renée Morloc and Dame Gwyneth Jones. In 2007, she took first prize at the International Max Reger Song Competition in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany. Wegener began working closely with composer Georg Friedrich Haas, premiering his song cycle ...wie stille brannte das Licht on WDR Cologne radio in 2009 and singing the lead role of Nadja in his opera Bluthaus in 2011. The latter earned a Singer of the Year nomination from the German magazine Opernwelt. Wegener went on to collaborate with other contemporary composers, including Jörg Widmann, but her repertory has remained eclectic. In 2012, she made her recording debut on the Carus label on an album of music by Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752-1817). As an opera singer, Wegener has appeared at such halls as the Royal Opera House in London, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, and the Tongyeong Festival in South Korea. She is especially devoted to orchestral song and other concert music and has worked with major conductors, including Kirill Petrenko, Kent Nagano, and Mariss Jansons, appearing at such top halls as the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and the Royal Festival Hall, London. She has recorded for the Carus label's children's lieder project and also promotes singing in old age. Wegener has recorded for Wergo, Neos, and Capriccio labels, where she was heard on a recording of Hans Werner Henze's opera Das Floß der Medusa in 2023.
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