Christiane Karg
Christiane Karg is one of Germany's most active and versatile sopranos, with a large repertory stretching from the Baroque to contemporary music. Karg has appeared widely around Europe and beyond in opera, concert and choral music, and song recitals.
Karg was born in Feuchtwangen in central Bavaria, West Germany, on August 6, 1980. Showing musical talent early, Karg took lessons on piano and flute as a child but switched to singing at age 14 after attending opera performances. She won Bavarian and German federal prizes as a teen and was admitted to the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where she studied voice with Heiner Hopfner and lieder singing with Wolfgang Holzmair. Karg moved on to the Verona Conservatory in Italy, studying Italian opera. Karg rounded out her education with master classes with Grace Bumbry, Ann Murray, and Mirella Freni, among others. She began her career as part of the International Opera Studio at the Staatsoper in Hamburg, moving on to the company of the Frankfurt Opera in 2008. Two years later, she issued her solo album debut, Verwandlung: Lieder eines Jahres, on the Berlin Classics label with accompanist Burkhard Kehring.
Karg has sung at many European opera houses, including the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Royal Opera at Covent Garden in London, and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Her recital career has included appearances at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Carnegie Hall in New York, and Wigmore Hall in London. Karg has been a prominent figure at festivals, including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (with the NDR Symphony Orchestra), Lower Saxony Music Days, and the Heidelberg Spring. She is also the creator of KunstKlang, a festival held in her hometown of Feuchtwangen since 2014, as well as "be part of it! - Musik für Alle," a youth music education program. She has gone on to record for Deutsche Grammophon, Profil, and Harmonia Mundi, where she issued the album Erinnerung: Mahler Lieder in 2020. In 2021, Karg released the holiday album Licht der Welt: A Christmas Promenade on Harmonia Mundi. She moved to BR Klassik, the label of Germany's Bavarian Radio, for a 2022 recital of songs by Debussy and Reynaldo Hahn. The following year, she was heard on a recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor ("Resurrection") with Semyon Bychkov conducting the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Discography
17 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov, Christiane Karg, Elisabeth Kulman, Prague Philharmonic Choir
Symphonies - Released by PentaTone on Apr 7, 2023
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Brahms : Ein deutsches Requiem
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding, Christiane Karg, Matthias Goerne, Swedish Radio Choir
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Sep 6, 2019
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Haydn: Die Schöpfung
Christiane Karg, Benjamin Bruns, Tareq Nazmi, MDR Leipzig Radio Choir, Dresdner Philharmonie, Marek Janowski
Sacred Oratorios - Released by PENTATONE on May 3, 2024
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mahler: Lieder
Christiane Karg, Malcolm Martineau, Gustav Mahler
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Oct 9, 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Berliner Philharmoniker, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christiane Karg
Symphonies - Released by Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings on Jul 30, 2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Debussy & Hahn: Vocal Works
Classical - Released by BR-Klassik on Jan 7, 2022
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Scene! (Concert Arias)
Christiane Karg, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Opera - Released by Berlin Classics on May 15, 2015
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Richard Strauss : Heimliche Aufforderung
Christiane Karg, Malcolm Martineau & Felix Klieser
Lieder (German) - Released by Berlin Classics on Mar 14, 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Licht der Welt (A Christmas Promenade)
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Nov 19, 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Parfum
Christiane Karg, Bamberger Symphoniker & David Afkham
Classical - Released by Berlin Classics on Apr 7, 2017
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mitologia - Handel: Arias & Duets
Classical - Released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi on Sep 30, 2016
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schumann & Brahms (Wigmore Hall Live) (Live)
Christiane Karg, Malcolm Martineau
Classical - Released by WIGMORE HALL on Sep 23, 2016
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Portrait: Arien und Lieder
Christiane Karg, Burkhard Kehring, Malcolm Martineau, Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohan
Classical - Released by Berlin Classics on May 27, 2016
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Mitologia - Handel: Arias & Duets
Classical - Released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi on Sep 30, 2016
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Musique de chambre pour hautbois
Stefan Schilli, Christiane Karg, Oliver Triendl, Marco Postinghel, Cristina Bianchi, Sebastian Klinger
Chamber Music - Released by Oehms Classics on Sep 30, 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Strauss, Schumann, Mahler, Schubert, Mendelssohn & Wolf: Vocal Recital
Christiane Karg & Burkhard Kehring
Classical - Released by Berlin Classics on Sep 24, 2010
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Verwandlung (Lieder eines Jahres)
Classical - Released by Berlin Classics on Sep 24, 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo