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Elisabeth Kulman

Soprano Elisabeth Kulman has an international career in opera but has increasingly often performed concert music. As her voice developed, she shifted from the soprano range to mezzo-soprano and contralto parts and roles. Kulman was born in Oberpullendorf in far eastern Austria on June 28, 1973, and earned her Matura secondary school diploma in 1991. She began her university career studying linguistics and musicology, but she sang in various Viennese choirs, including the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus Vocalis Wien, and Chorus sine nomine, and in 1995, she began vocal studies with Helena Lazarska at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. After completing programs in both opera and song/oratorio, she earned a master's degree with distinction and quickly landed the role of Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Wiener Volksopera in 2001. For the first part of her career, she was known as a Mozart soprano. Her recording debut came in 1999 with the Wiener Kammerchor on a recording of Liszt's Via crucis and Missa choralis. Kulman switched to the mezzo-soprano specialty in 2004, making her debut in Suppé's Boccaccio. She has also sung contralto roles. Kulman's range is wide, including operas in German, French, and Italian, from the Baroque era (she appeared at Germany's Schwetzingen Festival in Alessandro Scarlatti's Telemaco and Giovanni Legrenzi's Il Giustino) to newly composed works, including the world premiere of Aribert Reimann's Medea at the Wiener Staatsoper. In 2009, she made her solo debut with Amarcord Wien on an album of Mahler orchestral songs. Kulman has increasingly often appeared in concert music, and in 2013, she recorded Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Netherlands Radio Choir under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Kulman has recorded for, among other labels, Preiser Records, Decca, and PentaTone, where she sang the contralto solo part in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor ("Resurrection") in 2023.
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