SANDRA TRATTNIGG

A soprano singer, who comes from Canada; since 2005 she has been working in the Zurich Opera. She completed the singing studied at the Music and Art University in Wien in the classes of Helena Lazarska (singing) and Edith Mathis (song and oratory). In 2001 she won the singing contest of the Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg in Berlin, in 2002 was awarded the Musica Juventutis  Prize on the Konzerthaus - Wien Contest, and in 2003 Főrderpreis Award of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. She debuted on the stage of Schlosstheater Schőnbrunn, as Eurydice in the opera Orpheus and Eurydice by Gluck in 2001. Next, she played the role of Cleopatra (in Julius Caesar in Egypt), in Wien, Donna Elvira (in Don Giovanni) in the Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg, Pamina (in Magic Flute), Marie (The Sold Fiancé), Antonia (Hoffman’s Stories) in Operklosterneuburg as well as Michael (in Carmen) in Stadttheater Klagenfurt. In the Opera in Zurich she was employed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and - as a young soprano singer - she appeared in the following roles: Pamina, First Lady, Drusilla, Celia, Anna Greppone, First Blumenmädchen, Duchess from Parma, Solveig, Marzelline, Rosalinde, Michaela and Gutrune.