Annette Seiltgen
Annette Seiltgen is a German operatic mezzo-soprano/dramatic soprano.Career
Seiltgen grew up in an artistic environment. Her father,, was intendant and long-time director of the Stadttheater Ingolstadt, her mother is the opera, concert and oratorio singer Emmy Lisken. During her school days in Ingolstadt, where she attended the Reuchlin-Gymnasium, she played in the statistery of the theater and sang in several choirs. Seiltgen studied singing with her mother at the Leopold Mozart Centre in Augsburg. She received her first engagement as a mezzo-soprano at the Staatstheater Kassel. Subsequently she moved to the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich. From 1996 to 2011 she was a member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein ensemble. There she sang all the great roles of the lyrical and dramatic mezzo repertoire among others: Ruggiero , Sesto , Venus , Octavian , the composer , Adalgisa , Fricka as well as Brangäne .
Seiltgen has made guest appearances in Berlin, Darmstadt, Dortmund, Essen, Frankfurt, Hanover, Koblenz, Leipzig, Mannheim, Mainz, Munich, Nuremberg, Passau and Stuttgart, as well as on the music stages of Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Geneva, Madrid, Maastricht, Nice, Savonlinna, Santiago de Chile and Strasbourg. She is currently a member of the ensemble of the Landestheater Niederbayern.
In addition to her stage presence, the artist is also active as a concert singer. Her concerts have been recorded by the ZDF, the Hessischer Rundfunk, the Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Omroepvereniging VARA.
