Hermine Haselböck


Hermine Haselböck is an Austrian mezzo-soprano in opera, concert and lied.

Career

After graduating from Stiftsgymnasium Melk Haselböck studied with Rita Streich at the Vienna Music Academy and continued at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, with Ingeborg Ruß, finishing with diplomas for both performing and vocal education. She received further vocal training by Brigitte Fassbaender, Sena Jurinac, Marjana Lipovšek, Christa Ludwig and Eva Randová, and took master classes with Kurt Equiluz, Kurt Widmer and Edith Sélig-Papée.
Her operatic career began with the role of Mercedes in Carmen, when Nikolaus Harnoncourt discovered her for his production at styriarte in 2005. She performed Dorabella at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and the Second Lady at the Mozart Festival Reinsberg, the Theater an der Wien and the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg. 2006 she sang the role Frauenschatten in Erwin Schulhoff's Flammen. Two trouser roles followed, Hansel and Ramiro. 2009 she first sang Magdalene, 2012 Brangäne and 2013 Azucena at the Tyrolian Festival Erl and Gertrud/Mother, in the Sala Santa Cecilia in Rome and made 2014 her debut as Fricka in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at the Tyrolian Festival Erl, Austria. 2015 she performed Flosshilde in Das Rheingold with the Hongkong Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Jaap van Zweden. 2015 she was singing the role of Fricka at the first staged performance of Das Rheingold and Die Walküre in Beijing and Shanghai. 2016 followed the role of the daughter in the Austrian premiere of Ella Milch-Shariff s Baruchs Schweigen at the EntarteOpera Festival, Vienna.
Hermine Haselböck has collaborated with orchestras such as Wiener Symphoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, L'Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre National de Lille, RSO Vienna,MDR Sinfonieorchester, Hongkong Philharmonic Orchestra, Residence Orchestra Den Haag, Dresdner Philharmonie, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, and under conductors such as Bertrand de Billy, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Martin Haselböck, Manfred Honeck, Gustav Kuhn, Fabio Luisi, Kirill Petrenko, Martin Sieghart, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Christian Thielemann, Franz Welser-Möst, Jaap van Zweden.
Symphonic and lieder repertoire plays an important role, performed in the Brucknerhaus Linz, Carnegie Hall, Frauenkirche in Dresden, Gewandhaus, Konzerthaus Vienna, Mozarteum Salzburg, Musikverein Vienna, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and Teatro San Carlo Naples. Her repertoire includes the major works by Bach, Haydn, Händel, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Mahler, Mozart, Schubert, Zemlinsky, Wagner and Verdi.
Hermine Haselböck is Guest Professor for Voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

Awards

In 2005, Haselböck was awarded for her debut CD "Songs by Zemlinsky" the International Zemlinsky Award at the Musikverein Vienna and the Pasticcio Prize of the Austrian classical radio station.
2014 Haselböck's CD recording of *Gustav Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kindertotenlieder, Rückert Lieder, Russell Ryan, piano, 2011: bridge records 9341 received the SUPER SONIC classic music award of the magazin PIZZICATO, Luxemburg.

Discography