Gabriele Fontana (b. 1958 Innsbruck) is an Austrian operatic soprano.
Biography
Fontana made her professional
opera debut in 1980 as Pamina in
Die Zauberflöte with Oper Frankfurt. She joined the Hamburg State Opera in 1982 where she sang Pamina, Konstanze in
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Sophie in
Der Rosenkavalier and the role of
Sophie Scholl in the world premiere of
Udo Zimmermann's
Weisse Rose; the latter of which she reprised and recorded two years later at the Vienna State Opera. Since then Fontana has been a regular presence at the world's best opera houses making appearances in Hannover, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Barcelona, Trieste, Geneva, Tokyo, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and New York. She has also been a regular performer at the Salzburg Festival and has made appearances at the Glyndebourne Festival,
Vienna Festival, the Bregenzer Festspiele, the
The Proms, Carinthischer Sommer, Festival di Carpi, Prague Spring Festival, and at festivals in Berlin, Dresden, Israel, the USA and Japan.
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