Born in
Vienna the young soprano
studied singing, dramatic performance, Lied and
Oratorio at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts Vienna as well as
Anglistics at the Universitiy of Vienna.
Since
having completed her studies she has performed numerous parts in operas
and operettas
at the Volksoper Wien, State Opera Prague, Wiener
Kammeroper, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Sommerarena Baden, Festival
Mozart in Schönbrunn and at the Carinthean Summer Festival such as
Zerlina/Don Giovanni, Papagena/Magic Flute, Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro, Oscar/Un
ballo in maschera, Shepherd/Tannhäuser, Lucieta/I Quattro rusteghi, die falsche
Angèle/Der Zar läßt sich photographieren, Fiorella/Les Brigands, Serpetta/La
Serva Padrona, Rosina/Il barbiere di Siviglia, Adele/Fledermaus,
Helene/Walzertraum, Bellangère/Ariane et Barbe-bleu,.At the Carinthean Summer
Festival of 2001 she performed the parts of "Lieschen" in Schubert's
"Die Zwillingsbrüder" and Käthchen in Schubert's "Der
vierjährige Posten" with Robert Holl as her partner.
As she is
taking great interest in music of the 20th century
she has already
participated in three first performances of operas. She created the parts of
Ärmeli in "Dolores" by Dieter Kaufmann, Soprano in "Der
Venusmond" by Burkhard Stangl and last summer the part of Bärbel in
"Riese, Zwerge, Menschenfresser" by Gerhard Schedl.
Another
priority in her career are concerts.
In this area her repertoire ranges
from baroque to contemporary music which is why she is performing on a regular
basis with the most renowned orchestras
such as Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, Tonkünstlerorchester
Niederösterreich, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Slowenische
Philharmonie, Zagreber Philharmonie, Wiener Kammerorchester, Ensemble
Kontrapunkte, Klangforum Wien and with conductors
such as Georges Pretre, Michael Gielen, Peter Keuschnig, Carlos Kalmar, Giancarlo
Andretta, Max Pommer, Georges Alexander Albrecht, Martin Haselböck, Beat
Furrer, Ernst Kovacic, Christoph Campestrini et.al.
Besides
being a regular guest at the Wiener Musikverein, Konzerthaus Wien, Brucknerhaus
Linz, she has already performed in many of the European Countries (e.g.
Konzerhaus am Gendarmenmarkt
The most
interesting projects of the last months was the cooperation with the renowned
ensemble "die reihe" (Antom Webern "Tgree songs op.18" -
concerts and CD-production), a series of concerts in Canada and the USA with
arias by Johann Strauß, Franz Lehar and Emmerich Kalman as well as a
TV-production for ITV.
As a
second winner of the Richard Tauber Prize London Judith Kopecky also takes a
great interest in recitals.
She has already successfully presented
various programs in
In
2005 Judith Kopecky presented a new program with songs by Egon Wellesz,
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Mittler, Viktor Urbancic and Max Brand in
Due to the concerts' great success the songs were recorded and the cd
titled exiles was released in April
2006.
A
recording of unpublished songs by Erich Zeisl, another Austrian exile compose,
is already in preparation and is to be released in Autumn 2007.
Since 2005
Judith Kopecky holds a teching assignment (singing) at the
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