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Place of Birth: Hechingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Doris Soffel
- Doris Soffel (born 12 May 1948, Hechingen, Germany) is a German mezzo-soprano. Doris Soffel first played the violin, then switched to singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.
- She was member of the Stuttgart Opera ensemble from 1973 to 1982.
- Her international breakthrough was as Sesto in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito at the Royal Opera House, London in 1982.
- She sang Fricka in the Bayreuth Festival 1983 and was the only German coloratura mezzo with an international career, singing in works by Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini.
- She sang world premieres by contemporary composers like Aribert Reimann and Krysztof Penderecki and had performances worldwide of Gustav Mahler's vocal works.
- From 1994, more dramatic roles like Judith in Béla Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle", Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlo and Amneris in his Aïda.
- Since 1999 she belongs to the most important interpreters of operas by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss (e.g.
- Ortrud, Kundry, Fricka, Herodias and Amme).
- In 2007 she sang the female principal part (Marfa) in the Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina in Munich.
- She appears on about 60 CDs and several DVDs. Doris Soffel was awarded the title Kammersängerin and holds the Royal Swedish Order of Northern Star.
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