Angelika Kirchschlager

Angelika Kirchschlager is a leading European mezzo-soprano who has scored numerous critical successes both on the operatic stage and as a recitalist. She is generally regarded as among the finest interpreters of the operatic works of Mozart and Richard Strauss. She has thus sung numerous major roles in their operas: Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), and the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos). But Kirchschlager has hardly limited herself to works by these two icons, having sung to great acclaim Mélisande ...