ISABEL WELLER
Sopran
About
Isabel Weller made her debut at the Bregenz Festival in summer 2024 as Nella in Gianni Schicchi under the direction of Brigitte Fassbaender.
In January 2024, Isabel Weller delighted audiences as a soloist at the Tonkünstler Orchestra's New Year's concerts under the direction of Alfred Eschwé and Ola Rudner at the Musikverein Vienna and Festspielhaus St. Pölten, among other venues.
She made her debut as Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos by R. Strauss at Theatre Koblenz in the 23/24 season. In the 2022/23 season, she made her debut as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte by W.A. Mozart with the Nederlandse Reisopera.
In Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Amelia goes to the Ball, she played the title role of Amelia in a university production in 2020.
At the 1st Baden-Württemberg Opera School Meeting in 2019, she sang the leading role in the music theatre Schau Mich An, a world premiere of the Freiburg University of Music, with performances at the Wilhelma Theater Stuttgart and Stadttheater Freiburg. In the same year, she appeared as La reine Denyse in A. Honegger's operetta Le Rois Pausole under the direction of Claire Levacher.
Isabel Weller can regularly be heard as a soloist in concerts and oratorios.
She has performed the soprano part in C. Orff's Carmina Burana, W. A. Mozart's Requiem, G. B. Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Ch. Gounod's Cäcilienmesse, F. Mendelssoh-Bartholdy's Paulus, Lobgesang and Psalm 42, G. Rossini's Petite Messe solennelle, G. F. Handel's Messiah, Israel in Egypt, J. Brahms‘ Ein deutsches Requiem, L. Berios’ Magnificat and the Christmas Oratorio by J. S. Bach.
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Isabel Weller is a prizewinner of the International Singing Competition of the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg 2024. At the 5th International Haydn Competition for Classical Song and Aria 2023, Isabel Weller won 3rd prize and the special prize for the best interpretation of an aria.
In September 2021, she won 3rd prize at the International Music Competition Cologne (opera/operetta) and was a soloist at the prizewinners' concert with the WDR Funkhausorchester under the direction of Enrico Delamboye.
In 2018 she won 1st prize at the 24th International Louis Spohr Competition in Kassel.
In 2021/22, Isabel Weller was a scholarship holder of the Lied Academy of the Heidelberger Frühling International Music Festival under the direction of Thomas Hampson. She has also received scholarships from Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Oberrhein e.V., the Fritz Wunderlich Foundation, the Helene Rosenberg Foundation and the Deutschlandstipendium.
Isabel Weller studied singing with Prof. Regina Kabis-Elsner at the Freiburg University of Music, where she completed her Master's degree in summer 2021. To deepen her vocal training, she also studied with Prof. Christian Elsner at the Karlsruhe University of Music.
She received further musical and artistic impulses in numerous masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, Thomas Hampson, Dorothea Röschmann, Matthias Rexroth, Natale de Carolis, Ton Koopman, Hartmut Höll, Susan Manoff, Anne Le Bozec, Pauliina Tukiainen, Christoph Prégardien, Graham Johnson, Gerold Huber, Wolfram Rieger, Reinhard Goebel, Kai Wessel, Klesie Kelly-Moog, Christiane Iven, Ulrike Sonntag, Snezana Stamenkovic, Burkhard Kehring, Jan Philip-Schulze, Ulrich Eisenlohr, Noelle Turner, Anna Lucia Richter, Ammiel Bushakevitz, Martina Gedeck.
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"Isabel Weller as Pamina was convincing across the board. Her relationship with Tamino and Papageno was touching, and the love, pain and sorrow she experienced when her lover was brought to justice by her evil mother were real." - bachtrack.com 22.01.23
"With her captivating soprano voice, Isabel Weller gracefully filled her role as Pamina. Her duet with Papageno ("Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen"), but even more so her aria "Ach, ich fühl's" elicited enthusiastic reactions from the audience." - operamagazine.n l 22.01.23
"She plays a playful but also fragile Pamina. And her voice touches me deeply when she sings "Ach, ich fühl's". We will certainly hear more of this! - sanderboonstra.nl 22.01.23