Carola Guber

Mezzo-soprano born in Braunschweig; after studies as a Diplom-Instrumentallehrerin studied singing with Carol Richardson-Smith at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover; in 1994 she won the Sylvia Geszty Coloratura Singing Competition in Luxembourg. From 1993 to 2001 she was engaged at the Niedersächsische Staatsoper Hannover, where among other roles she sang the title role in Rossini’s “La Cenerentola”, then for three seasons in Krefeld and Mönchengladbach and from 2004 to 2009 at the Oper Erfurt; from 2009 she worked freelance. At the Bayreuth Festival she sang one of Klingsor’s Flower Maidens in “Parsifal” from 2004 to 2012 and Magdalene in “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” from 2007 to 2011. On the album Carl Reinecke: Complete Children’s Songs (Vol. 2) (2001) she sings ten songs as duets with Caroline Merz and Thomas Leander.