Silvia Hauer comes from Kehl and studied singing at the music academies in Karlsruhe, Freiburg and Vienna in the fields of opera, lied and oratorio; she held scholarships from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the DAAD. In 2010 she won the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin and subsequently became a member of the Opernstudio of the Bayerische Staatsoper, where she took part in the world premiere of Jörg Widmann’s “Babylon” under Kent Nagano. Scholarships took her to the Liedakademie Heidelberger Frühling, the Mozart Academy Aix-en-Provence and the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme. Since the 2015/16 season she has belonged to the ensemble of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where she has appeared as Hänsel, Olga, Octavian, Rosina and Carmen among others; guest appearances have taken her to the Komische Oper Berlin, the Oper Frankfurt and the Nationaltheater Mannheim. Her concert repertoire ranges from Bach’s Passions to contemporary music. In 2018 Cybele Records released Oskar Gottlieb Blarr and the Jesus-Passion with her as mezzo-soprano soloist.
Silvia Hauer
Mezzo-soprano
