Andrea Hörkens

Mönchengladbach-born and trained at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Andrea Hörkens went into the German theatre soon after finishing, with further engagements in Italy, France, the Netherlands and Belarus. Her roles run from Pamina and Gilda to Violetta and the title part in The Csárdás Princess, and she sings concert and sacred repertoire; a recording, Ave Maria, appeared in 2000. From 2004 she sang in the German touring series The Night of the Five Tenors, given with the Plovdiv orchestra beside Vincenzo Sanso, Luigi Frattola, Orfeo Zanetti, Cristiano Olivieri and Giuliano di Filippo, and appeared with Lance Ryan at Berlin and Heidelberg in 2004. She also teaches singing, and beside the Ave Maria disc her recordings include a programme of Italian opera arias made with the Plovdiv orchestra and the operetta collection Perlen der Operette. Mimì and Micaëla belong to her stage parts, and in Die Nacht der 5 Tenöre she both sang and introduced the programme.