Noemi Nadelmann

Musetta at La Fenice in 1987 opened the stage career of Noëmi Nadelmann, a soprano born in Zurich in 1962 and trained in Switzerland and at Indiana University. She has sung at the Vienna Volksoper, the Gärtnerplatztheater and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Zurich and Hamburg houses, the Paris Opera and the Metropolitan, in a repertoire reaching from Baroque opera and Mozart through Donizetti, Puccini and Richard Strauss to operetta and new music. She played Pauline Viardot-García in Andrzej Żuławski's 1991 film Blue Note and sang Jenny in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at the Komische Oper in 2008. The Goethe Foundation gave her its Mozart Prize in 1997. Her Solothurn seasons between 2008 and 2012 took in Die Zauberflöte and Don Giovanni. She teaches and sits on competition juries.