Mirella Hagen
soprano
German soprano Mirella Hagen began her career as a young artist at the State Opera Stuttgart, where she sang roles like Aennchen (Freischütz) and Flower Maiden (Parsifal) under the baton of Manfred Honeck. After a year being part of the theater in Regensburg, where she sang Gretel (Hansel & Gretel) and Valencienne (The Merry Widow) she joined Opera Vlaanderen singing Papagena (The Magic Flute), Anna (Nabucco) and, again, Flower Maiden (Parsifal) in a widely acclaimed production staged by Tatjana Gürbaca. For three seasons she was a member of the State Opera Braunschweig singing a broad repertoire, including Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady), Fiorella (Les Brigands), or Gilda (Rigoletto).
In recent seasons she has taken on an international career with appearances at the Bayreuth Festival (Woglinde and Wood Bird in the centenary production of the “Ring of the Nibelungs“ to celebrate Wagner’s 200th birthday), the Bavarian State Opera Munich, the Semperoper Dresden, Opera Graz, Grand Théâtre Génève, the Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg, or the Theater an der Wien, where she was invited as a frequent guest appearing in productions of Salieri’s Falstaff, the Ring of the Nibelungs, Alcina, Midsummer Night’s Dream, or Rusalka.
Having a strong affinity to early classical and baroque music, Ms Hagen collaborated with acclaimed artists as Helmuth Rilling, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the Freiburger Barockorchester with René Jacobs, Hans-Christoph Rademann, B’Rock, as well as the Concentus Musicus under the baton of Stefan Gottfried. She has succesfully toured through the U.S., Asia, Russia and numerous European countries and has sung on important festivals like the Musikfest Stuttgart, the Beethovenfest Bonn, or the Munich Opera Festival.
Besides that, she has also collaborated with conductors like Sir Simon Rattle, Manfred Honeck, Elihau Inbal, Antonello Manacorda, David Afkham, Kirill Petrenko, Marek Janowski, Georg Fritzsch, Constantin Trinks and Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli.
During her career she has established a strong connection to the Lied, performing on famous concert stages like the Hugo Wolf Society, the Villa Wahnfried or the Hugo Wolf Festival Ljubljana. Her CD “A Maiden’s Heart“ (“Mädchenherzen“) with songs by Hugo Wolf, Ludwig Thuille & Richard Strauss was well-recieved in the press.
