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Sun 27 Aug 2006

Voted Singer of the Year by German magazine Opernwelt, Angela Denoke is one of the most sought after sopranos of her generation. Invited by Brian McMaster to sing at the festival after he saw her performing in Wozzeck in Barcelona, Angela gave up her plans for a summer off, to prepare for a coming role, to be a part of the Edinburgh Festival; ‘I had planned to take the whole summer off to prepare for my first Salome in the autumn, but who can say no when Edinburgh calls?’

Angela Denoke has appeared with the major conductors, opera houses and orchestras and in recital at the leading concert halls and festivals. Having sung in many of the finest opera houses around the world, Angela Denoke’s festival debut as part of the Bank of Scotland Queen’s Hall Series is greatly anticipated. She will be performing a familiar and unusual programme of songs by Schoenberg, Strauss, Zemlinsky and Wolf.

Angela Denoke was born in Stade, near Hamburg, moving to the city itself when she studied voice and piano at the ‘Hochschule fur Musik und Theater’. Following her initial training, it was at the 1997 Salzburg Festival that Angela made a triumphal first appearance as ‘Marie’ in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Claudio Abbado. But it was when she was voted Singer of the Year in 1999 that Angela really caught the world’s attention and her career took off.

Angela Denoke made her US debut in 2001 under Daniel Barenboim, one of her mentors, where she sung as ‘Sieglinde’ in a concert version of Walkure with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Angela was invited back to Chicago in 2003 and 2004, each time singing under Daniel Barenboim. Continuing to conquer America, Angela also sung at the New York MET in March 2005, where she debuted as the Marschallin in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier, one of her favourite roles.