Janina Baechle & Markus Hadulla
Biography Janina Baechle & Markus Hadulla
Janina Baechle
Studies of musicology and history at the Hamburg university. At the same time vocal studies with Gisela Litz at the music university of Hamburg. Today the mezzosoprano is working regularly with Brigitte Fassbaender.
After first appearances on stage in university opera productions, as Kabanicha (Janacek, Katja Kabanowa) or La zia principessa in Puccinis “Suor Angelica”, Janina Baechle gave her professional debut as Sharon Graham in Terrence McNally`s “Masterclass” at the Hamburg Thalia Theatre in 1997. She became a member of the Braunschweig State Theatre in 1998 and performed there until march 2001 major mezzo roles such as Auntie in “Peter Grimes”, Frau Reich in Nicolai`s “The merry wives of Windsor”, Erda as well as Fricka in “Rheingold”, Prince Orlofsky and Mrs. Begbick in “ The rise and fall of the town Mahagonny”.
Already during that time she was invited as a guest singer and has since then appeared at the opera houses of Frankfurt/M., the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Dresden Semperopera(Ortrud and Brangäne), at Würzburg, Mannheim ,Saarbrücken, Kiel, Basel and the Liceu Barcelona.
From 2001 to 2004 she was a member of the Hannover State Opera, where she portrayed Amneris (“Aida”), the countess Geschwitz (“Lulu”), Fenena (“Nabucco”), Cornelia (“Giulio Cesare”) and Octavian in “Der Rosenkavalier” as well as being part of the Peter Konwitschny production of Nono´s “Al gran sole carico dámore” that was invited to the Edinburgh Festival in 2004.
Brigitte Fassbaender invited the mezzo to perform at the TLT Innsbruck the parts of Czipra(“The gypsy baron”), Azucena (“Trovatore”) and the Nurse in R. Strauss´s “Frau ohne Schatten”.
From the 2004 /2005 season until 2010 Janina Baechle was a member of the Vienna State Opera singing parts as Hedwige (“G.Tell”), Teresa (Sonnambula) Brigitta ( Korngold`s “Tote Stadt”), , the Marquise Berkenfield (la fille du régiment), Mrs.Quickly (Falstaff),Eboli (Don Carlo), Ulrica (Ballo in maschera), both Frickas, Erdas and Waltraute in “The Ring”, Herodias (Salome), Brangaene (Tristan) as well as Ortrud in the 2005 production of “Lohengrin”, a performance for which she was awarded the Eberhard-Wächter-medal 2006( for Ortrud and Magdalena in “Evangelimann” at the Volksoper) . She returns to Vienna regularly as a guest, future appearances including Santuzza, Herodias and Fricka.
Recent guesting invitations brought her to the Semperoper Dresden as Ortrud and Brangaene; as Mrs. Quickly and the Nurse (Frau ohne Schatten) to the Hamburgische Staatsoper, as Amneris to Stuttgart, as Brangaene to the Barcelona Liceu and as Fricka to San Francisco . Future engagements will see her a.o.in Munich (Jezibaba /Ortrud), Barcelona and in the title role in the creation of Bruno Mantovanis “ Akhmatova” at the Opera National de Paris.
The mezzosoprano has worked among others with directors Brigitte Fassbaender, Andreas Homoki, Sven-Eric Bechtholf, Nicolas Joel, David Pountney and Peter Konwitschny and with conductors Seiji Ozawa, Semyon Bychkov, Franz Welser-Möst, Christophe von Dohnany, Paolo Carignani, Pinchas Steinberg, Christian Thielemann, Bertrand de Billy,Kent Nagano, Donald Runnicles, Leif Segerstam, and Simone Young.
In may 2007 she gave her concert debut with the Vienna Philharmonic as the alto soloist in Mahlers symphony no.2. in which she also had her US debut with the New York Philharmonic and Gilbert Kaplan in New York in Decembre 2008.
In her concert and recital appearances she is focussing on the repertoire of the 19th and 20th century.Having given her recital debut at the Vienna Musikverein in 2006 with a programme including G. Mahler, Alban Berg, Carl Loewe, Robert Schumann and Hugo Wolf the mezzosoprano returned to the Musikverein in January 2008 with a recital of Alma Mahler, Reynaldo Hahn, Lili Boulanger and Richard Strauss and sang “Die schöne Magelone” by Johannes Brahms in Klagenfurt in February 2008 with Charles Spencer , piano and Michael Heltau, speaker.She was the alto soloist inGustav Mahlers “Lied von der Erde” under Kent Nagano.Recent recitals brought her to Bremen in the series “New Stars”, the Brahms Fest Bad Salzuflen(Brahms/ Debussy) the Schönberg Center Vienna (Schönberg, Berg, Milhaud, Reimann) and the Musikverein Graz. Concert debuts were Elgar Sea Pictures (Hagen), Brahms Alto Rhapsodie (Hamm) and Caplet “Le miroir de Jesu”(Toulouse) Future concerts and recitals include recitals in the Vienna Musikverein (2011)and the Mahler festival in Toblach (2010) and concerts with the Bayerische Rundfunk in July 2010 (Lamento di Arianna Monteverdi/Orff) and Mahler 2nd with Leif Segerstam and the Turku Philharmonic (Jan.2011)
Her first disc appeared in May 2008 “Chansons Grises”, songs by Hahn, Milhaud, Boulanger and Zemlinsky accompanied by Charles Spencer, a second with songs by Franz Liszt appeared in January 2010 both on Marsyas
Markus Hadulla
Born in Cologne, the pianist Markus Hadulla began his studies in the Lieder class of Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll in Karlsruhe, continuing at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and subsequently at Yale with the Hungarian pianist Peter Frankl. He won the prize for best Lieder accompanist at the Seventh International Hugo Wolf Competition in Stuttgart in 1994 and was invited by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau to join his Lieder class in Berlin. Other influences on his musical development were Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Ralf Gothóni. He has collaborated with a number of well-known singers, vocal ensembles, writers and actors, as well as with instrumentalists and chamber ensembles, and has appeared at venues and major halls throughout the world. After teaching several years at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin, he now holds a teaching post for Lieder at the Karlsruhe Staatliche Hochschule für Musik. He gives regular masterclasses for Lieder and chamber music, and serves as artistic director of the wort+ton concert series in Winnenden, Germany, which features an innovative combination of literature and music. Markus Hadulla has a large number of recordings, broadcasts and television appearances to his credit.
