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Ivonne Fuchs 4b - Dietmar Spolert
mezzo-soprano

Ivonne Fuchs

The German-Swedish mezzo-soprano Ivonne Fuch's dynamic voice and strong stage presence have allowed her career to range widely from the intimate stages to the largest Opera Houses. Ivonne's wide repertoire includes Waltraute in Götterdämmerung, the title role in Ariodante, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier and Leonore in Fidelio. With a passionate heart in the classical song treasure, Ivonne is a much sought-after concert singer.

Biography

German-Swedish mezzo-soprano Ivonne Fuchs will this season participate in the contemporary opera The Snow Queen - Snödrottningen by Benjamin Staern at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. Ivonne is also engaged in several concert productions in Germany and Sweden.

The season 2019-2020 Ivonne Fuchs was a guest at the Finland National Opera where she sung Brigitta in Die Tote Stadt. Ivonne also starred in the production Lohengrin Dreams with premiere at Norrlandsoperan. Ivonne has previously appeared at the Royal Swedish Opera with the roles of Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro and Bertha in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. She has performed the roles of Serse and Amastre in Händel’s Serse at Artipelag in Stockholm under the baton of Jean-Christophe Spinosi and she sung Amastre in the following guest performances at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. She has also sung Amastre in concert on tour with Ensemble Matheus in Barcelona and Moscow.

Ivonne Fuchs has appeared in roles like Waltraute in Die Walküre at Teatro alla Scala and Staatsoper Berlin under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, and she has sung Fricka and Grimgerde in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre with the Wermland Opera, Sweden. She perfomed Suzuki in Madama Butterfly at Folkoperan, Stockholm and Waltraute in Die Walküre at Berliner Festtage. She also covered for Waltraute in Götterdämmerung at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. The 2012/2013 season included Federica in Luisa Miller at the Malmö Opera. She also returned to Berlin and Milan to sing Waltraute in Die Walküre, a role she recently sang again in concert performances of the third act of Die Walküre with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding. Ivonne Fuchs has appeared in the title role of Ariodante at the Drottningholm Court Theatre, she has sung Baba the Turk in scenes from The Rake’s Progress in Stockholm and Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Detmold. Her repertoire also include Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde), as well as Ortrud (Lohengrin), Kundry (Parsifal), Leonore (Fidelio) and Sieglinde (Walküre).

On the concert platform Ivonne Fuchs has sung Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 in Tokyo, Bach’s Magnificat in Zürich and Munich with Philippe Herreweghe, St John Passion in Amsterdam with Frans Brüggen, St Matthew Passion in Stuttgart with Helmuth Rilling, Sven-David Sandström’s Ordet in Stockholm and Copenhagen under the baton of Manfred Honeck and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Copenhagen Philharmonic conducted by Peter Dijkstra.

Ivonne Fuchs has recorded Johan Ludwig Bach’s Trauermusik with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and RIAS Kammerchor under the baton of Hans-Christoph Rademann for Harmonia Mundi, released during the spring of 2011. In June 2015 a recording with Ivonne Fuchs singing Mahlers Das Lied von der Erde was released (Capriccio Deutschlandfunk) and she has also won acclaim for her recording (also released in 2015 by Proprius Music) of Benjamin Britten songs for voice and guitar.

Ivonne is a dedicated Lieder singer and won the first prize in the Swedish Ordet och tonen competition in 2006. She has received several scholarships, among them from Deutsche Wagner-Gesellschaft, The Royal Swedish Academy of Music and Drottningholm Court Theatre. In 2012 she was chosen for the prestigious Birgit Nilsson Scholarship and most recently she won the Grant Award of the Gerda Lissner International Wagner Competition 2016 in New York.

Ivonne graduated from the University College of Opera in Stockholm in the spring of 2010 with earlier studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold and at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. She has previously received her vocal training by Christa Ludwig and is presently under the tutorage of Daniel Sarge.

September 2021

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Ivonne Fuchs 3b - Dietmar Spolert photo by Dietmar Spolert
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2021-12-12 photo by Markus Gårder/Kungliga Operan

Susanna Stern, Wiktor Sundqvist, David Risberg, Jessica Elevant and Ivonne Fuchs in the Snow Queen

The Snow Queen opens at the Royal Swedish Opera with Susanna Stern, Wiktor Sundqvist, David Risberg, Jessica Elevant and Ivonne Fuchs...

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