{"id":8,"date":"2018-11-06T17:38:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2023-01-22T20:52:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T20:52:01","slug":"vita","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/vita\/","title":{"rendered":"biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-64\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ulrika_portrait.jpg\" alt=\"ulrika_portrait\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ulrika_portrait.jpg 443w, http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ulrika_portrait-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-65\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ulrika_vita.png\" alt=\"ulrika_vita\" width=\"285\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>ULRIKA STR\u00d6MSTEDT<\/h1>\n<p>The Swedish lyric Mezzo-Soprano, Ulrika Str\u00f6mstedt was between 2002 and 2013 engaged as Mezzosoprano soloist at <i>Deutsches National Theater<\/i> in Weimar, Germany, she performed in more then\u00a030 different opera-productions,\u00a0guest appearances followed at: <em>Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Staatstheater Darmstadt<\/em>, the <i>S\u00fcdth\u00fcringische Staatstheater<\/i> in Meiningen, <i>Theater Erfurt<\/i> (Germany), <i>Municipal de L\u2019escoxador<\/i> in Lleida, Spain and <em>Luzerner Theater<\/em> in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Ulrika Str\u00f6mstedt studied in Copenhagen (Denmark), at the<i> Musikkonservatoriet<\/i> (Royal Danish Academy of Music); Operaakademiet (Royal Opera Academy), with Prof. Kirsten Buhl M\u00f8ller and took Masterclasses with Anthony Rolfe-Johnson and Diane Montague. Proffessional experiences accompanied her studies. She sung bigger roles\u00a0at <i>Det Kongelige Theater<\/i> (the Royal Theatre) and <i>Tivoli-Plaenen<\/i> in Copenhagen (Denmark) and at Theatre\u00a0<i>Vadstena Akademien<\/i>, (Sweden)<i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Amongst the more than thirty roles she has performed, the most prominent are:<\/p>\n<p><b>B\u00e9atrice<\/b> <i>B\u00e9atrice et B\u00e9n\u00e9dict<\/i> \/ Berlioz<br \/>\n<b>Rosina<\/b> <i>Il Barbiere di Sevilla<\/i> \/ Rossini, <b>Desdemona<\/b> <i>Otello<\/i> \/ Rossini<br \/>\n<b>Cherubino<\/b> <i>Nozze di Figaro<\/i> \/ Mozart, <b>Idamante<\/b> <i>Idomeneo<\/i> \/ Mozart<br \/>\n<b>Dorabella<\/b> Cos\u00ec fan tutte \/ Mozart, <b>Zerlina<\/b> <i>Don Giovanni<\/i> \/ Mozart<br \/>\n<b>H\u00e4nsel<\/b><i> H\u00e4nsel und Gretel<\/i> \/ Humperdinck<br \/>\n<b>Ottavia<\/b><i> L\u2019incoronazione di Poppea<\/i> \/ Monteverdi<br \/>\n<b>Ruggiero<\/b><i> Alcina<\/i> \/ H\u00e4ndel, <b>Title role<\/b> <i>Ariodante<\/i> \/ H\u00e4ndel<\/p>\n<p>Appearing often in contemporary works, Ulrika Str\u00f6mstedt has sung the <b>Soprano<\/b> in Luigi Nonos <i>La fabbrica illuminata, <\/i>\u201d<b>Der Junge<\/b>\u201d in the chamber opera <i>Pnima<\/i> by Chaya Czernowin, as well as <em>The Triumph of death\u00a0by<\/em>\u00a0F. Rzewski\u00a0in\u00a0Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, which both won great acclaim in the national media <i>(G\u00f6tz- Friedrich award 2016) <\/i>. Of particular note was her appearance as <b>Alice and k\u2019Ali<\/b> in the contemporary Opera <i>Nuit des Hommes <\/i>by Per N\u00f6rgard in <em>Gera\/<\/em><i>Altenburg Theatre,<\/i> Germany<i>,<\/i> . Her <b>Desdemona<\/b> in Rossini\u2019s<i> Otello<\/i> received accolades from several German critics.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 she recorded <i>Mendelssohn\u2019s Lobgesang<\/i> on CD with the <i>Heidelberger Symfonikern<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>As a concert singer, Ulrika Str\u00f6mstedt has appeared with such diverse orchestras as:<br \/>\n<i>Symfoni Orkester of Odense<\/i>, <i>Symfoni Orkester\u2028\u00a0<\/i>of Aarhus (Denmark), <i>Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur<\/i> (Switzerland), <i>Orquestra Barroca de Lleida<\/i> (Spain), <i>Ensemble Iberoamericano<\/i>, <i>Klang- werkstatt Weimar<\/i> and <i>Mitteldeutschen Kammer- orchester,\u00a0<em>Hofer Symphoniker<\/em><\/i> (Germany), Pasticci Renano, Switzerland, aswell as the european baroque orchestra<i> Le Chardon<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Her concert repertoire includes:<br \/>\n<i>Sh\u00e9h\u00e9razade<\/i> by Ravel, <i>Les Nuits d\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9<\/i> by Berlioz, Wagner\u2019s <i>Wesendonck Lieder<\/i>, Bach\u2019s <i>Christmas oratorio, B-Minor-Mass, St. Matthew Passion<\/i> and <i>St. John passion, Stabat Mater<\/i> by Pergolesi, <i>Mozart\u2019s Requiem<\/i> and <i>C-minor Mass<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ULRIKA STR\u00d6MSTEDT The Swedish lyric Mezzo-Soprano, Ulrika Str\u00f6mstedt was between 2002 and 2013 engaged as Mezzosoprano soloist at Deutsches National Theater in Weimar, Germany, she performed in more then\u00a030 different opera-productions,\u00a0guest appearances followed at: Staatstheater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":69,"href":"http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ulrikastroemstedt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}