Mirjam Tola

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Mirjam Tola is an Albanian operatic soprano and voice teacher. She is also an Austrian citizen.

Life

Born in Tirana in 1972,[1] Tola studied singing at the University of Arts Tirana[2] with Suzana Frashëri [pl][3] from 1991 and graduated with distinction in 1994. In Tirana she had her opera debut in the female title role in Bastien und Bastienne.[4] From 1997 she studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum[2] with Boris Bakov [de][3] and Alessandro Misciasci. She was a finalist in several international singing competitions, such as the Verdi Competition in Busseto, the Puccini Competition Licia Albanese[2] in New York and the Zachary Competition[5] in Los Angeles in 2001. At the Vienna State Opera she was awarded a sponsorship prize at the Eberhard Waechter Medal [de] ceremony.[6]

From 2004 to 2006 Tola was engaged at the Ljubljana Opera House. Guest appearances took her to the Berlin State Opera, and from 2007 to the Teatro Verdi in Trieste[2] and the Kleines Festspielhaus[2][4] in Salzburg. In 2008 Tola made her Hamburg debut in her signature role, the title role in Tosca[7], and from 2010 to 2012 she was engaged as an ensemble member at the Hamburg State Opera, where she subsequently continued to appear as a guest.[8] Further engagements took her to the Staatstheater Meiningen, the Wuppertal Opera House,[2][9] the Staatstheater Kassel,[10] the Essen Aalto Theater, the Teatro Grande in Brescia, the Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, the Teatro Fraschini in Pavia[3] and the Arena in Verona.[11]

Tola has worked with conductors such as Anton Guadagno, Nello Santi, Simone Young, Karen Kamensek, Massimo Zanetti, Will Humburg, Peter Schneider, Markus Poschner and Matthias Foremny [de].[2]

She has also performed at New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, among other venues.[2][3] Her concert repertoire includes, for example, the soprano parts in Beethoven's 9th Symphony and in sacred works such as Verdi's Messa da Requiem, Mozart's Coronation Mass and Schubert's Lazarus.[3]

Tola also acts as a jury member, for example at the Albanian classical music competition Virtuozet in 2018.[12]

Repertoire (selection)

References

  1. ^ City of Cres. "Mirjam Tola" (in Croatian). Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Staatstheater Meiningen. "Umbesetzung in "Tosca" am 8., 10. und 13. September" (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Opera Balet Ljubljana. "Mirjam Tola" (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  4. ^ a b Mirjam Tola on the website of the Arena di Verona Festival (retrieved 2011-01-21).
  5. ^ The Loren L. Zachary Society for the Performing Arts. "Finalists 2001". Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  6. ^ Wiener Zeitung Online. "Eberhard-Waechter-Medaillen: – Heuer erstmals geteilt" (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-06.
  7. ^ Das Opernmagazin (2016-06-29). "Giacomo Puccinis TOSCA beendet Spielzeit 2015/16 der Oper Wuppertal". DAS OPERNMAGAZIN (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  8. ^ a b Hamburger Abendblatt – Hamburg (2011-02-01). "Kreative Franzosen am Rande des Existenzminimums" (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-06.
  9. ^ a b Westdeutsche Zeitung (2016-01-26). "Wuppertal: Ein kultivierter, klangvoller Eugen Onegin" (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-06.
  10. ^ Göttinger Tageblatt. "Premiere im Staatstheater Kassel: Puccini-Oper "Tosca"" (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  11. ^ a b Andrea Dellabianca (2010-08-08). "Verona, Arena Opera Festival 2010:"Il Trovatore"" (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  12. ^ "Bëhuni gati: Nis sot në TV Klan spektakli i shumëpritur" (in Albanian). Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  13. ^ "V ljubljanski Operi Puccinijeva Madama Butterfly kot osebna tragedija" (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  14. ^ Opernblog (2012-04-27). "Turandot – Staatsoper Hamburg". opernblog (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  15. ^ Journal. Das Magazin der Hamburgischen Staatsoper. "Sternstunden mit Donizetti und Verdi (Macbeth)" (PDF). Ausgabe Juni/Juli 2011/12 (in German). p. 25. Retrieved 2022-02-13.

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