Gerlinde Sämann
 

The blind soprano was born in 1969 in Nürnberg. She studied voice and piano at the Richard-Strauss-Conservatory in Munich with teachers such as Karl-Heinz Jarius, Henriette Meyer-Rayenstein, and Selma Aykan. She also graduated with a degree in Breath Therapy from Ilse Middendorf.

Her repertoire ranges from historical works to art song and oratorio to Avantgarde and contemporary musical theater. In 2000, she recieved a scholarship for her artistic work from the Capital of Munich.

In 1999, she performed with the Schloß Rheinsberg Opera under the direction of Arila Siegert in Francis Poulenc’s Tragédie Lyrique: La voix Humaine. At the city theater in Aachen, she recorded this opera as a guest musician with much success for the 2000/2001 season.

As a soloist, she has performed in various festivals with the Dresden Kreuz Choir, the Chamber Choir Accentus, Arsyis Bourgogne, the medieval ensemble Estampie, Armoico Tributo Austria, the Himmlischen Cantorey and the Berlin Academy for Early Music. (Styriartres, “La folle journée” de Nantes, Festa da Musica Lissabon, Festival de Vezelay Bourgogne etc.)

In 2002/2003, Gerlinde Sämann was a guest performer with the Neumarkt Theater as well as in Zürich with Otto Kuklas’ scene work of Pergolesis’ “Stabat Mater”. This production was also performed in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

In 2003, she performed in the production “Die Frau vom Meer” in Ibsen. She has performed as a Bach cantata soloist at the Opéra de Bordeaux with the ensemble “La petite bande” under the direction of Sigiswald Kuijken.

In the summer of 2004, the artist performed the role of Eurydike in Chr. W. Gluck’s “Orfeus und Eurydike” at the Opera in Rostock under the direction of Arila Siegert and Wolf-Dieter Hausschild.

In the summer of 2005, Gerlinde Sämann played Salome in the Thomas Höft production of Alessandro Stradellas’ “San Giovanni Battista” at the “Pax 2005” in Augsburg.

She has made countless recordings for radio and CD internationally.