Univ.-Prof.in Claudia Visca, Sopran
Ordinariate for Voice
visca@mdw.ac.at
The New York-born soprano, Claudia Visca, completed her vocal training at "The Curtis Institute of Music" in Philadelphia. A Fulbright Scholarship brought her to the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts, where she studied with KS Hilde Rössel-Majdan and Anton Dermota.
Claudia Visca has worked with numerous renowned conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, Istvan Kertesz, Gustav Kuhn, Miguel Goméz-Martinèz, Helmut Müller-Brühl, Hanns-Martin Schneidt, Sandor Vegh, Peter Gülke and Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos.
She has worked with the following artists and directors, among others: Placido Domingo, Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras, Edith Mathis, Günther von Kannen, Hartmut Welker, Thomas Tipton, Josef Protschka, Yo-Yo Ma, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Bruno Canino, Rudolf Serkin, Siegfried Palm, Richard Stolzmann, members of the Guarneri Quartet, Marcel Prawy, Pina Bausch, John Dew, Pet Halmen, Christine Mielitz, Wolfgang Weber, Sammy Molcho.
In her long stage career she has appeared in more than 25 opera houses in Europe, including Vienna, Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Amsterdam, Geneva and Zurich.
She embodied 75 opera, operetta and musical roles.
From 2000-2003 she was a professor of voice at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. In 2003, she was appointed to the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Institute for Voice and Music Theater), where she has been leading a class for solo voice ever since.
Claudia Visca gives master classes in singing and interpretation all over the world, most recently in Germany, America, Japan, Austria, Italy, Holland, Belgium; in 2008 in Greece, England and the Czech Republic. She is also a juror at international competitions.
Students of Prof. Claudia Visca are prize winners of many competitions and engaged at renowned opera houses.
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