Univ.-Prof.ⁱⁿ Hermine Haselböck-Littasy, Mezzosopran
Ordinariate for Voice
haselboeck-littasy@mdw.ac.at

The Austrian mezzo-soprano Hermine Haselböck studied at the MDW with Rita Streich and Hartmut Krones, then with Ingeborg Ruß at the Musikhochschule Detmold (BRD), graduating with an artistic maturity examination in singing and a diploma in vocal pedagogy. With great passion she dedicates herself to song, with pleasure also to the less known song repertoire and female composers. Her two solo CDs "Songs by Zemlinsky" and "Mahler-Lieder" have won awards.

In concert, she has performed almost all the major works in her vocal repertoire, including Bach (Christmas Oratorio, St. Matthew Passion), Beethoven (Missa Solemnis, 9th Symphony), Handel (Messiah), Mahler (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Rückertlieder, Kindertotenlieder, Lied von der Erde, 2nd. und 3. Symphonie), Mozart (Requiem), Mendelssohn (Elias), Verdi (Requiem), Wagner (Wesendoncklieder), Wolf (Italienisches und Spanisches Liederbuch) and Zemlinsky (Maeterlinckgesänge).

In opera, Hermine Haselböck first began with the lyric mezzo-soprano roles, such as Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), 2nd Lady (Magic Flute), Ramiro (La finta giardiniera), Mercedes (Carmen), Ernesto (Il Mondo della Luna) or Hänsel (Hansel and Gretel) and later developed into the dramatic field, with roles such as Mother (Hansel and Gretel), 3. Maid (Elektra), Azucena (Il Trovatore), Magdalene (Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde), Fricka (Das Rheingold, Die Walküre) and Flosshilde (Das Rheingold, Die Götterdämmerung).

Particularly noteworthy is her interpretation of Brangäne in the first staged performance of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" in China (Beijing), furthermore the Daughter (female lead) in Ella Milch-Sheriff's contemporary opera "Baruch's Silence" at the Entarte Opera Festival Vienna, whose production received a nomination at the Austrian Music Theater Award.

She has worked with renowned conductors such as Bertrand de Billy, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Vladimir Fedosejev, Adam Fischer, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Manfred Honeck, Gustav Kuhn, Fabio Luisi, Kirill Petrenko, Erwin Ortner, Martin Sieghart, Christian Thielemann, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Franz Welser-Möst and Jaap van Zweden and many renowned orchestras.

Her international artistic activities have taken her to the Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, Brucknerhaus Linz, Mozarteum Salzburg, Philharmonie im Gasteig Munich, Frauenkirche Dresden, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Palacio Euskalduna Bilbao, Carnegie Hall New York, Bing Theater Los Angeles, Shanghai City Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Center, Theater an der Wien, Vienna Volksoper, Graz Opera, Grand Theatre de la Ville Luxembourg, Teatro San Carlo Naples as well as to festivals such as Styriarte, Wiener Festwochen, KlangBogen Vienna, Brucknerfest Linz, Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Haydnfestival Eisenstadt, Gustav Mahler Musikwochen Toblach, Bachfest Leipzig, Festspiele Baden-Baden, Festival Sagra Musicale Umbra Perugia, Kunstfest Weimar and MDR Musiksommer Leipzig.

Hermine Haselböck has also been able to pass on the experience of her long artistic career to young singers for several years.

Since 2017, she has been teaching as a guest professor of voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, and in 2020 she will also be teaching voice at the JJF Conservatory Graz.

In 2021 she was awarded the "venia docendi" in voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

With the winter semester 2022 Hermine Haselböck-Littasy follows the call as university professor for voice at the mdw.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)-16.05.2023