Christine Schäfer

Christine Schäfer

Birthday: 1965-03-03

Place of Birth: Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Biography: Christine Schäfer is a German operatic soprano. She studied from 1984 until 1991 at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. Her repertoire contains several baroque operas, Bach cantatas, and many of the great Mozart roles, along with modern pieces. In 1995, she performed to great acclaim during the Salzburg Festival as Lulu in Berg's opera of that name, a part she would later sing at The Met and at Glyndebourne.

Movies

Rigoletto
Rigoletto

Verdi's drama of revenge, in its stunning new production by David McVicar, is filled with some of th...

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Rigoletto
Rigoletto

Live recording at Royal Opera House, 22 September, 2001. Television live relay. In one of the Royal...

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Lulu
Lulu

Alban Berg's black, satirical opera is one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century. It charts the ri...

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The Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro

This release contains the celebrated 2006 production of Mozart's Nozze di Figaro that was directed f...

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Mozart: Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail
Mozart: Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail

The celebrated three-act opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart comes to life in this dynamic performance ...

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The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

This deliciously dark take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, appealing to audiences of all a...

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The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
The Met — Der Rosenkavalier

This production of Strauss’s most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel Merrill and designer Robert O...

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Dichterliebe
Dichterliebe

In Dichterliebe (2000), a film by Oliver Herrmann based on Robert Schumann’s song-cycle of the same ...

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One Night, One Life
One Night, One Life

In the film One Night. One Life, based on the cycle Pierrot Lunaire, Arnold Schönberg’s opus 21, dir...

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Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni's list of romantic conquests reaches into the hundreds. But his reputation as a lothari...

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Theodora
Theodora

George Frederic Handel's oratorio Theodora, in its first-ever staged version at the Salzburg Festiva...

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An Advent Concert of Music by Bach
An Advent Concert of Music by Bach

Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads the Concentus Musicus Vienna and Arnold Schoenberg Choir in a concert of ...

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The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998

The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music ...

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Europakonzert 1999 from Cracow
Europakonzert 1999 from Cracow

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Exsultate, Jubilate, KV 165 Et incarnatus est Credo from Mass in C minor, K...

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Pierre Boulez Conducts Modern Classics
Pierre Boulez Conducts Modern Classics

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