curriculum vitae

Marion Seidel
Dramatic Mezzo-Soprano

Native of Darmstadt, voice studies at the Music Conservatories of Cologne and Hamburg under the tutelage of Prof. Josef Metternich and Prof. Gisela Litz

Diplomas: opera diploma, diploma as a teacher of voice

Further studies and master courses studying with Anna Reynolds, Christa Ludwig, and Ingrid Bjoner

Miscellaneous competitions and engagements:

  • Bayreuth Festival scholarship recipient
  • Finalist in the “Competition for Wagner Voices” in Bayreuth
  • Professional debut in the role of Agathe in “Der Freischütz” at the theater Passau
  • Fixed engagements and guest contracts at theaters in Germany and Switzerland:
    Lübeck, Passau, Pforzheim, Lucerne, Osnabrück, Kassel, Flensburg, Freiburg i.Br, and Augsburg

Notable Roles:

  • Agathe (Freischütz, von Weber)
  • Elisabetta (Don Carlos, Verdi)
  • Foreign Princess (Rusalka, Dvořák)
  • Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana, Mascagni)
  • Boulotte (Ritter Blaubart, Offenbach)
  • Woman (La Voix Humaine, Poulenc)
  • Gräfin (Pique Dame, Tschaikowsky)
  • Mezzo-soprano (Verdi Requiem)

Prepared Roles:

  • Isolde (Tristan und Isolde, Wagner)
  • Brünnhilde (Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Wagner)
  • Kundry (Parsifal, Wagner), Sieglinde (Die Walküre,Wagner)
  • Ortrud (Lohengrin, Wagner), Venus (Tannhäuser, Wagner)
  • Judith (Herzog Blaubarts Burg, Bartók), Ariadne (Ariande auf Naxos, Strauss)
  • Küsterin (Jenufa, Janácek), Kabanicha ( Katia Kabanowa, Janacek)
  • Klytämnestra (Elektra, Strauss), Herodias (Salome, Strauss)
  • Leokadja Begbick (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Weill)

National and international concerts and song recitals:

  • Cologne Philharmonic, Feierabendhaus of BASF Ludwigshafen, Orangerie Darmstadt
  • Toscana Hall of the Würzburger Residence, Cedar Hall in Fugger Mansion Kirchheim
  • Theater Marl (Verdi Requiem), Netherlands (Verdi Requiem), Ascoli Piceno Festival (Italy), Barcelona (Spain), Ostrava, Opava (Czech Republic), Sils Maria (Schwitzerland)
  • Richard Wagner Association Baden-Baden and Freiburg i. Br.
  • State Theater Darmstadt, Baltenhaus Darmstadt

A special love of Marion Seidel is for classical song.

Her repertoire ranges from works of romanticism and late romanticism by Brahms, Schumann, Schubert, Liszt and Wagner, to French and Russian song repertoire by Duparc, Berlioz, Tschaikowsky, Glinka and Rachmaninov, and includes works of classical modernism by Strauss, Mahler, Schönberg, Berg, Schreker, Krenek and Weill.