Soloist

Anna-Katharina Tonauer

The Austrian mezzo-soprano Anna-Katharina Tonauer began her singing training at the College of Music in Innsbruck with Matthias Drievko. In 2015, she graduated with distinction from her course at Vienna’s University of Music and the Performing Arts, having studied with Gabriele Fontana and Karlheinz Hanser. She was provided with trailblazing inspiration in master classes given by Brigitte Fassbaender, Anne Sofie von Otter, Helmut Deutsch and Leopold Spitzer, amongst others.

Anna-Katharina Tonauer gained initial opera experience at the Schlossfestspiele Langenlois as Haiderl in »Das Dreimäderlhaus« and at the »JOpera« summer festival in Jennersdorf as the Second Lady in »Die Zauberflöte« and Hansel in »Hänsel und Gretel«. At the isaOpera Vienna, the mezzo-soprano appeared in the roles of Cherubino (»Le nozze di Figaro«) and Dorabella (»Così fan tutte«).

In 2014, she was awarded 1st prize at Musica Juventutis and, as a result, performed a programme of lieder in the Konzerthaus in Vienna. In 2015, she won the 3rd International Otto Edelmann Singing Competition in Vienna. 2017 she was guest at the Styriarte and the Lech Classic Festival. 2018 she was a fellow of the Richard-Wagner-Verband Munich.

She has been a member of the ensemble of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz since the 2016/2017 season, interpreting such roles as Angelina and Tisbe (»La Cenerentola«), Hänsel and Sandmann (»Hänsel und Gretel«), Dorabella (»Così fan tutte«), Zweite Dame (»Die Zauberflöte«), Nancy (»Martha«), Maddalena (»Rigoletto«), Lucy (»Die Dreigroschenoper«), Olga (»Eugen Onegin«), Smeton (»Anna Bolena«), Caroline Helmer (»Schuberts Reise nach Atzenbrugg«), Rosina (»Il barbiere di Siviglia«) and La Muse / Niklausse (»Les Contes d’Hoffmann«).

Guest engagements led the young singer with the title role of »La Cenerentola« to the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern and to the Heilbronn, as Tisbe (»La Cenerentola«) to the Oper Frankfurt, as Primavera (»La Gloria di Primavera«) to the Styriarte Graz and as Dorabella to Salzburg, Linz, Graz and Vienna.