Soloist

Gisela Ehrensperger

After private singing studies with Sofia Husi in Zurich, Gisela Ehrensperger got her first engagement in St Gallen in 1965 and was recruited to Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz two years later by Kurt Pscherer where she has been a member of the ensemble since 2007.

In a stage career of more than 40 years, she has here performed more than 150 roles of the most variegated types and eras, including all soprano parts in Purcell's »The Fairy Queen«, Susanna (»Le nozze di Figaro«), Pamina (»Die Zauberflöte«), Micaëla (»Carmen«), Gretel and the Witch (»Hänsel und Gretel«), Mimì and Musetta (»La Bohème«), Antonia (»The Tales of Hoffmann«), Nedda (»Bajazzo«) and Nuri (»Tiefland«). Her extensive repertory in the field of operetta includes Josepha Vogelhuber (»Im Weißen Rössl«), Hanna Glawari (»Die Lustige Witwe«) and Saffi (»Der Zigeunerbaron«). She also personified important musical roles such as Golda (»Fiddler on the Roof«) and Fräulein Schneider (»Cabaret«).

Gisela Ehrensperger sang in various premieres, including as Margot in the premiere of the revised version of the short operetta »Die Ländler-Queen sieht Morgenrot« by Georg Ringswandl. Guest appearances took her, among other places, to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover, Graz, Klagenfurt, Milan, Vienna and Japan. In 1974 Gisela Ehrensperger was appointed as the youngest Bavarian Chamber Singer. In 1994 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1999 the Bavarian Order of Merit.

At Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Gisela Ehrensperger was most recently heard as Fräulein Schneider (»Cabaret«), Countess Palmatica Nowalska (»Der Bettelstudent«), Wanja (»Die Zirkusprinzessin«), Madame de Rosemonde (»Gefährliche Liebschaften«), Madame Armfeldt (»A Little Night Music«) as well as Leopoldine Brandlmayer (»Die Faschingsfee«).