Eva Resch
soprano
With her flexible and expressive high soprano Eva Resch is one of the most exciting singers of the younger generation. A savvy interpreter of contemporary music, she was invited to the Teatro de Bellas Artes and the Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato, Mexico, as well as to the Villa Massimo in Rome. She guested among others at the national theaters in Warsaw and Weimar, at the Bonn Opera, the Malmö Opera, as well as at the Munich Biennale, the Wiener Festwochen and the Berliner Festspiele. In 2022, she premiered the new opera The Damned and the Saved by Malin Bång at the Biennale Munich and Nationaltheater Mannheim.
Eva Resch has sung roles in the world premieres of operas written by Wolfgang Rihm, Pascal Dusapin, Thomas Adès, Johannes Maria Staud, Vladimir Tarnopolski, Philipp Maintz, Gordon Kampe and Anno Schreier. She has worked with outstanding directors and conductors, such as Claus Guth and Werner Schroeter, Franck Ollu, Stefan Asbury, Walter Koberá, Johannes Kalitzke and Alicija Mounk.
Eva also devotes herself with great enthusiasm to chamber music projects: she regularly interprets the Chaplin Operas by Benedict Mason with the Ensemble Modern, most recently at the Tchaikovsky Theater in Perm (Russia), at the Philharmonie in Essen, the Cité de la Musique/Festival d’Automne Paris and together with the Collegium Novum at the Tonhalle Maag Zurich.
Her debut CD recording Being Beauteous (Genuin) with songs by Debussy and Britten was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award (“Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik”). Her CD Insights (Genuin) with the complete collection of all string quartets by Arnold Schönberg recorded in collaboration with the Asasello Quartet has won several awards. Her latest CD recording Eden (Genuin) of The Book of Hanging Gardens by Arnold Schönberg and other songs by Viktor Ullmann, Anton Webern and Franz Schreker was released in May 2019. She presented it in a recital together with the pianist Eric Schneider at the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna. The recording has already been nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award and has resulted in the nomination as Singer of the Yearfor the Opus Klassik Award 2020.
The season 2022/23 will include her debut at Wiener Konzerthaus with Bernhard Lang’s Cold Trip part I + II in the series Nouvelles Aventures. She will also sing concerts of Schönberg’s String Quartett 2 with the Asasello Quartett in Cologne and at the Festival de Laon (FR).
Opera / Music theatre:
Thomas Adès Powder her face (Maid)
Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio (Marzelline)
Gaetano Donizetti Der Liebestrank (Adina)
Pascal Dusapin Medeamaterial (Medea)
Christoph Willibald Gluck Orpheus und Eurydike (Amor)
Engelberg Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel (Gretel/Sandmann/Taumann)
Mathias Husmann Die Zugvögel (Heidi)
Franz Lehár Das Land des Lächelns (Mi), Die lustige Witwe (Valencienne)
Albert Lortzing Zar und Zimmermann (Marie)
Peter Maxwell Davies Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot (Donnithorne)
Ella Milch-Sheriff Baruch’s Schweigen (Mother)
Carl Millöcker Der Bettelstudent (von Richthofen)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflöte (Königin der Nacht/Papagena)
Jacques Offenbach Hoffmanns Erzählungen (Olympia)
Giacomo Puccini Turandot (Liu)
Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas (Belinda)
Wolfgang Rihm Jakob Lenz (2. soprano), Die Eroberung von Mexiko (high soprano)
Richard Rodgers Sound of Music (Liesel)
Gioachino Rossini L`Italiana in Algeri (Elvira)
Johannes Maria Staud Berenice (Hausmädchen /1. Familiengeist)
Johann Strauß Die Fledermaus (Adele/Ida)
Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier (Sophie)
Vladimir Tarnopolski Jenseits der Schatten (muse)
Udo Zimmermann Weiße Rose (Sophie Scholl)
Concert (selection):
Johann Sebastian Bach Christmas Oratorio I-VI, Mass in b-minor, St John Passion, Cantata „Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten“
Michael Beil Und neun ist eins
Luciano Berio Sequenza III
C. Brandt Alle Landschaften haben sich mit blau erfüllt
Benjamin Britten Les Illuminations, A ceremony of carols
John Cage She is asleep, The wonderful widow of eighteen springs, A flower, Experiences No. 2, Songbooks
Armando Gentilucci Lied senza parole
Georg Haider Mein Haus war schon zur Ruh gekommen
Gordon Kampe Vier Schreker Lieder, Kleine Dinge, z.B.: ein Heuschreck
Philipp Maintz Zwei Lieder nach Elisabeth Plessen
Benedict Mason Three Chaplin Operas
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Davide penitente, Exsultate, jubilate, Krönungsmesse
Carl Orff Carmina Burana
Joachim F.W. Schneider live, Guru, Schlechter Trost, Von der Einsamkeit dürrer Lieder
Arnold Schönberg 2. string quartet op. 10, Herzgewächse op. 20
Anno Schreier Der Kältefuchs
Igor Strawinsky Pulcinella
Lisa Streich Pane
Lied (selection):
Johannes Brahms div.
Claude Debussy Ariettes oubliees, Fetes galantes I, Fetes galantes II
Hanns Eisler Zeitungsausschnitte op. 11, div.
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy div.
Olivier Messiaen Chants de Terre et de Ciel
Modest Mussorgski Kinderstube
Nikolai Oboukow Deux poèmes liturgiques
Henry Purcell div.
Erik Satie Trois melodies de 1886, div.
Arnold Schönberg Das Buch der hängenden Gärten
Franz Schreker Zwei lyrische Gesänge
Franz Schubert Winterreise, div.
Robert Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben, div.
Richard Strauss 3 Ophelia-Lieder, 4 Mädchenblumen, div.
Viktor Ullmann Liebeslieder von Ricarda Huch
Anton Webern 5 Lieder op. 4 on poems by Stefan George
Kurt Weill div.
Hugo Wolf Italian songbook, Spanish songbook
Stefan Wolpe An Anna Blume
11 December 2022, 19:30, Wiener Konzerthaus
Programme: Bernhard Lang Monadologie XXXII “The Cold Trip”, pt. I and pt. II (Austrian premiere)
Cast: Silas Bischoff (guitar), Martin Dressler (guitar), Eva Resch (soprano), Jürgen Ruck (guitar), Eric Schneider (piano, laptop), Hubert Steiner (guitar), Dorothee Hartinger (actress)
10/11/12 March 2023, Kampnagel Hamburg
Programme: Orfeo! a multimedia concert performance
Cast: Ensemble Resonanz, Sandra Strunz (direction), Karsten and Rainer Süssmilch (music), Samuel Finzi (acting), Filippa Gojo (jazz singing), Eva Resch (soprano), Katharina Schüttler (acting), Gustav Strunz (acting), Christian Zehnder (voice art).
EDEN
In the biblical sense, “Eden” refers to a paradise, a garden of bliss. But it is a lost paradise, a place of longing, sometimes also a pleasure garden full of forbidden fruits, as Stefan Georg presented it in his cycle of poems Das Buch der hängenden Gärten (The Book of the Hanging Gardens). Here he described it as “reflections of a soul that has temporarily fled to other times and places and cradled itself there.” Viktor Ullmann, Arnold Schönberg, Anton Webern and Franz Schreker each gave these “soul reflections” their own individual character. What emerged were four song cycles full of deep devotion, intense passion, love and desire, passing away and renewal.
Cast:
Eva Resch (soprano)
Eric Schneider (piano)
Programme:
Viktor Ullmann Five Love Poems by Ricarda Huch, Op. 26
Arnold Schönberg 15 Songs to Poems from The Book of the Hanging Gardens by Stefan George, Op. 15
Anton Webern Five Songs on Poems by Stefan George, Op. 4
Franz Schreker Two Lyrical Songs from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Combinable with Songs by Richard Strauss, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert and Franz Schreker.
Here the young, extremely talented soprano devotes herself to sultry matters, set in tones by Webern, Ullmann, Schönberg and Schreker. Ravishing!
Die Deutsche Bühne, Andreas Falentin, December 2019
Her colourful soprano, which differentiates significantly between the voices, has a raw timbre, which – based on excellent interpretation of the text – combines tenderness with avant-garde nonchalance, credibly conveying both the light moods (…) and the exalted and ecstatic nature of a piece (…).
Opernwelt, Jürgen Otten, August 2019
Winterreise (Franz Schubert):
Audio recordings:
O schöne Hand (Viktor Ullmann):
Saget mir auf welchem Pfade (Arnold Schönberg ):
Angst und Hoffnung wechselnd mich beklemmen (Arnold Schönberg):
Eingang (Anton Webern):
La Mer est plus belle (Claude Debussy):
Phrase (Benjamin Britten):
Der Sommerwind (Philippe Maintz):
Eden – with works by Ullmann, Schönberg, Webern i.a.
Genuin (2019)
Eva Resch, soprano
Eric Schneider, piano
Being Beauteous – with works by Debussy and Britten
Genuin (2016)
Eva Resch, soprano
Francois Salignat, piano
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Website:
https://www.eva-resch.de
