Alexandra Petersamer

The mezzo-soprano was born in Landau an der Isar and studied voice under Prof. Hanno Blaschke at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich from 1988 to 1995. She graduated as an opera and concert singer with a master-class diploma. During her studies she was awarded scholarships by the Deutscher Bühnenverein and the Richard Wagner Foundation and the young artist scholarship of the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture. She won 1st prize at the VDMK Federal Singing Competition in Berlin in the category of opera in 1992. In 1994 she won 1st prize at the International Pfitzner Competition in Munich and won two special prizes from Riga and Barcelona at the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna in 1997.

Initially, from 1994 to 2000, she was a member of the ensemble at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, which led to a fixed engagement at the Gärtnerplatz State Theatre in Munich from 2000 to 2004. Since 2005 she has worked on a freelance basis, appearing in the roles of Carmen, Charlotte, Eboli and Brangäne. In 2007 she made her debut in Tokyo, singing Ortrud with great success, a role she also sang at Leipzig Opera in 2008. Other engagements have led her to the Semperoper in Dresden, to Innsbruck and Stavanger. Active as a concert singer, she has performed in many German cities as well as in Paris, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Riga, Brussels, Las Palmas, Charleston, Columbus, at the Vienna Musikverein, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, at the concerts in Neuschwanstein castle, the Salzburg Festival, in Chicago and Savonlinna. She has worked with conductors like Valery Gergiev, Sir Colin Davis, Michael Gielen, Günther Herbig, Bertrand de Billy, Stefan Anton Reck, Stefan Soltesz and Marcello Viotti.

She was described as a "truly exceptional singer/performer" endowed with a "balmy" voice by the Viennese opera magazine "Der Neue Merker".
 

Pitch of voice:
Mezzosopran

Engagements in Bayreuth

Year	Opera	Part
2010	Die Walküre	Rossweisse
2009	Die Walküre	Rossweisse
2007	Die Walküre	Rossweisse
2006	Die Walküre	Rossweisse