Performance Database

Mihoko Fujimura

Mihoko Fujimura was born in Japan and studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, before moving to Europe and completing her studies at the Munich Academy of Music. The winner of many international competitions, including the Wagner Voices Competition, she was a permanent member of Graz Opera from 1995 to 2000, gaining international recognition in 2002, when she appeared at the Munich Opera Festival. Guest appearances since then have taken her to the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, Milan, the Bavarian and Vienna State Operas, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and the Maggio Musicale in Florence. Much in demand in the concert hall, she has appeared to great acclaim with the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Munich and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras. Her operatic repertory includes Carmen, Azucena, Eboli, Amneris, Venus and Octavian. During the winter of 2004/5 she recorded Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde for EMI Classics with Plácido Domingo as Tristan.

 

Engagements in Bayreuth

Year Opera Part
2010 Die Walküre Fricka
2010 Das Rheingold Fricka
2009 Parsifal Kundry
2009 Das Rheingold Erda
2008 Parsifal Kundry
2007 Götterdämmerung Waltraute
2007 Siegfried Erda
2007 Das Rheingold Erda
2006 Götterdämmerung Waltraute
2006 Siegfried Erda
2006 Das Rheingold Erda
2005 Tristan und Isolde Brangäne
2004 Götterdämmerung Waltraute
2004 Die Walküre Fricka
2004 Das Rheingold Fricka
2003 Die Walküre Fricka
2003 Das Rheingold Fricka
2002 Die Walküre Fricka
2002 Das Rheingold Fricka