Albums by Simone Kermes
ALBUMInferno e ParadisoSimone Kermes
ALBUMMio caro HändelSimone Kermes, Amici Veneziani & Boris Begelman
ALBUMStrauss & Mahler: Piano Quartets & LiederSimone Kermes & Fauré Quartett
ALBUMHaydn: Opera GalaSimone Kermes, Rainer Trost, Chen Reiss, Paul Armin Edelmann, Wolfgang Holzmair, Ivan Paley, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Markus Poschner & Manuel Hernández-Silva
ALBUMMozart: Così fan tutte (Highlights)Teodor Currentzis, Simone Kermes, Malena Ernman, Christopher Maltman, Kenneth Tarver, Anna Kasyan, Konstantin Wolff & MusicAeterna
ALBUMRival QueensSimone Kermes & Vivica Genaux
ALBUMBeethoven: Egmont, Op. 84 & Ah perfido!, Op. 65Christian Quadflieg, Christoph-Mathias Müller & Simone Kermes
ALBUMBel CantoSimone Kermes
ALBUMRivals - Arias for Farinelli & Co.David Hansen, Alessandro De Marchi & Academia Montis Regalis
ALBUMDrammaSimone Kermes
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"You Have to Wait and You Have to Dream" (Why This Recording Was Made)
Teodor Currentzis, Andrei Bondarenko, Simone Kermes, Christian Van Horn, Fanie Antonelou, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Maria Forsström, Nikolai Loskutkin, Krystian Adam, James Elliott, Garry Agadzhanian, Natalya Kirillova & MusicAeterna
Teodor Currentzis records Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte & Don Giovanni
Teodor Currentzis, Andrei Bondarenko, Simone Kermes, Christian Van Horn, Fanie Antonelou, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Maria Forsström, Nikolai Loskutkin, Krystian Adam, James Elliott, Garry Agadzhanian, Natalya Kirillova & MusicAeterna
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Her gripping voice balances well with strings and woodwinds.
Artist Biography
German coloratura soprano Simone Kermes is a specialist in Baroque and early Classical opera.
A native of Leipzig, she attended the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn," where she studied with Helga Forner, and earned two degrees with distinction. Kermes has performed leads in operas by Handel, such as Alcina, Deidamia, and Rodelinda, as well as various Mozart roles, including Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. Other parts have included Laodice in Alessandro Scarlatti's Mitridate Eupatore, and Rosalinde in Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus. Kermes appeared at the 2000 revival of Legrenzi's three-act opera La divisione del mondo at the Schwetzingen Festival, singing the role of Cinzia. She has appeared at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Bonn Opera, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. Kermes has also been a guest artist at the Bachfest Leipzig, the Bachfest Bonn, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Festa de Musica in Lisbon, the Ruhrtriennale, the Triennale di Colonia, Prague Autumn, and Resonanzen Vienna. She has sung in concerts with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Venice Baroque Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, the Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Il Complesso Barocco, and the Flanders Symphony Orchestra. Kermes has recorded on Sony Classical, RCA Red Seal, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Archiv Produktion, and Capriccio Records, among other labels. ~ Blair Sanderson
Hometown
Leipzig, Germany
Genre
Classical