Maria Radner

Maria Radner
Radner c. 2011
Born
Maria Friderike Radner

(1981-05-07)7 May 1981
Düsseldorf, West Germany
Died24 March 2015(2015-03-24) (aged 33)
Prads-Haute-Bléone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
EducationRobert Schumann Hochschule
OccupationClassical contralto
Websitewww.ia-ac.com/MariaRadner (archived)

Maria Friderike Radner (German: [ˈʁaːdnɐ] ⓘ; 7 May 1981[1] – 24 March 2015) was a German contralto who performed internationally in opera and in concerts.[2] She studied at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. She was described as an "extremely talented interpreter of Wagner's music" by Stern magazine and Abendzeitung.[3][4] Possessing the "rare pitch of a true alto",[5] she frequently appeared as Erda in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Leipzig Opera, Schwertleite in Die Walküre at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze with Zubin Mehta, and in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) conducted by Antonio Pappano in Rome and Milan. Her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2012 in Götterdämmerung was part of that company's documentary Wagner's Dream.

Radner, her husband, and her infant son were among the 150 people killed in March 2015 when Germanwings Flight 9525 was deliberately crashed by its co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz.[6][7]

  1. ^ "Maria Radner". Rheinische Post (in German). 13 June 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  2. ^ Garry Humphreys (26 March 2015). "Maria Radner: Internationally acclaimed contralto who was due to make her Bayreuth Festival debut later this year". The Independent. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
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  4. ^ "Opernsängerin mit Germanwings in den Tod gestürzt". Abendzeitung München. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015. Als äußerst talentierte Wagner-Interpretin debütierte sie noch während ihres Studiums unter dem weltberühmten Dirigenten Zubin Mehta am Palau de les Arts Valencia.
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  6. ^ Shammas, John (24 March 2015). "Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crash: First pictures of opera singers Maria Radner and Oleg Bryjak among 150 dead". Daily Mirror. London. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  7. ^ Humphreys, Garry (26 March 2015). "Maria Radner: Internationally acclaimed contralto who was due to make her Bayreuth Festival debut later this year". The Independent. Retrieved 31 March 2015.