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Sophie Rennert, mezzo-soprano

The Austrian mezzo-soprano Sophie Rennert sang roles such as Dorabella ("Così fan tutte"), Charlotte ("Werther") and Nicklausse ("The Tales of Hoffmann") at Munich's Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in the 2022-23 season. In the summer of 2023, she performed the title role in Vidaldi's "Juditha Triumphans" at the Festwochen der Alten Musik in Innsbruck, gave Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri" under Hartmut Haenchen in Utrecht and then returned to the Schubertiade.

She thrilled audiences in Rameau's "Hippolyte et Aricie" under Bernhard Forck at the Nationaltheater Mannheim as "Phèdre, who sounds as passionate as she does broken, soulful and then again rigid and ice-cold." (Mannheimer Morgen, 2.5.2021). In the summer of 2022, she could be heard as the 2nd lady in Mozart's "Magic Flute" at the Salzburg Festival, together with Claudio Osele and Le musiche nove at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music or with Helmut Deutsch and Graham Johnson at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg.

Sophie Rennert has performed with Martin Haselböck in Grafenegg and the Vienna Musikverein, in the Vienna Konzerthaus, with Jordi Savall at the Styriarte, with Ottavio Dantone and the Accademia Bizantina, with Ruben Dubrovsky and the Bach Consort Vienna. She has sung in Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Orchestre de Monte-Carlo, or recitals at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Wigmore Hall, the Brucknerhaus Linz or at the Zeist Festival.

In the recent past, too, her repertoire has spanned all eras, styles and genres: from Bach's Christmas Oratorio in Gothenburg to Mozart's Requiem with the Orquesta Nacional de España in Madrid and the Missa Solemnis in Birmingham to the CD recording "Von den Göttern weiß ich nichts" with contemporary vocal works by Uli Rennert. She performed the title role in Handel's "Lotario" at the Göttingen Handel Festival, the role of Andronico in Vivaldi's "Tamerlano" with the ensemble Les Accents in Dortmund, Piacere in Haendel's "Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" with the Accademia Bizantina, Idamante in Mozart's "Idomeneo" at the Salzburg Landestheater, Angelina in Rossini's "La Cenerentola" at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and Flower Girl in Wagner's Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival through to Harper Pitt in "Angels in America" by Peter Eötvös at the Neue Oper Wien.

In 2017/18, the young mezzo-soprano was selected for the Vienna Konzerthaus's "Great Talents" series. From 2014 to 2016, she was a member of the Konzert Theater Bern ensemble. In 2013, Sophie Rennert was a member of the "Young Singers Project" at the Salzburg Festival.

The young singer works with renowned orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz under conductors such as David Afkham, Ivor Bolton, Semyon Bychkov, Laurence Cummings, Christian Curnyn, Ádám Fischer, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Hartmut Haenchen, Philippe Jordan, Alessandro de Marchi, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Mark Piollet and Andreas Spering.

Sophie Rennert's discography includes the aforementioned CD of contemporary vocal works, Leopold Mozart's Missa Solemnis with the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie and Handel's Lotario from Göttingen. Recently, a CD with Brahms Lieder accompanied by Graham Johnson was released on hyperion, as well as the recording of Vivaldi's Tamerlano with the Accademia Bizantina under Ottavio Dantone on naïve classique.

Sophie Rennert won 2nd prize and the audience prize at the 7th International Cesti Competition for Baroque Singing in Innsbruck in 2016 and was a prizewinner at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg.

In addition to violin and piano lessons, Sophie Rennert began her vocal training with her mother, the soprano and vocal teacher Sigrid Rennert. In 2014, she completed her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Karlheinz Hanser and Prof. Charles Spencer with distinction. She attended master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender, Ann Murray and Helmut Deutsch.

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