Maria Riccarda Wesseling

Education
Studies with Hedwig Vonlanthen, Elisabeth Glauser, Margreet Honigand Barbara Martig.

Career
International breakthrough in 2006 as Iphigénie/Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck) (Opéra de Paris);
Wide repertoire of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart and Gluck, Berlioz and Bizet, Berg, Strauss, Schoenberg and Mahler, contemporary works by Saariaho and Henze.

Highlights
Phaedra (Henze) (Staatsoper Berlin; La Monnaie Brussels; Barbican Centre, London); Orphée/Orphée et Euridice (Gluck) (Opéra de Paris & Lincoln Centre, New York; production by Pina Bausch); Giulietta/Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Genève); Sesto/Giulio Cesare (Bilbao); Carmen/Carmen (Bilbao); Marie/Wozzeck (St. Gallen); Iphigénie/Iphigénie en Tauride (Teatro Real, Madrid); La bellen Hélène/La belle Hélène (Bordeaux); Marguerite/La Damnation de Faust (Stuttgart); Ottavia/L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Teatro Real).

Recordings
Rodrigo (Haendel), Andromaque (Grétry), Metella/La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach) (Lyon) on dvd; various recital CDs

Worked with
Directors such as Robert Carsen, Andrea Moses, Krysztof Warlikowski; conductors such as Plácido Domingo, Riccardo Chailly, Peter Eötvös and Thomas Hengelbrock.

Recent and future productions
Marie/Wozzeck (Tel-Aviv), Marguerite/La Damnation de Faust (Staatsoper Stuttgart).