Christina Landshamer is a versatile singer celebrated worldwide across a diverse repertoire. Based in Stuttgart, she began her vocal training at the Munich University of Music and continued her studies with Dunja Vejsovic in Stuttgart.
She regularly collaborates with leading conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Manfred Honeck, Alan Gilbert, Marek Janowski, Marie Jacquot, Pablo Heras-Casado, Franz Welser-Möst, and Christian Thielemann. These collaborations have led her to perform with top orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Hamburg, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the Munich Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Orchestre de Paris, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Stockholm. In the USA, she has performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, among others.
On the opera stage, Christina Landshamer has appeared at the Stuttgart State Opera, the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, and the Komische Oper Berlin. She performed under Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Theater an der Wien and under Sir Simon Rattle at the Salzburg Festival. She has portrayed Pamina in The Magic Flute at both the Bavarian State Opera and the Het Muziektheater Amsterdam, Ännchen in Weber's Der Freischütz under Christian Thielemann at the Semperoper Dresden, Almirena in Rinaldo at Glyndebourne, and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Most recently, she sang the role of Woglinde in Wagner's Das Rheingold under Kirill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera. In the spectacular production of Haydn's The Creation by La Fura dels Baus, she took on the soprano parts in Paris and at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. In May 2024, she reprised her role as Pamina in Nikolaus Habjan's production with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst.
The 2024/25 concert season promises numerous highlights: she will perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Orchestra de Valencia under Alexander Liebreich, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under Roberto Gonzales Monjas, and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra under Jaap van Zweden. Other engagements include Mozart's Requiem with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck, Mendelssohn's Lobgesang Symphony with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt, Bach's St. John Passion with the Helsinki Radio Symphony Orchestra under Nicholas Collon, and Beethoven's Egmont with the Berlin Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel.
With her warm, lyrical soprano voice, Christina Landshamer is also a passionate lieder singer. Together with her piano partner Gerold Huber, she is a welcome guest at major song centers such as the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Hugo Wolf Academy, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Kioi Hall in Tokyo.
Numerous CD and DVD recordings on labels such as Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Music, Pentatone, BR Klassik, Oehms Classics, Phi, EMI, and Unitel document her artistic work. In 2022, she released a solo CD on the Pentatone label featuring works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, accompanied by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
In 2024 she has been appointed professor of singing at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.
12. September 2024 - 20:00 Stuttgart, Liederhalle - Beethoven-Saal Anton Bruckner: Te Deum C-Dur WAB 45 |
13. September 2024 - 20:00 Stuttgart, Liederhalle - Beethoven-Saal Anton Bruckner: Te Deum C-Dur WAB 45 |
15. September 2024 - 19:00 Freiburg im Breisgau, Konzerthaus Freiburg Anton Bruckner: Te Deum C-Dur WAB 45 |
HIGHLIGHTS 2023/2024