Cyndia sieden biography

Biography.
Biography.
Cyndia Sieden was born in California, USA, and received her first vocal instruction there.

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Cyndia Sieden

Biography

Coloratura soprano Cyndia Sieden earns raves for singing that garners such superlatives as “pyrotechnic,” and “dizzying.” Her purity of tone and pitch-perfect musicianship allow her to move with ease from 18th-century composers such as Handel and Mozart, to complex 21st-century works by such masters as Thomas Adès and Esa-Pekka Salonen. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the protagonist in Berg’s Lulu, and returned to sing Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. She made her Salzburg Festival debut in Ombra Felice, a fully staged production of Mozart concert arias, and returned to sing Aspasia in Jonathan Miller’s production of Mitridate re di Ponto, released on CD under the Salzburg Festival label. She appeared at New York City Opera in the title role of Handel’s Partenope, and Morton Feldman’s Neither.

Contemporary opera remains a pillar of her activities. Her performances as Ariel in Adès’ The Tempest, which premiered at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with the composer at the podium, astou

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Cyndia Sieden

Soloist, Soprano

She was born in California, US in 1961. She studied voice under Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in the US and Salzburg. Her career began after she won first prize in a singing competition; she debuted in 1984, as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, directed by Ruth Berghaus for the Bavarian State Opera. She made her USA debut in 1984 as Marie (La fille du régiment) in Florida. She has since sung baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary repertoire. She excelled in the coloratura soprano repertoire. She has appeared in major opera houses internationally, including: Opéra Bastille, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie Brussels, Royal Opera House London, English National Opera, Dutch National Opera, as well as in Beijing and Australia. She made her Metropolitan Opera New York debut in the title role of Lulu, and sang again at the MET in 2008 as Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte). She has repeatedly performed roles in operas by Richard Strauss, such as Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) in Munch, Japan and Vienna; Sophie (Der Rosen

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Cyndia Sieden

American opera singer

Cyndia Sieden (born September 10, 1961) is an American coloratura soprano on the opera and concert stages.

Biography

Cyndia Sieden was born in 1961 in California, USA, and received her first vocal instruction there. A significant early milestone in her studies was work with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in master classes in Carmel Valley, California in 1982. Schwarzkopf then invited Sieden to become her private student, and also to work with her in her master classes at the 1983 Salzburg Mozarteum. Sieden sang in the culminating concert/competition and won first place, which became the catalyst for her first professional engagements. In 1984, she made her European debut in the Ruth Berghaus production of The Barber of Seville (Silvio Varviso conducting) at the Bavarian State Opera; her American debut also took place in 1984, in La Fille du Régiment in Tampa, Florida.

Since then, she has moved among the Baroque, classical, romantic and modern/contemporary repertoire at most of the world’s great opera houses, including Munich's Bava