Christiane Oelze

Christiane Oelze´s wonderful soprano voice and sophisticated technique guarantees her success with both audience and critics in roles as different as the Countess in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Mélisande from Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande. She has appeared at some of the most prestigious opera temples including Bavarian State Opera Munich, Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Glyndebourne Festival, Hamburg State Opera, Salzburg Festival and Opéra National de Paris.
In concert Christiane Oelze performs in the important concert halls and festivals worldwide with today´s most imminent conductors including Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnányi, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Michael Gielen, Carlo Maria Giulini, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christopher Hogwood, Marek Janowski, Fabio Luisi, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Kent Nagano und Sir Simon Rattle.

2010 Christiane Oelze has performed Strauss´ „Vier letzte Lieder“ (Israel Philharmonic/Christoph von Dohnányi), Tippetts „Child of our Time“ (SWR Sinfonieorchester/Sir Roger Norrington), Strauss orchestral songs (tour with Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden/Neeme Järvi), Gustav Mahlers Fourth
Symphony at Festival St. Denis (Orchestre National de France/Daniele Gatti) and at Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival, Budapest and Grafenegg (NDR Sinfonieorchester/ Christoph Eschenbach), Gustav Mahlers Second Symphony in Cologne (Gürzenich-Orchester/Markus Stenz) and Brahms Requiem in Paris (Orchestre National de France/Hartmut Haenchen).

2011  concerts with Dresdner Philharmonie and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos („Brahms-Requiem“), Bamberger Symphoniker and Christoph Eschenbach (Beethoven „Missa Solemnis“), Residentie Orkest Den Haag and Jun Märkl („Mahler 4“), Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France and Pablo Heras-Casado (Berg „Altenberglieder“), Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and Andrey Boreyko (Mahler „Wunderhorn“), Gürzenich-Orchester Köln and Markus Stenz („Mahler 8”),
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Riccardo Chailly („Beethoven 9“ in Wien, Paris and London), and a South-America orchestra tour accompanied by Münchner Kammerorchester.

Her discography reflects both her wide opera and concert repertoire, with particular emphasis on Mozart and 20th century music (including cantatas by Anton Webern under Pierre Boulez for Deutsche Grammophon). Her latest recital CD, featuring ‘Forbidden Songs’ by German composers in exile (Ullmann, Korngold, Eisler and Weill), has received great critical acclaim. Recent recordings include Gurlitt’s „Vier dramatische Gesänge“ with the Berlin Radio Symphony as well as Ernest
Bloch’s 2 psalms with the Deutsche Symphony Orchestra Berlin under Steven Sloane, released by Phoenix.

Born in Cologne, Christiane Oelze studied with Klesie Kelly-Moog at the Cologne College of Music, with Erna Westenberger in Frankfurt, and with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in private masterclasses.

From 2003 until 2008 Christiane Oelze taught at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany.