Deborah Riedel
Soprano

Australian born soprano Deborah Riedel studied at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music in Sydney where she won several major singing awards enabling her to continue her studies in Europe.
Operatic work in Australia includes Leonora Il Trovatore, Mimi La boheme, Violetta La Traviata, the four heroines in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Marguerite Faust, Donna Anna Don Giovanni, title roles in Maria Stuarda, Tosca and Norma for Opera Australia; Leila Les Pêcheurs de perles, Micaela Carmen and Marguerite Faust for the Victoria State Opera; Marguerite for Opera Queensland, and Tosca for the State Opera of South Australia. She made her US debut in 1994 as Amina La Sonnambula for the San Diego Opera and has since performed Donna Anna, Adina L’elisir d’amore, Violetta, Alice Ford Falstaff for the company. Further US engagements include Donna Anna at the Metropolitan Opera and Ellen Orford Peter Grimes and Donna Anna for the San Francisco Opera.
In Europe Deborah has performed Teresa Benvenuto Cellini, Marguerite for the Grand Théâtre de Genève; Teresa for the Opéra National de Paris; Countess Le nozze di Figaro for Opéra de Montpellier; Donna Elvira Don Giovanni for Opéra de Bordeaux and Aix en Provence; Leonore Fidelio for Opera de Tours; Teresa for Opera di Roma; Violetta for De Nederlandse Opera; Donna Anna for the Bayerische Staatsoper and Wiener Staatsoper; Mimi, Donna Elvira and Freia Das Rheingold for the Royal Opera Covent Garden, and Marschallin Der Rosenkavalier and Tosca for Welsh National Opera.
Deborah appears frequently as a concert artist in Australia and has sung with all of the State Symphony Orchestras, the Australian Pops Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and at the Melbourne Festival. Engagements include Strauss’ Vier letzte lieder with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Ah perfido and Ninth Symphony with the SSO and Edo de Waart, Jonas Sendung with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Neeme Järvi, Poeme pour Mi with the SSO and Simone Young, Gala Concerts in Melbourne and Sydney with Richard Bonynge and guest soloist with Jose Carreras on his Australia wide tour. In Europe her numerous concert engagements include Mahler’s Symphony No 8 with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Mark Elder, Britten’s War Requiem in London and with the Czech Philharmonic and Gerd Albrecht, Tippett’s A Child of our Time with the LSO and at the BBC Proms with the New York Philharmonic under Sir Colin Davis, Missa Solemnis with the Czech Philharmonic and Sir Charles Mackerras and Britten’s Spring Symphony in Copenhagen with Donald Runnicles, Poeme pour Mi with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Concertgebouw and Beethoven’s The Accession of Leopold II with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Sir Charles Mackerras.
Recent and forthcoming performances include her highly successful role debut as Sieglinde in SOSA’s new production of Die Walkure for which she was the recipient of a Helpmann Award, performing and recording the title role in Semiramide at the Wildbat Festival in Germany under Richard Bonynge, an appearance at the Cayman Islands Festival, Tosca for Welsh National Opera and Opera Australia and ‘Best of British’ concerts with the APO at the Victorian Arts Centre.
Recordings include Lehar’s Guiditta and Paganini with Richard Bonynge for Telarc; Zeisl’s Requiem Ebraico and title role in Die Herzogin von Chicago (Bonynge) for Decca Records, and her debut solo CD with Richard Bonynge entitled The Power of Love for Melba Recordings