Ute
Selbig was born in Dresden and completed her degree and state examination at
the local music school, "Carl Maria von Weber."
Already during this time, she was winner of several national and international
singing competitions, and there was the first concert performances with the
Dresden Kreuzchor, which developed a very close cooperation, similar to a
little later with the Boys Choir Thomanerchor of Leipzig.
Since the beginning of the career, the artist gives the concert singing the
same attention as her duties as an opera singer. Guest performances have
taken her almost the whole of Europe, the Far East, North and South America
(including Buenos Aires) and in recent years more and more frequently to the
United States, the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, to New York for the Mostly
Mozart Festival (with a live television broadcast in the U.S.), Boston,
Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Charlotte and
Indianapolis.
Ute Selbig is a welcome guest of important music festivals such as Dresden
Music Festival, MDR Summer of Music, Leipzig Bach or Gewandhaus days, Berlin
and Lucerne Festival, Kissinger Summer, etc. and worked with conductors
including Sir Colin Davis, Kent Nagano, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Franz Welser- Möst,
Tomas Netopil, Gerard Schwarz, Peter Schreier and Fabio Luisi
and ensembles such as the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles
Chamber Orchestra, L'Orchestre National de France, L'Orchestre del Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino, Seattle Symphony, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and, of course, the Staatskapelle and the Dresden
Philharmonic together regularly.
The singer is a member of the soloist ensemble of the Saxon State Opera
Dresden, Semperoper, and sings roles in
the lyric soprano repertoire as Countess (Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte),
Fiordiligi (Cosi), Elvira (Giovanni), Agathe (Freischütz) and was also Suor as
Angelica (Angelica ) and Freia (Das
Rheingold), followed by the debut as Micaela (Carmen).
A great success brought her acclaimed debut of Eva in Wagner's
"Meistersinger" at Dresdner stage.
Ibid she was awarded the first ever-Christel Goltz-Preis of the Semper Opera
House given by Cristal Golz herself.
As an opera singer Ute Selbig has performed at numerous German and
international stages, including at “Münchner Staatsoper”, the “Komische
Oper Berlin” and “Staastoper Berlin”, the “Deutsche Oper am Rhein”, at the “Nationaltheater Mannheim”, “Staatstheater Nürnberg” and at
the “Grande Theatre de Geneve” and the opera festival days at the Opera House
in Zurich, at the Seattle Opera, Opera Vancouver and regularly at the San
Diego Opera. This company combines Ute Selbig a very intimate contact.
Among the numerous concerts of recent
appearances include the Vienna Musikverein in November 2010 with works by
Mozart and imminent in New York's Avery Fisher Hall in December 2011 with
Handel's Messiah with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of
Peter Schreier.
Ute Selbig appeared in numerous radio - and television productions, and on CD
recordings to be heard.
For their previous artistic creation Ute Selbig was appointed “
Kammersängerin” - the highest honor for
singers in Germany and Austria.