Soloist

Ildiko Raimondi

Ildikó Raimondi comes from Arad, Romania, and received musical training there and completed her vocal studies in Italy with Flavia Labo and Carlo Bergonzi. Performances have taken her and are taking her to Dresden, Munich, Berlin, Valencia, Zurich, Helsinki and at the festivals in Salzburg, Edinburgh, Ludwigsburg, Bregenz and the Vienna Festival and recently she sang among others Rosalinde (»Die Fledermaus«) in the Bolschoi in Moscow and Arabella and Capriccio-Gräfin in Budapest. Her concert activities are very important to her and she has performed works for the first time by composers like Friedrich Cerha, Johanna Doderer, Wolfgang Rihm or Iván Eröd.

Since 1991, she is a member of the Wiener Staatsoper ensemble. She gave her debut there in 1991 as Sophie (»Der Rosenkavalier«). Roles that followed among others were Marzelline (»Fidelio«), Pamina (»Die Zauberflöte«), Antonia (»Les Contes dʼHoffmann«), Micaëla (»Carmen«), Susanna (»Le nozze di Figaro«), Adele and Rosalinde (»Die Fledermaus«), Hanna Glawari (»Die lustige Witwe«), Nedda (»Pagliacci«), Lauretta (»Il tabarro«), Mimì and Musetta (»La bohème«), Dame (»Cardillac«) or Donna Elvira (»Don Giovanni«). In 2005, she performed at the Celebration concert 50 years since re-opening of the Wiener Staatsoper. In 2004, she was awarded the title of »Österreichische Kammersängerin«. She holds a professorship for solo singing at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and is an Austrian Integration Ambassador.