About
A native of Würzburg, Germany, Theresa Kronthaler grew up in Rome. Already in her early youth she was enthusiastic about singers and actors. She took lessons with Elio Battaglia in Torino. After studying theatre science in London, she moved to Berlin in 2002 and continues vocal studies at the Acadamy of Music Hanns Eisler with Prof. Renate Faltin and Prof. Julia Varady. She participated in master classes of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Christa Ludwig and Thomas Quasthoff.
She was prize-winner of the Federal Competition „Jugend musiziert“, and in 2006, she was finalist of the „Bundeswettbewerb Gesang“. In 2007, she won the first prize of the „Anneliese Rothenberger Competition“ on the Isle of Mainau.
Her activities as a soloist in concerts and musical theatre productions led her to numerous places, with performances e.g. at St. Petersburg’s and Berlin Philharmonics’ Halls, at Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt Berlin, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin, Sophiensäle Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg and Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin as well as on concert tours in Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Switzerland and Egypt.
Among her radio and television appearances were in January 2008 her participation in „Musikdebüt“, a documentary series of the SWR (Südwestrundfunk) about young artists, in a live recording of the gala concert on the occasion of the „Emmerich Smola Förderpreis“ as well as in the recording of Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder for Radio Berlin-Brandenburg.
In December 2008, she made her debut with Geneva Opera in the role of Prince Orlofsky/Die Fledermaus, and in 2009 she sang Hindemith’s Neues vom Tage. From 2009 to 2012, she was a firm member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Strassburg, where she has sung e.g.
Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Annio (La Clemenza di Tito) and Dorabella (Così fan tutte). She gave her debut at Frankfurt Opera with Sesto in Giulio Cesare. She sang recitals in Moscow and Zürich as well as a concert with Hamburg Symphonics performing works of Enescu and Strawinsky.
At Theater an der Wien she debuted in the role of Isoletta/La Straniera alongside Marlis Petersen and Edita Gruberova. Recently she sang most successfully her first Carmen at Theater Bremen.
Since the beginning of the season 2012/13, Theresa Kronthaler is a member of the ensemble at the Komische Oper Berlin, appearing in the Monteverdi trilogy, Hänsel and Gretel, The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, The Tales of Hoffmann, Die schöne Helena, Orpheus and Giulio Cesare. At Theater an der Wien she will appear in the world premiere of Hamlet (by Anno Schreier).
Furthermore, various concerts are scheduled with her album The living loving Maid, which has been published with Sony Classical.