Vita Irmgard Vilsmaier
21.06.2011 

 Irmgard Vilsmaier was born in Frontenhausen/Bavaria and studied in Wuerzburg and Nuernberg. She was member of the opera studio of the Bavaria State Opera in Munich and afterwards of the Landestheater Innsbruck. From 2001 she has worked as an free artist. Her voice is dramatic to high dramatic soprano. She has studied with Prof. Astrid Varney, Josef Loibl, Gregory Lamar and Ada Zaperi.
 
Her repertory list: Sieglinde and Bruennhilde(Die Walkuere), Isolde, Brangaene(Tristan und Isolde), 2. and 3.Norn, Gutrune(Goetterdaemmerung), Goneril(Lear), Fata Morgana(Love to the three oranges), Mother and Witch(Haensel and Gretel), Marschallin and Leitmetzerin(Rosenkavalier), Mere Marie(Dialogue des Carmelites), Kundry(Parsifal), Venus(Tannhaeuser), Herodias(Salome), Santuzza(Cavalleria rusticana), Ghita(The dwarf)
 
Upcoming new roles are: Mere Marie(Dialogues des carmelites in French), Bruennhilde(Ring an einem Abend), Bruennhilde(Goetterdaemmerung),Bruennhilde(Valkyrie), Bruennhilde(Siegfried)
 
Roles she wont sing again: Ariadne(Ariadne auf Naxos), Chrysothemis(Elektra), several valkyries(Die Walkuere)

Planned roles for the near future: Faerberin(Frau ohne Schatten), Elektra(Elektra), Ortrud(Lohengrin), Kostelnicka(Jenufa), Marie(Wozzeck
 
Her conductors has been for example Thielmann, Haenchen, Mehta, Maazel, von Dohnanyi, Maerzendorfer, Jordan, Petrenko, Fish, Fischer, Ticciati, Ono, Nagano, Ozawa, Denes, Bradshaw, Augin, Bychkov, Sinopoli, Schneider, Blunier, Wallat and Volmer
 
Directors for example Lehmann, Lehnhoff, Bieito, Neuenfels, Kuningas, Flimm, Konwitschny, Leiser and Courier, Alexander, Thalbach, Pelly

Opera houses where she sung for example Bayreuth(2000-2004), Salzburg, State Operas of Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Budapest, Vienna, Nationaltheater Mannheim and Weimar, Royal Albert Hall London, Royal Opera House London, Monnaie Bruxelles, Opera Bastille Paris, Estonian Opera Tallinn,Volksoper Vienna, Comic Opera Berlin, Theater Oldenburg and Trier, Concertgeboow Amsterdam, Opera Antwerpen and Gent, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Opera Lyon, Semperoper Dresden, Canadian Opera Company Toronto, Seattle Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Vlaamse Opera and Landestheater Innsbruck
 
Upcoming events are for 2011 from June to December: Mere Marie(Comic Opera Berlin), Ghita(Bavarian State Opera Munich), Kundry(Tallinn), Herodias(Volksoper vienna), Goneril(Comic Opera Berlin), Mother(Bavarian State Opera), Witch(Volksoper Vienna) 2012 Mere Marie(Staatsoper Stuttgart) 2013 Bruennhilde(Ring an einem Abend- Volksoper Vienna) and Bruennhilde(Goetterdaemmerung - Staatsoper Stuttgart) 2014 Bruennhilde(Siegfried - Staatsoper Stuttgart)