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AGSM DIPLOMA GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DRAMA

Mezzo soprano, Yvonne Fontane was born in Munich and began her music studies as a flautist at the Munich Conservatoire and the Mozarteum in Salzburg where she also started her vocal studies. Two years later, Yvonne was offered a number of scholarships to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she received her AGSM diploma in 1991 with a Merit.

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She won the 1993 ESSO/NFMS Young Concert Artist Award and a commendation award from the San Francisco Opera Center. She also received scholarships to several master classes at the Britten/Pears School in Aldeburgh with Martin Isepp and at the Brereton International Music Symposium with Brigitte Fassbaender. Whilst still a student, Yvonne performed her first operatic role, CHERUBINO (The Marriage of Figaro) at the Banff Festival of the Arts in Canada.

 

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PRODUCER of the ART INSTALLATION "STEINKLANG"

"STEINKLANG" - a multi-layered, highly creative art experience that combines Yvonne's own music with Manfred Dangl's stone sculptures. The art installation can be viewed in Murnau, Bavaria and is not be missed. Visit www.steinklang-art.com

SINGER/SONGWRITER: SONG RELEASE

21.7.2017: Yvonne's song "Dei Hand" has been released on the compilation CD "OBERLANDSAMPLER O3" featuring solo artists and bands of the region Oberland in Southern Bavaria.

London Festival Opera/Navrasa Duende Festival New Delhi

In 2018, Yvonne is continuing with her work as leading mezzo soprano for LONDON FESTIVAL OPERA including concerts at the Navrasa Duende Festival in New Delhi and numerous performances including in Venice, Vienna and the UK.

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CARMEN @ WHO Carmen and Stage Director

"Fontane, a cultivated singer, vocalised with plenty of curdling chest-notes and a kind of untrammelled physical ardour...There was loads of atmosphere...The action was full of nuanced human relations, the principals a group of predatory animals circling with wary blood-lust, acutely alive to the possibility of prey..." (OPERA NOW)

AIDA Amneris in Germany

"Yvonne Fontane sings and acts Amneris as the ice-cold schemer and desperate lover. Highly musical and with a dark glowing mezzo never veering in intonation during her jealous outbreaks, she is deeply moving in the judgement scene." (Gut Immling Festival, BAYRISCHER RUNDFUNK KLASSIK)

THE BRIDE OF DIONYSUS Pheadra

"Yvonne Fontane has a silvery pure voice, strong on clarity of diction yet imbued with humanity and with the ability to act with the voice." (CD of 'THE BRIDE OF DIONYSUS' Pheadra with the BBC Ulster Orchestra, Dutton Epoch, www.musicweb-international.com)

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Stowe Opera La Contessa and Stage Director

"Her production of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO was just about faultless, too, perceptive, funny, sweet, touching, her Countess dramatically many layered and fitting comfortably in the voice."(OPERA NOW) "Figaro was a beautifully precise, profound piece of work" (OPERA NOW)

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