Carola Guber

Lyric Mezzosoprano Carola Guber was born in Braunschweig. First she studied as a music teacher before starting her voice studies with Prof. Carol Richardson-Smith at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. She won numerous competitions, among others the Sylvia-Geszty-Koloraturgesangswettbewerbs in Luxembourg.

In the season 2000/01 she was engaged at the Niedersächsischen Staatsoper Hannover. There she sang parts such as Angelina (La Cenerentola), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Elisabetta (Donizettis Maria Stuarda), Siebel (Margarete), Muse/Niklausse (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), but also more dramatic repertoire such as Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos), Fenena (Nabucco) and Eboli (Don Carlo).

From 2001/02 to 2003/04 Carola Guber was engaged at the Vereinigte  Städtischen Bühnen Krefeld-Mönchengladbach. There she sang, among others, Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Carmen, and Charlotte (Werther). Furthermore she guested in Cologne (Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni), Leipzig, Kassel (Wellgunde in Das Rheingold and Schwertleite in Die Walküre), Dortmund (Donna Elvira), at the Alte Oper Frankfurt (opera gala), Hamburg (Rossinis Petite Messe Solennelle and Stabat Mater), Schwerin (Meg Page in Falstaff in concert version), Darmstadt (Dama in Macbeth), Wiesbaden (Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Bonn (Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel), at the  Rossini-Festival Rügen (Siveno in Demetrio e Polibio as well as Stabat Mater).

Equally in demand on the concert stage, Carola Guber performed among others at the Menuhin-Festival Gstaad (Mendelssohns Der Sommernachtstraum under the baton of Frans Brüggen),  Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspielen (2. Dame in Der Zauberflöte under Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Mozart's c-moll-Messe under Wolfgang Gönnenwein), Göttinger Händelfestspielen (Magnificat), Brühler Schlossfestspielen (Dorabella in Così fan tutte under Andres Spering in concert version), Rheingau Musik Festival (Inferno d'amore by V.D. Kirchner) as well as Canto Bayreuth (Rossinis Adina and Stabat Mater). Further concerts led her to France with Bruckner's  Messe in f-moll, Portugal, England, Italy and the Netherlands with a concert performance of Die Zauberflöte, Finnland with Rosina and the USA with Beethoven's IX. Symphony under Christof Perick.

A CD with Verdi songs (Verdiana) in an instrumentalised version by Andreas N. Tarkmann in a collaboration with Norddeutschen Rundfunk appeared in 2002 with CPO. In summer 2004 Carola Guber made her debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele as Blumenmädchen (Parsifal).

From 2004/05 to 2007/08 she was a member of the Theater Erfurt. There she sang, among others, Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) and Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier). In the spring of 2006 there she gave her role debut as Kundry (Parsifal) and Mother (Hänsel und Gretel). Further roles in Erfurt are, a.o., in March 2007 Venus (Tannhäuser) and Foreign Princess (Rusalka). In January of 2008 she guested as Flower Maiden (Parsifal) at Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 2007/08 she added Laura (La Gioconda) to her repertoire as well. In 2008/09 she returns as a guest to Erfurt to sing Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Charlotte (Werther), Foreign Princess (Rusalka) and  Kundry (Parsifal).

In the summer of 2007 Carola Guber sang Magdalene (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) in a new production by Katharina Wagner at the Bayreuth Festival. She repeated this role in 2008 and 2009. From November 2009, she guested as Annina (Der Rosenkavalier) at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, a part she will be returning to at the same opera house in December 2010.