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This Lieder Recital was live recorded by Sony Professional (analog) on 1th March 2002 in Berlin. In 2006 Wiebke Hoogklimmer has digitized this recording. And now - all, who are interested in the 'Winterreise' and in Contralto's, can buy this CD!!! Wiebke Hoogklimmer was born in Hannover, Germany, and began her musical education at the age of eight as a member of the 'Girls Choir Hannover'. She continued her education at the Academy of Music and Acting in Hamburg where she studied opera direction on the course initiated by Prof. Goetz Friedrich, and graduated with distinction. She has worked as assistant director, stage manager, and substitute in the artistic management office at the Niedersaechsischen Opera in Hannover, the Hamburg State Opera, the German Opera Berlin and the International Summer Course at Schloss Weikersheim. During this time she worked with the following directors and stage designers Guenter Roth, Stephan Mettin, Martin Rupprecht, Hans-Peter Lehmann, John Cox, John Dew, Erhard Fischer, Herbert Wernicke, Goetz Friedrich, Andreas Reinhardt. After finishing her studies she started private vocal tuition with Elisabeth Umierski (Berlin) and continued with Prof. Annie Schoonus (Academy of Music and Acting in Hamburg) and with Christiane Bach-Roehr (Comic Opera Berlin). In 1988 to 1991 she sang with the RIAS chamber choir and had her first solo stage appearance in the role of Arnalta in Monteverdi's 'Coronation of Poppea' at the Junges Theater Goettingen. She went on to sing the parts of both the king and queen in Toovey's 'Ubu' at the opera stabile of the State Opera in Hamburg and then the parts of the Third Lady in Mozart's 'Magic Flute' and Orfeo in Gluck's 'Orfeo ed Euridice'. 2009 she sang the part of the Geneviève in Debussy's 'Pelléas et Mélisande' in the opera stabile of the State Opera in Hamburg. Wiebke Hoogklimmer mainly works as a solo contra
