Ildikó Raimondi

Biography

As a member of the Vienna Staatsoper Ildikó Raimondi has been heard in more then 40 opera-roles from Pamina to Mimi and from Susanna to Rosalinde. Moreover she appears in the Wiener Musikverein regularly and has been a highly acclaimed guest of various opera- and concert-stages. She also joined the Bregenzer Festspiele as Micaela, the Wiener Klangbogen and the Wiener Festwochen in different main characters of Mozart‘s operas, the Edinburgh Festival, where she sang Marzelline in Fidelio under Sir Charles Mackerras, and the Salzburger Festspiele with pieces of Mozart under Egon Wellesz.

As a guest she sang at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Semper-Oper Dresden, the Bayerische Staatsoper München and the Z¨rcher Opernhaus with remarkable success.
Her artistic curriculum includes concerts and radio and television appearances in countries throughout Europe, in Japan, and Israel under the direction of the highly prominent conductors of our time.

Ildikó Raimondi’s 20th century music repertoire includes works by Franz Schmidt, Arnold Schönberg, Egon Wellesz, and Ernst Křenek, all the way to Gottfried von Einem and contemporary music such as that of Friedrich Cerha.

In 2003, Ildikó Raimondi edited 41 Goethe Lieder by composer Wenzel Johann Tomaschek of Prague, which became the beginning of a series of similar Lied projects.

Ildikó Raimondi’s recitals in the Wiener Musikverein, at the Ludwigsburger Festspiele, and in many cities in Austria and abroad are famous both for her interpretations and fascinating and unusual program arrangements, for instance in Frankfurt am Main, Düsseldorf, Wiener Musikverein (Mozart und seine Gesellen), and Freiburg (the 550-year celebration of the university), as well as at the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus, and the Wiener Musikverein. A few of her performances were Herz mein Herz, was soll das geben in Luxembourg, the Beethovenfest in Bonn; Lieder aus galanter Zeit and Joseph Haydn und seine Zeitgenossen at the Vienna Musikverein.

Concert appearances include HYMNE DER AGAVE by Egon Wellesz with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s KRÖNUNGSMESSE and EXSULTATE JUBILATE at the Vienna Philharmonic, under Leopold Hager at St. Peter’s in Rome, and Mozart’s REQUIEM with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden under Manfred Honeck. She also sang Bruckner’s TE DEUM with the Sächsische Staatskapelle under Zubin Mehta in Dresden, took part in the national ceremony for “90 years of the Republic of Austria”, singing Haydn and Korngold with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Bertrand de Billy, and Zeisl’s REQUIEM EBRAICO with the Vienna Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, to mention only a few.

Raimondi could be heard operatically at the opening of the new opera house of Valencia in the Palau de les Artes Reina Sophia, singing Marzelline/FIDELIO under Zubin Mehta, in the role ofSusanna/LE NOZZE DI FIGARO under Seiji Ozawa touring with the Vienna State Opera throughout Asia, as Rosalinde at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, and as Alice Ford/FALSTAFF at the National Theatre Prague and the Finish National Opera Helsinki. She sang Pamina,Marzelline, Alice, and Gräfin/CAPRICCIO at the Vienna State Opera (as well as performed in a guest appearance of the Vienna State Opera at the Richard-Strauss-Tage in Garmisch-Partenkirchen).

Her most recent CD “Weit flog ich” was released in 2010 with the Gramola label.

Ildikó Raimondi was awarded the title of Österreichische Kammersängerin by the President of the Federal Republic of Austria in 2004.