Upcoming
Song Recital with Jonathan Ware
Songs by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Berg, Korngold
Schloss Ismaning
Mar 28th - 7.30pm
Song recital with toni ming Geiger
Songs and piano solo repertoire by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Alma Mahler, Berg, Bach, Schubert, Duparc
Beethovenhaus Bonn
June, 6th - 6pm
Press
"The acting on stage is scarce, except for the excellent soprano Theresa Pilsl, who sings the role of Kriemhild and also imparts her expression through facial and gestural cues."
Sabine Reithmeier, Süddeutsche Zeitung
„The captivating soprano Theresa Pilsl, both in sound and performance, accentuate from the perspective of Kriemhild."
Raimund Meisenberger, PNP
"Theresa Pilsl excelled in the role of Kriemhild with touching love melodies and captivating cries of pain."
Oberösterreichisches Volksblatt
"Theresa Pilsl sings a radiantly beautiful Leonora."
Leipziger Volkszeitung
"Sopranos Theresa Pilsl (Leonora) and Sandra Janke (Pernille) possess graceful, touching lyrical qualities."
NMZ
“Theresa Pilsl's bright, expressive and nuanced soprano also has dark tones. The singer can sing Schubert just as lyrically as she skillfully alternates between singing and speaking voice in Weill. That is downright sensational.”
Matthias Roth - Rhein Neckar Zeitung
“Unreserved admiration was paid to soprano Theresa Pilsl from Passau, winner of the Emmerich Smola and DRP sponsorship awards. A voice endowed with much substance, of great radiance, supple fluency in coloratura and intonational purity, pronounced stage presence and charm, as well as charisma at a young age. She succeeded in both arias in naturally flowing cantabile, not maniacal or exalted, but stylistically appropriate.”
Reiner Henn - Rheinische Post
“In between, two arias, sung by the young Theresa Pilsl with a wonderfully round, agile and unaffected soprano. She is currently studying for her Master's degree, and is also studying medicine, and immediately captured the audience with her undisguised professionalism. The aria of Susanna from "Figaro", "Deh vieni non tardar", became a heartfelt lyrical declaration of love to Figaro. In the concert aria "Bella mia fiamma - Resta, oh cara" Titanos takes leave of his beloved Prosperina, with drama, coloratura and vocal acrobatics, which were brilliantly solved by Pilsl with "common gurgle", vocal steadiness and emotional gesture. “
Helmut Fackler - Saarbrücker Zeitung
Drive
“Singing is for me the most beautiful and intimate thing there is.
I was born in a small Bavarian town, grew up on a farm in a non-musician family and went to Berlin to study voice after graduating from high school.
When I am not singing, I like to be surrounded by dear friends and family. I like to cook a lot, be in nature, do yoga. In my private life I like to listen to non-classical music, be it indie, oldschool hiphop or good electro to a night of dancing. I love Berlin, my great WG, the Schaubühne, podcasts, table tennis and good books.”Theresa
Biography
In the coming season, soprano Theresa Pilsl will give recitals at the Beethovenhaus Bonn, at the Ismaninger Schlossfestspiele and a concert evening with the Schumann Quartet at Villa Rot.
Past concerts include the soprano role in Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms in Munich and in Passau, as well as a solo recital at the Audi Christmas Concerts with the Georgian Chamber Orchestra under the musical direction of Ariel Zuckermann. Theresa Pilsl has given recitals at the Heidelberger Frühling International Music Festival and the Lied Center there, at the HIDALGO Song Festival in Munich, at the Martha Argerich Festival in Hamburg, in the Pierre Boulez Saal and at the Luosto Soi Festival in Lapland, Finland.
Her repertoire includes Susanna and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) and Genius (Der Stein der Weisen). Theresa Pilsl sang the title role in the world premiere of Kriemhild by Enjott Schneider at the European Weeks in Passau, as well as the role of Leonora (Maskarade) by Carl Nielson (director: Cusch Jung) at the Leipzig Opera.
She has worked with conductors and orchestras such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano, the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie under Pietari Inkinen and the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra under Katharina Müllner. She has given recitals at venues including the Pierre Boulez Saal and the Pianosalon Christophori in Berlin, the Tauberphilharmonie and the Mozartfest Würzburg, as well as song improvisation evenings at the Abgussmuseum and Haus der Kunst in Munich as part of the Bavarian State Opera's Ja, Mai-Festival.
Theresa Pilsl has won numerous prizes, including at the National Singing Competition Junior, the 9th International Competition for Baroque Opera - Pietro Antonio Cesti (audience prize and special prize of the Vienna Konzerthaus), the National Singing Competition Berlin 2018 (special prize of the Walter Kaminsky Foundation) and the Emmerich-Smola Sponsorship Prize at the SWR Young Opera Stars 2020. She was a scholarship holder of the Atelier lyrique of the Verbier Festival, the Lied Academy of the Heidelberger Frühling and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Theresa Pilsl studied singing at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. At the same time, she studied medicine at the Charité Berlin and has been a licensed doctor since 2021. She is currently doing her doctorate in phoniatrics at the LMU Munich with a focus on voice physiology under Prof. Echternach. Theresa Pilsl was born and raised in Passau.
Impressum: Theresa Pilsl 2021
Pictures: © Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir & Studio Visuell, Heidelberg
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