The Austrian soprano, Birgit Stöckler, studied singing at the Grazer Kunstuniversität with Tom Sol and Kmmersängerin Joanna Borowska-Isser, as well as the main focus concert singing with Joseph Breinl and Robert Heimann. She completed an exchange semester at the Royal Conservatoire of Music in The Hague. She attended master-classes with Helena Lazarska, Barbara Bonney, Angelika Kirchschlager, Brigitte Fassbaender, Ulf Bästlein, Charles Spencer, Sigiswald Kuijken and William Christie. In addition, in 2012 she received a scholarship for AIMS (American Institute of Musical Studies).
At the Kunstuniversität Graz Birgit Stöckler sang Susanna in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Andromeda in Bononcini's Andromeda and Mrs. Gobineau in Menotti's The Medium. In May 2014, she participated in the premiere project Opern der Zukunft-So viel mehr an Leben at the Oper Graz. In the same year she sang the Daphné in Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Actéon at the Theater- und Tanzzentrum Graz. As part of the series OpernKurzgenuss she appeared in March 2017 as Clorinda in Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda at the Oper Graz. In the summer of 2017, she made her debut at the Lehár Festival in Bad Ischl as Marion in Emmerich Kálmán's Kaiserin Josephine. In June 2018 she could be seen again at the Kaiserin Josephine as part of the premiere project Opern der Zukunft-Im Feuer ihres Blutes erneut.
Birgit Stöckler regularly performs as a soloist in masses and oratorios. She has been invited to various music festivals, including the St. Pauler Kultursommer, Musikwochen Millstatt and Abendmusiken Mariahilf in Graz. |