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Leandra Overmann Fund
president
Mezzo soprano Leandra Overmann grew up in the
musical family Belgrade Opera leader Djurdjevka
Cakarevic. She graduated piano and solo singing in
secondary schools "Stankovic" and "Josip Slavenski" after
which she graduated solo singing. She continued her advanced
education in Music Academies and graduated in Detmold and
Koeln (she performed in these cities operas) and in the
Conservatorium "Santa Cecilia" in Rome. Until 1985 she was an
opera member in Koeln and Freiburg.
From 1985. to 1997. she was
engaged in Basel. Lately, she became known as a very important
interpreter above all, Verdi and Wagner heroines. While at
Bonn opera, where she belonged from 1997 to 2000 she sang
important parts in Wagner's "Ring" (Erda, Frick, Waltrauta and
Norne) and with these and many other roles she was a National
Theatre in Mannheim Catania and Trieste. Performing in great
Vredi?s mozzo parts, she achieved international success as
Ulrica (Basel, Hannover), Azucena (Bonn, Bern), Eboli
(Valencia, Bonn), Amneris (Venice, Hannover, Luebeck) and Mrs.
Quickly (Bonn). On the occasion of her interpretation of
Amneris "Papa singing" Jurgen Kesting wrote: "Leandra Overmann
dominates in the ensemble as Amneris in one piano, soft, rich
and in fortissimo really rich and piercing voice".
The conductors she worked with Miguel Gomez -
Martinez, Walter Weller, Marcello Viotti (they recorded a CD
together "Requiem" G. Verdi), Julia Jones, Marc Soustrat
Michael Hofstetter, Shao Shia Lue. She worked with importatnt
directors like: Herbert Wernicke, Andreas Hamoki, Leander
Hausmann, John Dew, Nigel Lowry, Willy Decker, Barbara Beyer,
Dietrich Hilsdorf, David Mouchatar - Samurai.
Leandra Overmann is lately a guest in State
Theatre Hannover where she could be heard in the roles of:
Ulrica ("Ball under masks"), Grandmother ("Rake?s progress")
and Kostelnichka ("Jenufa"). For the newer interpretations she
got nomination for the best singing achievement of the year
from the three critics from the opera world. Her future plans
are connected with her appearance in roles: Azucena ("Il
Trovatore"), Amneris ("Aida"), Klytaemestra ("Elektra"),
Herodias ("Salome"), Brangaene ("Tristan & Isolde"),
Santuzza ("Cavaleria Rusticana"), Laura ("Gioconda")... Other
arrangements in the cities ("Gran Teatro del Liceu"), Trieste,
Valencia, Wiesbaden, Dublin ("Festival of Wagner"),
Birmingham, Catania... From september 2002 Leandra Overmann
becamea professor of singing in Academy of Music Wuerzburg.
She cherishes the same concert singing like her mother.
Her most successful performances are: Mozart -
"Requiem" /conductor W. Wellerwith Wienna Simphony Orchestrain
"The Golden Hall", Verdi - "Requiem" /conductor M. Viottiin
the festival in Luzern, Mahler - "lied vom Erde" with Finnish
philcharmonic orchestra (Tempere, Helsinki), in Hannover with
philcharmonic Mahler Simhonie 2. & 3 . She performed about
five hundred solo concerts.
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