Ildiko Raimondi

Ildikó Raimondi has been a member of the Vienna State Opera since 1991, where she has sung more than 50 opera roles to date. Guest appearances have taken her to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Zurich Opera House, and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, among others. She has also given concerts and appeared in radio and television productions throughout Europe as well as in Japan, New York, and Israel.

Sacred music also plays an important role in her artistic work. She has performed at the Schubertiade at the Wiener Musikverein as well as in the great Bach and Haydn oratorios, collaborating with renowned conductors and soloists. Her appearances at international festivals include the Salzburg Festival, Musica Sacra Roma, the Bregenz Festival, Wien Modern’s predecessor Wiener Klangbogen, the Vienna Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch, the Beethovenfest Bonn, and the Johann Strauss Music Festival in Coburg.

Ildikó Raimondi has a particular affinity for the music of the 20th century. Her repertoire includes works by Franz Schmidt, Arnold Schönberg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Egon Wellesz, Ernst Krenek, and Gottfried von Einem, as well as contemporary music by composers such as Friedrich Cerha and Thomas Daniel Schlee. With her recitals at the Wiener Musikverein and in numerous cities in Austria and abroad, she continues to set high standards of interpretation and programme design. As part of a larger artistic research project, she published the collection of 41 Goethe songs by the Czech composer Wenzel Johann Tomaschek.

Her recent engagements have included recitals with the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, the Beethovenfest Bonn, and the Philharmonie Luxembourg, as well as concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic under Leopold Hager in Rome and with the Staatskapelle Dresden under Zubin Mehta. Under Mehta she also took part in the opening of the new opera house in Valencia as Marzelline in Beethoven’s Fidelio.

At the Vienna State Opera she has appeared as the Dame (Cardillac), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Alice (Falstaff), and Musetta (La Bohème), as well as in the premiere of Iván Eröd’s children’s opera Pünktchen und Anton. At Theater an der Wien she took part in the acclaimed world premiere of Tristan Schulze’s chamber opera Premiere in 2012. In this satirical yet light-hearted parody of the opera world, she played a self-consciously culture-obsessed woman and a virtuoso, temperamental diva. In Budapest in 2013 she sang the Countess in Capriccio at the Palace of Arts and appeared as Arabella at the Hungarian State Opera in 2014.

In addition to numerous radio and television broadcasts, her extensive discography includes an album of selected Lieder by Richard Strauss and Franz Schubert with the Junge Philharmonie Wien under the direction of Michael Lessky, released under the title Zueignung, as well as a recording of Lieder by Wenzel Johann Tomaschek on poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, produced in collaboration with Leopold Hager.