Dr.
Yvonne Hartinger
Yvonne Douthat Hartinger, mezzo-soprano, is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has performed a wide range of opera roles at theatres throughout the US and has frequently been in demand as an oratorio soloist since relocating to Europe. She has been a regular member of the voice faculty of the University of Miami Frost School of Music at Salzburg since 2009 and has taught voice and voice training for music educators at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 2013, where she is also a member of the University Teaching Staff Council (BR1).
Yvonne Hartinger holds degrees from both Louisiana State University and the University of Houston and completed the Doctorate of Musical Arts in Vocal Performances and Literature at the Eastman School of Music under Dr. Robert McIver.
Of the numerous operatic roles she has embodied, highlights include Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri, the title role in Gluck’s Iphigenie auf Tauris, Nicklausse in Les Contes d’Hoffman, Octavia in L'incoronazione di Poppea, Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti and Ramiro in La Finta Giardiniera. As a resident artist at the Ohio Light Opera, she performed Tessa in The Gondoliers and leading roles in many rarely performed gems of 19th and 20th century operetta. In addition, Yvonne Hartinger spent two summers at the prestigious Marlboro Chamber Music Festival under the direction of Mitsuko Uchida and Richard Goode. There she had the unique opportunity to explore and perform a vast array of vocal chamber music repertoire, collaborating with internationally recognised singers and instrumentalists.
As a regular soloist with the Salzburg Bach Society and the Salzburger Dom Musik, and as a guest soloist in the region and abroad, Yvonne Hartinger has performed Bach’s Weinachtsoratorium, Mozart’s C-Minor Mass and Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Schumann’s Faust, the Duruflé Requiem, Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder, and the title role of Handel’s Solomon.
While studying and performing in the US and abroad, she has had the pleasure of working with many inspirational artists and pedagogues including Angelika Luz, Howard Arman, Benita Valente, the late Richard Miller, Wolfram Rieger, Gil Kalish, Martin Issep, William Bolcom, Jennifer Larmore, James McKinney, Paul O’Dette and the late Phyllis Curtain.
She has used the experiences gained through these musical encounters to enrich her teaching, a facet of her career about which she is passionate. In addition to her teaching position at the Mozarteum University, she has collaborated over the years with study abroad institutions including the Salzburg Institute of Religion, Culture and the Arts, the Kentucky Institute of International Studies and the University of Miami Frost School of Music at Salzburg.
Yvonne Hartinger also regularly works with her husband, tenor Virgil Hartinger to realise artistic projects and masterclasses, such as the Salzburg Chamber Music Concerts and Appassionato Music Masterclasses in Florence, Italy.