Biography
Voice: Soprano
Born: Basel, Switzerland
Nationality: Swiss
mobile: 0049 174 3933102
e-mail: sopran@mariagessler.com
Singing educaton:
- Music Academy Basel - Studies with Verena Schweizer
- Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Performance practice in early
music with René Jacobs - Opera studio Basel – with Diploma
- Migros-Scolarship – awarded twice
- Masterclasses with Anna Reynolds, Edith Mathis, Brigitte Fassbaender and Margreet Honig
- Languages: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish
Opera Productions:
Début as Despina in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte
(Bieler Musiktheater, CH)
Frau Fluth in Nicolai's Lustige Weiber von Windsor
(Opera de Fribourg, CH)
2000-2003 Mittelsächsisches Theater (Freiberg, Germany)
Numerous roles, including:
Tatjana in Tschaikovsky's Eugen Onegin
Marie in Smetana's Bartered Bride
Hanna Glawari in Lehar's Lustige Witwe (Merry
Widow)
all other roles are listet in the opera repertoire list
2001 and 2003 Tiroler Festspiele Erl
Ortlinde in Wagner's Walküre (Musical
Director Gustav Kuhn)
2002/2003
Wuppertaler Bühnen
Tatjana in Tschaikowski's Eugen Onegin
2004-2009 Theater Plauen-Zwickau
Numerous roles, including:
Micaela in Bizet's Carmen
Contessa in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro
Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's Madama Butterfly
Agathe in Weber's Freischütz
Marschallin in Strauss's Rosenkavalier
Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci
Mariza in Kálmán's Gräfin Mariza
Lisa in Lehar's Land des Lächelns
Genoveva in Schumann's opera Genoveva
all other roles are listed in the opera-repertoire-list
2007/2008
Opernhaus Chemnitz
Contessa in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (guest
performances)
Landestheater Eisenach
Marschallin in Strauss's Rosenkavalier
2009/2010
Tiroler Festspiele Erl
Eva in Wagner's Meistersinger
(Musical Direction and staging: Gustav Kuhn)
Staatstheater Darmstadt
Liu in Puccini's Turandot
Eva in Wagner's Meistersinger
Erste Dame in Mozart's Zauberflöte
Rosalinde in Strauß's
Fledermaus
2011/2012
Theater Plauen-Zwickau
Title role in Puccini's Tosca
www.theater-plauen-zwickau.de
Landesbühnen Sachsen
Tatjana in Tschaikowski's Eugen Onegin (guest
performances)
Staatstheater Cottbus
Title role in Schumann's Genoveva (guest performances)
2012/2013
Opera Stettin (Polen) Opera na Zamku, Szczecin
Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's Butterfly
www.opera.szczecin.pl
Opernfestspiele in der Stiftsruine Bad Hersfeld
Elvira in Mozarts Don Giovanni
www.opernfestspiele-badhersfeld.de
2013/2014
Theater Basel (Schweiz)
Mutter in Humperdinck's
Hänsel und Gretel
www.theater-basel.ch
Replacements including Mimi in Puccini's Bohème, Micaela in Bizet's Carmen, Frau Fluth in Nicolai's Lustigen Weibern, Rosalinde in Strauß's Fledermaus and as Elisabeth in Wagner's Tannhäuser
Singapore School of the Arts (SOTA)
Masterclass in Deutsches Lied (german song) 3 - 7 Nov.
Performance of Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder 7 Nov.
SOTA Concert Hall
2015
Operfestspiele Bad Hersfeld
Leonore in Beethovens Fidelio
Hersfelder Opernpreis 2015
Regular oratorio and concert performaces and Song recitals.
