{{short description|German opera singer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox person | name=Mechthild Bach | image = | birth_date = 1963 | birth_place= Limburg an der Lahn | birth_name = | occupation = {{plainlist| * Soprano * Academic }} | awards = Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik }}
'''Mechthild Bach''' is a German soprano and a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Trossingen.
==Biography and career== Bach was born in Limburg an der Lahn, where she was a member of the Limburg Cathedral's girl choir from a very young age. After her ''Abitur'', she began her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, under Elsa Cavelti's tutelage. During her time there she also made her operatic debut at the Staatstheater Darmstadt.<ref name="Bach">{{cite web|url=http://mechthildbach.de/mechthild%20bach%20sopran.htm|title=Biography|website=Mechthild Bach Official Website|accessdate=6 November 2017|language=de}}</ref>
Since then, Bach has performed in such opera houses such as the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Nationaltheater München, and the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg, with conductors Reinhard Goebel, Peter Neumann, Ton Koopman, and Helmuth Rilling, among others.<ref name="Bach Cantatas"/> Additionally, she has performed the soprano parts in Mahler's symphonies, as Antigona in Handel's ''Admeto'', and as Alice Ford in Verdi's ''Falstaff''.<ref name=Israel>{{cite web|url=http://www.israel-opera.co.il/eng/?CategoryID=263&ArticleID=1847|title=Mechthild Bach, Soprano|website=Israeli Opera|accessdate=6 November 2017}}</ref> She has also performed with the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Berlin Philharmonic. Bach is a professor at the {{ill|Hochschule für Musik Trossingen|de}}.
== Awards == * 1986: A grant from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes<ref name="Bach Cantatas">{{cite web|url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Bach-Mechthild.htm|title=Mechthild Bach (Soprano)|website=Bach Cantatas|author=Gerald Permantier|accessdate=6 November 2017}}</ref> * 1993: Innsbrucker Radiopreis für Alte Musik, for her album ''Thomaskantoren vor Bach'' with Cantus Cölln<ref name="Cantus Cölln">{{cite web|url=http://www.cantuscoelln.com/thomaskantoren-vor-bach-sknuepfer-jschelle-jkuehnau.html|title=CD: Thomaskantoren vor Bach|website=Cantus Cölln|accessdate=6 November 2017|language=de}}</ref> * 2002: Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, for her recording of Zelenka's ''Missa Dei Patris'', with Frieder Bernius<ref name="Trossingen">{{cite web|url=http://www.mh-trossingen.de/hochschule/personen/dozenten-seite/fachgruppe/25.html|title=Mechthild Bach – Gesang|website=Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Trossingen|accessdate=6 November 2017|language=de}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://mechthildbach.de/ Official Website] * [http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Bach-Mechthild.htm Profile] on Bach Cantatas Website
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bach, Mechthild}} Category:21st-century German women opera singers Category:German operatic sopranos Category:Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts alumni Category:Studienstiftung alumni Category:Living people Category:1949 births