Maria Radner
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Radner c. 2011
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| Born |
Maria Friderike Radner 7 May 1981 Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Died | 24 March 2015 (aged 33) Prads-Haute-Bléone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France |
| Cause of death | Killed in crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 |
| Residence | Wuppertal, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | Robert Schumann Hochschule |
| Occupation | Classical contralto |
| Website | www |
Maria Friderike Radner (German: [ˈʁaːdnɐ]; 7 May 1981 – 24 March 2015) was a German contralto who performed internationally in opera and in concerts.
Radner studied at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany. Both Stern magazine and Munich's Abendzeitung described her as an "extremely talented interpreter of Wagner's music". Possessing the "rare pitch of a true alto", she frequently appeared as Erda in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Leipzig Opera, Schwertleite in Die Walküre at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze with Zubin Mehta, and in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 (the Resurrection) conducted by Antonio Pappano in Rome and Milan. Her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2012 in Götterdämmerung was part of that company's documentary Wagner's Dream.
Radner was born in Düsseldorf and had a brother, Bozidar, and a sister, Anna. Her father Klaus Radner and his wife had immigrated from Austria and started a trading company. They were not particularly interested in music. During long drives to Austria, Maria would sing for hours. At school she was a "rather unobtrusive, popular student" who enjoyed music lessons but found mathematics difficult. Her talent for singing remained unnoticed at school, but when she was 14, her parents introduced her to voice teacher Angelo Melzani, who told her, "I will get you into opera." As a teen she took part in the Rhenish Carnival and the Largest Fair on the Rhine (Große Rheinkirmes). Her father remembered her calling him excitedly after winning first prize in a beer-tent karaoke competition. She attended St. Ursula Gymnasium in Düsseldorf, finishing in 2000.
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