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![[Yvonne Naef]](/images/_images/_musicians/YvonneNaefx95.jpg)
Yvonne Naef
mezzo-soprano
Yvonne Naef’s recent appearances as Marguerite in Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust on tour with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and James Levine, as Kundry under Bernard Haitink in Zurich, in Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach, in Berlioz’s Les Troyens and Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder at the Opéra-Bastille in Paris, and as Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle with Christoph von Dohnányi in Hamburg and Frankfurt have enhanced her reputation as one of today’s most sought-after mezzo-sopranos on both the concert and operatic stages. Her opera repertoire includes the major mezzo roles in Verdi’s operas—which she has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Vienna State Opera, and Opéra de Paris—as well as the French repertoire, Russian operas, and the operas of Richard Wagner. A native of Switzerland, Ms. Naef has performed a wide range of concert repertoire, from Bach to Boulez, with the most important orchestras and conductors at such venues as Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Berlin’s Philharmonie, Hamburg’s Musikhalle, Munich’s Gasteig, St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, the Lucerne Festival, the Tonhalle in Zurich, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, London’s Royal Albert and Festival Halls, Tanglewood, and Carnegie Hall. Noted for her performances of Mahler’s symphonies and song cycles, she has performed that composer’s Second, Third, and Eighth symphonies, Kindertotenlieder, Rückert Lieder, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn, and other songs under the direction of Boulez, Levine, Eschenbach, Bychkov, Welser-Möst, Cambreling, Frühbeck de Burgos, Nagano, and Nott, and has also performed in recital. Recent and future engagements include the role of Cassandra in concert performances of Les Troyens with James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Eboli in Don Carlo with the Opéra-Bastille, Sieglinde in Die Walküre with Hamburg State Opera, Wagner’s Ring cycle, also with James Levine, at the Metropolitan Opera, and Verdi’s Requiem in Baden-Baden. Ms. Naef has appeared on numerous radio and television broadcasts and on CD and DVD recordings, including Il trovatore from Covent Garden (BBC), Mahler’s Second Symphony from the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Das Rheingold from the Baden-Baden Festival, Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron (DGG), Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and cantatas (Philips), Rossini’s Petit Messe solennelle (Edel BC), Schoeck’s Penthesilea (PAN Classics), Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (Euroarts), songs by Berlioz and Wagner (Claves), Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody, and Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder. Yvonne Naef made her BSO debut at Tanglewood in 2003, in Verdi’s Requiem under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, subsequently singing in BSO performances under James Levine of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony at Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall and Tanglewood. Her most recent BSO appearances, also with James Levine, were in Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, at Symphony Hall in February 2007, then at Tanglewood last summer, followed by tour performances in Lucerne, Essen, Paris, and London.
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