Liat Himmelheber

Liat Himmelheber (born 1956), is a German operatic mezzo-soprano

Life[edit]

Born in Stuttgart, Himmelheber received her training with Margarethe von Winterfeldt in Berlin and with Judith Beckmann at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. She owes important impulses for her interpretation of songs to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Aribert Reimann. In 1988, she won the prize for modern Lieder interpretation at the BDI cultural association together with the pianist Axel Bauni. In long-standing engagements at the Gärtnerplatztheater Munich and at the Theater Augsburg, as well as at the Cologne Opera, she sang almost all the great roles of the lyrical mezzo repertoire, working with directors such as Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Peter Konwitschny, Peter Baumgardt and Brigitte Fassbaender. Himmelheber is married to the writer Andreas Nohl.

Himmelheber performed at various European festivals, including Donaueschingen, Schleswig-Holstein and Davos, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, at the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano, the Berliner Festwochen and the Expo 2000. She is particularly interested in contemporary music: she premiered numerous recent works and recorded them for radio or on CD. The recording of Sappho Lieder by Hans-Jürgen von Bose with the Ensemble Modern conducted by Peter Eötvös was selected by the German Music Council for the CD documentation "Music in Germany 1950-2000".

In addition to her artistic activities, she taught at the Musikhochschule Augsburg from 2004 to 2014 (from 2008 at the Leopold Mozart Centre). Since 2008, she has a teaching position at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg.^[1]

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