Young Dramatic

Soprano Justine Viani will sing the title role of Salome in a new production at the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg in April, 2010. The Australian-British soprano Justine Viani studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in England between 2000-2004. During her studies at the RNCM she won major competitions such as the ‘Elsie Thurston Memorial Prize’, and the ‘Alexander Young Memorial Prize’. She has privately studied with KS Inge Borkh, and KS Ute Vinzing, and currently resides in Vienna and studies with Glenys Linos. Additional singing coaches include James Pearson (Vienna State Opera), and Maestro Vittoria Rosetta (La Scala, Milan).

Ms Viani has participated in international singing competitions, and was awarded the Jury prize for the most outstanding young singer in the ‘Concorso Vocale Internazionale di Musica Sacra’ at the age of twenty-two. She was also the recipient of the Bayreuth Stipendium of Vienna in 2007. Ms. Viani has performed extensively as an oratorio soloist, including pieces such as Bach’s b minor mass and the passions, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Mass in C, Brahms’ Ein Deutches Requiem, Haydn’s Nelson mass; Mozart’s Requiem and c minor mass, Rossini’s Stabat Mater; Schubert’s Mass in Ab and Verdi’s Requiem. Other performing experience includes her Wigmore Hall debut of HK Gruber’s Frankenstein!! Richard Strauss’ Orchestral Lieder Op.27, Vier Letzte Lieder and Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder. On the stage of the spoken theatre she has excelled in dramatic roles such as Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth, Desdemona, Juliet, Viola and Beatrice; Chekhov’s Sasha and Ibsen’s Nora. She has given various Liederabend concentrating on composers such as: Brahms, Mahler, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, , Strauss and Wagner.