Prof. Anneliese Fried

Prof. Anneliese Fried was born in Hagenbach, Pfalz, Germany and studied singing and piano at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe. She graduated as an opera and concert singer. She won prizes in international singing competitions and received her first opera contract at the opera house in Aachen. She was in the ensemble of the Cologne Opera until 1995, and played a broad spectrum of roles from character alto to dramatic parts. Guest contracts have taken her to the Netherlands State Opera in Amsterdam, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, the Dresdener Musikfestspiele and to Paris, Marseille, Torino, Bologna, Modena, Siena, Zurich, Lausanne and Geneva. Anneliese Fried has worked with the conductors James Conlon, Michel Corboz, Hartmut Haenchen, John Fiore, Fabio Luisi, Helmuth Rilling and Lothar Zagrosek, as well as the directors Willy Decker, Michael Hampe, Andreas Homoki and Johannes Schaaf. Besides her numerous radio recordings, she sang in the 1994 recording of Bellini's "La Sonnambula" with Edita Gruberova. She began her teaching career in 1983/84 at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe and continued in 1990 at the Musikhochschule Detmold (Dortmund branch). In 1994 she became Professor of Singing at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin.