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Recent guest engagements have taken Ezgi Kutlu to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg—where she performed the title role in CARMEN —as well as to the Vienna Opera Summer festival. She made her debuts as EBOLI in “Don Carlo” and ERDA in “Das Rheingold” with the Rhine Philharmonic Orchestra Koblenz and also performed in a concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Previously, she enjoyed success as JUNO in “Semele” at the Opéra de Lille, as DONNA ELVIRA in “Don Giovanni” and MADDALENA in “Rigoletto” at the Stuttgart State Opera; as LUCRECIA CENCI at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, as SANTUZZA at the Opera House Graz, as GIUDITTA in W. A. Mozart’s “Betulia liberata” at the Frankfurt Opera, as ANNINA in “Der Rosenkavalier” at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Flemish Opera; as the Third 3RD DAME in “Die Zauberflöte” at the Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in New York, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Edinburgh Festival, and in Budapest, and as ISABELLA in “L’Italiana in Algeri” at Garsington Opera, where she had previously delighted audiences as ANGELINA in “La Cenerentola”.
Ezgi Kutlu has been a regular guest at the Komische Oper Berlin since 2012. Her roles there have included PENELOPE in “Odysseus”—part of the highly acclaimed premiere of the Monteverdi trilogy, an operatic event broadcast live on 3Sat—as well as CORNELIA in Handel’s “Giulio Cesare”, AMASTRE in “Xerxes”, JUNO in “Semele”, the Third DAME in “Die Zauberflöte” and the title role in CARMEN.
Ezgi received her vocal training in Ankara, at the Juilliard School of Music in New York and at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She was a Prize Winner at the Licia Albanese Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions and she also received the Marian Anderson Award and participated in the first Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival in the summer of 2008.
Also in 2008, the Turkish artist made a highly successful debut as ANNIO in “La clemenza di Tito” at the Stuttgart State Opera. Further engagements there included roles such as RÁGONDE in “Le Comte Ory”, the Second DAME in “Die Zauberflöte*” and ELISABETTA in Donizetti’s “Maria Stuarda”.
From 2008 to 2010, she was a member of the ensemble at the Nuremberg State Theatre, where she performed such roles as DORABELLA, MADDALENA in “Rigoletto”, CHERUBINO in “Le nozze di Figaro”, SINAI in Rossini’s “Moïse et Pharaon” and the COMPOSER in “Ariadne auf Naxos”
Ezgi Kutlu works with such renowned conductors and producers as Ricardo Muti, Giuliano Carella, Konrad Junghänel, Henrik Nanasi, Stefan Herheim, Barrie Kosky, Calixto Bieito, Jossi Wieler, Christoph Waltz just to name a few.
At the Salzburg Festival, Ezgi Kutlu appeared alongside Edita Gruberova in “Norma”. She made her London debut at the Royal Festival Hall, performing PUBLIA in Rossini’s “Aureliano in Palmira” with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, a production that has also been released on CD. In 2011, she made her Italian debut as FENENA in Verdi’s “Nabucco” at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, a role she subsequently performed as a guest artist at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. She also returned to the Stuttgart State Opera to sing the role of PIACERE in Handel’s “Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno”.
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| REVIEWS |
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| Gran Teatro del Liceu – Der Rosenkavailer - ANINA |
| Thomas Blondelle and Ezgi Kutlu stand out as Valzacchi and Anina. |
Forum Opera
www.forumopera.com |
| Staatstheater Stuttgart – Nabucco – FENENA |
| With Fenena, the Turkish mezzo Ezgi Kutlu, with her pleasant timbre and her suggestive phrasing. |
Codalario
www.codalario.com |
| Opernhaus Nürnberg – Moses und Pharao – Sinaïde |
| Probably also because Ezgi Kutlu as his mother Sinaïde steals the shows with her mezzo voice and her stage presence. |
Nordbayern
www.nordbayern.de |
| Oper Frankfurt – Beulia Liberata
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| With Judith’s Tale the Turkish mezzo soprano Ezgo Kutlu , who made her debut at the Frankfurt Opera , provided the highlight of the oratorio. As the librettist, whose text was fairly general until then, finally comes to the point of the biblical story, Ezgi Kutlu literally glows in this aria. |
Feuilleton Frankfurt
www.feuilletonfrankfurt.de |
| Komische Oper Berlin – Orpheus - PENELOPE
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| … his wife Penelope, who is waiting for him, was sung with a dark mezzo voice by Ezgi Kutlu. |
Welt
www.welt.de |
| Staatstheater Nürnberg – Rigoletto – MADDALENA
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| Ezgi Kutlu sings a rather frivolous Maddalena with a capricious mezzo voice. |
Opernnetz
www.o-ton.online.de |
| Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen – Der Rosenkavalier – ANINA
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| …the most impressive Anina by Ezgi Kutlu. |
Die Presse
www.diepresse.com |
| Garsington Opera - L' Italiana in Algeri - ISABELLA |
| ...but it’s Kutlu who is the real find: this is a wonderful voice, dark in tone and evenly produced, her coloratura effortless and thrillingly negotiated. |
The Guardian
www.theguardian.com |
| Ezgi Kutlu demonstrates a pleasant and steady mezzo-soprano as Isabella. |
The Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk |
| Komische Oper Berlin - Giulio cesare in Egitto - CORNELIA |
| Ezgi Kutlu sings Cornelia wiuth some thrilling alto cantilenas. |
| www.nmz.de |
But Ezgi Kutlu as Cornelia is brilliant with her enchantingly warm mezzo voice,...
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| www.morgenpost.de |
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