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Claudia Barainsky is a German soprano. Raised in Berlin, she attended the University of the Arts, studying with Ingrid Figur, and participated in the master classes of
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and
Aribert Reimann. She performed at many festivals, including the May Festival in Wiesbaden, the Berlin Festival, the Schubertiade in Kuhmo, and the International Festival of Young Artists in Davos. She made her stage debut as Konstanze in
Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and she sang
Berg's Lulu and
Reimann's Melusine at the Semperoper Dresden. She has also sung the roles of Sophie in
Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, Musetta in
Puccini's La bohème, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, the First Flower Girl in
Wagner's Parsifal, and Waldvogel in Siegfried at the Bayreuth Festival.
Barainsky has also sung at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Staatsoper in Munich, the Komische Oper in Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Oper Frankfurt. She is in demand as a concert singer, performing soprano parts in
Handel's oratorios and symphonies and orchestral songs by
Beethoven and
Mahler, as well as modern vocal works by
Schoenberg, Webern,
Berg,
Maderna,
Henze, and
Feldman. She has worked with conductors
Gerd Albrecht,
Herbert Blomstedt,
Sylvain Cambreling,
Christoph Eschenbach,
Michael Gielen,
Hartmut Haenchen,
Daniel Harding,
Zubin Mehta, and
Christian Thielemann, among others. She has recorded for Capriccio, NEOS, MDG, and Wergo.