Mihoko Fujimura

Mihoko Fujimura Mezzo Soprano

Born in Japan and studied at the Tokyo National University for Fine Arts and Music and at the Musikhochschule in Munich. She came to international attention in her performances at the 2002 Münchener Opern Festspielen and the Bayreuther Festspiele and has since regularly appeared at the Royal Opera Covent Garden,Teatro alla Scala Milano, Bayerische Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayreuther Festspiele, Theatre du Chatelet, Theatro Real Madrid, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino und Aix-en-Provence Festival. Miss Fujimura's operatic repertoire includes Kundry, Brangaene, Venus, Fricka, Idamantes, Carmen, Eboli, Azucena, Amneris and Octavian.

She appears regularly with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Colin Davis, Kurt Mazur, Mariss Jansons, Kent Nagano, Myung-Whun Chung, Semyon Bychkov, Franz Welser-Möst, Donald Runnicles,Fabio Luisi Daniel Harding and Liederabends with Christoph Urlich Meier and Roger Vignoles. She has recorded Brangaene ("Tristan und Isolde") with Placido Domingo and Antonio Pappano for EMI Classics.

For the next years are following appearances intended: In the production of "Parsifal" at Bayreuth Festivals and Munich National Theatre(Kent Nagano), "Tristan und Isolde" with Mahler Chamber Orchestra (Daniel Harding), new "Ring" at the Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Royal Opera Covent Garden London and Bayreuth Festival, Beethoven´s “symphony no.9." with the Vienna Philharmonic (Christian Thielemann), Schoenberg´s "Gurre-Lieder” with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra(Mariss Jansons), Mahler´s “symphony no.3” with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Orchestre de Paris(Christoph Eschenbach), Mahler´s “symphony no.8" with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Mariss Jansons) , the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra(Andris Nelsons) and the Danish Radio Orchestra(Ion Marin), Verdi´s “Requiem" with the Washington National Orchestra (Christoph Eschenbach) and Orchestre National de Lyon (Jun Maerkl),Mahlers “symphony no.2” with the RTVE Symphony Orchestra Madrid.