Mariette Kemmer is a Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

 soprano singer who has performed in concerts and operas throughout Europe and in the United States. She also teaches at the Conservatoire in Esch-sur-Alzette

Esch-sur-Alzette

Esch-sur-Alzette is a commune with city status, in south-western Luxembourg. It is the country's second city, and its second-most populous commune, with a population of 29,853 people...

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Early life and education

Daughter of the Luxembourg pianist Jean-Pierre Kemmer

Jean-Pierre Kemmer

Jean-Pierre Kemmer was a Luxembourg composer and conductor. A percussionist, pianist, and choir master, he was a member of the RTL Symphony Orchestra. He composed choir works, symphonies, operettas, film music and concertos...

, Mariette was born in Luxembourg City

Luxembourg (city)

The city of Luxembourg , also known as Luxembourg City , is a commune with city status, and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is located at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse Rivers in southern Luxembourg...

 on 29 November 1953. From the age of 9, she studied the cello at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg

Conservatoire de Luxembourg

The Conservatoire de Luxembourg is a conservatoire in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The conservatoire was founded in 1906, after a private donation made possible its establishment, which had been mandated under a Grand Ducal decree issued in 1904...

 before turing to singing when she was 13. After leaving school, she first spent three years at the Opéra Studio school in Brussels

Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

, then completed her studies at the Musikhochschule Rheinland in Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

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. While in Brussels, she first sang secondary parts in operas at La Monnaie

La Monnaie

Le Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie , or the Koninklijke Muntschouwburg is a theatre in Brussels, Belgium....

, before taking on her first main roles in Der Rosenkavalier

Der Rosenkavalier

Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière’s comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac...

 (Sophie), The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue....

 (Pamina) and Carmen

Carmen

Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...

 (Micaëla) when she was 24.

Career

Over the years, Mariette Kemmer has sung in virtually all the grand concert halls and opera houses of Europe. Worldwide, she has performed in some 900 operatic performances but, surprisingly, has only appeared in three in her native Luxembourg. After her debut at La Monnaie, she rapidly embarked on her international career singing in recitals and operas at Copenhagen, Las Palmas, San Francisco and Prague. She has now performed in over 100 cities, in 70 opera houses with about a hundred different orchestras. Among her prestigious venues are the opera houses of Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Frankfurt, Zurich, Geneva and Verona and concert halls such as the Beethovenhalle

Beethovenhalle

The Beethovenhalle is a concert hall in Bonn. It is the third hall in that city to bear the name of Bonn-born composer Ludwig van Beethoven.- History :...

 (Bonn), Konzerthaus

Konzerthaus, Vienna

The Konzerthaus in Vienna was opened 1913. It is situated in the third district just at the edge of the first district in Vienna. Since it was founded it has always tried to emphasise both tradition and innovative musical styles.In 1890 the first ideas for a Haus für Musikfeste came about...

 (Vienna), Salle Pleyel

Salle Pleyel

The Salle Pleyel is a concert hall in Paris, France. The resident ensembles are the Orchestre de Paris and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.-History and Design:...

 (Paris) and the Rudolfinum

Rudolfinum

The Rudolfinum is a music auditorium in Prague, Czech Republic. It is designed in the neo-renaissance style and is situated on Jan Palach Square on the bank of the river Vltava.-Overview:...

(Prague). Since 2003, she has taught at the Conservatoire d'Esch-sur-Alzette in the south of Luxembourg.

Discography

• 2003: "Joseph Jongen: Melodies with orchestra", Mariette Kemmer soprano, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Pierre Bartholomée conductor, Cypres CD CYP1635
• 2000: "Arthur Honegger: Sémiramis", Orchestre symphonique de RTL, Dirigent: Leopold Hager, CD Timpani, 2000
• 1996: "Metz Opéra-Théatre-Arias", Rossini; Mozart; Berlioz; Gluck; Gounod, Gilles Ragon (Tenor); Mariette Kemmer (Soprano); Nicolas Cavallier (Bass); Claire Brua (Soprano), Lorraine Philharmonic Orchestra, Discovery Records Ltd