Annina Gieré – Lyric Soprano

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Annina Gieré (*Zurich, Switzerland) is a versatile artist: trained as a classical singer, she is active on the opera stage, in song and concert repertoire. But she is also at home in the cross-over style and as an actress on the theatre stage, as well as the Kleinkunst. 

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Annina studied classical singing at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne with Frédéric Gindraux, completed her Master’s in Advanced Vocal Studies at the Wales International Academy of Voice in Cardiff/UK with Dennis O'Neill, her Masters' of music pedagogy at Kalaidos Musikhochschule and is currently being trained vocally by Heidi Wölnerhanssen.

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Active as a singer and actress in Switzerland and abroad, her performances have taken her to Italy, France, Spain, England, Denmark, the Netherlands, Greece, Cyprus, Romania, the USA and Colombia.

Among her opera roles already performed on stage are Susanna (Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro), Ilia (Mozart, Idomeneo), Fiordiligi (Mozart Così fan tutte), Arminda (Mozart, La Finta Giardiniera), Giulietta (Bellini, I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Musetta (Puccini, La Bohème), Manon (Massenet, Le portrait de Manon; Manon), La dame blanche (Boieldieu, La dame blanche), Émilie (Rameau, Les Indes galantes) and others.

Annina also travels regularly as an actress, especially in plays in the style of Commedia dell'arte, in German, French, Italian, Spanish and English, often with ArscomicA side by side with Maestro Antonio Fava. In 2022, together with actor Carlos Becker she founded their theatre company Compagnia Za-Zà , with which she will go on a Swiss summer tour on a mobile open-air theatre stage in 2025. 

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In addition, Annina is enthusiastically devoted to developing her own projects, such as a literary-musical program around Goethe's character "Mignon" from Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship years, or Laura - a Petrarch evening with the pianist Corina Gieré and others. In the duo Les Lynx (aka Duo Horizons), together with accordionist Mario Strebel, she focuses in particular to French chanson. 

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Also worthy of note in Annina’s career is her participation as the sole singer and actress in Daniel Ernst's Fernwehoper, a virtual reality computer game that has won numerous prizes around the world.

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Together with actor Carlos Becker, she runs the youth theatre La Sclaetta in the Atelier Theater Meilen and theatre courses for young people and adults - in physical theatre styles such as human comedy with their own created masks or bande mimée.

​Annina regularly teaches singing students with great pleasure - both privately and at various music schools. She also gives voice training in the Motettenchor Meilen. 

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Annina is fluent in German, English, French, Spanish and Italian. Apart from her profession - but often integrated into it - she loves dance, languages, Latin American boleros, Greece and chocolate and is mother of a wonderful son.