Biography of Soprano Prisca Salib

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German-Egyptian soprano Prisca Salib was born in Mainz, Germany, and gave her first piano concerts at the age of nine. She studied classical ballet from a very young age and won multiple scholarships for the study of piano and voice. Salib made her opera debut in Bayreuth, Germany, performing the role of Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice. She studied voice at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg and has given numerous well-received recitals, concerts, and guest performances in Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna and Cairo.

In addition to an extensive range of songs by composers from Mozart, Bellini, and Schumann, through Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf, Prisca Salib's repertoire includes roles such as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Gilda in Rigoletto, Amine in La Sonnambula, Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Musetta in La Bohème, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Norina in Don Pasquale, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, as well as Olympia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Galathee in Die schöne Galathee, and Adele in Die Fledermaus, to name a few.

Salib has taken several master classes with Sylvia Geszty and Grace Bumbry. She has given numerous recitals and concerts in Berlin together with her accompanist of many years, Klaus Kirbach and Armin Thalheim, presenting repertoire from the baroque, classical, and romantic periods, and has worked with Daniel Barenboim, Sebastian Weigle and Wolfgang Wagner at the Festival of Richard Wagner and furthermore with Kazushi Ono, Ingo Metzmacher, Michael Temme, Rainer Schwarz and Salvatore Sciarrino. In addition to contemporary works, Salib has performed roles such as Blonde with the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and Musetta at the Cairo Opera, and has given various guest performances as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Olympia in Les contes d'Hoffmann.

Prisca Salib additionally studied theatre, music, and German studies at the University of Bayreuth, and in 2009 completed her doctoral thesis on Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's The Jewels of the Madonna, for which she received a scholarship from Her Highness Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis, through the Franz-Marie-Christinen-Foundation.