Magdalena Hinterdobler

Zemlinsky's work was not performed when it was composed in 1907 at the Vienna State Opera as planned by Gustav Mahler, then the music director, and was revived only in 1980.

The title character Görge is an outsider as a bookworm, dreamer and intellectual.

Hinterdobler portrayed Grete, whom Görge is supposed to marry but she is unable to comprehend him.

Reviewer Curtis Rogers, writing for The Classical Source website, noted that she took "a more straightforwardly bold, sassy approach to the role".

Writing in Frankfurter Allgemeine after her performance in Frankfurt in February 2024, Jan Brachmann commented on her fresh, beautiful delivery and her exemplary interpretation of the text.

Orpheus magazine reviewed her performance in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and said it was, "full of soprano sunshine above all the other voices".

Magdalena Hinterdobler (born 1986) is a German operatic soprano, based at the Oper Frankfurt, where she has performed leading roles including Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Elisabetta in Verdi's Don Carlo and Grete in Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge.

She appeared as Anna in the world premiere of Gerd Kühr's Paradiese.

Hinterdobler was born in Straubing, Bavaria.

She attended a gymnasium focused on music and was a member of its chamber choir, conducted by Gerold Huber, the father of the pianist Gerold Huber.

Hinterdobler took part in oratorio performances, with tours to Italy, and in opera productions, performing more and more demanding roles as a soloist.

She enrolled at the University of Music and Theatre Munich as a young student while still going to school, and studied voice there with several former members of the Tölzer Knabenchor, who influenced the class towards team spirit.

She also studied at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding, voice with Andreas Schmidt, and lied with Helmut Deutsch.

She appeared on the stage of the Prinzregententheater in Mozart's La finta giardiniera in a student project with the academy.

Among Hinterdobler's recordings is Leo Fall's operetta Die Dollarprinzessin live from the Prinzregententheater in Munich in 2012, with Ulf Schirmer conducting the Munich Radio Orchestra, and according to a reviewer from Gramophone the only complete recording of the work.

Another reviewer noted that the singers were "all well up to the task", and that she in the role of Daisy sang and acted "with great character", adding "Things do seem to come to life whenever she is in the picture".

Similarly, she appeared as Bertha in a recording of Max Bruch's rarely played opera Die Loreley live from Munich, conducted by Stefan Blunier.

Hinterdobler became a member of the ensemble of the Leipzig Opera in 2014, and remained there until 2022.

She appeared there in title roles in Dvořák's Rusalka and Marie in Smetana's The Bartered Bride.

She performed as Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, in Mozart roles and as Puccini's Mimì in La bohème and Liù in Turandot.

In 2014, she starred as Midili Hanum in Die Rose von Stambul by Leo Fall at the Prinzregententheater, Munich.

A CD recording of one of the performances was released in 2022; Fanfare called her "the best singer in the cast".

She performed in 2017 as Ännchen in Weber's Der Freischütz, and a reviewer described her aria as a "delicious account".

She appeared as Anna in the world premiere of Gerd Kühr's Paradiese, and a reviewer from the Süddeutsche Zeitung noted that she was an "erotic elemental force ... with a colorful, sensual soprano".

Hinterdobler appeared at the Oper Frankfurt as Eva in a new production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in 2022, directed by Johannes Erath and conducted by Sebastian Weigle.

She became a member of the ensemble in 2023, and appeared there as Elisabetta in Verdi's Don Carlo and Chrysothemis in Elektra by Richard Strauss.

She was cast as Grete in Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge (Görge the Dreamer) in 2024, directed by Tilmann Köhler and conducted by Markus Poschner.