Regine Hangler Sopran

The young Austrian soprano, Regine Hangler, studied violin and viola at the music school in her home town, Eferding, Upper Austria.

Whilst continuing her viola studies with Walter Haas at the Bruckner Konservatorium, Linz, she gained choral experience with the Jeunesse and Mozart Choruses, under such conductors as Balduin Sulzer, Franz Welser-Möst and Adam Fischer.

Having studied engineering, she studied voice with Ulrike Finder at the Carinthian Landeskonservatorium, completing her diplomas with the distinction ''magna cum laude''.

Since then she has continued her studies at the University of Music and  Performing Arts, Vienna: lied and oratorio with Robert Holl and voice with Gabriele Lechner. She also takes lessons with Mara Zampieri in Padua. She has participated in master-classes given by Kurt Equiluz, Robert Holl, Emily Ameling, Gundula Janowitz and Dame Gwyneth Jones.

During her studies, she was awarded a special scholarship (''Begabtenstipendium'') three times. She was finalist in the Aslico competition, Italy, and received second prize in the  International Birgit Nilson Competition.

The young lyric-dramatic soprano has been very much in demand, performing at national and international festivals and concerts all over Europe, as well as in Japan, Albania and Israel.

From the 2013/14 season is Regine Hangler member of the ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper, where she sings Marianne (Rosenkavalier), Die Frau des Menschenfressers (Pollicino), Woglinde and Helmwige (Ring for children), Helmwige (Die Walküre), Blumenmädchen (Parsifal) und 1. Dame (Die Zauberflöte).....Roles include Leonore (Loreley), Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana), Leonore (Fidelio), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Bastienne (Bastien und Bastienne), Mother (Hänsel und Gretel), Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos), Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) and Elsa (Lohengrin).

She has furthermore been engaged in many CD, radio and TV productions.

In spring and suummer 2015 she will be heard as Daphne in New York and Cleveland. Future engagements also include her debut at the Salzburger Festspiele.