Member Spotlight: Quirina Lechmann - Soprano

We continue our hop round the globe to welcome this week's Member Spotlight Swiss and Belgian soprano Quirina Lechmann.

1. How do you describe yourself as an artist?

Coloratura soprano, performance artist and video artist, who likes producing own musical dramas, going from classical to contemporary opera to own compositions, enjoying new spaces and places as well as incorporating them into her work.

2. What other skills or passions do you have that help shape you as an artist?

Enthusiastic reader that likes creating new and strange spaces, times, stories, sounds, experiences.

3. What has been the most memorable and rewarding experience you have had as an artist?

"Ende Gelände": art interventions and an opera created especially for a venue to be torn down. For the art interventions I invited various artists from the region; in the opera we included a bulldozer tearing down a prepared building.

4. What role, company or performing situation would be a dream come true for you as an artist?

My dream would be a combination of being the writer/producer of new ideas combined with singing a few productions a year somewhere else. I would love to finally sing the queen of the night in a production.

5. What do you like most about being a creative artist?

Make ideas come true.

6. If you could go back in time and give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?

Work harder sooner.

7. Three words that are the pillars you shape your career by:

Craziness, Craft, Inspiration

8. Where can our followers support you next?

I have an interesting project on 31st December: "Surservela". It’s a music/art performance at "Cularta" in Laax, an idyllic village in the mountains in Switzerland, with me performing a poem in the language of Romansh (the 4th language of Switzerland) I wrote , put to music by Milica Ilić, combined with raising the flag "Surservela" and grilling servela (a kind of sausage). The flag’s artist is Gianin Conrad.

I‘m also working on a new idea: a performance between opera and art, clothing design and real life. I’m working with a sculptor and a designer. We will hopefully perform it next spring in Frankfurt.

You can enjoy Quirina Lechmann's performances for free. Visit https://quirinalechmann.com and Audition Oracle Profile to find out where and when to catch her next.