Mihoko Fujimura Mezzo Soprano

Born in Japan and studied at the Tokyo National University for Fine Arts and Music and at the Musikhochschule in Munich. She came to international attention in her performances at the 2002 Münchener Opern Festspielen and the Bayreuther Festspiele and has since regularly appeared at the Royal Opera Covent Garden,Teatro alla Scala Milano, Bayerische Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayreuther Festspiele, Theatre du Chatelet, Theatro Real Madrid, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino und Aix-en-Provence Festival. Miss Fujimura's operatic repertoire includes Kundry, Brangaene, Venus, Fricka, Idamantes, Carmen, Eboli, Azucena, Amneris and Octavian.

She appears regularly with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Christian Thielemann, Sir Colin Davis, Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Kurt Mazur, Mariss Jansons, Myung-Whun Chung, Fabio Luisi Daniel Harding and Liederabend mwith Christoph Urlich Meier. She has recorded Brangaene ("Tristan und Isolde") with Placido Domingo and Antonio Pappano for EMI Classics.

For the next years are following appearances intended: In the production of "Parsifal" at Bayreuth Festivals and Munich National Theatre(Kent Nagano), "Tristan und Isolde" with Mahler Chamber Orchestra (Daniel Harding), new "Ring" at the Wiener Staatsoper, the Royal Opera Covent Garden and the Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, Beethoven´s “symphony no.9." with the Vienna Philharmonic and Munich Philharmonic (Christian Thielemann), Schoenberg´s "Gurre-Lieder” with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dvorak´s "Requiem" with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Mariss Jansons), Mahler´s “symphony no.3” with the Orchestre de Paris(Christoph Eschenbach), Mahler´s “symphony no.8" with the Danish Radio Orchestra , Verdi´s “Requiem" with the Washington National Orchestra(Christoph Eschenbach), Mahler´s “symphony no.2.“ with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Shostakowitch´s “from jiddischer poesie" with the Orchestre du Philharmonique de Strasbourg.