About
“[…] With spectacular coloratura, register intervals and aggressive high notes. Gabriëlle Mouhlen lacks nothing to play this great role. Even scenically she is a revelation”
– das Opernmagazin –
Due to her remarkable vocal range, her dark color, her temperament and easy high notes and coloraturas, Ms. Mouhlen sings a wide range of operatic roles. The soprano is not only highly appreciated for her secure vocal technique, but for her magnetic stage presence and acting skills as well.
Her key roles are Abigaille in Nabucco, Tosca, Aida, Turandot, Norma, Odabella in Attila, Lady Macbeth in Verdi’s Macbeth, Leonora in Il Trovatore, Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera, Nedda in Pagliacci, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, Manon Lescaut, The Foreign Princess in Rusalka and Minnie in La Fanciulla del West.
She has performed on stages like the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam (Verdi Requiem), Auditorium De Doelen in Rotterdam (Nabucco), L’Opéra de Nice Côte d’Azur (Gran Gala de Prestige), Grand Théâtre de Genève (Turandot), Opernhaus Dortmund (Nabucco), Aalto Musiktheater in Essen (Pagliacci, Otello, Nabucco, Aida, Tosca, Rusalka, Pique Dame), Theater Magdeburg (Otello), Theater Lübeck (Otello), Theater Koblenz (Nabucco), Central Florida Opera (Turandot), Teatro dal Verme Milano (Gran Gala di Capodanno), Teatro Marrucino di Chieti (Tosca), Teatro Sociale di Rovigo (Nabucco) Festival Luglio Trapanese (Turandot), Teatro Verdi di Trieste (Turandot, Lady Macbeth), Teatro del Giglio di Lucca (Puccini Days) and NdB National Opera Brno (Aida).
The soprano sang with well-known conductors such as: Niksa Bareza, Tomás Netopil, Robert Jindra, Jakub Klecker, Lorenzo Rizzi-Brignoli, Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Davide Crescenzi, Daniele Agiman, Antonio Fogliani, Gianluca Martinenghi, Matteo Beltrami, Andrea Solinas, Michelangelo Mazza, Marco Balderi, Andreas Wolff, Mino Marani, Valentin Uryupin and others.
In december 2021 the soprano was discovered by Maestro Riccardo Muti for the dramatic Verdi repertoire and she was invited to sing the role of Abigaille, at the Fondazione Prada in Milano and at the Alighieri Theatre in Ravenna under the baton of the Maestro. Subconsequently she sang the same role at the Domstufen Festival of Erfurt (2022) and at the HNK National Opera of Zagreb (2022). In the same year she debuted the role of Elisabetta in Don Carlo at the Aaltotheater of Essen.
Recently she debuted with great success the role of Lady Macbeth at the Verdi Theatre of Trieste, the role of Santuzza at the Ente de Carolis of Sassari and the role of Minnie in La Fanciulla del West at the National Opera Romania Cluj. At the Taormina Art Festival she sang the role of Turandot and after the summer she returned in Sassari in the role of Lady Macbeth. Ms Mouhlen just returned from Germany, where she was singing Nabucco at the Staatstheater of Nurimberg.
She collaborated with stage directors such as: Gianncarlo del Monaco, Dietrich Hilsdorf, Jens-Daniel Herzog, Roland Schwab, Christine Mielitz, Robert Carsen, Henning Brockhaus, Guy Montavon, Anja Nichlich, Daniel Kramer, Andreas Baesler, Olivia Fuchs, Lotte Beer, Václav Věžník, Filippo Tonon, Philip Himmelmann, David Raimondi, Renato Bonajuto, Immo Karaman, Sante Maurizi e Andrea Cigni.