anna.laclaque (Annette Stricker) made her operatic debut in the title role of Rossini’s La Cenerentola in Rome. In 2000-2007 she was engaged as an opera singer at the Luzerner
Theater as well as at the Oper Frankfurt, where her roles included Rosina (Barbiere die Siviglia) Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Cherubino (Figaro) Varvara (Katia Kabanova) and La Malaspina and Lady Macbeth (Sciarrino’s Luci mie traditrici/ Macbeth).
As singer anna.laclaque is particularly well known for her performances of contemporary music. She performed world premieres at international festivals, including wien modern, Bregenzer Festspiele, Lincoln Center Festival, New York, festival d’automne, Paris. anna. often performed with the ensemble recherche, Klangform Wien and the ensemble modern. anna. worked together with the artists Trisha Brown, Reinhild Hoffmann, Joachim Schlömer and Achim Freyer, with the conductors Silvain Cambreling, Beat Furrer and Kasushi Ono.
PRESS
…especially the statuesque Ms. Stricker, are strikingly good… The results are surprisingly dramatic, above all in the critical moments when the Duchess falls for the Lover and, later, when she accepts her imminent death.
NEW YORK TIMES
In the role of Lady Macbeth, German mezzo-soprano Annette Stricker returns to the Festival after her outstanding portrayal of the Ducess in Luci mie traditrici.
NEW YORK TIMES
With an equally beautiful voice (she also sings Mozart), Annette Stricker was often riveting as Lady Macbeth – particulary in the sleepwalking scene, a long, static soliloquy that would be a callenge for anyone to pull off dramatically.
ANDANTE NEW YORK
..ins Unendliche gedehnte Augenblicke: die Wahnsinnsszene der Lady – stimmdisziplinierte Ikone maschinisierter Harpyrenhaftigkeit: die Sopranistin Annette Stricker..
FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU
…die grandiose Lady Macbeth der Annette Stricker…
DIE ZEIT
Grandios vor allem, fast flammend und vielfarbig im vokalen und darstellerischen Formelkorsett agierte Annette Stricker als Lady Macbeth…
FAZ
Die Mezzosopran-Stimme von anna.laclaque – als einziges natürliches Instrument in dem elektronischen Ensemble – verstört mit ihren Ansätzen eines opernhaften Modus von Arie und Koloratur. Ihre ganz offensichtlich klassisch ausgebildete Stimme oszilliert zwischen Operngesang, Noise, Lautproduktion. Sie rezitiert dadaistische Textfragmente, singt und moduliert variantenreich und trägt damit gemeinsam mit der eingesetzten Elektronik zu einem gelungenen, höchst suggestiven Klangerlebnis bei.
NRW-JAZZ.NET
anna.laclaque received an award by the Braunschweigische Stiftung for the performance-project “aria direction z” in 2015.