Kikuko Teshima

Kikuko Teshima is Japanese soprano. After graduating from the University of Arts in Tokyo with a special recognition, she debuted as Violetta in Verdi's La traviata (1997). She is the winner of International competition in Budapest, where she later sang on the stage of National Opera in the role of Musetta in Puccini´s La Bohéme (1999). She also performed in Tokyo in Donizetti´s L´Elisir d´Amor. Until 2002 she studied in Berlin and Munich, and on Karlsruhe Music University. During this time, she gave concerts in New York and Tokyo. Kikuko Teshima takes further singing lessons from Christa Ludwig since 2000. In the 2002 – 2003 season she debuted as Chio-Chio-San in Pucccini´s Madame Butterfly in the Prague State Opera, where she had also performed the part of Liú in Puccini´s Turandot. Her repertoire ranges from Pamina (The Magic Flute), through Gilda (Rigoletto), Mimi (La Bohéme), to Desdemona (Othello). She has also performed in Austria, Germany, and France.