Forest) at the Schwetzingen Festival in 1988 and repeated at the Oper Frankfurt, Kassandra in Aribert Reimann's Troades, and Agave in Henze's Die Bassariden in Hamburg and the Bavarian State Opera. In 2017, she appeared as Sara in the premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's opera Lot at the Staatsoper Hannover, alongside Franz Mazura as Abraham. Since 1971, Behle has lived in Hamburg, where she taught as professor of voice at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg from 2000 to 2010. Recordings Recordings by Behle are held by the German National Library, including several CDs: Zemlinsky: Der Kreidekreis, conducted by Stefan Soltesz Louis Spohr: Jessonda (Gerd Albrecht) Schumann: Genoveva (Gerd Albrecht) Schoeck: Penthesilea (Mario Venzago) Wolfgang Rihm: Die Eroberung von Mexico (Ingo Metzmacher) Beethoven: Ninth Symphony (Michael Gielen) She appears on two DVDs of Stuttgart opera productions: Beethoven: Fidelio (Michael Gielen, staged by Martin Kušej) Wagner: Die Walküre (Lothar Zagrosek, Christof Nel) Literature Jörg Loskill: Renate Behle. Porträt. In: Opernwelt, March 1983, pp. 26/27. Wolfgang Denker: Renate Behle. Ich mache Nägel mit Köpfen. Interview und Porträt. In: Orpheus, May 1986, pp. 332–336. References External links Renate Behle Operabase Renate Behle fmb-hochschulwettbewerb.de Austrian operatic mezzo-sopranos Austrian operatic sopranos Musicians from Graz Living people 1945 births