Jacques Offenbach | La Belle Hélène
Thu 25. Feb. 2021, 7.30 pm - 10.20 pm
Musikalische Leitung
Nicolas André
Conductor
Birthplace:
Caen, France
Studies:
Conservatoires in Caen, Dijon, Versailles; Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse in Lyon
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Personal Musical Assistant of General Music Director Kent Nagano (as of 2018/19)
Repertoire:
Opera repertoire (e.g. Bizet, Mozart, David, Destouches, Lachnitz, Britten, Rameau, Liszt, Lully, Cherubini, Halévy), concert repertoire (e.g. Bach, Bizet, Beethoven, Chopin, Barber, Brahms, Caplet, Chostakovitch, Penard, Debussy, Dvorak, Bernstein, Boulez, Duparc, Durufle, Fauré, Jolivet, Landowski, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Tchaikowsky, Satie, Mozart, Mahler, Lalo, Ohana, Rossini, Poulenc, Schubert, Wagner, Saint Saens, Massenet, Sarasate, Paganini, Strauss, Schumann, Stravinsky)
Career stages:
Foundation of the Baroque ensemble “Les Enchantements”; Founder, Artistic and Musical Director of the Festival d’Arromanches (since 2009); Conductor of the Vlaams Radio Koor (since 2013), Chef associé with Le Concert Spirituel (since 2015)
Stages:
Festival d’Arromanches, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Opéra de Rennes, Hamburgische Staatsoper, et al.
Cooperation with orchestras:
Baroque ensemble “Les Enchantements”, folk music ensemble “Accorzéâm”, vocal ensemble “Diakhrôma”, Brussels Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, Orchestre lyrique de Région Avignon Provence, Orchestre de Cannes Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestre national Bordeaux-Aquitaine, et al.
Find further information about Nicolas André here.
Chor
Christian Günther
Associate Chorus Master
Birthplace:
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Studies:
Conducting at University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, conducting lessons with Neeme Järvi, Jorma Panula and Gianluigi Gelmetti
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Assistant Chorus Master at Hamburg State Opera since the 2019/20 season
Career stages:
Assistant of the Chorus Master at Hamburg State Opera (2008-2019), regular guest appearances at NDR-Chorus (since 2018), Guest Chorus Master at Zürich Opera House (2018), Assistant of Eberhard Friedrich with the Chorus of the Bayreuth Festival (2017), Guest engagements at Music Festival Bremen, at Festival der Projektgruppe Neue Musik Bremen as well as at Oh Ton-Ensemble Oldenburg, Leader of the Ensemble “Atelier Neue Musik”, Lectureship at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (since 2007), Associate Chorus Master and Leader of the children's chorus at Theater Bremen (2002-2007), 2nd Capellmeister at Theater Bremen (2005-2007), Conductor of the Ensemble “piano possible” Munich (1996-2007), Guest répétiteur at Stuttgart State Theater, Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and at the Biennale in Munich
Cooperation with choruses:
Chorus of Hamburg State Opera, NDR Chorus, Children's chorus of Theater Bremen, et al.
Páris
Oleksiy Palchykov
Tenor
Birthplace:
Kiev, Ukraine
Studies:
At the Vocal Faculty of the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Atelier Lyrique of the Opéra National de Paris
Prizes:
Grand Prix of the XVI International Lydia Abramova Vocal Student’s Competition “Bella voce” in Moscow, special prize of the Jury at the International Vocal Competition “Debut” in Wiekersheim, Prix Lyrique du Carpeaux, Prix Lyrique de L'AROP, finalist of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 2017/18
Important parts:
Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Alfredo (La Traviata), Fenton (Falstaff), Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Nemorino (L’Elisir d’Amore), Il Conte d’Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Pylade (Iphigénie en Tauride), Paris (La belle Hélène), Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), Cassio (Otello), Narraboth (Salome), Beppe (Pagliacci), Sinowi (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Lykow (The Tsar’s Bride), Gritsko (Sorochintsi Fair), Kudryash (Katia Kabanova), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), et al.
Stages:
The Lyon Opera house, Opera Bastille, Opera Garnier, Athénée-Théâtre, Opernhaus Zürich, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Edinburg International Festival, Garsington Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper, Komische Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Hamburg, Champs Elysees Theatre, National Opera of Monpellier, National Opera of Ukraine, M. Dzhalil Tatar Academic State Opera, Chaliapin Festival, Le Théâtre du Léman, Palazzo dei Congressi Lugano, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Andreas Homoki, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Barrie Kosky, Calixto Bieito, Willy Decker,
Renaud Doucet/André Barbe, Mariame Clement, William Kentridge, Christophe Perton, Àlex Ollé, Laurent Pelly, Olivier Py, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Nello Santi, Philippe Jordan, Kent Nagano, Visiliy Petrenko, Michael Schønwandt, Riccardo Frizza, Kazushi Ono, Paolo Carignani, Alessandro De Marchi, Daniele Callegari, Henrik Nánási, Vakclav Luks, et al.
Find further information about Oleksiy Palchykov here.
photo: PHOT.CHE PHOTOGRAPHY
Ménélas
Peter Galliard
Tenor
Birthplace:
Chur, Switzerland
Studies:
With Rico Peterelli, Conservatory in Feldkirch with Maria Eibenschütz, at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Rudolf Knoll
Prizes:
First Prize at the International Mozart Competition (1985), Förderpreis of the Kanton Graubünden (1987), Dr. Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Preis of the Stiftung zur Förderung der Hamburgischen Staatsoper (1989), honored by the Hamburg Senate with the title of “Kammersänger” (2017)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 1986/87
Important parts:
Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Jaquino (Fidelio), Cassio (Otello), Froh and Loge (Das Rheingold), Alfred and Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), Peter Iwanow (Zar und Zimmermann), Bardolfo (Falstaff), Hauptmann (Wozzeck), Knusperhexe (Hänsel und Gretel), Lenski (Eugen Onegin), Narraboth (Salome), Don Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Prinz and Hauptmann (Lulu), L’Aumonier (Dialogues des Carmélites), Melot (Tristan und Isolde), Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser), Wolfgang Capito (Mathis der Maler), Goro (Madama Butterfly), Red Whiskers (Billy Budd), Dämon (L’Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe), Bischof von Budoja (Palestrina), Mime (Siegfried), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Lucerne Festival, Salzburger Osterfestspiele, Opéra National de Paris, Enescu Festival in Bukarest, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, Semperoper Dresden, Oper Leipzig, Staatstheater Nürnberg, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Claus Guth, August Everding, Johannes Schaaf, Harry Kupfer, Peter Konwitschny, Johannes Erath, Renaud Doucet, Georg Schmiedleitner, Stefan Herheim, Herbert Wernicke, Calixto Bieito, Willy Decker, Paul-Georg Dittrich, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christian Thielemann, Ingo Metzmacher, Simone Young, Kirill Petrenko, Kent Nagano, Lawrence Foster, Gerrit Prießnitz, Marcus Bosch, Philippe Jordan, Paolo Carignani, Vaclav Luks, et al.
Hélène
Kate Aldrich
Mezzo-soprano
Birthplace:
Damariscotta (Maine), USA
Prizes:
CulturArte Award at the Operalia International Opera Competition (2001), Alfréd Radok Award (2006), Thalia Award in the Czech Republic (2006), et al.
Important parts:
Carmen (Carmen), Fides (Le Prophete), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Joan of Arc (The Maid of Orleans), Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking), Amneris (Aida), Cenerentola (La Cenerentola), Adalgisa (Norma), Charlotte (Werther), Giulietta, Nicklausse and The Muse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust), Arden Scott (Great Scott), Rosmira (Partenope), Statira (Olympie), Idamante (Idomeneo), Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena), Leonore (La Favorite), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Romeo (I Capuleti e I Montecchi), Preziosilla (La Forza del Destino), Giulio Cesare (Giulio Cesare), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Isabella (L’italiana in Algeri), Frederic (Mignon), Orsini (Lucrezia Borgia), Elisabetta I (Maria Stuarda), Ascanio (Benvenuto Cellini), Zelmira (Zelmira), Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Adriano (Rienzi), Salammbo (Salammbo), et al.
Stages:
Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opernhaus Zürich, Arena di Verona, Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Regio di Torino, Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Opéra de Marseille, Opéra de Montpellier, Opéra de Montréal, Teatro Sao Carlos, Salzburg Festival, Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Odyssey Opera in Massachusetts, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Avenches Opera Festival in Switzerland, Opéra National de Paris, Semperoper Dresden, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opéra de Lyon, San Diego Opera, Verbier Festival, Llangollen Festival, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Vancouver Opera, Choregies d’Orange, Bolshoi Theatre, Concertgebeouw Amsterdam, Opéra Municipal de Marseille, Massenet Festival in St. Etienne, Teatro Real de Madrid, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Carnegie Hall, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro alla Scala, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Franco Zeffirelli, Vincent Boussard, Marie-Louise Bischofberger, David Marton, Stefano Vizioli, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Charles Dutoit, Jeromie Rohrer, James Conlon, Daniele Gatti, Alessandro De Marchi, Riccardo Frizza, Antonello Allemandi, Kirill Petrenko, Jacques Lacombe, Giuliano Carella, Gérard Korsten, Riccardo Minasi, Mikko Franck, Maxim Emelyanychev, Joseph Mechavich, Jérémie Rhorer, Philippe Jordan, Steven Osgood, Plácido Domingo, Claus Peter Flor, Gil Rose, Derrick Inouye, Laurent Gendre, et al.
photo: Fadil Berisha
Agamemnon
Bernhard Hansky
baritone
Birthplace:
Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
Studies:
Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin
Master classes:
with Angelika Kirchschlager, Brigitte Fassbaender, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Deborah Polaski
Prizes:
Förderpreis of the Franz-Grothe-Stiftung at the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang (2008)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 2020/21
Important parts:
Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus), Farfarello (Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen), Landsknecht (Simplicius Simplicissimus), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby), Kilian (Der Freischütz), Conte dʼAlmaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Moralès (Carmen), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Barone Douphol (La Traviata), Hermann (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Schlemihl (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
Stages:
Komische Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin, Ständetheater Prag, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro Massimo Palermo, Osterfestspiele Salzburg
Cooperations with directors:
Barrie Kosky, Keith Warner, David Hermann, Johannes Erath, Axel Köhler, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Omer Meir Wellber, Tomás Netopil, Stefano Ranzani, Patrick Lange, Christian Thielemann, et al.
Oreste
Ida Aldrian
mezzo-soprano
Birthplace:
Bruck an der Mur, Austria
Studies:
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Leopold Spitzer and Karlheinz Hanser; studies for Stage Performance (Opera and Musical Drama), Art Song and Oratorio with KS Marjana Lipovšek with honors; member of International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera (2012/13–2014/15)
Master class:
with Ann Murray, Bernarda Fink, Reri Grist, Peter Kooij, Andrew Watts, Thomas Hampson, Wicus Slabbert, Alan Titus, Brigitte Fassbaender, et al.
Prizes:
Dr.-Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Preis of Stiftung zur Förderung der Hamburgischen Staatsoper (2014), prize winner of the jury ranking at international singing competition „Stella Maris“ (2014)
Important parts:
Wellgunde (Das Rheingold und Götterdämmerung), Siegrune und Rossweiße (Die Walküre), Blumenmädchen und Stimme aus der Höhe (Parsifal ), 2. Magd (Daphne), Feodor (Boris Godunow), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Isabella (L’Italiana in Algeri), Adalgisa (Norma), Idamante (Idomeneo), Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Ericlea und Penelope (Il Ritorno d´Ulisse in Patria), Mercedes (Carmen), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Laura (Luisa Miller), Annina (La Traviata), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), et al.
Stages:
Wiener Konzerthaus, Musikverein Wien, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Grafenegg Festival, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Barocktage Melk, Styriarte, Internationales Brucknerfest Linz, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Andreas Homoki, Georg Schmiedleitner, Verena Stoiber, Peter Konwitschny, Stéphane Braunschweig, David Bösch, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Heinz Ferlesch, Martin Haselböck, Marcus Bosch, Yutaka Sado, Simone Young, Pablo Heras-Casado, Christopher Moulds, Cornelius Meister, Fabio Luisi, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, u. a.
Find further information about Ida Aldrian here.
photo: Pia Clodi
Achille
Ziad Nehme
Tenor
Birthplace:
Tripoli, Libanon
Studies:
Diploma in Singing at the Lebanese National Conservatory in Beirut, Master in Opera at the University Mozarteum Salzburg
Master classes:
with Siegfried Jerusalem, Kurt Moll, Barbara Bonney, Andrew Watts, Marjana Lipovsek
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera from 2008/09 to 2009/10
Important parts:
Conte Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Arbace (Arbace), Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Camille de Rosillon (Die lustige Witwe), Boni (Die Csárdásfürstin), Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), Schwan (Carmina Burana), Nerone (Agrippina), Oronte (Alcina), Truffaldino (Die Liebe zu drei Orangen), Marquis (Spieler), 1. Jude (Salome), et al.; zeitgenössisches Repertoire: Uraufführungen Esame di mezzanotte (Lucia Ronchetti), L’ombre de Venceslao (Martin Matalon), Anoia (Gordon Kampe) sowie Werke von Brett Dean, Giacinto Scelsi, Georges Aperghis
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Staatstheater Kassel, Stadttheater Bremerhaven, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Theater Kiel, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Staatstheater Mainz, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Opéra de Marseille, Opéra de Montpellier, Opéra de Rennes, Opéra de Marseilles, Opéra de Reims, Göteborg Konserthuset, Teatro Real Madrid, Shanghai Grand Theatre, Philharmonie de Paris, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Berliner Philharmonie, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Hans Neuenfels, Tatjana Gürbaca, Achim Freyer, Lydia Steier, Harry Kupfer, Tilman Knabe, Sasha Waltz, Markus Bothe, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Daniel Barenboim, Valery Gergiev, Simone Young, Dan Ettinger, Kent Nagano, Alessandro De Marchi, Lorenzo Viotti, Alexander Soddy, Stefan Soltesz, Barbara Hannigan, et al.
Find further information about Ziad Nehme here.
Ajax premier
Seungwoo Simon Yang
Tenor
Birthplace:
Gwangyang, South Korea
Studies:
Singing at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Prof. Carolyn Grace James
Master class:
Nicola Martinucci, Seoul in Korea 2016
Prizes:
1st Prize Elise Meyer Competition (2020), 1st Prize of the Mozart Singing Competition (2020), Special Prize and 2nd Prize of the Maritim Music Award (2019), 2nd Prize of the Maritim Music Award (2018), 1st Prize of the Korean Singing Competition (2015), 1st Prize of the Korea Talent Award (2015), 1st Prize of the Ehwa & Kyunghyang Competition (2014), 1st Prize Shin Young-Ok Voice Competition (2014), 1st Prize of the Shinhan Music Award (2014)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2020/21 season
Important parts:
Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Pilade (Oreste), Nemorino (L'Elisir d'amore), Rodolfo (La Bohème), et al.
Stages:
Korea, Belgien, Bergedorf Musiktage, Elbphilharmonie, Laeiszhalle
Cooperation with directors:
Guy Montavon
photo: Jörn Kipping
Ajax deuxième
Collin André Schöning
Tenor
Birthplace:
Lübeck, Germany
Studies:
Singing at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Stephan Rügamer
Master class:
with Prof. Anna Korondi for “Hungarian Songs”, with Prof. Thomas Quasthoff for oratorio singing, with Peter Sefcik and with the songwriters Karola Theill, Konrad Richter and Wolfram Rieger
Prizes:
German scholarship holder (2019), scholarship holder of the preparatory education (SVA) of the Landesverband der Musikschulen in Schleswig-Holstein (2011), 2nd prize in solo singing at “Jugend musiziert” (2014)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since 2020/21 season
Important parts:
Jaquino (Fidelio), Max (Der Freischütz), Tenor (Riemannoper), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), et al.
Stages:
Budapest, Berlin, Lübeck, et al.; performances at the lunch concerts of the Berlin Philharmonie, with the LandesJugendChor Schleswig-Holstein, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Michael Thalheimers (Workshop at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler)
photo: Jörn Kipping
Calchas
Christian Miedl
Birthplace:
Passau, Germany
Studies:
Liedinterpretation at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Wolfgang Holzmair as well as international business studies
Prizes:
1st Federal Prize at the Competition Jugend Musiziert and Concert Prize of the Francisco Viñas Competition Barcelona
Important parts:
Valmont (Quartett), Hans Scholl (Weiße Rose), Achilles (Penthesilea), Calchas (La belle Hélène), Ritter Baudricourt (Szenen aus dem Leben der Heiligen Johanna), Prinz Artur Friedrich von Homburg (Der Prinz von Homburg), Baryton (Atlantys), Mr. Kallenbach (Satyagraha), Malaspina (Luci me traditrici), Son (Tree of Codes), Prior Walter (Angels in America), Billy Bigelow (Carousel), Eugen Onegin (Eugen Onegin), Il Conte d’Almaviva (Die Hochzeit des Figaro), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), et al.
Stages:
Teatro alla Scala, Oper Frankfurt, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Spoleto Festival, Oper und Theater Bonn, Oper Köln, Theater Basel, Badisches Staatstheater, Malmö Opera, Staatstheater Mainz, Opéra de Lyon, Münchener Philharmonie am Gasteig, Teatro alla Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper, Wiener Festwochen, Concertgebouw, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Lucerne Festival, Cité de la Musique Paris, Casa da Musica Porto, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Peter Thorwarth, Claus Guth, Christof Nel, Renaud Doucet, Massimo Furlan, Bettina Bruinier, Tatjana Gürbaca, Peter Konwitschny, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Marc Albrecht, Pierre Boulez, Semyon Bychkov, Dennis Russell Davies, Peter Eötvös, Daniel Harding, Susanna Mälkki, Kent Nagano, Simone Young, et al.
Find further information about Christian Miedl here.
Bacchis
Sujin Choi
Soprano
Birthplace:
Daegu, Republic of Korea
Studies:
Bachelor and Master of Music at Kyungpook National
Master class:
with Kwangchul Youn (2020), Heran Hong (2018), Sunyoung Seo (2018), Samuel Yoon (2017)
Prizes:
Young artist by selection of Deagu Operahouse Opern-Studio (2019), 1st prize at competition of Ubong-art of Daegu (2017), 2nd prize at competition of strings in Daegu (2017), 2nd prize at competition of Music association of Daegu (2017), 2nd prize at Italian organization vocal contest in Seoul (2015)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since season 2020/21
Important parts:
Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Musetta (La Bohème)
Stages:
Deagu Operahouse, Keimyeong Art Center, Kyungpook National University concert hall, Su-sung Artpia
Cooperation with directors:
Hendrik Müller, Thilo Reinhardt, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Davide Perniceri, Julien Salemkour, et al.
photo: Jörn Kipping
Léoena
Renate Spingler
Mezzo-soprano
Birthplace:
Kempten, Germany
Studies:
Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Munich
Master class:
with Prof. Reri Grist
Prizes:
Honored by the Hamburg Senate with the title of “Hamburger Kammersängerin” (2017)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 1986/87
Important parts:
Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Margret (Wozzeck), Sdena (Das Fest im Meer), Gräfin Helfenstein/Üppigkeit (Mathis der Maler), Sigrune/Rossweiße/Wellgunde (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Herodias (Salome), Adelaide (Arabella), Flora (La Traviata), Larina (Eugen Onegin), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Prinz Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Lœna (La belle Hélène), Brigitta (Die tote Stadt), Mary (Der fliegende Holländer), Geneviève (Pelléas et Mélisande), Mère Jeanne de l’Enfant-Jésus (Dialogues des Carmélites), Circe (I.th.Ak.A.), Gräfin Geschwitz (Lulu), Mercédès (Carmen), Hippolyta (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Marthe Schwerdtlein (Faust), Lola/Mama Lucia (Cavalleria Rusticana), Ottavia (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), 2. Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Tebaldo (Don Carlos), Emilia (Otello), Gaea (Daphne), Hänsel/Hexe (Hänsel und Gretel), Miss Baggott (Der kleine Schornsteinfeger), Auntie (Peter Grimes), Die böse Königin (Schneewittchen), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Oper Frankfurt, Semperoper Dresden, Theater Bonn, Oper Leipzig, Theater Bremen, La Monnaie, Oper Köln, Königliche Oper Kopenhagen, Prinzregententheater München, Theater an der Wien, Theatro Municipale de Sao Paulo, Gran Teatre del Liceu, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Ruth Berghaus, Willy Decker, Gian-Carlo di Monaco, Dieter Dorn, Adolf Dresen, August Everding, Jürgen Flimm, Achim Freyer, Ramin Gray, Caroline Gruber, Claus Guth, Hans Hollmann, Andreas Homoki, Günter Krämer, Harry Kupfer, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Juri Ljubimov, Marco Aturo Marelli, Christian Pade, Simon Philips, Ernst-Theo Richter, Nils-Peter Rudolf, Johannes Schaaf, Sir Peter Ustinov, Christoph von Bernuth, Robert Wilson, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Gerd Albrecht, Marc Albrecht, Marco Armiliato, Gary Bertini, Michael Boder, Nathan Brock, Semyon Bychkov, Giuliano Carella, Bertrand de Billy, Jaqcues Delaôte, Alessandro di Marci, Peter Eötvös, Alfred Eschwé, Lawrence Foster, Michael Halasz, Eliahu Inbal, René Jacobs, Günter Jena, Alexander Joel, Karen Kamensek, Paul Kildea, Bernhard Klee, Jun Märkl, Cornelius Meister, Ingo Metzmacher, Kent Nagano, Garcia Navarro, Giuseppe Patané, Christoph Prick, Wolfgang Rennert, Donald Runnicles, Michael Schønwandt, Peter Schreier, Klauspeter Seibel, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Leonard Slatkin, Alexander Soddy, Stefan Soltesz, Marcello Viotti, Sebastian Weigle, Bruno Weil, Simone Young, Lothar Zagrosek, Hans Zender, et al.
Find further information about Renate Spingler here.
photo: Jörn Kipping
Parthoenis
Gabriele Rossmanith
Soprano
Birthplace:
Stuttgart, Germany
Studies:
Violin studies at the Musikhochschule Trossingen, vocal studies with Sylvia Geszty at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart; Ks. Brigitte Eisenfeld (Studium)
Prizes:
1st Prize Mozartfestwettbewerb (1985), honored by the Hamburg Senate with the title of “Hamburger Kammersängerin” (2011)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 1988 and Artistic Director of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since season 2020/21
Important parts:
Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Despina (Così fan tutte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Micaëla (Carmen), Morgana (Alcina), Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Nedda (I Pagliacci), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Anne Truelove (The Rake’s Progress), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Musetta (La Bohème), Sophie/Marianne Leitmetzerin (Der Rosenkavalier), Woglinde/Wellgunde (Das Rheingold), Ortlinde (Die Walküre), Hanna Glawari (Die lustige Witwe), Clorinda (La Cenerentola), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Blumenmädchen (Parsifal), Fortuna/Giunone (Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria), Vierte Magd (Elektra), szenischer Liederabend (Schumann und Schönberg), et al.
Stages:
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (1985-88), guest engagements in Munich, Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Glyndebourne Festival, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Willy Decker, Christof Loy, Guy Joosten, Harry Kupfer, Bob Wilson, Marco Arturo Marelli, Peter Konwitschny, Renaud Doucet, Achim Freyer, Calixto Bieito, John Dew, Vera Nemirova, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Horst Stein, Christian Thielemann, Donald Runnicles, Michel Plasson, Sir Antonio Pappano, Robin Ticciatti, Silvio Varviso, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ivor Bolton, Kirill Petrenko, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher, Simone Young, Kent Nagano, et al.
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photo: Jörn Kipping
Orchester
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg’s largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the “Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre” merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.
During its long history, the orchestra encountered great artist personalities. Apart from composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Telemann, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mahler, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, since the 20th century chief conductors such as Karl Muck, Joseph Keilberth, Eugen Jochum, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Aldo Ceccato, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher and Simone Young have shaped the orchestra’s sound. Renowned conductors of the pre-war era such as Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt gave brilliant performances, as did outstanding conductors of our times: suffice it to mention Christian Thielemann, Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Neville Marriner, Valery Gergiev and Sir Roger Norrington.
Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent Nagano has taken on the position of Hamburg’s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera. In his first season Kent Nagano initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016 Nagano and the Philharmonic undertook a successful three-week concert tour in South America, a tour of Spain followed in 2019. Since 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg Widmann to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall’s opening festivities. The concert recording has been released at ECM.
The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, making it Hamburg’s busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.
In 2008 Simone Young and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Wagner as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Mahler, Hindemith and Berg, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Hosokawa, Offenbach, Reimann, Auerbach, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Poulenc and Weber.
The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg’s musical tradition and responsible for the city’s artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg’s schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra’s own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic’s musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow’s music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.
photo: Foto: Felix Broede
Chor
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
The chorus members appear on stage at the Hamburg State Opera in a different role almost every night. From one day to the next, they might be sailors, gypsies, pilgrims or conspirators, then courtiers, hunters, the deranged or the imprisoned. In the role of crusaders in I Lombardi alla prima Crociata they travel to Jerusalem, other nights they are invited to Madama Butterfly's marriage or acclaim Prince Igor. The ladies and gentlemen of the opera chorus demonstrate their artistic prowess, their flexibility, and their love of the stage in every performance.
With a membership around 70, the chorus of the Hamburg State Opera has been one of the world’s best opera choruses for many years. The varied repertoire – almost always in the original language – is multifaceted and includes baroque operas and dramatic operas, major works by Verdi and Wagner as well as contemporary pieces. At the start of the 2013/14 season, Eberhard Friedrich took over the post of Chorus Master.
