Giacomo Puccini | Turandot
Tue, Mar. 29, 2022, 7.30 pm - 9.50 pm
Inszenierung
Yona Kim
Director
Origin:
South Korea
Studies:
History of Art, Philosophy, Literature and Theatre Studies at Universität Wien,
Promotion to Dr. Phil.
Prizes:
Genoveva – Regisseurin des Jahres (Opernwelt, 2017, Leservotum), Böse Geister – Uraufführung des Jahres (Opernwelt, 2014), et al.
Nominations:
Wir gratulieren/Der Ring des Polykrates – Regisseurin des Jahres (Opernwelt, 2017), Die Vögel – Regisseurin des Jahres (Opernwelt, 2014), Mama Dolorosa – Uraufführung des Jahres (Opernwelt, 2013), Pnima – Beste Regie Musiktheater (DER FAUST, 2011), et al.
Important productions:
La verità in cimento (Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, Rokokotheater Schwetzingen, 2018), BENJAMIN (Staatsoper Hamburg, 2018), Ernani (Nationaltheater Mannheim, 2018), Genoveva (Nationaltheater Mannheim, 2017), Fidelio (Stadttheater Osnabrück, 2018), Doppelabend Weinberg/Korngold (Theater Heidelberg, 2017), Lohengrin (Theater Osnabrück, 2016), Didone Abbandonata (Händel Festspiele Halle/Winter in Schwetzingen, 2016), Norma (Staatstheater Kassel, 2015), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Korea National Opera, 2015), Die Vögel (Theater Osnabrück, 2014), Un ballo in maschera (Theater Heidelberg, 2014), Pelléas et Mélisande (Theater Augsburg, 2014), Mama Dolorosa (Münchener Biennale, 2012), Aida (Stadttheater Osnabrück, 2012), Tristan und Isolde und Parsifal (Staatstheater Braunschweig, 2011), Manon Lescaut (Theater Freiburg, 2011), Pnima (Staatsoper Stuttgart, 2010), Isola disabitata (Kammeroper Wien, 2010), Eugen Onegin (Theater Bern, 2010), Lucia di Lammermoor (Theater Augsburg, 2010), La Traviata (Theater Erfurt, 2009), Madama Butterfly (Theater Augsburg, 2008), Zaide (Theater Wuppertal, 2006), et al.
Published and performed libretti:
BENJAMIN (Staatsoper Hamburg), Böse Geister (Nationaltheater Mannheim), Mama Dolorosa (Münchener Biennale), Hybris/Niobe (Schwetzinger Festspiele/Teatro Sao Carlos), Der gute Gott von Manhattan (Schwetzinger Festspiele/Semperoper Dresden)
photo: privat
Musikalische Leitung
Matteo Beltrami
Conductor
Birthplace:
Genoa, Italy
Studies:
Musical Conduction at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, Violin at Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini in Genoa
Repertoire:
From Baroque to contemporary opera, mainly Italian opera repertoire (Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Giordano, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Nino Rota, Ciro Menotti) and Mozart
Career stages:
Music Director of the Teatro Coccia in Novara since 2016
Stages:
Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Aalto Theater Essen, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Theater Lübeck, Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao, Spoleto Festival in Charleston, Opéra de Montpellier, Paphos Opera Festival, Opera di Firenze, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Teatro Municipale Valli di Reggio Emilia, Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Teatro Coccia di Novara, et al.
Cooperation with orchestras:
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Symphony Orchestra of Goyania, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Latvia, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, State Orchestra of Hermitage, Philharmonic Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Orchestra i Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, et al.
Find further information about Matteo Beltrami here.
photo: Mario Finotti
Bühnenbild
Christian Schmidt
Birthplace:
Coburg, Germany
Studies:
Stage and costume design at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna
Prizes:
Stage Designer of the Year (Opernwelt, 2003), Costume Designer of the Year (Opernwelt, 2005 and 2012), Rolf Mares-Preis of the City of Hamburg for "Simon Boccanegra" (2006), Nomination for the International Opera Award in the category "Designer of the Year" (2017)
Important productions:
„Bérénice“ (Opéra Garnier, 2018), „Pique Dame“ (Salzburger Festspiele, 2018), „Aida“ (Salzburger Festspiele, 2017), „Fidelio“ (Salzburger Festspiele, 2015), „Der Ring des Nibelungen“ (Hamburgische Staatsoper, 2007 to 2009), „Le Nozze di Figaro“, „Don Giovanni“ und „Così fan tutte“ (Salzburger Festspiele, 2006 to 2009), „Der Fliegende Holländer“ (Bayreuther Festspiele, 2003), „Die Entführung aus dem Serail“ (Staatsoper Stuttgart, 1998), „Der König Kandaules“ (Volksoper Wien, 1997), et al.
Cooperation:
Claus Guth, Christof Loy, Andreas Homoki, Hans Neuenfels, Shirin Neshat, Amelie Niermeyer, et al.
Kostüme
Falk Bauer
Costume Designer
Falk Bauer studierte Kostümdesign bei Dirk von Bodisco an der HAW Hamburg und arbeitet seit 1993 als freischaffender Kostümbildner für die Schauspielbühne. Er arbeitete u.a. am Thalia Theater Hamburg (Marivaux: Der Streit), Schauspielhaus Zürich, Akademietheater Wien, an der Schaubühne Berlin (Bergmann: Szenen einer Ehe), beim Schauspiel Köln (Büchner: Dantons Tod,Woyzeck,Leonce und Lena) und Schauspiel Frankfurt (Horvath: Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald) mit den Regisseuren S.-E. Bechtolf, Dieter Giesing und Günter Krämer.
Seit 1996 entwirft er auch Kostüme für die Opernbühne, u.a. für Puccinis „Tosca“ unter der Regie von Nikolaus Lehnhoff an der Nationaloper Amsterdam, für Poulencs „Dialogues des Carmélites“ mit dem Regisseur Robert Carsen an der Nationaloper Amsterdam, am Teatro Real Madrid, am Teatro alla Scala, am Theater in Wien und an der Royal Opera Covent Garden, für Strauss‘ „Ariadne auf Naxos“ bei den Opernfestspielen München und an der Deutschen Oper Berlin, ebenfalls in Zusammenarbeit mit Robert Carsen. Unter der Regie von Günter Krämer entwarf Falk Bauer u.a. bei den Salzburger Festspielen Kostüme für die Oper „Mitridate“ von Mozart, bei den Mozartwochen des Nationaltheaters Mannheim für „Lucio Silla“, an der Staatsoper Wien für Verdis „Nabucco“ und an der Semperoper Dresden für „Penthesilea“ von Schöck.
Find further information about Falk Bauer here.
Licht
Reinhard Traub
Lighting Designer
studies:
Graphic designer, professional pilot
Important Parts:
Ariadne auf Naxos, Nabucco, Die Nachtwandlerin, Der fliegende Holländer, Parsifal, La Bohéme, Platée, Capriccio, u. a.
Stages:
Opernhaus Zürich, Royal Opera House London, Brüsseler Opernhaus La Monnaie/De Munt, Salzburger Festspiele, Theater an der Wien, Glyndebourne Festival, Thalia-Theater Hamburg, Volksbühne Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Neues Nationaltheater Tokyo, Opéra National de Paris, u. a.
Stations:
Leiter Beleuchtungsabteilung Staatstheater Stuttgart (seit 2006/07), Grazer Oper (seit 1992/93)
Cooperations:
David Alden, Calixto Bieito, Peter Konwitschny, Johann Kresnik, Stephen Lawless, Gerd-Hagen Seebach, Daniel Slater, Martin Kušej, Christian Spuck, Reinhild Hoffmann
Video
Phillip Bußmann
Birthplace:
Hanau, Germany
Studies:
Stage and costume design with Professor Jürgen Rose at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart
Important productions:
House/Lights (The Wooster Group, 1997), Kammer/Kammer (Ballett Frankfurt, 2000), Die Zauberflöte (Staatsoper Stuttgart, 2004), Lost Highway (English National Opera London, 2008), Der Freischütz (Oper Bremen, 2013), Die Dreigroschenoper (Schauspiel Stuttgart), Fruits of Wrath (Thalia Theater, 2016), The Persians (Salzburg Festival, 2018), Waiting for Godot (National Theater Mannheim, 2019) , The Abduction from the Seraglio (Geneva Opera 2020), Norma (Hamburg State Opera, 2020), Three Sisters (TR Warszawa/Stary Teatr Kraków, 2021), et al.
Career stages:
Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Ruhrtriennale, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Schaubühne Berlin, Münchner Kammerspiele, English National Opera, Gotham Chamber Opera, Ballett Frankfurt, The Forsythe Company, Goethe-Institut Kyoto, Deutsches Romantik Museum Frankfurt, Bund der Szenografen (board of directors), et al.
Cooperations:
Luk Perceval, William Forsythe, Yona Kim, Sandra Strunz, Célestine Hennermann, Sebastian Baumgarten, Diane Paulus, Sasha Waltz et al.
photo: Robert Schittko
Bewegungscoach
Ramses Sigl
Choreography
Studies:
Social education; college Munich, training as a stage dancer
Important productions:
Der Rosenkavalier, King Arthur, AscheMOND, Rodelinda, Messiah, Les pêcheurs de perles, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Medusa, Rinaldo, L’incoronazione di Poppea, Saul, et al.
Stages:
Salzburger Festpsiele, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, Gran theatre del Liceu Barcelona, Theater an der Wien, Opernhaus Zürich, Semperoper Dresden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Oper Toronto, et al
Career stages:
Head of dance training for the Musical programme at the August Everding Theatre Academy (1998-2012), Iwanson School and the Royal Swedish Ballet Academy
Cooperations:
Kathrin Ackermann, David Alden, Dieter Dorn, August Everding, John Fulljames, Roland Geyer, Jan Philipp Gloger, Claus Guth, Jens-Daniel Herzog, Stefan Huber, Burkhard Kosminski, Hellmuth Matiasek, Gil Mehmert, Stephan Müller, Amelie Niermeyer, Michael Schmieder, Jochen Schölch, Aron Stiehl, et al.
Dramaturgie
Angela Beuerle
Dramaturge
Origin:
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Studies:
Musicology, German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Hamburg; doctorate (Dr. phil.) with a thesis on medieval language theory
Career stages:
Freelance dramaturge for music theatre (since 2014), teaching at the theatre academy of the HfMT Hamburg (since 2014), dramaturge for music theatre at Staatstheater Stuttgart (2006-2014), freelance artistic participation at Hamburgische Staatsoper, Ruhrtriennale (until 2006); publishes regularly in the fields of opera, concert, music and literature
Cooperations:
Peter Konwitschny, La fura dels baus, Joachim Schlömer, Igor Bauersima, Yona Kim, Thomas Bischoff, Markus Dietz, Calixto Bieito, Andrea Moses, Jossi Wieler/Sergio Morabito, Lydia Steier, Philipp Himmelmann, u. a.
Kinder- und Jugendchor
Luiz de Godoy
Musical Direction
Birthplace:
Mogi das Cruzes, Brasil
Studies:
Piano at Universidade de São Paulo (Bachelor) and at Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas (Master), Erasmus stay with focus on piano and conducting at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Diploma course conducting at Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien (with honors)
Prizes:
Würdigungspreis der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (2019), Scholarship from UNESCO, the European Union and the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, Erwin-Ortner-Preis zur Förderung der Chormusik (2016)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Leader Alsterspatzen since 2019/20
Repertoire:
Focus on choral symphonic repertoire (spiritual and secular oratorios; in particular Wiener Klassik and Deutsche Romantik), special relationship to performance practices of old and new music
Career stages:
conductor of the Wiener Sängerknaben (2016–2019), choir director of Chorakademie des Wiener Staatsopernchores (2016–2018), assistent of the artistic director of the Wiener Singakademie at the Wiener Konzerthaus (2015–2019), musical director of Opera Studio at Sommerfestival „ Música nas Montanhas“ in Poços de Caldas, Brasilien (2010–2012), corepeater of opera projekts at Theatro Municipal de São Paulo (2005–2009)
Stages:
Esplanade Singapur, Peking National Opera, Seoul Lotte Hall, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Taiwan National Theater, Teatro Real Madrid, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Tokyo Opera City Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, Wiener Musikverein; Carinthischer Sommer, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Grafenegg Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival
Cooperations with orchestras (as conductor):
Camerata Schulz, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Orquestra de la Armada de Chile, Orquestra Juvenil da Bahia, Polish Baltic Filharmonic, Schubert-Akademie Wien, Youth-Orchestra Singapur et al.
cooperations (choral rehearsal / assistance):
Berliner Philharmoniker, Les Sciècles, Mariinsky-Theaterorchester Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker et al.
Cooperations with artists:
Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, Ton Koopman, Sir Simon Rattle, Simone Young, Franz Welser-Möst
photo: Fernanda Nigro
Turandot
Anna Smirnova
Mezzo-soprano
Birthplace:
Moscow, Russia
Studies:
Moscow State Conservatory
Important parts:
Turandot (Turandot), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Abigaille (Nabucco), Brünnhilde (Walküre), Isolde (Tristan und Isolde), Odabella (Attila)
Amneris (Aida), Eboli (Don Carlo), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana), Assucena (Il Trovatore), Dalila (Samson et Dalila), Preziosilla (La Forza del Destino)
Stages:
Teatro alla Scala, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Arena di Verona, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro La Fenice, Opera di Firenze, The Israeli Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bayerische Staatsoper, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Opernhaus Zürich
Cooperations with directors:
Franco Zeffirelli, Ruggero Raimondi, Nicholas Joel, Graham Vick, Giancarlo Del Monaco
Cooperations with conductors:
Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Fabio Luisi, Nello Santi, James Conlon, Massimo Zanetti, Renato Palumbo
Altoum
Jürgen Sacher
Tenor
Birthplace:
Augsburg, Germany
Studies:
Church music and music education at the Leopold-Mozart Konservatorium in Augsburg, vocal studies with Leonore Kirschstein
Prizes:
Scholarship of the Richard Wagner Verband, Promotion Prize of the Hamburgische Staatsoper, appointment as Hamburger Kammersänger (2017)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Staatsoper Hamburg since 1991/92
Important parts:
Mime (Siegfried), Mime/Loge (Das Rheingold), Herodes (Salome), Knusperhexe (Hänsel und Gretel), Hauptmann/Andres (Wozzeck), Monostatos/1. Geharnischter (Die Zauberflöte), Maler/Prinz/Marquis/Kammerdiener (Lulu), Dr. Cajus (Falstaff), Tichon (Katja Kabanova), Truffaldino (Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen), Valzacchi (Der Rosenkavalier), David (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Junger Mann (Moses und Aron), Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer), Peter Iwanow (Zar und Zimmermann), Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser), Goro (Madame Butterfly), Graf Elemer (Arabella), Raoul de St. Brioche (Die lustige Witwe), Novagerio (Palestrina), Orontes (Flavius Bertaridus), Asasello (Der Meister und Margarita), Tanzmeister (Ariadne auf Naxos), Graf von Kent (Lear), Reverend Adams (Peter Grimes), L´Aumonier (Dialogues des Carmélites), Aegisth (Elektra), Fedotik (Tri Sestri), Sylvester von Schaumburg (Mathis der Maler), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, La Monnaie, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Königliche Oper von Kopenhagen, Teatro alla Scala, Salzburger Festspiele, Theater an der Wien, Budapester Staatsoper, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Wagner Festival Budapest, Theater Dortmund, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Staatsoper Budapest, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Harry Kupfer, Willy Decker, Claus Guth, Mario Martone, Achim Freyer, Géza M. Tóth, Livia Sabag, Roger Vontobel, Stefan Herheim, Karoline Gruber, Vincent Boussard, Jochen Biganzoli, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Adam Fischer, Bertrand de Billy, Claudio Abbado, Kent Nagano, Semyon Bychkov, Horst Stein, Christian Thielemann, Ingo Metzmacher, Michael Boder, Kirill Petrenko, Simone Young, Daniel Barenboim, et al.
photo: László Emmer
Timur
Liang Li
Bass
Origin:
China
Studies:
Singing at the conservatory in Tianjin and in Beijing
Prizes:
Winner of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, first prize of the Bertelsmann Foundation "Neue Stimmen" Singing Competition, winner of the International Opera Competition in Shizuoka in Japan, appointed Kammersänger of the Stuttgart State Opera (2017)
Important parts:
Daland (Der Fliegende Holländer), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Rodolfo (La Sonnambula), Hunding (Die Walküre), Fasolt and Fafner (Rheingold), Komtur (Don Giovanni), Zaccharia (Nabucco), Jacopo Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Filippo II (Don Carlos), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Ferrando (Il Trovatore), Geronte de Ravior (Manon Lescaut), Timur (Turandot), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), Banco (Macbeth), Cardinal de Brogni (La Juive), Oroveso (Norma), Gremin (Eugene Onegin), et al.
Stages:
Semperoper Dresden, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro di San Carlo, Staatstheater Stuttgart, De Vlaamse Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Opéra National de Paris, Bolshoi Theater Moscow, NCPA Beijing, Palau des Arts Valencia, Teatro Real Madrid, Liceu Barcelona, Grand Théâtre de Génève, Opéra de Lyon, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Richard Eyre, Alex Ollé, David Hermann, Sergio Morabito, Alexander Schulin, Guy Joosten, Jossi Wieler, Achim Freyer, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Mariss Jansons, Zubin Mehta, Sir Simon Rattle, Myung-Whun Chung, Donald Runnicles, Daniele Rustioni, Tomás Netopil, Sylvain Cambreling, Jonathan Nott, Alain Altinoglu, Francois-Xavier Roth, Manfred Honeck, Carlo Rizzi, Tomás Netopil, Shao-chia Lü, Kent Nagano, Antonio Fogliani, et al.
Find further information about Liang Li here.
photo: Martin Sigmund
Calaf
Gregory Kunde
Tenor
Birthplace:
Illinois, USA
Studies:
Choral conducting and Vocal performance at Illinois State University
Prizes:
‘Male Singer of the Year’ at the 2016 International Opera Awards
Important parts:
Otello (Otello), Radamès (Aida), Calaf (Turandot), Jean de Leyden (Le prophète), Don Carlo (Don Carlos), Samson (Samson et Delila), Don José (Carmen), Andrea Chénier (Andrea Chénier), Renato des Grieux (Manon Lescaut), Don Alvaro (La forza del destino), Peter Grimes (Peter Grimes), Pollione (Norma), Aschenbach (Death in Venice), Cellini (Benvenuto Cellini), Faust (La damnation de Faust), Enée (Les Troyens), Captain Vere (Billy Budd), Poliuto (Poliuto), Roberto Devereux (Roberto Devereux), Alceste (Admète), Faust (Faust), La Juíve (Eléazar), Des Grieux (Manon), Werther (Werther), Raoul (Les Huguenots), Robert (Robert le diable), Tito Vespasiano (La clemenza di Tito), Idomeneo (Idomeneo), Cavaradossi (Tosca), Dick Johnson (La fanciulla del West), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Rodrigo (La donna del lago), Leicester (Elizabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra), Pirro (Ermione), Arnold (Guillaume Tell), Argirio (Tancredi), Antenore (Zelmira), Riccardo/Gustav V (Un ballo in Maschera), Rodolfo (Luisa Miller), Manrico (Il Trovatore), Arrigo (I vespiri Siciliani), Henrí (Les vêpres Siciliennes)
Stages:
Grand Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Staatsoper Hamburg, LA Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Metropolitan Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Real, Dallas Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia, Teatro La Fenice, BBC Proms, Cincinnati May Festival, Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Cooperations with directors:
Mario Pontiggia, William Friedkin, Davide Garattini Raimondi, Olivier Py, Willy Decker, Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Hugo De Ana, Keith Warner, Emilio López, Davide Livermore, Franco Zeffirelli, Bepi Morassi, Chiara Muti, Darko Tresnjak, Robert Wilson, Otto Schenk, Alfonso Romero Mora, Edward Berkeley, Andrei Serban, Allex Aguilera, Fabio Cherstich, Nicolas Joël, Amélie Niermeyer, Julia Burbach, Franc Aleu, Susana Gómez, Paco Azorín, Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera
Cooperations with conductors:
Zubin Mehta, Sir Antonio Pappano, Charles Dutoit, Ramón Tebar, Gianandrea Noseda, Massimo Zanetti, Enrique Mazzola, Daniele Callegari, Christopher Franklin, Daniela Musca, Nicola Luisotti, Mark Wigglesworth, Pietro Rizzo, Emmanuel Villaume, Jordi Bernàcer, Daniel Oren, Andrea Battistoni, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Sesto Quatrini, Donato Renzetti, Mark Elder, Frédéric Chaslin, Marco Armiliato, Miquel Ortega, Bertrand de Billy, Valerio Galli, Sergio Alapont, Adam Fischer, Josep Pons, Jacques Lacombe, Paolo Arrivabeni
Find further information about Gregory Kunde here.
Liù
Guanqun Yu
Soprano
Birthplace:
Yantai, Shandong
Studies:
Shandong University of Arts, Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Fugen Wei and Zhou Xiaoyan.
Prizes:
First place Belvedere Singing Competition, Award winner of the Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition (2012)
Important parts:
Gilda (Rigoletto), Mimi (La Bohème), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Lina (Stiffelio, filmed new production at the Teatro Regio in Parma), Lucrezia (I due Foscari), Desdemona (Otello), Countess Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte), Maria Boccanegra (Simon Boccanegra), Nedda (Pagliacci), Rosina (linked productions Ghosts of Versailles and Le Nozze di Figaro, Los Angeles Opera), Liù (Turandot), Mathilde (Guillaume Tell), Micaela (Carmen), Elettra (Idomeneo), Aida, Leonora (Il trovatore), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Elvira (Ernani), et al.
Stages:
Opera Studio of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Musikverein Vienna, Pacific Festival in Sapporo, Teatro Regio in Parma, Verdi Festival Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Metropolitan Opera, Palau de les Arts Valencia, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Cologne Opera, Klagenfurt State Theater, Los Angeles Opera, Bregenz Festival, Frankfurt Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Hamburg State Opera, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Zurich Opera, Opéra de Marseille, Opera de Paris, Dutch National Opera, Ravinia Festival, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Marco Arturo Marelli, Ole Anders Tandberg, Roger Vontobel, Jetske Mijnssen, Lydia Steier, Robert Wilson, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Zubin Mehta, Fabio Luisi, Michele Mariotti, James Levine, James Conlon, Alexander Soddy, Ivor Bolton, Eun Sun Kim, Pinchas Steinberg, Gustavo Dudamel, James Conlon, et al.
Find further information about Guanqun Yu here.
photo: Jiyang Chen
Ping
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.
Pang
Daniel Kluge
Tenor
Birthplace:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Studies:
Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Klaus Dieter Kern
Master classes:
with Roman Trekel, Julia Varady and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as well as master classes for „Liedgesang“ with Markus Hadulla, Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll
Important parts:
Normanno (Lucia di Lammermoor), Abdallo (Nabucco), Remendado (Carmen), Flavio (Norma), Knappe und 1. Gralsritter (Parsifal), Kilian (Freischütz), Dr. Blind (Die Fledermaus), Spoletta (Tosca), Schreiber (Chowanschtschina), Jacquino (Fidelio), Ein Soldat (Reigen), Chick (Der Schaum der Tage), Borsa (Rigoletto), Knusperhexe (Hänsel und Gretel), Orpheus (Orpheus in der Unterwelt), Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Truffaldino (Die Liebe zu drei Orangen), Balakin (Charodeyka), Max (Der Freischütz), Tanzmeister (Ariadne auf Naxos), Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer), Vierter Jude (Salome), et al.
Stages:
Staatsoper Stuttgart, Stadttheater Bern, Aalto-Theater Essen, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Opéra National de Lyon, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito, Kirill Serebrennikov, Nicola Hümpel , Tobias Hoheisel, Imogen Kogge, Armin Petras, Demis Volpi, Axel Ranisch, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Sylvain Cambreling, Georg Fritzsch, Roland Kluttig, Giacomo Sagripanti, Johannes Witt, Hans Christoph Bünger, Kirill Karabits, Willem Wentzel, Alejo Pérez, Christopher Schmitz, et al.
photo: Matthias Baus
Pong
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
Un Mandarino
Chao Deng
Bass-baritone
Birthplace:
Tianjin, China
Studies:
Vocal studies in Tianjin, China; diploma in voice at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg with Cheryl Studer; master studies with Christian Elsner and in the Lied class of Gerold Huber and opera studio at the Hochschule für Musik Weimar with Prof. Dr. Michail Lanskoi; master class exam at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden with KS Prof. Matthias Henneberg.
Master classes:
With Liang Li, Michaelis Doukakis, John Norris, KS Camilla Nylund, KS Helen Donath, KS Brigitte Fassbaender, Sonja Prina, Alberto Triola, Catherine Foster, Georg Zeppenfeld, Juliane Banse, Roberto Scandiuzzi, KS Deborah Polaski.
Awards:
Prize for Opera Singing of the Concerto Foundation Würzburg (2015), Prize Winner of the International Singing Competition of the Chamber Opera Schloss Rheinsberg (2014), Scholarship Holder of the Richard Wagner Association Bayreuth Festival (2014), et al.
Relation to the State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2020/21 season.
Important roles:
Peter (Hänsel und Gretel), Häuptling Abendwind (Chief Evening Wind), Ramfis (Aida), Gianni Schicchi/Betto di Signa (Gianni Schicchi), Papageno/Sprecher /2. Geharnischte (Die Zauberflöte), Frank (Die Fledermaus), Don Fernando (Fidelio), Schaunard (La Bohème), Kilian/Ottokar (Der Freischütz), Buonafede (Il mondo della luna), Förster (Das schlaue Füchslein), Le Duc (Romeo et Juliette), Angelotti (Tosca), Colas (Bastien et Bastienne), Priamus (Les Troyens), Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro), Marullo/Ceprano (Rigoletto), Zuniga (Carmen), De Retz (Les Huguenots), Lord Syndham (Zar und Zimmermann), Spielmann (Königskinder), Journalist (Lulu), Osias, High Priest (Judith), et al.
Stages:
Hamburg State Opera, Dresden Semper Opera, German Opera on the Rhine, Dresden Philharmonic, Braunschweig State Theater, German National Theater Weimar, Dresden State Operetta, Erfurt Theater, Weimarhalle, Saar Music Festival, Shanghai Opera House, et al.
Collaboration with directors:
Peter Konwitschny, Lydia Steier, Barrie Kosky, Mariame Clément,Yona Kim, Manfred Weiß, Sabine Hartmannshenn, Hasko Weber, Anette Leistenschneider, Guy Montavon, Andrea Moses, et al.
Collaboration with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Sebastian Weigle, Stefano Ranzani, John Fiore, Stefan Soltész, Xu Zhong, Daniele Callegari, Speranza Scappucci, Giampaolo Bisanti, Ivan Repušić, Riccardo Minasi, Giacomo Sagripanti, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Thomas Leo Cadenbach, Moritz Gnann, Felix Krieger, Christoph Gedschold, Kristiina Poska, Tomáš Netopil, Antonino Fogliani, Omer Meir Wellber, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Stefan Lano, Martin Hoff, Georg Fritzsch, et al.
Find further information about Chao Deng here.
photo: Jie Chen
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, 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.
Kinderchor
Alsterspatzen – Kinder- und Jugendchor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Die Alsterspatzen bezaubern seit vielen Jahrzehnten als Lebkuchen- oder Straßenkinder, als Ministranten und Elfenchor. In der Spielzeit 2019/20 übernahm Luiz de Godoy die Leitung des Kinder- und Jugendchores der Hamburgischen Staatsoper. Die jungen Sängerinnen und Sänger stehen in Produktionen wie „Hänsel und Gretel“, „Carmen“ oder „La Bohème“ neben Ensemblemitgliedern und internationalen Gästen auf der großen Bühne der Staatsoper. Darüber hinaus sind sie mit dem Philharmonischen Staatsorchester unter anderem in der Elbphilharmonie und im Rahmen eigener Projekte in der opera stabile zu erleben.
Wir danken der Alster-Hof Melzner-Stiftung für die Unterstützung.
Find further information about Alsterspatzen – Kinder- und Jugendchor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper here.
photo: Jörn Kipping
