Richard Strauss | Ariadne auf Naxos
Mon 05. Apr. 2021, 6.00 pm - 8.30 pm
Musikalische Leitung
Kent Nagano
General Music Director of Hamburg
Kent Nagano is considered one of the outstanding conductors for both operatic and orchestral repertoire. He has been General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 2015. From 2006 to 2020 he was Music Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM); in 2006 he was appointed Honorary Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and in 2019 of Concerto Köln, the Baroque orchestra which he is working together with in the project “Wagner Readings”.
Kent Nagano's past years in Hamburg include the premieres of Berlioz‘ Les Troyens, Hosokawa’s Stilles Meer, Messiaen’s Turangalîla with the Hamburg Ballett and John Neumeier, the premieres of Wagner’s Parsifal and Beethoven’s Fidelio, Berg’s Lulu and Strauss’ Frau ohne Schatten and the „Philharmonische Akademie“ – a project in the tradition of musical academies of the 18th and 19th centuries, which launches each new opera and concert season and features not only special performance venues, but also a major open-air concert on Hamburg’s Rathausmarkt. Nagano and the Philharmonic undertook successful concert tours in South America, Spain and Japan. 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 on the occasion of the inauguration of the Elbphilharmonie in January 2017. The live recording of this concert was released on CD by ECM in autumn 2018. In January 2020 Nagano and the orchestra presented the world premiere of Pascal Dusapin's Waves for organ and orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie.
A highlight of Kent Nagano's collaboration with the OSM was the inauguration of the orchestra’s new concert hall La Maison Symphonique in September 2011. In October 2016, he conducted the world premiere of José Evangelista’s Accelerando – a commission by the OSM on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Montréal’s metro. In November 2006 he conducted a semi-staged production of the Matthäus-Passion. In previous years, Nagano and the orchestra have performed the complete cycles of Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, Schönberg's Gurrelieder, concert versions of Wagner's Tannhäuser, Tristan and Isolde and Das Rheingold, Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher and Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise. In July 2018, Kent Nagano conducted Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion with the OSM on the occasion of the Salzburg Festival opening concert. Tours have taken Nagano and the orchestra to Canada, Japan, South Korea, Europe, South America and the USA, with stops in Washington, Boston and New York. He and the orchestra toured Europe in March 2019, including Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Paris and Vienna.
His recordings with the OSM on Sony Classical/Analekta include Mahler’s Orchestral Songs with Christian Gerhaher, Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 and a complete recording of all of Beethoven’s symphonies, for which the album Ideals of the French Revolution with Symphony No. 5 won a Juno award. In March 2016, Decca released a recording of the North American premiere of L'Aiglon, a rarely performed opera by Honegger and Ibert, conducted by Nagano in March 2015, on CD. Further releases by Decca are Danse Macabre with works by Dukas, Saint-Saens, Ives and others in autumn 2016 and a recording of Bernstein's A quiet place in June 2018 on the occasion of the composer's 100th birthday. John Adams’ Common tones in simple time & harmony (Decca) was released in 2019 and the Lukas Passion by Penderecki (BIS) in June 2020.
As a much sought-after guest conductor, Kent Nagano has worked with the world's leading international orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Orchestra, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 2014-2016, he led his own festival, called Vorsprung-Festival, as part of the AUDI Sommerkonzerte. Other special projects included productions of Mozart's Idomeneo with Concerto Köln and the Bernstein opera A quiet place with the Ensemble Modern in a new version premiered in Berlin in November 2013.
At the Bayerische Staatsoper, where he was General Music Director from 2006 to 2013, Kent Nagano commissioned new operas such as Babylon by Jörg Widmann, Das Gehege by Wolfgang Rihm and Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin. New productions included Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina, Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos and The Silent Woman, Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites, Messiaen’s Saint François d'Assise, Berg’s Wozzeck, George Benjamin's Written on skin and Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Tours took Nagano and the Bavarian State Orchestra through Europe and Japan. In addition to Bruckner's Symphonies Nos. 4 and 7 (Sony), Kent Nagano has released several opera performances with the Bavarian State Orchestra on DVD: Unsuk Chin's opera Alice in Wonderland (2008) and Mussorgsky's Chowanschtschina (2009) with unitel classica/medici arts, Dialogue des Carmélites with Bel Air Classiques (2011) and Lohengrin (2010) with Decca.
Another very important period in Nagano’s career was his time as Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin from 2000-2006. He performed Schönberg’s Moses und Aron with the orchestra (in collaboration with Los Angeles Opera), and took them to the Salzburg Festival to perform both Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules and Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten, as well as to the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden with Parsifal and Lohengrin in productions by Nikolaus Lehnhoff. Recordings with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for Harmonia Mundi include repertoire as diverse as Bernstein’s Mass, Bruckner’s Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6, Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge, Wolf’s Mörike-Lieder, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Schönberg’s Die Jakobsleiter and Friede auf Erden, as well as Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 and Schönberg’s Variationen für Orchester Op. 31. In June 2006, at the end of his tenure with the orchestra, Kent Nagano was given the title Honorary Conductor by members of the orchestra, only the second recipient of this honour in their 60-year history. To this day he maintains a close friendship with the orchestra.
Kent Nagano became the first Music Director of Los Angeles Opera in 2003 having already held the position of Principal Conductor for two years. His work in other opera houses has included Shostakovich's The Nose at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Rimsky-Korsakoff's The Golden Cockerel at the Châtelet in Paris, Hindemith's Cardillac and Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the Opéra National de Paris, and Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann and the premiere of Saariaho's L’amour de loin at the Salzburg Festival. Other world premieres he has conducted include Bernstein's A White House Cantata and the operas Three Sisters by Peter Eötvös and The Death of Klinghoffer and El Niño by John Adams.
Nagano has worked with labels such as Decca, Sony Classical, FARAO Classics and Analekta for many years, but he has also recorded CDs with BIS, Berlin Classics, Erato, Teldec, Pentatone, Deutsche Grammophon and Harmonia Mundi. He was awarded Grammys for his recordings of Busoni’s Doktor Faust with Opéra National de Lyon, Prokofjew’s Peter and the Wolf with the Russian National Orchestra and Saariaho’s L’amour de Loin with the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin.
In October 2019, Kent Nagano and Mari Kodama expanded their joint recordings of Beethoven's works for piano and orchestra with Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 0 E-flat Major WoO 4, a nearly unknown youthful work by the composer, and his Rondo for Piano and Orchestra WoO 6 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. The 4-CD edition was released on the Berlin Classics label.
In 2015 Kent Nagano published "Erwarten Sie Wunder!" in Berlin Verlag, a passionate appeal for the relevance of classical music in today's world. In 2019 the book was published in English by the Canadian McGill-Queen's University Press under the title ″Classical Music - Expect the Unexpected" and in 2015 under "Sonnez, merveilles!" in French by Éditions du Boréal.
Born in California, Nagano maintains close connections with his home state and was Music Director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra from 1978-2009. His first major successes came with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1984, when Messiaen appointed him assistant to conductor Seiji Ozawas for the premiere of his opera Saint François d'Assise. Nagano’s success in America led to European appointments: Music Director of Opéra National de Lyon (1988-1998) and Music Director of the Hallé Orchestra (1991-2000).
Kent Nagano was awarded an honorary doctorate from McGill University in Montréal in 2005, an honorary doctorate from the Université de Montréal in 2006, and an honorary doctorate from San Francisco State University in 2018.
photo: Benjamin Ealovega
Musiklehrer
Lauri Vasar
Baritone
Birthplace:
Talinn, Estonia
Studies:
Tallinn Music Academy, postgraduate studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg
Prizes:
Nomination "Faust Prize" (2011), Eberhard Waechter Medal (Vienna State Opera 2006)
Important parts:
Al Kasim (L’Upupa), Minotauros (Phaedra), Mephistopheles (Faust-Bal), Il Prigioniero (Il Prigioniero ), Billy Budd (Billy Budd), Schaklowitij (Chowanschtschina), Jakob Lenz (Jakob Lenz), Marcello (La Bohème), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Belcore (L’Elisir d’Amore), ll Conte di Almaviva und Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Jeletzki (Pique Dame), Escamillo (Carmen), Lescaut (Manon Lescaut), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Förster (Das Schlaue Füchslein), Graf von Gloster (Lear), Eugen Onegin (Eugen Onegin), Olivier (Capriccio), Platon Kusmitsch Kowaljow (Die Nase), Amfortas (Parsifal), Wolfram/Biterolf (Tannhäuser), Gunther (Götterdämmerung)
Stages:
Teatro Real Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Teatro alla Scala Mailand, Opéra national de Paris, Royal Opera House London, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie Brüssel, Teatro San Carlo Neapel, Theater an der Wien, Oper Frankfurt, Staatsoper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Opernhaus Zürich, Landestheater Linz, Staatsoper Hannover, Barbican Hall London, Salzburger Festspiele, Opéra de Lyon, Müpa Budapest
Cooperations with directors:
Robert Carsen, Stefan Herheim, Jürgen Flimm, Calixto Bieto, Christopher Alden, Peter Stein, Christoph Loy, Álex Ollé, Vincent Boussard, Simon Stone, Dmitri Tschernjakov, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Dennis Russell Davies, Marc Albrecht, Bertrand de Billy, Sebastian Weigle, Michael Boder, Kirill Petrenko, Fabio Luisi, Jesús López-Cobos, Adam Fischer, Peter Schneider, Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, Simone Young, Daniel Barenboim, et al.
Find further information about Lauri Vasar here.
photo: Kaupo Kikkas
Komponist
Jennifer Holloway
Soprano
Origin:
USA
Studies:
University of Georgia und der Manhattan School of Music
Prizes:
Outstanding Alumni Award of University of Georgia (2012)
Important parts:
Sieglinde (Walküre), Grete (Der ferne Klang), Salome (Salome), Der Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos), Cassandre (Les Troyens), Adalgisa (Norma), Musetta (La Bohème), Fulvia (Ezio), Giovanna (Anna Bolena), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Idamante (Idomeneo), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Anne de Boleyne (Henry VIII), Le Prince Charmant (Cendrillon), Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), et al.
Stages:
Oper Frankfurt, Oper Leipzig, Staatsoper Hamburg, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Teatro Colón, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro Real, Los Angeles Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos Lissabon, ABAO Bilbao, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Théâtre du Châtelet, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Bard Music Festival, Atlanta Opera, Canadian Opera Toronto, Santa Fe Opera, New National Theatre Tokyo, The Israeli Opera Tel-Aviv-Yafo, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Willy Decker, Michael Shell, Alberto Fassini, Robert Carsen, Lydia Steier, Damiano Michieletto, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Corrado Rovaris, Omer Meir Wellber, Daniel Oren, John Fiore, Sebastian Weigle, Florian Erdl, Lorin Maazel, Lawrence Foster, Frederic Chaslin, Gustavo Dudamel, Leonard Slatkin, Bertrand de Billy, et al.
Find further information about Jennifer Holloway here.
photo: Arielle Doneson
Tenor / Bacchus
Burkhard Fritz
Tenor
Der gebürtige Hamburger Burkhard Fritz zählt heute nicht nur zu den international gefragtesten jugendlichen Heldentenören, sondern konnte sich auch mit großem Erfolg im italienischen und französischen Fach etablieren. Parallel zu seiner Gesangsausbildung bei Ute Buge studierte er Medizin an der Universität Hamburg. Künstlerische Impulse erhielt er von Alfredo Kraus, Arturo Sergi und zuletzt bei Irmgard Hartmann-Dressler.
Nach Anfängen an den Theatern in Bremerhaven und Gelsenkirchen, zählte Burkhard Fritz von 2004 bis 2010 zum Ensemble der Berliner Staatsoper. Seit 2010 ist er als freier Opernsänger international tätig.
Sein Repertoire umfasst u.a. Florestan in „Fidelio“, Bacchus in „Ariadne auf Naxos“, die Titelpartien in „Lohengrin“ und „Parsifal“, Stolzing in „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“ und Max in „Der Freischütz“ sowie die Titelpartie in „Benvenuto Cellini“, Cavaradossi in „Tosca“, Alvaro in „La forza del destino“, Henri in „Les Vepres Siciliennes“ und Don José in „Carmen“.
Gastengagements führten den Tenor an die Staatsoper Wien, die Staatsoper München, zu den Bayreuther und den Salzburger Festspielen, an das Teatro Real in Madrid, an das La Monnaie in Brüssel, an die Oper Frankfurt, die Staatsoper Hamburg und zum Richard-Strauss-Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Er sang die Titelpartie bei der Erstaufführung des „Parsifal“ in China und gastierte mit dem Florestan und „Parsifal“ in Japan. Er debütierte mit der Partie des Kaisers in „Die Frau ohne Schatten“ an den Opern in Leipzig und Frankfurt und trat in der szenischen Aufführung von Schönbergs „Gurre-Liedern“ an der Oper Amsterdam auf.
Burkhard Fritz hatte großen Erfolg mit dem Florestan im „Fidelio“ unter Zubin Mehta beim Maggio Musicale 2015 in Florenz und besonders hervorzuheben ist sein Debüt als „Tannhäuser“ an der Vlaamse Opera in Gent und Antwerpen. Danach folgte der „Lohengrin“ an der Oper in Kopenhagen. Diese Partie sang er auch im Mai 2016 an der Wiener Staatsoper.
Im Opern- und Konzertbereich arbeitete der Tenor bisher mit Dirigenten wie Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev, Gustavo Dudamel, Simone Young, Philippe Jordan, Paavo Järvi, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano und anderen zusammen.
Find further information about Burkhard Fritz here.
Tanzmeister
Peter Hoare
Tenor
Birthplace:
Bradford (Yorkshire), UK
Studies:
Percussion at Huddersfield School of Music
Important parts:
Sapkin (From the House of the Dead), Faust (The Damnation of Faust), Laca (Jenufa), Tichon/Boris (Katja Kabanova), Desportes (Die Soldaten), Sharikov (A Dog’s Heart), Zinovy (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Herod (Salome), et al.
Stages:
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra de Lyon, English National Opera, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, La Monnaie, Opéra Bastille, Welsh National Opera, Grange Park Opera, Ruhrtriennale, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
David Pountney, Calixto Bieito, Katie Mitchell, Peter Sellars, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Sir Simon Rattle, Esa Pekka Salonen, Sir Mark Elder, Sir Charles Mackerras, George Benjamin, Mark Wigglesworth, Sian Edwards, et al.
Perückenmacher
Jóhann Kristinsson
Baritone
Origin:
Iceland
Studies:
Akademie für Gesang und vokale Kunst in Reykjavik bei Bergþór Pálsson (2009-2013); Masters at Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ with Prof. Scot Weir (2015); lessons with KS Prof. Thomas Quasthoff, Prof. Wolfram Rieger and Prof. Júlia Várady
Master class:
with Thomas Hampson, Helmut Deutsch, Graham Johnson, Christian Geraher, Giacomo Aragall, et al.
Prizes:
Winner Stella Maris Vocal Competition (2019), Icelandic Music Award in the category “Most Promising Young Artist”, nominated for “Singer of the Year” and “Musical Event of the Year” (2018), 3rd Prize and audience award at the competition ”Das Lied” in Heidelberg (2017), Finalist International Robert-Schumann-Wettbewerb für Klavier und Gesang Zwickau (2016)
Important parts:
Eugen Onegin (Eugen Onegin), Miriways (Miriways), Christiano (Un Ballo in Maschera), Fiorillo (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Morales (Carmen), Il Barone Douphol (La Traviata), Il Commissario Imperiale (Madama Butterfly), Zweiter Handwerksbursch (Wozzeck), Hiroto (Stilles Meer), Marullo (Rigoletto), Un Sergente degli Arcieri (Manon Lescaut), Rupert/Jäger/Königssohn (Schneewittchen), Happy (La Fanciulla del West), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Pierre Boulez Saal, Heidelberger Frühling, Oxford Lieder Festival, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Icelandic Opera, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Vera Nemirova, Birgit Kajtna, Holger Liebig, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Herbert Blomstedt, Kent Nagano, Stefano Ranzani, Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli, Christoph Gedschold, Carlo Rizzari, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Josep Caballé-Domenech, et al.
Find further information about Jóhann Kristinsson here.
photo: Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir
Haushofmeister
Bruno Vargas
Bass
Origin:
Chile
Studies:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Staatsoper Hamburg (2015 to 2017), studied singing/music theatre and voice performance at the Folkwang Universität der Künste, singing at the Universidad Católica de Chile as well as music theory in Santiago de Chile
Prizes / Scholarships:
Prizewinner at the international singing competition of the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg as well as scholarship holder of the Richard-Wagner-Verband Dortmund and the Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artas in Chile
Important parts:
Truffaldin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Don Bartolo (Le Nozze di Figaro), Falstaff (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Simone (Gianni Schicchi), Melisso (Alcina), Talpa (Il Tabarro), Marquis d’Obigny (La Traviata), Zuniga (Carmen), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Leuthold (Guillaume Tell), Ein Hauptmann (Eugen Onegin), Zweiter Geharnischter (Die Zauberflöte), Montano (Otello), Der Einarmige (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Un Moine (Don Carlos), Mercure (Les Troyens), Cesare Angelotti (Tosca), et al.
Stages:
Staatsoper Hamburg, Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, Theater Dortmund, Theater Solingen, Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Andreas Homoki, Marco-Arturo Marelli, David Mouchtar-Samorai, Christof Loy, Jette Steckel, Calixto Bieito, Michael Thalheimer, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Paolo Carignani, Christophe Spinosi, Nathan Brock, Michael Ellis Ingram, Gabriel Venzago, Daniel Huppert, Martin Schelhaas, Barbara Kler, et al.
photo: Kartal Karagedik
Zerbinetta
Daniela Fally
Die in Niederösterreich geborene Sopranistin Daniela Fally absolvierte ein Theaterwissenschaftsstudium, eine Musicalausbildung sowie eine private Schauspielausbildung mit Reifeprüfung, bevor sie an der Wiener Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst bei Helena Lazarska und Edith Mathis Operngesang studierte. 2005 schloss sie das Gesangsstudium ab und bekam für ihre außergewöhnlichen Leistungen den Würdigungspreis der Universität verliehen. Außerdem gewann Daniela Fally mehrere internationale Gesangswettbewerbe und erhielt 2006 für ihre Interpretation der Adele (»Die Fledermaus«) die Eberhard-Wächter-Medaille. Von 2005 bis 2009 gehörte die Sopranistin dem Ensemble der Wiener Volksoper an. In der Spielzeit 2009/10 wechselte sie in das Ensemble der Wiener Staatsoper. Hier trat sie bisher in Rollen wie Rosina (»Il Barbiere di Siviglia«), Sophie (»Der Rosenkavalier«), Zerbinetta (»Ariadne auf Naxos«), Adele (»Die Fledermaus«) und Italienische Sängerin (»Capriccio«) auf. Außerdem gehören zu ihrem Repertoire unter anderem die Partien Titania (»A Midsummer Night’s Dream«), Olympia (»Les Contes d’Hoffmann«), Ännchen (»Der Freischütz«), Gretel (»Hänsel und Gretel«), Oscar (»Un Ballo in Maschera«), Norina (»Don Pasquale«) sowie zahlreiche Mozartpartien. Gastengagements führten Daniela Fally unter anderem zu den Bregenzer Festspielen, an die Bayerische Staatsoper München, die Semperoper Dresden, die Opernhäuser in Zürich und Düsseldorf sowie nach Liège und Straßburg. Die Sopranistin gibt darüber hinaus weltweit Konzerte und Liederabende, wie beim Lucerne Festival, im Musikverein Wien, an der Deutschen Oper Berlin, im Grazer Stefaniensaal, in der Arena Salzburg, in der Hamburger Laeiszhalle, im Münchner Prinzregententheater sowie in der Schweiz, Japan, China und Dubai. Im Laufe ihrer Karriere arbeitete sie bereits mit zahlreichen namhaften Dirigenten wie Nicolaus Harnoncourt, Philippe Jordan, Adam Fischer, Asher Fisch, Peter Schneider, Simone Young, Julia Jones und Alfred Eschwé zusammen. Im Jahr 2006 feierte sie an der Wiener Staatsoper ein viel beachtetes Rollendebüt als Fiakermilli in der Neuinszenierung von Richard Strauss’ »Arabella« unter Franz Welser-Möst. In derselben Rolle debütierte die Sopranistin in der Spielzeit 2007/08 an der Hamburgischen Staatsoper, ebenfalls in einer Neuinszenierung. Anfang 2012 war sie in Hamburg als Marie in »La Fille du Régiment« zu erleben. In der Spielzeit 2012/13 singt sie die Partie der Zerbinetta (»Ariadne auf Naxos«).
Primadonna / Ariadne
Elena Pankratova
Soprano
Birthplace:
Yekaterinburg, Russia
Studies:
Education as pianist, choral conductor and music teacher as well as diploma with distinction as opera and concert singer and as vocal teacher at the State Conservatory Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow in St. Petersburg
Important productions:
Die Färberin (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Kundry (Parsifal), Odabella (Attila), Elektra (Elektra), Leonore (Fidelio), Turandot (Turandot), Leonora (La forza del destino), Senta (Der fliegende Holländer), Tosca (Tosca), Alice (Falstaff), Elisabeth and Venus (Tannhäuser), Abigaille (Nabucco), Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Norma (Norma), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos), Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), Leonora (Il trovatore), Santuzza, Adriana Lecouvreur and Saffi (Der Zigeunerbaron), Ortrud (Lohengrin), et al.
Stages:
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Colón, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Royal Danish Opera, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Bayreuther Festspiele, Mariinsky Theater, Enescu-Festival, Wiener Staatsoper, Concertgebouw, Semperoper Dresden, Savonlinna, Oper Frankfurt, La Monnaie, NHK-Hall, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Prinzregententheater, MITO Festival in Turin, Beijing Music Festival sowie Auftritte in Lyon, Neapel, Bonn, Bologna, Florenz, Zhuhai, Tel Aviv, Genf, Bilbao, Sevilla, Mannheim, Bremen, Köln, Stuttgart, Oslo, Basel, Karlsruhe, Buenos Aires, Basel, Mexico City, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Tim Albery, Stefan Herheim, Carlus Padrissa, Paul Curran, Claus Guth, Yannis Kokkos, Romeo Castellucci, Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Andreas Homoki, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Olivier Py, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev, Kirill Petrenko, Christian Thielemann, Kent Nagano, Andris Nelsons, Hartmut Haenchen, Semyon Bychkov, Pinchas Steinberg, Charles Dutoit, Peter Schneider, Ralf Weikert, Asher Fisch, Alain Altinoglu, Ingo Metzmacher, Stefan Soltesz, Paolo Carignani, Michael Boder, Julia Jones, Marc Soustrot, Ira Levin, John Fiore, et al.
photo: Vitaly Zapryagaev
Harlekin
Alexey Bogdanchikov
Baritone
Birthplace:
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Studies:
Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre, Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow
Prizes:
Winner of the 57th International Singing Competition "Voci Verdiane" in Busseto (2019), Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Preis (2017), Special Prize at the “Neue Stimmen” competition (2013), representative for Russia at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition (2013), second prize at the European Vocal Competition “Debut” (2012), third prize at the Armel Opera Competition in Hungary (2010)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 2015/16
Important parts:
Barrett (The Servant), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Eugen Onegin (Eugen Onegin), Robert (Iolanta), Prinz Jeletzki (Pique Dame), Belcore (L’Elisir d’Amore), Marcello (La Bohème), Ping (Turandot), Marchese (La Traviata), Paolo Albiani (Simon Boccanegra), Moralès (Carmen), Graf (Le Nozze di Figaro), Mercutio (Roméo et Juliette), Rodrigo (Don Carlo), Frank und Fritz (Die tote Stadt), Silvio (Pagliacci), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Valentin (Faust), Der Einäugige (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Sid (La Fanciulla del West), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), et al.
Stages:
Armel Opernfestival in Szeged, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Guangzhou Opera House, Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, Teatro Municipale in Piacenza, Teatro Delle Muse in Ancona, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Astrakhan Opera House in Magnitogorsk, Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre Moscow, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Hannover, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Jader Bignamini, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Emmanuel Villaume, Renato Palumbo, Erich Wächter, Alexander Joel, Stefano Ranzani, Josep Caballé Domenech, Nathan Brock, Gregor Bühl, Kent Nagano, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Christoph Gedschold, Carlo Rizzari, Christopher Ward, et al.
photo: Thomas Kunsch
Scaramuccio
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
Truffaldin
David Minseok Kang
Bass
Origin:
Korea
Studies:
Kyunghee University in Seoul with Alfred Kim, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart Master class Oper with Gundula Schneider (since 2018)
Master classes:
With Jenny Anvelt, Bo Skovhus, Kwangchul Youn, Margreet Honig, Gundula Schneider
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since 2019/20
Important parts:
Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Colline (La Bohème), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte)
Stages:
Staatsoper Stuttgart, Ettlinger Schlossfestspiele
Cooperations with directors:
Blanka Radoczy, Solvejg Bauer, Bernd Schmitt
Cooperations with conductors:
Christopher Schmitz, Alois Seidlmeier
photo: Tamara Sophie Grieß
Brighella
Dongwon Kang
Tenor
Birthplace:
Jinju, South Korea
Studies:
Graduate of Keimyeong University College of Arts and Keimyeong Graduate School of Classical Vocal
Master class:
with Prof. Nicola Martinucci in Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea (2015)
Prizes:
Third prize in the “Arena Academi” International Competition in Italy (2015), third prize in the Gaechun Competition in Korea (2015), first prize in the Um-Junghaeng Competition in Korea (2016), third prize in the “Ismaele Voltolini” International Competition in Italy (2016), first prize and special prize in the Sung-jung Competition in Korea (2016), third prize in the Daegu Vocal Competition in Korea (2016), second prize in the Joong-Ang Competition in Korea (2017), first prize in the Ihwa-Kyunghyang Competition in Korea (2017), finalist in the “Busetto Verdi” International Competition in Italy (2017)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Scholar of the Daegu Opera House Foundation from 2018/19 till 2019/20
Important parts:
Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Alfredo (La Traviata), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Nemorino (L’Elisir d’Amore), et al.
Stages:
Daegu Opera House, Keimyeong Art Center, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Matthias Fletzberger, Michael Zlabinger, et al.
photo: Tamara Sophie Grieß
Najade
Athanasia Zöhrer
Soprano
Birthplace:
Berlin, Germany
Studies:
Singing and music theatre at Julius Stern Institut of the Universität der Künste Berlin and at Universität Mozarteum Salzburg with Prof. Boris Bakow and Prof. Eike Gramss
Prizes:
Joint prize of the three opera houses of Berlin at the “Bundeswettbewerb Gesang“ (2014), appreciation award of “Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft“ (2014), Gianna-Szell scholarship (2012), scholarship holder of the Hübel-Stiftung (2011/12)
Important parts:
Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Servilia (La Clemenza di Tito), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Nannetta (Falstaff), Adina (L‘elisir d‘amore), Corinna (Il viaggio a Reims), Frasquita (Carmen), Blumenmädchen I/I (Parsifal), Tochter der Podotschina/Sopransolo in der Kirche (Die Nase), Virgina (Das Gespenst von Canterville)
Stages:
Name des Hauses, Name des Hauses, Name des Hauses, …
Staatsoper Hannover, Staatsoper Hamburg, Volksoper Wien, Nederlandse Reisopera Enschede, Salzburger Landestheater in der Felsenreitschule, Semperoper Dresden, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Kammeroper München, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Achim Freyer, Kay Voges, Martin G. Berger, Frank Hilbrich, Floris Visser
Cooperation with conductors:
Karen Kamensek, Kent Nagano, Ivan Repusic, Kristiina Poska, Benjamin Reiners, Kiril Karabits
photo: Nader Ismail
Dryade
Valentina Stadler
Echo
Narea Son
Soprano
Birthplace:
Seoul, South Korea
Studies:
Bachelor's degree at Seoul National University, master's degree opera and concert exam opera at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg
Master class:
with Edita Gruberová, Jaume Aragall, Cheryl Studer, Mariella Devia, Thomas Quastoff, Edda Moser, Brigitte Fassbaender und Joyce DiDonato at Carnegie Hall in New York with Live Stream by Arte TV, et al.
Important parts:
Pamina (Erzittre, feiger Bösewicht!, Neufassung der Zauberflöte von J. Harneit), Marzelline (Fidelio), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Katze Ivanka ( U.A. Katze Ivanka ), Ljusja (Moskau, Tscherjomuschki ), Marthe, Sorge, Seliger Knabe und Sopran Solo ( Szenen aus Goethes Faust), Taumännchen (Hänsel und Gretel), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Oberto (Alcina), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Theater Bremen, Sejong Center (Seoul Metropolitan Opera), Shanghai Grand Theater, Geumho-Konzerthalle, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Achim Freyer, Philipp Stölzl, Georges Delnon, Vera Nemirova, Philipp Himmelmann, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Alexander Joel, Johannes Fritzsch, Massimo Zanetti, Gregor Bühl, Christopher Moulds, Renato Palumbo, Axel Kober, Michele Gamba, et al.
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
