Modest P. Mussorgsky | Boris Godunov
Sat, Sep. 16, 2023, 6.00 pm - 8.10 pm
Inszenierung
Frank Castorf
Director
Birthplace:
Berlin, Germany
Studies:
Theater studies at the Humboldt University Berlin
Prizes:
Invitation Berliner Theatertreffen with "Faust" (2018), Großer Kunstpreis Berlin (2016), Fritz-Kortner-Preis, Theaterpreis Berlin der Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung, Nestroy-Preis, Preis des Internationalen Theaterinstituts, Schillerpreis der Stadt Mannheim, Verdienstorden des Landes Berlin, Friedrich-Luft-Preis, Golden Laurel Wreath Award of the International Theater Festival MESS, Deutscher Theaterpreis, among others.
Important productions:
Frank Castorf directed over 100 productions, including: "La forza del destino" (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2019), "Galileo Galilei" (Berliner Ensemble, 2019), "From a House of the Dead" (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2018), "Hunger" (Salzburg Festival, 2018), "Faust" (Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 2017), "Baumeister Solness" (Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 2017), "Les Misérables" (Berliner Ensemble, 2017), "Baal" (Munich Residenztheater, 2015), "Ring des Nibelungen" (Bayreuth Festival, 2013), "Otello" (Theater Basel, 1998), "Wilhelm Tell" (Theater Basel, 1991), "John Gabriel Borkman" (Deutsches Theater Berlin, 1990), "Miss Sara Sampson" (Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, 1989), "Hamlet" (Schauspiel Köln, 1989), "Ein Volksfeind" (Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt, 1988), "Drums in the Night" (Theater Anklam, 1984), "Molte agitato" ( Hamburg Opera 2020) "The Birds" (Bavarian State Opera 2020), "Faust" (Vienna State Opera 2021), "Fabian" (Berliner Ensemble 2021) "Noise. Blind seeing. Blind Seeing!" (Akademietheater Vienna 2021), "Adamec" (Burgtheater Vienna 2021), "Secret Agent" (Hamburger Schauspielhaus 2021), "Moliere" (Schauspiel Köln 2022), "Wallenstein" (Schauspielhaus Dresden 2022), "Divine Comedy" (Belgrade 2022).
Career stages:
Guest director at various theaters and opera houses worldwide, including. at Oper Basel, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Berliner Ensemble, Residenztheater München, Stadtsteatern Stockholm, Burgtheater Wien, Kongelige Teater Copenhagen, Teatro SESC Vila Mariana São Paulo, Schauspielhaus Zürich and Théâtre de l'Odéon Paris; Intendant Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin (1992-2017); in-house director at Deutsches Theater Berlin (1990-1992); productions at theaters in the GDR and, since 1988, also in the FRG and Switzerland; head director Theater Anklam (1981-1985); director at Stadttheater Brandenburg, dramaturg at Theater Senftenberg; et al. a.
photo: Thomas Aurin
Musikalische Leitung
Kent Nagano
General Music Director of Hamburg
Kent Nagano is considered one of today’s outstanding conductors for both operatic and orchestral repertoire. Since September 2015, he has been General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. In addition, he is committed as Artistic Director of the Ring project “The Wagner Cycles” of Dresdner Musikfestspiele with Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln, and as patron of the Herrenchiemsee Festival. 2023 he was appointed Honorary Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra, in 2021 of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, in 2019 of the Concerto Köln, and in 2006 of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
The 2023/2024 season in Hamburg begins with four concerts, performing with the Philharmonische Akademie at the Laeiszhalle, then with the Philharmonic State Orchestra at the Rathausmarkt Open Air and the Elbphilharmonie. This will be followed by a series of opera productions at the State Opera in September and October, with a premiere of Mussorgski’s Boris Godunow in a production by Frank Castorf and a premiere of Strauss’s Salome in a production by Dmitri Tcherniakov, as well as performances of Sciarrino’s Venere e Adone and Britten’s Peter Grimes. Furthermore, as in every season Nagano will conduct symphonic concerts with the Philharmonic State Orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie, including the New Year’s performance.
His past years in Hamburg include opera productions such as Les Troyens, Lulu, Lady Macbeth von Mzensk, the world premiere of Stilles Meer and German premiere of Lessons in Love and Violence, the "Philharmonische Akademie" at St. Michaelis, open-air concerts at the Rathausmarkt and the world premiere of Pascal Dusapin's work Waves for organ and orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie. Orchestral tours with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg have taken Kent Nagano to Japan, Spain and South America.
Kent Nagano has worked with the world's leading international orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique Radio France, the Orchestre de l’Opéra national in Paris, the Chicago and Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Wiener Symphoniker. Special projects were productions of Wagner's Das Rheingold with Concerto Köln and the Bernstein opera A quiet place at the Paris Opera. His operatic work has included Dusapin‘s Il viaggio, Dante at the Festival d‘Aix-en-Provence, Hindemith's Cardillac and Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the Opéra National de Paris and Henze’s The Bassarids and the premiere of Saariaho's L’amour de loin at the Salzburg Festival. Other world premieres conducted by Nagano include Bernstein's A White House Cantata and the operas Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin, Three Sisters by Peter Eötvös and The Death of Klinghoffer and El Niño by John Adams.
The 2023/24 season will see Kent Nagano make a wide variety of appearances at the Maison symphonique in Montréal, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Konzerthalle in Bamberg and the Kulturpalast in Dresden. In addition, he will conduct the Orchestre de l'Opera de Lyon and lead a new production of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre by Krzysztof Warlikowski at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
Under the artistic direction of Kent Nagano and the Intendant of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele Jan Vogler, Wagner's "Ring Tetralogy" will be performed in the artistic context of the period in which it was composed, based on the latest findings of research into Wagner and performance practice, and integrated into an extensive supporting program as part of the multi-year project "The Wagner Cycles" of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele from 2023 to 2026. The prelude was the performance of "Das Rheingold" at the Dresden Music Festival in 2023 and the tour to Cologne, Ravello and Lucerne under the musical direction of Kent Nagano. With "Die Walküre," the second work in the epochal narrative will follow in 2024.
Highlights of Kent Nagano's collaboration with the OSM as Music Director from 2006 to 2020 included the inauguration of the orchestra’s new concert hall La Maison Symphonique in September 2011, performances of the complete cycles of Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, concert versions of Wagner's Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Das Rheingold, Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bücher, and Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise. Tours have taken Nagano and the orchestra to Canada including the Northern Territories, Japan, South Korea, Europe (latest 2019), Latin America and the USA. In July 2018, Kent Nagano conducted Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion with the OSM at the Salzburg Festival opening concert.
His recordings with the OSM on Sony Classical/Analekta include Mahler’s Orchestral Songs with Christian Gerhaher in 2013 and a complete recording of all of Beethoven’s symphonies in 2015. Decca released a recording of the North American premiere of L'Aiglon, a rarely performed opera by Honegger and Ibert in 2016, conducted by Nagano in 2015. Further releases by Decca are Danse Macabre with works by Dukas, Saint-Saens, Ives and others in 2016 as well as a recording of Bernstein's A quiet place in 2018 on the occasion of the composer's 100th birthday. John Adams' Common tones in simple time & harmony (Decca) was released in 2019, the Lukas Passion by Penderecki (BIS) and works by Ginastera, Bernstein and Moussa (Analekta) in 2020.
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 Die Frau ohne Schatten, 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.
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 work from the composer’s youth, and his Rondo for Piano and Orchestra WoO 6 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. The complete edition of Beethoven’s piano concerti was released on the Berlin Classics label.
Nagano 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. He has worked with labels such as BIS, Decca, Sony Classical, FARAO Classics and Analekta for many years, and has also recorded CDs with Berlin Classics, Erato, Teldec, Pentatone, Deutsche Grammophon and Harmonia Mundi.
To celebrate Kent Nagano's 70th birthday in 2021, a 3-CD box set of works by Olivier Messiaen was released in October on the BR Klassik label. The release includes live recordings of the works Poèmes pour Mi, Chronochromie and La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ from his concerts with the Symphonieorchester und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, demonstrating Nagano's close familiarity with Messiaen's musical language in a special way.
In September 2021, Kent Nagano published his second book with Berlin Verlag. In "10 Lessons of my Life", he recalls ten deeply personal encounters from which he learned important lessons, not only for his career but for his life more broadly. Among those experiences are encounters with the Icelandic pop artist Björk, Frank Zappa, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and the Nobel Prize winner in physics Donald Glaser.
In 2015 Kent Nagano published "Erwarten Sie Wunder!" also in Berlin Verlag, a passionate appeal for the relevance of classical music in today's world. In 2019 the book was released 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 Ozawa 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 became the first Music Director of Los Angeles Opera in 2003 having already held the position of Principal Conductor for two years.
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. Since 2017, Kent Nagano has been a "Compagnon" of the "Ordre des arts et des lettres" of Québec and in the fall of 2023, Kent Nagano was also awarded the title of "Chevalier" in the "Ordre des art et des lettres" of France. In February 2024, Kent Nagano was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal President.
Find further information about Kent Nagano here.
photo: Claudia Höhne
Bühne
Aleksandar Denić
Stage design
Birthplace:
Belgrade, Serbia
Studies:
Film and set design for applied arts at the University of Arts Belgrade
Prizes:
"Stage Designer of the Year" for Castorf's production of "Baal" at the Residenztheater (Theater heute, 2014), German Theater Award DER FAUST in the category "Stage and Costume" for Castorf's production of "Der Ring des Nibelungen" at the Bayreuth Festival, "Stage Designer of the Year" for Castorf's production of "Reise ans Ende der Nacht" at the Residenztheater (Theater heute, 2013), et al.
Important productions:
"La forza del destino" (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2019), "Der haarige Affe" (Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, 2018), "Baal" (Residenztheater Munich, 2014), "Ring des Nibelungen" (Bayreuth Festival, 2014), "Journey to the End of the Night" (Residenztheater Munich, 2013), "La Dame aux camélias" (Théâtre de l'Odéon, Paris, 2012), "Amerikа" (Schauspielehaus Zurich, 2012), "Das Duel" (Volksbühne Berlin, 2013), "Faust" (Residenztheater Munich, 2014), "Gemetzel" (Nibelungenfestspiele Worms, 2015), "Pastor Ephraim Magnus" (Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg, 2015), "Tschewengur" (Staatstheater Stuttgart, 2015), "The Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk in the World War" (Residenztheater Munich, 2016), "Der Schweinestall" (Residenztheater Munich, 2016), "Die Kabale der Scheinheiligen. The Life of Mr. de Molière" (Volksbühne Berlin, 2016), "The Strange Woman and the Man Under the Bed" (Schauspielehaus Zurich, 2017), "A Long Day's Journey into the Night" (Schauspiel Stuttgart, 2017), "Les Misérables" (Berliner Ensemble, 2017), "The Balcony" (Residenztheater Munich, 2018), "From a House of the Dead" (Bavarian State Opera Munich, 2018), "Don Juan" (Residenztheater Munich, 2018), "Hunger" (Salzburg Festival, 2018), Bajazet (Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, 2019), "Molto Agitato" (Hamburg State Opera, 2020), "The Birds" (Bavarian State Opera Munich, 2020), et al.
Stages:
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Residenztheater München, Bayreuther Festspiele, Staatsoper Hamburg, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Volksbühne Berlin, Théâtre de l'Odéon Paris, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Staatstheater Stuttgart, et al.
Cooperations:
Frank Castorf, Martin Kušej, Ivica Buljan, Armin Petras, Thomas Schadt, et al.
photo: Bayreuther Festspiele
Kostüme
Adriana Braga Peretzki
Costume Design
Birthplace:
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Studies:
Costume design at the Hochschule für Angewandte Künste Hamburg
Awards:
Theater award "Der Faust" in the category costume for costume design in "Molière" (2022)
Important productions:
„Ring des Nibelungen“ (Bayreuther Festspiele), „Reise ans Ende der Nacht“ (München), „Baal“ (München), „Faust“ (Oper Stuttgart), „Kabale der Scheinheiligen“, (Volksbühne Berlin), „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“ (Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin)
Stages:
Thalia Theater Hamburg, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Volksbühne Berlin, Centraltheater Leipzig, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Bayreuther Festspiele, Salzburger Festspiele, Münchner Residenztheater, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Théâtre de l’Odéon Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper
Cooperations:
Sebastian Hartmann, Frank Castorf, Andrea Moses
photo: Wilfried Hösl
Licht
Rainer Casper
Light
Important works:
"Der Ring des Nibelungen" (Bayreuth Festival, 2013), "Jacob Lenz" (Wiener Festwochen, 2008), "Erniedrigte und Beleidigte" (Volksbühne Berlin, 2002).
Stages:
Schauspiel Köln, Münchner Kammerspiele, Schauspiel Hannover, Central Theater Leipzig, Volksbühne Berlin, Nationaltheater Oslo, Berlin HAU, Burgtheater Vienna
Stages:
Head of lighting at Schauspiel Hannover, Central Theater Leipzig, Berlin Volksbühne and Berliner Ensemble
Cooperations:
Frank Castorf, Nicolas Stemann, Sebastian Hatmann
photo: Bayreuther Festspiele
Video
Andreas Deinert
Video I (Livekamera)
Birthplace:
Alsdorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Studies:
Camera studies in Berlin
1995 Camera studies at the State Technical School for Optics and Photographic Technology in Berlin
Important productions:
"FAUST" (Volksbühne Berlin, 2017), "Der Ring des Nibelungen (Bayreuth Festival, 2013-2017), "Die Brüder Karamasow" (Volksbühne Berlin, 2011), "Vögel" (Bayrische Staatsoper, 2020), "Zdenec Adamec" (Burgtheater Wien, 2021), "Geheimagent" (Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg 2022), "Forza Del Destino" (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2020, et al.
Cooperations:
Frank Castorf, et al.
Video
Severin Renke
Video
Origin:
Etterbeek, Belgium
Education and training:
Film camera & video artist
Important productions:
"Hildensaga - Ein Königinnen Drama" (Theater Baden Baden, 2023)
"Europapassage" (cinema documentary, 2022)
"Lärm. Blindes Sehen. Blinde sehen!" (Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, 2021,
"Der haarige Affe" (Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, 2018)
Stages:
Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schauspiel Köln, Kampnagel Hamburg, Theater Münster, et al.
Cooperations:
Karin Beier, Frank Castorf, Katie Mitchell, Isabel Osthues, Andrei Schwartz
Find further information about Severin Renke here.
photo: Antonina Gern
Video
Jens Crull
Video
Important works:
Der Ring des Nibelungen (Bayreuther Festspiele), Cinecittà Aperta, The Animatograph
Stages:
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Bayreuther Festspiele
Cooperations:
Frank Castorf, Andrea Moses, René Pollesch, Christoph Schlingensief
photo: Bayreuther Festspiele
Video
Maryvonne Riedelsheimer
Video
Studies:
Master in Theaterwissenschaft
Important productions:
„Karamasow” (Volksbühne Berlin 2011), „FAUST” (Volksbühne Berlin, 2017), „HUNGER“ (Salzburger Festspiele 2018), „Hamlet“ (Maxim Gorki Theater 2020), „Forza del Destino“ (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2020), „Sunday 4 AM“ (Hellerau 2021), „Fabian oder der Gang vor die Hunde“ (Berliner Ensemble 2021), „Wider*reden“ (Theaterdiscounter Berlin 2022), et. al.
Cooperations:
Frank Castorf, Christian Weise, Robert Lippok, Dominika Homa, et. al.
photo: Kimi Palme
Dramaturgie
Patric Seibert
Dramaturge
Origin:
Eastern Germany
Studies:
Opera direction in Novosibirsk and Berlin
Stages:
Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile, Megaron Mousikis in Athen, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Berliner Staatsoper, Nationaloper Bukarest, Rossini-Festival in Pesaro, Bolschoi Theater in Moskau, Residenztheater München, Hamburger Schauspielhaus, Bregenzer Festspiele, Salzburger Festspiele, Bayreuther Festspiele, Staatstheater Meinigen, Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Staatstheater Cottbus, Theater Bremen, Oper Köln
Career stages:
Assistant director and stage manager at the Berliner Ensemble, the Oldenburg State Theatre, the Landestheater Coburg, the Cologne Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Marijniski Theatre (Kirov) in St. Petersburg, the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and the Bremen Theatre
Own directorial work at the Cologne Opera, the Teatro Municipal in Cali (Colombia), the Landestheater Coburg, the Landestheater Eisenach, the Theater Bremen and the Meininger Staatstheater
Chief dramaturge, director and actor (Meininger Staatstheater), managing dramaturge and deputy opera director at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe, chief opera dramaturge at the Staatstheater Cottbus
Director and dramaturge at the Halle Opera House
Cooperations:
Michael Hampe, Vera Nemirova, Philipp Himmelmann, Günther Krämer, Andrej Konchalovsky, Floris Visser, Maxim Didenko, Daniel Slater, Peter Mussbach, Gottfried Pilz, Frank Castorf
photo: Felix Grünschloß
Chor (Leitung)
Eberhard Friedrich
Choir Director
Birthplace:
Darmstadt, Germany
Studies:
Studies with Helmuth Rilling in Frankfurt am Main
Prizes:
Under his direction, the Bayreuther Festspielchor was awarded the International Opera Award for Best Choir of the Year in 2014. Under his direction, the choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden was named Choir of the Year in 2004 and received the European Cultural Award (2009). Eberhard Friedrich also received a Grammy for his recording of "Tannhäuser" at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden with Daniel Barenboim (2003)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Choir director of the Hamburg State Opera since 2013/14
Career stages:
Choir director of the Festspielchor / Bayreuther Festspiele (since 2000), choir director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (1998 to 2013), assistant at the Bayreuther Festspiele (since 1993), choir director at the Theater der Stadt Koblenz (1986 to 1991) as well as at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (1991 to 1998)
Cooperation with choirs:
MDR-Rundfunkchor, Amsterdam Opera Choir, Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, Philharmonischer Chor Prag, Chor des Niederländischen Rundfunks, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Rias Kammerchor, Bayerischer Rundfunkchor, Chöre des Westminster Choir College, et al.
photo: Enrico Nawrath
Boris Godunow
Alexander Tsymbalyuk
Bass
Birthplace:
Odessa, Ukraine
Studies:
Percussion instruments at Odessa Musical College in Dankevich, Singing at Nezhdanova Academy of Music with Professor L. Ivanova, Professor V. Navrotsky and Professor T. Knyshova
Prizes:
1st prize and gold medal at XIII international Tschaikowski competition (2007), winner of XIII international Riccardo Zandonai competition of young opera singer (2007), winner of fith international Elena Obraztsova competition of young opera singer (2006), prizewinner at international Trnavsky competition (2000), prizewinner at first international Ivana Alchevskogo singing competition (1999), prizewinner at international Antonin Dvorak singing competition (1998), prizewinner art singing competition „New Names of Ukraine“ (1995)
Important parts:
Boris Godunow (Boris Godunow), Sparafucile und Il Conte di Monterone (Rigoletto), Fafner (Das Rheingold), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Raimondo Bidebent (Lucia di Lammermoor), Timur (Turandot), Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni), König René (Iolanta), Prinz Gremin (Eugen Onegin), Bartolo (Le Nozze di Figaro), Cesare Angelotti (Tosca), Polizist und Alter Zwangsarbeiter (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Ferrando (Il Trovatore), et al.
Stages:
Bayerische Staatoper, Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Det Kongelige Teater, Deutsche Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bolshoi Theatre, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Concertgebouw, Seoul Arts Center, Opéra National de Paris, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Deutsche Oper Berlin, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Calixto Bieito, Robert Carsen, Barbara Wysocka, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Markus Bothe, Harry Kupfer, Philipp Himmelmann, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Antonio Pappano, Marco Armiliato, Nicola Luisotti, Kent Nagano, Gustavo Dudamel, Riccardo Chailly, Ivor Bolton, Edward Gardner, Antonello Manacorda, Daniele Rustioni, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Alain Altinoglu, Vasily Patrenko, Kirill Petrenko, Dan Ettinger, Evelino Pidò, Simone Young, Alexander Soloviev, Marius Stieghorst, Pietari Inkinen, Sir Simon Rattle, et al.
Find further information about Alexander Tsymbalyuk here.
photo: Henriette Mielke
Fjodor
Kady Evanyshyn
Mezzo-Soprano
Studies:
Bachelor and Master of Music at The Juilliard School in New York
Master classes:
with Emmanuel Villaume at The Juilliard School (live-streamed, 2017), with Margo Garrett and John Churchwell at Music Academy of the West (2019)
Prizes:
Encouragement award, Gerda Lissner Lieder/Song Competition (2017/18), John Erskine Prize of The Juilliard School (2017), Tudor Bowl at Winnipeg Music Festival (2015)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2022/23 season
Was Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera from 2019/20 to 2022/23
Important parts:
Annio (La clemenza di Tito), Celia (La fedeltà premiata), Narciso (Agrippina), Second Woman (Dido and Aeneas), La Tasse Chinoise (L’enfant et les sortilèges), Frau Reich/Meg Page (Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Phèdre (Hippolyte et Aricie), Claire (Cold Mountain)
Song:
World premiere of “Drei Grabschriften” (Stefano Gervasoni), performances of “Animus II” (Druckman), “Folk Songs” (Berio) and “Liebeslieder Walzer” (Brahms), Competitor in the 2019 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Song Competition
Cooperation with directors:
Edward Berkeley, Mary Birnbaum, James Darrah, John Giampietro, Stephen Wadsworth
Cooperation with conductors:
William Christie, Jane Glover, Jeffrey Milarsky, Teddy Poll, Avi Stein, Stephen Stubbs
Find further information about Kady Evanyshyn here.
photo: Brinkhoff/Mögenburg
Xenia
Olivia Boen
Soprano
Birthplace:
Chicago, USA
Studies:
Opera Course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama (2021), Master of Music with Distinction at Guildhall School of Music and Drama (2019), Bachelor of Music in Voice from Oberlin Conservatory of Music (2017)
Prizes:
Finalist Guildhall Gold Medal Prize (2021), Awarded English Song Prize from London Song Festival (2019), Third Place Hurn Court Singing Competition (2019), First Place Musicians Club of Women Lynne Cooper Harvey Foundation Award (2018), Awarded Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Musicians Grant (2018), First Place Tuesday Musical Competition (2017)
Master classes:
Renée Fleming, Roderick Williams, Thomas Hampson, Eric Owens, Helmut Deutsch, Marilyn Horne, Thomas Quasthoff, Dame Felicity Lott, Kamal Khan, Kate Royal
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2022/2023 season
Important parts:
Alice Ford (Falstaff), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Sifare (Mitridate), Servilia (La Clemenza di Tito), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Musetta (La Bohéme), Susanna (Il Segreto di Susanna), Queen Mother (The Little Green Swallow), Alcina (Alcina), Romilda (Serse), et al.
Stages:
Opéra national de Paris, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Wigmore Hall, Grant Park Music Festival, Oxford Lieder Festival, Verbier Festival, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Barbican Centre, Ravinia Festival, International Meistersinger Academy, Samling Institute, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Frank Castorf, Immo Karaman, Lee Blakeley, Stephen Medcalf, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Sir Andrew Davis, Valery Gergiev, Dominic Wheeler, Stanislav Kochanovsky, et al.
Find further information about Olivia Boen here.
photo: Simon Pauly
Xenias Amme
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.
Fürst Schuiskij
Matthias Klink
Tenor
Birthplace:
Fellbach-Schmieden near Stuttgart, Germany
Studies:
Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts and at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington/USA
Prizes:
DER FAUST theater prize (2018) and "Singer of the Year" (2017, Opernwelt) for his portrayal of Gustav von Aschenbach (Death in Venice), honorary title of Kammersänger of the Stuttgart State Opera (2017)
Important parts:
Alfredo (La traviata), Hoffmann (Les contes d'Hoffmann ), Don José (Carmen), Faust (Damnation de Faust), Matteo (Arabella), Erik (Der fliegende Holländer), Tom Rakewell (Rakes Progress), Jim Mahoney (Mahagonny), Alwa (Lulu), Herod (Salome), Gustav von Aschenbach (Death in Venice), Mime (Siegfried), Mao Tse-tung (Nixon), Loge (Rheingold), Schuiski (Boris Godunov), Eisenstein (Fledermaus), Tikhon (Katja Kabanova) et al.
Stages:
Hamburg State Opera, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Bavarian State Opera, Stuttgart State Opera, Opéra National de Lyon, Teatro alla Scala, Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric opera of Chicago, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Ruhrtriennale Bochum, Salzburg Festival, Zurich Opera et al.
Find further information about Matthias Klink here.
photo: Matthias Bausch
Schtschelkalow
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), 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), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Carlo Gérard (Andrea Chénier von Umberto Giordano), Malatesta (Don Pasquale), 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, Magnitogorsk Opera House, Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre Moscow, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Hannover, Sankt Galler Festspiele, 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.
Find further information about Alexey Bogdanchikov here.
photo: PAULINA HOLBREICH
Pimen
Vitalij Kowaljow
Bass
Studies:
Master’s degree at Bern Conservatory of Music
Prizes:
CulturArte Prize at Operalia Competition (1999)
Important parts:
Wotan (Rheingold), Wotan (Die Walküre), Der Wanderer (Siegfried), Der Holländer (Der fliegende Holländer), Viet Pogner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Filippo II (Don Carlo), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Banco (Macbeth), Ramphis (Aida), Procida (I Vespri Siciliani), Padre Guardiano (La Forza del Destino), Attila (Attila), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Pimen (Boris Godunov), Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin), King René (Iolanta), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Don Alfonso (Lucrezia Borgia), Timur (Turandot), et al.
Stages:
Teatro alla Scala, Salzburger Festspiele, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra National de Paris, Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Semperoper Dresden, Arena di Verona, Teatro Regio di Torino, Mariinsky Theatre St Petersburg, Opera Australia Sydney, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Robert Dornhelm, Achim Freyer, Guy Cassiers, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Christian Thielemann, Daniel Barenboim, Gustavo Dudamel, James Conlon, Valerij Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda, et al.
Find further information about Vitalij Kowaljow here.
Grigorij / Dimitrij
Dovlet Nurgeldiyev
Tenor
Birthplace:
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Studies:
Vocal studies at the Music College in Ashgabat, at the Turkmen National Conservatory, at the Conservatory Tilburg and at Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio (2008/9-2009/10)
Ensemble member since 2010/11
Important parts:
Dmitriy (Boris Godunov), Stewa (Jenufa), Tito (La Clemenza di Tito), Erik (Der fliegende Holländer), Fenton (Falstaff), Nemorino (L’Elisir d’Amore), Alfredo (La Traviata), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Vladimir (Prince Igor), Telemaco (Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Chevalier (Dialogues des Carmelites), Hylas (Les Troyens), Macduff (Macbeth), Ismaele (Nabucco), Cassio (Otello), Naraboth (Salome), Medoro (Orlando Paladino), Belfiore (La finta giardiniera), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, Ungarische Staatsoper, Polnische Staatsoper, Opéra National de Montpellier, Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Auditorium de Bordeaux, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Laeizhalle Hamburg, Prinzregententheater München, Santa Fe Opera(US), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Concertgebow Amsterdam, Palau del la Musica, Auditoriu Barcelona, Auditoriu Madrid,et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Hans Neuenfels, Marie-Eve Signeyrole, Renaud Doucet, Vincent Boussard, Jette Steckel, Willy Decker, Axel Ranisch, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Ivor Bolton, Kent Nagano, Bertrand de Billy, Keri Lynn Wilson, Philippe Auguin, Lothar Zagrosek, Michael Schonwandt, Stefan Soltesz, Henrik Nánási, Stefano Ranzani, Andrea Battistoni, Simone Young, et al.
photo: Jörn Kipping
Warlaam
Ryan Speedo Green
Bass-baritone
Birthplace:
Suffolk, Virginia
Studies:
Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program
Recipient of the Richard and Sara Tucker Grants from the Richard Tucker Foundation
Important parts:
Uncle Paul (Fire Shut up in my Bones), Varlaam (Boris Godunov), Jake (Porgy and Bess), Colline (La bohème), Truffaldino (Ariadne auf Naxos), Escamillo (Carmen), Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Commendatore (Don Giovanni), et al.
Stages:
Metropolitan Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, Grand Teton Festival, Washington National Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Tanglewood Festival, et al.
photo: Jiyang Chen
Missail
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: Martina Cyman
Schenkwirtin
Marta Świderska
mezzo-soprano
Origin:
Poland
Studies:
Bachelor’s degree in Singing at the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice in Poland with Dr. Pawel Sobierajski, Master’s degree in Singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main with Professor Thomas Heyer
Master class:
with B. Fassbender, C. Lehmann, U. Finazzi, I. Bogacheva, P. Esswood, Ingrid Kremling, Wieslaw Ochman, et al.
Prizes:
Second prize in the Jan Kiepura Singing Competition in Sosnowiec in Poland, first prize and the Grand Prix in Vocal Competition „Impressio Art“ “ in Sopot in Poland, participation with honors in the Third Singing Competition „J.E.J.Reszków“ in Czestochowa in Poland, second prize and special prize for the best mezzosoprano in the Second International Giulio Perotti Singing Competition in Ückermunde in Germany, et al.
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera (2015/16-2016/17)
Important parts:
Erda (Siegfried), Baba the Turk (The Rake’s progress), Dora S. (Benjamin), Marthe (Faust), Filipiewna and Olga (Eugene Onegin), 3. Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Brigitta (Die tote Stadt), Eine Theatergarderobiere (Lulu), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Baltic Opera, Oper Leipzig, Komische Oper Berlin, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Michael Thalheimer, Jette Steckel, Katharina Thalbach, Christoph Marthaler, Yona Kim, Paul Esterhazy, Linus Fellbom, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Kent Nagano, George Jackson, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Renato Palumbo, Anthony Bramall, Riccardo Minasi, Gregor Bühl, Volker Krafft, Josep Caballé Domenech, Christoph Gedschold, Alexander Joel, Philipp Pointner, Péter Halász, Alexander Vedernikov, Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli, Tadeusz Kozlowski, Peter Ruzicka, et al.
Gottesnarr
Florian Panzieri
Tenor
Birthplace:
Paris, France
Studies:
History and Politics, University of Warwick
Singing, Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2022/2023 season
Important parts:
Peter Quint (The Turn of the Screw), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Primo Pastore (Orfeo), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Berthold (Scoring a Century), Erasmus (Silvesternacht), 1. und 3. Vorarbeiter (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk), Un Venditore di Canzonette (Il trittico), et al.
Stages:
Garsington Opera, Reggio Emilia Teatro Valli, The Merry Opera, British Youth Opera, Royal Opera House London, Staatsoper Hamburg, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Paul Curran, John Caird, Keith Warner, Fabio Condemi, Axel Ranisch, Mart Van Berckel, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Kent Negano, Giampaolo Bisanti, Francesco Bossaglia, Ivan Repusic, et al.
Find further information about Florian Panzieri here.
photo: Benjamin Reason
Polizeioffizier
Hubert Kowalczyk
Bass
Birthplace:
Radom, Poland
Studies:
Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin with Prof. Martin Bruns and Prof. Dr. Michail Lanskoi; Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali "Pietro Mascagni" in Livorno with Prof. Graziano Polidori; Young Talents Development Program - Opera Academy in Warsaw
Master class:
Lioba Braun, Helmut Deutsch, Brigitte Fassbaender, Tomasz Konieczny, Bogdan Makal, Olga Pasiecznik, Eytan Pessen, Rudolf Piernay, Matthias Rexroth, Harald Stamm, et al.
Important parts:
Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro), Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia), Colline (La Bohème), Crespel (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Haly (L'italiana in Algeri), Nourabad (Les Pêcheurs de perles), Oroveso (Norma), Pistola (Falstaff), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Zuniga (Carmen), et al.
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2021/22 season
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera from 2019/20 to 2021/22
Stages:
Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Zurich Opera House, Bregenz Festival, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, Opera Rara Festival in Krakow, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Calixto Bieito, David Bösch, Frank Castorf, Petra Deidda, Brigitte Fassbaender, Herbert Fritsch, Alexander Riemenschneider, Dmitri Tcherniakov, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Matteo Beltrami, Bertrand de Billy, Giampaolo Bisanti, Jonathan Brandani, Daniele Callegari, Paolo Carignani, Nicholas Carter, Vladimir Conta, Axel Kober, Volker Krafft, Carlo Montanaro, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Kent Nagano, Ivan Repušić, Sébastien Rouland, Robin Ticciati, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Lidiya Yankovskaya, et al.
Find further information about Hubert Kowalczyk here.
photo: Martina Cyman
Leibbojar
Mateusz Ługowski
Baritone
Birthplace:
Działdowo, Poland
Studies:
Solo sining and chor conducting, Vocal- and Conducting isntitute Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań (graduated 2022)
Prizes:
Special Prize by Prof. Tadeusz Pszonka in 10th National Vocal Competition in Mława, Poland (2022), 2nd Prize 10th National Vocal Competition, Mława (2022), Grand Prix International Festival of Arts “Sakura Blossom” (2021), 1st Prize MAP International Music Competition Los Angeles (2021), 1st Prize 4th International Moscow Music Compeitions (2021), Award of Excellence in Angel Voice Classic/2nd Prize Angel Voice Classic in “Opera-Youth”/1st Prize in “Slavic” (2021), 1st Prize International Competition ArtSong Opucs (2021), Grand Prix International vocal and choral competition (2021)
Master classes:
Mariusz Kwiecień, Marcin Koziel, Eytan Pessen, Bogdan Makal, Izabela Kłosińska, Maestro Adi Bar, Maestro Marco Guidarini, Viorica Cortez, Ubaldo Fabbri, et al.
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2022/2023 season
Important parts:
Gianni Schicchi (Gianni Schicchi), Guglielmo (Cosí fan tutte), et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Rares Zaharia, Krzysztof Cicheński, Paweł Szkotak, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Noar Shani, Adi Bar, Grzegorz Wierus, Marco Guidarini, et al.
Find further information about Mateusz Ługowski here.
photo: Jörn Kipping
Mitjucha
Julian Arsenault
Baritone
Birthplace:
Lafayette/California, USA
Studies:
University of California at Los Angeles, Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
Master classes:
With Marlena Malas, Mikael Eliasen, Francisco Araiza, Brian Zeger, Matthew Epstein and Craig Rutenberg
Prizes:
Second prize at the Liederkranz Song Competition (Carnegie Hall, 2012)
Important parts:
Scarpia (Tosca), Escamillo (La Tragédie de Carmen), Belcore (L'elisir d'amore), Gregor Mittenhofer (Elegy for Young Lovers), Owen Wingrave (Owen Wingrave), Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro), Moralès (Carmen), 3rd Shepherd (Daphne), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), et al.
Stages:
Semperoper Dresden, Opéra Bastille, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opera Philadelphia, Theater Trier, Theater Schweinfurt, Theater Gütersloh, Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Karin Beier, Johannes Erath, Jorge Lavelli, Vera Nemirova, Marie-Ève Signeyrole, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Michael Boder, Kent Nagano, Johannes Harneit, Jakub Hrůša, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Omer Meir Wellber, et al.
Find further information about Julian Arsenault here.
photo: Izabela Mittwollen
Orchester
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Orchestra
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, Adam Fischer 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 and since June 2023 also its honorary conductor. 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 toured South America, followed by concert tours to Spain and Japan in 2019, and in the spring of 2023, the Philharmonic State Orchestra made its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under his direction, which was acclaimed by audiences and the press. 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 by ECM, for which Widmann received the OPUS KLASSIK as Composer of the Year 2019, and ARCHE was performed again in 2023 to great acclaim.
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.
photo: Niklas Marc Heinecke
Extrachor
Extrachor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Extrachoir
The Extra Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera consists of about 40 singers who perform part-time in performances of the State Opera. The Extra Chorus thus complements the State Opera Chorus both scenically and vocally in productions that require a very large choral cast. This is often the case with works by Verdi and Wagner. In the 2023/24 season, the Extra Chorus will be in action in productions of Boris Godunov, Don Carlos, Cavalleria rusticana / I Pagliacci and Die Tote Stadt. The Extra Chorus has been musically rehearsed by Christian Günther since 2013.
photo: Bernd Uhlig
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.
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photo: Niklas Marc Heinecke
