Giacomo Puccini | Turandot
Wed, Sep. 27, 2023, 7.30 pm - 10.00 pm
Musikalische Leitung
Axel Kober
Conductor
Birthplace:
Kronach/Upper Franconia, Germany
Studies:
Conducting studies at the University of Music in Würzburg with Prof. Peter Falk and Prof. Günther Wich
Repertoire:
Rameau, Mozart, Weber, Berlioz, Giordano, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Humperdinck, R. Strauss, Zemlinsky, Janacek, Schönberg, Berg, Stravinsky, Britten, Poulenc, Widmann
Career stages:
Chief Conductor of the Duisburg Philharmonic (since 2017) and General Music Director (since 2019), General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (since 2009/10), together with Riccardo Chailly Musical Director of the Leipzig Opera (2007 to 2009), engagement at the Nationaltheater Mannheim: Deputy General Music Director (2005/2006) as well as acting General Music Director (2006 to 2007), Principal Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director at the Theater Dortmund (1998 to 2003), engagement at the Staatstheater Schwerin (1994)
Stages:
Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Bayreuth Festival, Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Zurich Opera House, Royal Opera Copenhagen, Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg, German Opera Berlin, Leipzig Opera, Mannheim National Theater, Nuremberg State Theater, Vienna Volksoper et al.
Cooperation with orchestras:
Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Halle Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Hamburg, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, et al.
Find further information about Axel Kober here.
photo: Susanne Diesner
Turandot
Catherine Foster
Catherine Foster is internationally renowned for her interpretations of the most important roles in the dramatic soprano repertoire. This summer she returns to the Bayreuth Festival as Brünnhilde and Isolde in the highly acclaimed productions of Sebastian Schwarz and Roland Schwab.
This season Catherine Foster makes her house debut at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, where she will be seen in the title role in Puccini's Turandot; a role she will also sing this season at Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
Most recently, Catherine Foster has enjoyed sensational success as Brünnhilde in the concert version of Wagner's Ring cycle with the Dresden Philharmonic under the baton of Marek Janowski and at the Wagner Days at MüPa in Budapest under the baton of Adam Fischer, as Elektra in her Australian debut at the Victorian Opera in Melbourne, and at the Hamburg State Opera in Dmitri Tcherniakov's new production. Catherine Foster will also return to Deutsche Oper Berlin this season as Elektra under the direction of Sir Donald Runnicles.
Catherine recently appeared as Isolde in Naples under Constantin Trinks, as well as at the International May Festival in Wiesbaden and the Wagner Days 22 at the Leipzig Opera.
Her repertoire also includes roles such as Dyer (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Senta (Der fliegende Holländer), Abigaille (Nabucco), Leonore (Fidelio), Leonora (La forza del destino and Il trovatore), Elisabetta (Don Carlo), Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) and many more.
Catherine Foster has worked with outstanding conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Marek Janowski, Adam Fisher, Philippe Auguin, Simone Young, Sir Donald Runnicles, Hartmut Haenchen, Alexander Soddy, Juraj Valcuha, Kent Nagano, Dan Ettinger and Daniel Barenboim at some of the world's most important opera houses, including Washington, Tokyo, Shanghai, Barcelona, Madrid, Budapest, Helsinki, Naples, Riga, Amsterdam, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Stuttgart, to name a few.
Catherine was awarded an honorary fellowship from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire for her work as an international singer and received the Reginald Goodall Award from the London Wagner Society for her devotion to the works of Richard Wagner.
Find further information about Catherine Foster here.
photo: Uwe Arens
Calaf
Rodrigo Porras Garulo
Tenor
Birthplace:
Mexico City, Mexico
Studies:
Vocal studies at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria
Important parts:
Hoffmann (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Don José (Carmen), Cavaradossi (Tosca), Duca
(Rigoletto), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Rodolfo (Luisa Miller), Don Carlo, Max (Der Freischütz), Mark (The Wreckers), Calaf (Turandot), Rodolfo (La bohème), Tristan (Le vin herbé), Tambourmajor (Wozzeck), Alfredo (La traviata), Maurizio (Adriana Lecouvreur), Gabriele Adorno (Simon Boccanegra), Jacopo Foscari (I due Foscari), Zarewitsch (The Tsarevich), Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), Tamino (The Magic Flute), Ajdár (Abai), Edwin (Csárdásfürstin), Male Chorus (Rape Of Lucretia), Claudio (Liebesverbot), Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser), etc.
Stages:
Teatro Alla Scala, Glyndebourne Festival, Royal Albert Hall, Oper Frankfurt, Oper Leipzig, Oper Köln, Festival Ljubljana, Staatstheater Hannover, Staatsoper Prag, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Landestheater Linz, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz München, Croatian National Opera Zagreb, Opéra de Tours, Latvian National Opera Riga, Staatsoper Astana, Staatstheater Meiningen, Allee-Theater Hamburg, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Christof Loy, Floris Visser, Barbora Horáková, Vasily Barkhatov, Katharina Thoma, Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Melly Still, Louis Désiré, David Hermann, Maxim Didenko, Georg Zlabiger, Georg Schmiedleitner,
Cooperations with conductors:
Charles Dutoit, Daniel Oren, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Markus Poschner, Dan Ettinger, Julia
Jones, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Robin Ticciati, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Ivan Ciampa, Ainars Rubikis, Robert Trevino, Konstantin Trinks, Justin Brown, Daniele Squeo, Johannes Willig, Alan Buribayev, Alexander Kalajdzic, Andriy Yurkevych, Stephan Zilias, Peter Halász, Vincenzo Milletarì, et al
photo: Shirley Suarez
Timur
Tigran Martirossian
Bass
Birthplace:
Yerevan, Armenia
Studies:
Musical studies at the Gnessin State Academy of Music with Prof. Artur Eizen and Prof. Pavel Lisitsian
Prizes:
Prize winner of nine international singing competitions, inter alia, second prize in the “Neue Stimmen” Competition in Gütersloh (1997), second prize in the 2nd International Singing Competition in Shizuoka (2000), first prize in the Ondina Otta Competition in Marburg (1999)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 2005/06
Important parts:
Ramfis (Aida), König René (Jolanthe), Salieri (Mozart und Salieri), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Dulcamara (L’Elisir d’Amore), Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Sulpice (La Fille du Régiment), Colline (La Bohème), Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Selim (Il Turco in Italia), Banco (Macbeth), Pagano (I Lombardi alla prima Crociata), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Dossifei (Chowanschtschina), Fasolt (Das Rheingold), Rodolfo (La Sonnambula), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor) Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola), Philippe II (Don Carlos), Méphistophélès (Faust), Fürst Galizky (Fürst Igor), Ein Eremit (Der Freischütz), Doktor (Wozzeck), Oroveso (Norma) , Pimen (Boris Godunov), et al.
Stages:
Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre, Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Opéra National de Paris, Teatro Real in Madrid, Bayerische Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Salzburg Festival, Theater an der Wien, Bregenz Festival, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille, St. Galler Festspiele, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Achim Freyer, Yona Kim, Jochen Biganzoli, David Alden, Andreas Homoki, Vincent Boussard, Stefan Herheim, Florentine Klepper, Francesca Zambella, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Sir Colin Davis, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Mstislav Rostropovich, Carlo Rizzi, Simone Young, Plácido Domingo, Kent Nagano, Sylvain Cambreling, Valery Gergiev, Michel Plasson, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Daniel Oren, Mark Wigglesworth, Philippe Jordan, Daniele Callegari, Riccardo Frizza, et al.
Find further information about Tigran Martirossian here.
Liù
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha
Soprano
Studies:
Alumna of the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Prizes:
Winner of the Song Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition 2021
Important parts:
Élisabeth de Valois (Don Carlos), Elettra (Idomeneo), et al.
Stages:
Theater Bern, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Royal Albert Hall, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Adam Fischer, Sakari Oramo, Sir Mark Elder, Paul Daniel, et al.
photo: Vera Elma Vacek
Ping
Frederic Mörth
Baritone
Frederic Mörth began his musical career in the boys' choir of Mainz Cathedral. After studying violin at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, he completed a master's degree in violin at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. He then studied singing and orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main.
In the 2022/23 season, the baritone will make his debut at the Hamburg State Opera, among other roles as Ping in Puccini's "Turandot". Last season Frederic Mörth was an ensemble member at the Regensburg Theatre, where his roles included Figaro ("Le nozze di Figaro"), Albert ("Werther"), Dr Falke ("Die Fledermaus") and Papageno ("Die Zauberflöte").
He made his debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2019 in Verdi's "Don Carlo". At the Hessisches Staats- theatre Wiesbaden, he sang in the world premiere of Søren Nils Eichberg's "Schönerland" in the 2017/2018 season, as well as in the role of Count Ceprano ("Rigoletto") and in Mark-Anthony Turnage's "Anna Nicole". In addition to other placements in international competitions, he won second place in the opera category at the 33rd Concours International de Chant de Marmande.
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
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2019/20 season
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, Staatsoper Wien, Volksoper Wien, 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: Martina Cyman
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:
Bo Skovhus, Eytan Pessen, Lioba Braun, Brigitte Eisenfeld, Gregory Kunde, Chris Merritt, Piotr Beczala, Dorothea Röschmann, Kwangchul Youn, Olga Peretyatko, Ralph Strehle, Harald Stamm, et al.
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:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2023/24 season
Was Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera from 2020/21 to 2023/24
Important parts:
Lord Arturo Bucklaw (Lucia di Lammermoor), Pong (Turandot), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Beppe (Pagliacci), Jaquino (Fidelio), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Pilade (Oreste), Nemorino (L'Elisir d'amore), Rodolfo (La Bohème), et al.
Stages:
Hamburg State Opera, Zurich Opera, Salzburg Festival
Cooperation with directors:
Guy Montavon, Yona Kim, Sascha Alexander Todtner, Amélie Niermeyer
Cooperation with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Stefano Ranzani, Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Daniele Callegari, Giampaolo Bisanti, Leonardo Sini, Matteo Beltrarmi, Paolo Arrivabini, Giacomo Sagripanti, et al.
photo: Johannes Xaver Zepplin
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: Martina Cyman
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), Mr. Fluth (The Merry Wives of Windsor), 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, Bavarian 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
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
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: Niklas Marc Heinecke
