Giuseppe Verdi | La Traviata
Sat, Apr. 29, 2023, 7.30 pm - 10.10 pm
Musikalische Leitung
Giampaolo Bisanti
Musical Direction
Birthplace:
Milan, Italy
Studies:
Conducting, clarinet, piano and composition at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, graduating with honors
Prizes:
Winner of the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition in Athens, 1998
Repertoire:
Mainly Italian repertoire, from Bellini, Donizetti to Verdi and Puccini and Verismo, first conducted Wagner opera (Der Fliegender Holländer) at Teatro Petruzzelli Bari (2018)
Career stages:
General Music Director of Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari/Italy 2017-2022), from September 2022 General Music Director of Opéra Royal de Wallonie Luettich
Stages:
Wiener Staatsoper, Staatsoper Hamburg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Festival Peralada, Opéra Bastille Paris, Les Chorégies d'Orange,, Opernhaus Zürich, Stadttheater Basel, Opéra de Lausanne, New National Theatre Tokyo, Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Teatro Regio Torino, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro La Fenice, Teatro Comunale Bologna, Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Seattle Opera, et al.
Cooperation with orchestras:
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra RAI Torino, Philharmonie de Strasbourg, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra della Toscana, Haydn Orchestra Bozen Bolzano, et al.
Find further information about Giampaolo Bisanti here.
Violetta Valery
Ruth Iniesta
Soprano
Prizes:
“Premios Líricos Campoamor 2015” and the “Codalario” prize as best new artist 2015
Important parts:
Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Musetta (La Bohème), Madama Cortese/Corinna (Il viaggio a Reims), Glauce (Medea), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Liù (Turandot), Gilda (Rigoletto), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Violetta Valéry (La Traviata), Nanetta (Fallstaff), et al.
Stages:
Teatro Real Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro, Teatro Comunale Bologna, Staatskapelle Berlin, Konzerthaus Berlin, Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Emilio Sagi, Graham Vick, Hugo de Ana, Lluis Pasqual, Damiano Micheletto, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Michele Mariotti, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, Pablo Heras-Casado, Miquel Ortega and Christopher Franklin, et al.
Find further information about Ruth Iniesta here.
photo: Jonathan Manchón
Flora Bervoix
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:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since season 2019/20
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
Annina
Katja Pieweck
Soprano
Birthplace:
Hannover, Germany
Studies:
Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg with Prof. Ks. Judith Beckmann
Prizes:
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer Preis of the Körber-Stiftung (2007), Cultural Prize of the Berenberg Bank Hamburg (2000), First Prize of the International Robert Stolz Singing Competition in Hamburg (2000), Masefield Fellowship of the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 1999/2000, member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera (1997/98 to 1998/99)
Important parts:
Adalgisa (Norma), Mercédès (Carmen), Hexe (Königskinder), Smeton (Anna Bolena), Alisa (Lucia di Lammermoor), Marquise de Berkenfield (La fille du régiment), Sélysette (Ariane et Barbe-Bleue), Arsamene (Xerxes), Sancta Susanna (Klementia), Gertrud/Sandmännchen (Hänsel und Gretel), Frau des Dorfrichters (Jenufa), Valencienne (Die lustige Witwe), Witwe Browe (Zar und Zimmermann), Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), Damigella Pallade (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Schenkwirtin (Boris Godunov), Mutter (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Mère Marie (Dialogues des Carmélites), Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Frugola (Il Tabarro), Goneril (Lear), Berta/Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Marchese Melibea (Il Viaggio a Reims), Ariadne (Ariadne), Adelaide (Arabella), Annina (Der Rosenkavalier), Aufseherin/1. Magd (Elektra), Curra/Preziosilla (La Forza del Destino), Annina (La Traviata), Meg Page/Alice Ford (Falstaff), Giovanna/Maddalena (Rigoletto), Fenena (Nabucco), Emilia (Otello), Fricka (Das Rheingold), Siegrune/Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Magdalena (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Adriano (Rienzi), Eglantine (Euryanthe), Ericlea (Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria), Larina (Eugen Onegin), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Semperoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Staatstheater Mainz, Bayerische Staatsoper, Oper Leipzig, Internationale Herrenchiemsee Festspiele, Staatsoper Hannover, et al.
Zusammenarbeit mit Regisseuren:
Peter Konwitschny, Karoline Gruber, Claus Guth, Willy Decker, Achim Freyer, Roger Vontobel, Stefan Herheim, Michael Thalheimer, et al.
Zusammenarbeit mit Dirigenten:
Simone Young, Sir Simon Rattle, Peter Schneider, Ingo Metzmacher, Gerd Albrecht, Sebastian Weigle, Rolf Beck, Krzysztof Penderecki, et al.
photo: Ida Aldrian
Alfredo Germont
Francesco Demuro
Tenor
Birthplace:
Porto Torres, Italy
Studies:
Vocal performance at the Conservatory in Sassari (between 2003 and 2004),
Then vocal performance at the Conservatory in Cagliari with soprano Elisabetta Scanu
Important parts:
Alfredo (La Traviata), Faust (Faust), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Lord Arthur Talbot (I puritani), Nadir (Les pêcheurs de perles), Foresto (Attila), Cassio (Otello), Fenton (Falstaff), Duca di Mantova (Rigoletto), Roméo (Roméo et Juliette), Gabriele Adorno (Simon Boccanegra), Jason (Medea)
Stages:
Teatro Regio di Parma, Megaron Concert Hall, Semperoper Dresden, Festival Verdi in Parma, Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Seattle Opera, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, La Scala in Milan, Staatsoper Hamburg, Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Festwochen, Arena di Verona, Royal Opera House in London, Berlin Staatsoper, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Bayerische Staatsoper, Metropolitan Opera in New York, Oper Frankfurt, Opéra Bastille, La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Real de Madrid, Liceu in Barcelona, Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Teatro San Carlo, Opéra in Monte Carlo, Shanghai Opera, Palace of the Arts in Budapest, Baden-Baden Festival
Cooperations with directors:
Luc Bondy et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Fanio Luisi, Sir Antonio Pappano, Nicola Luisotti, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Oren, Gustavo Dudamel, Nello Santi, Daniel Barenboim et al.
photo: Elena Cherkashyna
Giorgio Germont
Andrzej Dobber
Baritone
Origin:
Poland
Studies:
Piano, organ and singing at Staatliche Hochschule in Krakau, scholarship holder at Nürnberger Konservatorium
Prizes:
Appointment as Hamburger Kammersänger at Senat of Hansestadt Hamburg (2015)
Important parts:
Ezio (Attilia), Macbeth (Macbeth), Rigoletto (Rigoletto), Nabucco (Nabucco), Giorgio Germont (La Traviata), Iago (Otello), Renato (Un Ballo in Maschera), Stankar (Stiffelio), Miller (Luisa Miller), Amonasro (Aida), Il Barone Scarpia (Tosca), Carlo Gérard (Andrea Chénier), Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde), Prince Igor (Prince Igor), Roger II (King Roger), Simon Boccanegra (Simon Boccanegra), Francesco Foscari (I due Foscari), Alfio (Cavalleria Rusticana), Tonio (I Pagliacci), Jochanaan (Salome), Count Tomsky (Pique Dame), Amfortas (Parsifal), Jack Rance (La Fanciulla del West), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), Boyar Fyodor Shaklovity (Khovanshchina), Barak (Die Frau ohne Schatten), et al
Stages:
Nuremberg State Theater, Frankfurt Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra National de Paris, Mariinsky Theater, De Nationale Opera, Vienna State Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburg State Opera, Opéra Bastille,Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Glyndebourne Festival, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Lev Dodin, Vincent Boussard, Charles Roubaud, David Bösch, Georges Delnon, Katharina Thalbach, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Christian Thielemann, Semyon Bychkov, Carlo Montanaro, Lawrence Foster, John Fiore, Omer Meir Wellber, Simone Young, Leonardo Sini, Jordi Bernàcer, et al.
Gastone
Peter Galliard
Tenor
Birthplace:
Chur, Switzerland
Studies:
With Rico Peterelli, Conservatory in Feldkirch with Maria Eibenschütz, at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Rudolf Knoll
Prizes:
First Prize at the International Mozart Competition (1985), Förderpreis of the Kanton Graubünden (1987), Dr. Wilhelm-Oberdörffer-Preis of the Stiftung zur Förderung der Hamburgischen Staatsoper (1989), honored by the Hamburg Senate with the title of “Kammersänger” (2017)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 1986/87
Important parts:
Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Jaquino (Fidelio), Cassio (Otello), Froh and Loge (Das Rheingold), Alfred and Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), Peter Iwanow (Zar und Zimmermann), Bardolfo (Falstaff), Hauptmann (Wozzeck), Knusperhexe (Hänsel und Gretel), Lenski (Eugen Onegin), Narraboth (Salome), Don Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Prinz and Hauptmann (Lulu), L’Aumonier (Dialogues des Carmélites), Melot (Tristan und Isolde), Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser), Wolfgang Capito (Mathis der Maler), Goro (Madama Butterfly), Red Whiskers (Billy Budd), Dämon (L’Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe), Bischof von Budoja (Palestrina), Mime (Siegfried), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Lucerne Festival, Salzburger Osterfestspiele, Opéra National de Paris, Enescu Festival in Bukarest, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, Semperoper Dresden, Oper Leipzig, Staatstheater Nürnberg, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Claus Guth, August Everding, Johannes Schaaf, Harry Kupfer, Peter Konwitschny, Johannes Erath, Renaud Doucet, Georg Schmiedleitner, Stefan Herheim, Herbert Wernicke, Calixto Bieito, Willy Decker, Paul-Georg Dittrich, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christian Thielemann, Ingo Metzmacher, Simone Young, Kirill Petrenko, Kent Nagano, Lawrence Foster, Gerrit Prießnitz, Marcus Bosch, Philippe Jordan, Paolo Carignani, Vaclav Luks, et al.
photo: Martina Cyman
Il Barone Douphol
Nicholas Mogg
Baritone
Birthplace:
Manchester, United Kingdom
Studies:
International Opera Studio, Hamburg State Opera; National Opera Studio, London; Royal Academy of Music, London; Clare College, University Cambridge
Masterclass:
with Sir Simon Keenlyside, Christian Gerhaher, Malcolm Martineau, Brigitte Fassbaender, Gerald Finley, Sir Thomas Allen
Prizes:
Royal Over-Seas League Singers’ Section; Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award
Roles:
Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Ned Keene (Peter Grimes), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Steward (Flight), Herr Peachum (Die Dreigroschenoper), Melisso (Alcina), Jupiter (Orphée aux Enfers), et al.
Stages:
Hamburg State Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Het Concertgebouw, Festival Aix, Elbphilharmonie, Theater Lübeck
Cooperation with directors:
Keith Warner, Herbert Fritsch, Tim Albery, Orpha Phelan, Richard Jones
Cooperation with conductors:
Robin Ticciati, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Ton Koopman, Sir Roger Norrington, Yoel Gamzou, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Alan Gilbert, Kent Nagano
photo: Brinkhoff/Mögenburg
Il Marchese d'Obigny
Han Kim
Bass
Birthplace:
Pohang, South Korea
Studies:
Bachelor, Seoul National University with Kwangchul Youn; Master Vocal performance, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Christian Elsner; Soloist’s Diploma Vocal performance, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Christian Elsner
Master class:
with Ann Murray, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (2019), with David Selig, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (2019)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera (since 2021/2022)
Important parts:
Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Leporello/Masetto (Don Giovanni), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Sprecher (Die Zauberflöte), Il conte Rodolfo (La sonambula), Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Don Fernando (Fidelio), Colline (La Bohème), Zuniga (Carmen)
Stages:
Theater Heidelberg
Cooperation with directors:
Sonja Trebes
Cooperation with conductors:
Dietger Holm
photo: Jörn Kipping
Il Dottore Grenvil
Hubert Kowalczyk
Basso
Birthplace:
Radom, Poland
Studies:
Young Talents Development Programme - Opera Academy in Warsaw (from 2016 to 2019), Instituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Pietro Mascagani in Livorno with Prof. Graziano Polidori (2017/18), Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin with Prof. Martin Bruns
Master class:
Lioba Braun, Helmut Deutsch, Brigitte Fassbaender, Tomasz Konieczny, Bogdan Makal, Olga Pasiecznik, Eytan Pessen, Rudolf Piernay, Matthias Rexroth, et al.
Important parts:
Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro), Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia), Haly (L‘italiana in Algeri), Hauptmann, Saretzki (Eugen Onegin), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Pistola (Falstaff), Zuniga (Carmen), et al.
Stages:
Bregenzer Festspiele, Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa Warschau, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin
Cooperation with directors:
Calixto Bieito, David Bösch, Andrzej Chyra, Brigitte Fassbaender, Dmitri Tcherniakov
Cooperation with conductors:
Giampaolo Bisanti, Jonathan Brandani, Daniele Callegari, Paolo Carignani, Michał Klauza, Axel Kober, Volker Krafft, Carlo Montanaro, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Kent Nagano, Sébastien Rouland, Robin Ticciati, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Bertrand de Billy
photo: Martina Cyman
Giuseppe
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
Akkordeonist
Jakob Neubauer
Birthplace:
Syktyvkar, Republic of Komi
Studies:
Accordion at the State Academy of Music, education at the State Technical School of Music, studies at the St. Petersburg Academy of Music
Prizes:
Prize Winner Russian Accordionist Competition St. Petersburg (1978)
Important productions:
Tri Sestri, Powder her face, We come tot he river, Schuberts „Winterreise“, Bählamms Fest, La vera storia, Das Fest am Meer, Wozzeck, Trilogie der Frauen, La Traviata, Carmen, Maria de Buenos Aires, Pinocchio, Viktor/Viktoria, Anatevka, 1001 Nacht, König Artus, Dreigroschenoper, Tintenherz, et al.
Career stages:
Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Theater Lüneburg, Theater Lübeck, St. Pauli Theater, Hamburger Kammerspiele, Bremertheater, et al.
Cooperations:
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester, NDR und WDR Sinfonieorchester, NDR Big Band, et al.
Find further information about Jakob Neubauer here.
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, Sir Neville Marriner, Valery Gergiev and Sir Roger Norrington.
Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent Nagano has taken on the position of Hamburg’s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera. In his first season Kent Nagano initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016 Nagano and the Philharmonic undertook a successful three-week concert tour in South America, a tour of Spain followed in 2019. Since 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg Widmann to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall’s opening festivities. The concert recording has been released at ECM.
The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, making it Hamburg’s busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.
In 2008 Simone Young and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Wagner as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Mahler, Hindemith and Berg, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Hosokawa, Offenbach, Reimann, Auerbach, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Poulenc and Weber.
The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg’s musical tradition and responsible for the city’s artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg’s schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra’s own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic’s musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow’s music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.
photo: Foto: Felix Broede
Chor
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
The chorus members appear on stage at the Hamburg State Opera in a different role almost every night. From one day to the next, they might be sailors, pilgrims or conspirators, then courtiers, hunters, the deranged or the imprisoned. In the role of crusaders in I Lombardi alla prima Crociata they travel to Jerusalem, other nights they are invited to Madama Butterfly's marriage or acclaim Prince Igor. The ladies and gentlemen of the opera chorus demonstrate their artistic prowess, their flexibility, and their love of the stage in every performance.
With a membership around 70, the chorus of the Hamburg State Opera has been one of the world’s best opera choruses for many years. The varied repertoire – almost always in the original language – is multifaceted and includes baroque operas and dramatic operas, major works by Verdi and Wagner as well as contemporary pieces. At the start of the 2013/14 season, Eberhard Friedrich took over the post of Chorus Master.
photo: Niklas Marc Heinecke
