Gaetano Donizetti | Lucia di Lammermoor
Sun, Mar. 24, 2024, 5.00 pm - 7.40 pm
Musikalische Leitung
Evelino Pido
Musical Direction
Birthplace:
Torino, Italy
Prizes:
Bellini d’Oro prize for best interpreter of the music of Bellini (2012)
Repertoire:
La Sonnambula (Bellini), I Puritani (Bellini), Don Pasquale (Donizetti), L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti), Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), La fille du regiment (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Elisabetta, regina d’Inghliterra (Rossini), Tosca (Puccini), Turandot (Puccini), Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer), Manon (Massenet), Rigoletto (Verdi), Simon Boccanegra (Verdi), Don Giovanni (Mozart), Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Stages:
Bayerische Staatsoper, La Monnaie, Teatro Real, Rossini Opera Festival, The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Opéra National de Lyon, Wiener Staatsoper, Gran Theatre del Liceu, Bolshoi Theatre, Opéra National de Paris, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, et al.
Cooperation with orchestras:
Orchestra of the Opéra de Lyon, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, et al.
photo: Sylvie Roche
Lord Enrico Ashton
Christoph Pohl
Birthplace:
Hanover, Germany
Studies:
Opera singing studies at University of Music and Drama Hanover in Hanover at Prof. Carol Richardson-Smith, member of International Opera Studio of Staatsoper Hamburg (2003–2005)
Master class:
with Prof. Klesy Kelly (Cologne), Anna Tomowa -Sintow, Piotr Beczala, Neal Shicoff
Prizes:
prizewinner of Bundeswettbewerb Gesang, prizewinner of Deutscher Musikrat-Wettbewerb, Schumann-Liedwettbewerbs (2008), Christel-Goltz-Preis der Semperoperstiftung (2008)
Important parts:
Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Marcello (La Bohème), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Graf Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Olivier und Graf (Capriccio), Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Frank/Fritz (Die tote Stadt ), Ottokar (Der Freischütz), Danilo (Die lustige Witwe), Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus), Valentin (Faust), Figaro (Il Barbiere di Sevillia), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Schwanda (Svanda dudak), Heerrufer (Lohengrin), Lescaut (Manon Lescaut), Sharpless (Butterfly), Germont (La Traviata), Posa (Don Carlo), Guillaume Tell (Guillaume Tell), Spielmann (Königskinder), Eugen Onegin (Eugen Onegin), Amfortas (Parsifal), Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde)
Stages:
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Oper Leipzig, Theater Erfurt, Oper Frankfurt, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Wigmore Hall, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro La Fenice, Bregenzer Festspiele, Theater an der Wien, Opernhaus Zürich, Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Johannes Erath, Claus Guth, Peter Konwitschny, Stefan Herheim, Robert Carsen, Graham Vick, Andreas Homoki, Hans Neuenfels, Calixto Bieito, Damiano Michieletto, Jetzke Mijnssen, Lydia Steyer, Torsten Fischer, Elisabeth Stöppler, Axel Köhler, Markus Bothe
Cooperation with conductors:
Peter Schneider, Christian Thielemann, Donald Runnicles, Michael Boder, Axel Kober, Ivor Bolton, Nicola Luisotti, Giorgio Morandi, Cornelius Meister, Omer Meier Wellber, Sebastian Weigle
Find further information about Christoph Pohl here.
Lucia
Tuuli Takala
Soprano
Birthplace:
Helsinki, Finland
Studies:
Singing, violin and music education at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki
Master classes:
with Brigitte Fassbaender, John Norris, Helen Donath, Peter Berne, Deborah Polaski, Sonia Prina, Gudrun Bär, et al.
Prizes:
Curt Taucher Förderpreis from the Semperoper Dresden (2018), Prices at the Belvedere-Wettbewerb in Amsterdam (2015), „Junge Musikerin des Jahres“ from the Pro Musica Stiftung in Finnland (2014), Arnold-Schönberg-Center-Preis at Hilde-Zadek-Wettbewerb in Wien (2013), 1st Prices at the Singing competitions Timo Mustakallio and Kangasniemi in Finnland (2013), et al.
Important parts:
Königin der Nacht (Die Zauberflöte), Gilda (Rigoletto), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Violetta Valéry (La traviata), Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Marzelline (Fidelio), Marguerite (Faust), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), La Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims), Waldvogel (Siegfried), Olympia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Valencienne (Die lustige Witwe), Amanda Rossi (Veljeni Vartija), Micaëla (Carmen), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), u. a.
Stages
permanent ensemble member of the Semperoper Dresden (since 2015); Finnische Nationaloper, Savonlinna Opernfestspiele, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, London Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Volksoper Wien, Oper Essen, Opéra de Toulon, Tampere Oper in Finnland, Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole in Frankreich, Dresdner Frauenkirche, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Sir David McVicar, Johannes Erath, Paul-Émile Fourny, Michiel Dijkema, Laura Scozzi, Jens Daniel Herzog, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Philippe Auguin, Ryan Bancroft, Frédéric Chaslin, Ádám Fischer, Vladimir Jurowski, Susanna Mälkki, Stefano Ranzani, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, John Storgårds, Christian Thielemann, Mario Venzago, Omer Meir Wellber, et al.
Find further information about Tuuli Takala here.
photo: Jouni Harala
Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood
Ioan Hotea
Tenor
Birthplace:
Baia Mare, Romania
Studies:
Bucharest Music Academy
Prizes:
Winner Operalia competition (2015), Grand Prize of the International Contest Hariclea Darclée (2015)
Important parts:
Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), Arturo (I Puritani), Tonio (La fille du régiment), Italian Tenor (Der Rosenkavalier), Des Grieux (Manon), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Elvino (La Sonnambula), Cassio (Otello), Tebaldo (I Capuleti ed i Montecchi), Alfredo (La Traviata), Duca (Rigoletto), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte)
Stages:
Royal Opera House, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Opéra National du Rhin, Wiener Staatsoper, Greek National Opera, Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Oper Frankfurt, Oper Zürich, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Opéra National de Paris, Romanian National Opera Bucharest, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Choregies d’Orange
photo: Marshall Light Studio
Lord Arturo Bucklaw
Michael Colvin
Tenor
Birthplace:
Ballymena, GBR
Important parts:
Duke of Cornwall (Lear), Rodolphe (Guillaume Tell), Dr Caius and Bardolfo (Falstaff), The Witch (Hansel and Gretel), Herod (Salome), Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte), Spoleta (Tosca), Don Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Peter Grimes and Bob Boles (Peter Grimes), Flute (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Herod (Salome), et al.
Stages:
Opéra National de Paris, Teatro Maggio Musicale di Fiorentino, Royal Opera House, Canadian Opera Company, Salzburg Festival, Teatro alla Scala, English National Opera, Dutch National Opera, Teatro Real, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Gustavo Dudamel, Simone Young, Vladimir Jurowski, Sir Antonio Pappano, et al.
Find further information about Michael Colvin here.
photo: Eloise Campbell
Raimondo Bidebent
Alexander Roslavets
Bass
Birthplace:
Brest, Belarus
Studies:
Rimsky-Korsakov Staatskonservatorium in St. Petersburg bei Professor Nikolai Okhotnikov (2009-2014), Young Artist Programme Bolschoi-Theater in Moskau (2014-2016)
Master classes:
With Elena Obraztsova, Edda Moser, Dmitry Vdovin, Evgeny Nesterenko, Irina Bogacheva, Lubov Orfenova, Neil Shicoff, Bernd Weikl, Carol Vaness, John Fisher
Prizes:
Third prize in the first International Music Competition in Harbin (2018), third and special prize in the Queen Sonja International Music Competition (2017), second prize in the second International Opera Singing Competition of Portofino (2017), special prize in the 36th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition (2017), grand prix and audience prize in the second International Eva Marton singing competition in Budapest (2016), second prize in the sixth Galina Vishnevskaya International Opera Singers Competition (2016), grand prix in the Special Foundation Of The President Of Belarus Supporting Talented Youth (2016), first prize in the seventh International Competition of Opera Singers in Saint-Petersburg (2015), diploma in the 10th Elena Obraztsova International Competition Of Young Opera Singers (2015), special prize in the first International Christmas Vocal Competition in Minsk (2014), grand prix in the 42nd Russian National Vocal Graduates Competition in St. Petersburg (2014)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 2016/17
Important parts:
Malyuta Skuratov (Die Zarenbraut), Mephistopheles (Faust), König Dodon (Der goldene Hahn), Colline (La Bohème), Bartolo (Le Nozze de Figaro), Commenadatore, Masetto (Don Giovanni), Brander (La Damnation de Faust), Il Conte di Monterone (Rigoletto), 5.Jude (Salome), Lodovico (Otello), Il Sagrestano und Cesare Angelotti (Tosca), Raimondo Bidebent (Lucia di Lammermoor), Peter Quince (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Lo zio Bonzo (Madama Butterfly), Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Fafner (Das Rheingold), Fafner (Siegfried), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), King René (Iolanta), Banco (Macbeth), Prince Gremin (Eugen Onegin), Daland (Der Fliegende Holländer), Vodnik (Rusalka), Dulcamara (L’Elisir d’Amore), Ali Baba (Ali Baba), et al.
Stages:
Mikhailovsky Theater, Bolschoi Theater, Tschaikowsky-Konzertsaal in Moskau, Bolschoi Theater in Weißrussland, St. Petersburger Philharmonie benannt nach Schostakowitsch, Ungarische Staatsoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Berliner Philharmoniker, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Rimas Tuminas, Calixto Bieito, Tito Capobianco, Paul Curran, Stanislav Gaudasinsky, Peter Stein, Alexey Stepaniuk, Achim Freyer, Liliana Cavani, Mariusz Trelinski, Melly Still, Jan Bosse, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Adam Fischer, Robin Ticciati, Henrik Nanasi, Vladimir Jurowski, Ainars Rubikis, Daniele Rustioni, Tugan Sokhiev, Fabio Mastrangelo, Anton Grishanin, Michal Klauza, Gregor Bühl, Kent Nagano, Paolo Carignani, Renato Palumbo, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Yves Abel, Stefano Ranzani, Carlo Rizzari, Christof Prick, Nathan Brock, Sergei Stadler, Yuri Simonov, Michail Jurowski, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Alexander Anisimov, et al.
photo: Martin Paulsson
Alisa
Kady Evanyshyn
Mezzo-Soprano
Birthplace:
Winnipeg, Canada
Studies:
Bachelor and Master of Music, The Juilliard School
Awards/Competitions:
First Prize of the New Orleans District and Second Prize of the Gulf Coast Region at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (2023), Award from the Gerda Lissner Lieder/Song Competition (2017/18), Winner of the John Erskine Prize at The Juilliard School (2017) and the Tudor Bowl at the Winnipeg Music Festival (2015)
Masterclasses:
Lioba Braun, Brigitte Fassbänder, Elena Garanča, Thomas Hampson, Malcom Martineau, Anne Sofie von Otter, Bo Skovhus, Emmanuel Villaume, and others
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2022/2023 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), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Charlotte (Werther), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Siébel (Faust), Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Mercédès (Carmen), Meg Page (Falstaff), Tisbé (La Cenerentola), Second Woman (Dido and Aeneas), Fjodor (Boris Godunov), Frau Reich (Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Phèdre (Hippolyte et Aricie), and others
Stages:
Opernhaus Zürich, Bregenzer Festspiele, Carnegie Hall, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Opera Holland Park, Verbier Festival, Aspen Music Festival
Song:
World Premiere of “Drei Grabschriften” (Stefano Gervasoni), Performances of “Animus II” (Druckman), “Folk Songs” (Berio) and “Liebeslieder Walzer” (Brahms), Competitor of the 2019 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Song Competition
Cooperation with Directors:
Edward Berkeley, Frank Castorf, Georges Delnon, James Darrah, Axel Ransich, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Jana Vetten, Stephen Wadsworth
Cooperation with Conductors:
Nicolas André, Paolo Arrivabeni, Giampaolo Bisanti, Daniele Callegari, William Christie, Jane Glover, Alexander Joel, Francesco Lanzillotta, Claire Levacher, Jeffrey Milarsky, Evelino Pidò, Teddy Poll, Avi Stein, Stephen Stubbs
Find further information about Kady Evanyshyn here.
photo: Brinkhoff/Mögenburg
Normanno
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
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
