Giuseppe Verdi | Don Carlos
Musikalische Leitung
Leo Hussain
Repertoire:
L’Italiana in Londra, Wozzeck, Lakmé, Der Waffenschmied, Carmen, Thaïs, Die Zauberflöte, Salome, Die Tote Stadt, Oedipe, Capriccio, The Rape of Lucretia, Gurrelieder, et al.
Career stages:
Music Director at Opera de Rouen (2014)
Music Director at Salzburg Landestheater (2009 – 2014)
Stages:
Oper Frankfurt, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Teatro Real, Theater an der Wien, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Gothenburg Opera, Norwegian National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, English National Opera, Bavarian state opera, Berlin state opera, Salzburg Festival, et al.
Cooperation with orchestras:
Hamburger Symphoniker, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mozartfest Würzburg, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, DSO Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Prague Philharmonia, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Royal Danish Orchestra, West Australian symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, et al.
photo: Pia Clodi
Chor
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
Leitung Kinderchor
Luiz de Godoy
Musical Direction
Birthplace:
Mogi das Cruzes, Brasil
Studies:
Piano at Universidade de São Paulo (Bachelor) and at Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas (Master), Erasmus stay with focus on piano and conducting at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Diploma course conducting at Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien (with honors)
Prizes:
Würdigungspreis der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (2019), Scholarship from UNESCO, the European Union and the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, Erwin-Ortner-Preis zur Förderung der Chormusik (2016)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Leader Alsterspatzen since 2019/20
Repertoire:
Focus on choral symphonic repertoire (spiritual and secular oratorios; in particular Wiener Klassik and Deutsche Romantik), special relationship to performance practices of old and new music
Career stages:
conductor of the Wiener Sängerknaben (2016–2019), choir director of Chorakademie des Wiener Staatsopernchores (2016–2018), assistent of the artistic director of the Wiener Singakademie at the Wiener Konzerthaus (2015–2019), musical director of Opera Studio at Sommerfestival „ Música nas Montanhas“ in Poços de Caldas, Brasilien (2010–2012), corepeater of opera projekts at Theatro Municipal de São Paulo (2005–2009)
Stages:
Esplanade Singapur, Peking National Opera, Seoul Lotte Hall, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Taiwan National Theater, Teatro Real Madrid, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Tokyo Opera City Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, Wiener Musikverein; Carinthischer Sommer, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Grafenegg Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival
Cooperations with orchestras (as conductor):
Camerata Schulz, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Orquestra de la Armada de Chile, Orquestra Juvenil da Bahia, Polish Baltic Filharmonic, Schubert-Akademie Wien, Youth-Orchestra Singapur et al.
cooperations (choral rehearsal / assistance):
Berliner Philharmoniker, Les Sciècles, Mariinsky-Theaterorchester Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker et al.
Cooperations with artists:
Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, Ton Koopman, Sir Simon Rattle, Simone Young, Franz Welser-Möst
photo: Fernanda Nigro
Philippe II
Alexander Vinogradov
Bass
Birthplace:
Russia
Studies:
Moscow Conservatory
Important parts:
Escamillo (Carmen), Filippo II (Don Carlo), Conte di Walter (Luisa Miller), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Ruy Gomez da Silva (Ernani), Procida (Les Vêpres siciliennes), Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Colline (La bohéme), Timur (Turandot), Méphistophélès (Faust), Méphistophélès (La damnation de Faust), Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle”, Dvoraks’s “Stabat Mater”, Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem”, et al.
Stages:
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, Washington Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet de Paris, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Palau de les Arts de Valencia, Teatro Real de Madrid, San Diego Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Ravinia Festival, New National Theatre in Tokyo, Teatro Colòn de Buenos Aires, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Arena di Verona, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna State Opera, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Daniel Barenboim, Semyon Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, Gustavo Dudamel, Lawrence Foster, Valerij Gergeev, Mariss Jansons, Philippe Jordan, Vladimir Jurowski, Lorin Maazel, Kent Nagano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Antonio Pappano, Vasilj Petrenko, Helmuth Rilling, Yuri Temirkanov, et al.
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photo: Polina Plotnikova
Don Carlos
Russell Thomas
Tenor
Birthplace:
Miami, Florida
Studies:
New World School of the Arts
Prizes:
Nominated for Best Male Singer in International Opera Awards in both 2020 and 2022
Grand Prize, Audience Prize, and Tenor Prize of the Francisco Viñas Competition in Barcelona, Spain 2010
“Competizione dell’Opera” in Dresden in 2008
Important parts:
Don Carlo, Manrico (Il trovatore), Don Alvaro (La forza del destino), Pollione (Norma), Rodolfo (La bohème), Ismaele (Nabucco), Calaf (Turandot), Turiddu (Cavalleria Rusticana), Cavaradossi (Tosca), et al.
Stages:
Opéra national de Paris, Lyric Opera Chicago, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Oper Frankfurt, San Francisco Opera, Salzburger Festspiele, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Frank Castorf, Matthew Ozawa, Peter Sellars, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Antonio Pappano, Daniele Rustioni, Eun Sun Kim, Gustavo Dudamel, Teodor Currentzis, James Conlon et al.
photo: Fay Fox
Rodrigue
Kartal Karagedik
Baritone
Birthplace:
Izmir, Turkey
Studies:
Singing in Izmir at the University of Istanbul, among others with Alper Kazancioglu and Prof. Güzin Gürel
Master classes:
With Giorgio Zancanaro, Paolo Ballarin, Barbara Frittoli, Luciana Serra and Alfonso Antoniozzi.
Prizes:
First Prize at the Debut Competition (2012), Third Prize and Critics' Award at the Ottavio Ziino Concorso Lirico Internazionale in Rome (2011), Second Prize at the Leyla Gencer Competition in Istanbul (2010), Second Prize at the Beniamino Gigli Competition in Rome (2009), "Best Male Singer" at the International Duchi d'Acquaviva Competition in Atri (2008), "Special Mention Prize" at the International Opera Competition in Como (2008), third prize at the Ferruccio Tagliavini Competition in Graz (2007), first prize at the Güzin Gürel Foundation Lieder Competition in Istanbul (2007)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 2015/16
Important parts:
Renato (Un ballo in maschera), Rodrigo (Don Carlo), Germont (La Traviata), Simon Boccanegra (Simon Boccanegra), Onegin (Eugeny Onegin), Lescaut (Manon Lescaut), Marcello (La Bohème), Sharpless (Madama butterfly), Sonora (La Fanciulla del West), (Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Duca D'alba (Duca D'alba), Belcore (L'Elisir d'Amore), Riccardo (I Puritani), Il Conte d'Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Carlo Gérard (Andrea Chénier), Mischonnet (Adriana Lecouvreur), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Poeta ( Il Turco in Italia), Chorébe (Les Troyens), Escamillo (Carmen), Valentin (Faust), Ford (Falstaff), Malatesta (Don Pasquale), et al.
Stages:
Hamburg State Opera, Opera Vlaanderen, Theater St. Gallen, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Puccini Festival at Torre del Lago, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Komische Oper Berlin, Theater Magdeburg, Theater Erfurt, Oper Leipzig, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Izmir State Opera, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Georges Delnon, Stefan Herheim, Kirsten Harms, Herbert Fritsch, Michael Thalheimer, Guy Montavon, Carlos Wagner, Stefano Poda, Robert Carsen, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Stefano Ranzani, Ottavio Dantone, Eliahu Inbal, Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli, Christoph Prick, Valerio Galli, Andriy Yurkevych, Yves Abel, John Storgårds, Anthony Bramal, Ulf Schirmer, Manlio Benzi, Joana Mallwitz, Peter Feranec, Modesta Pitrenas, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, et al.
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photo: Kartal Karagedik
Le Grand Inquisiteur
Liang Li
Bass
Origin:
China
Studies:
Singing at the conservatory in Tianjin and in Beijing
Prizes:
Winner of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, first prize of the Bertelsmann Foundation "Neue Stimmen" Singing Competition, winner of the International Opera Competition in Shizuoka in Japan, appointed Kammersänger of the Stuttgart State Opera (2017)
Important parts:
Daland (Der Fliegende Holländer), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Rodolfo (La Sonnambula), Hunding (Die Walküre), Fasolt and Fafner (Rheingold), Komtur (Don Giovanni), Zaccharia (Nabucco), Jacopo Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Filippo II (Don Carlos), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Ferrando (Il Trovatore), Geronte de Ravior (Manon Lescaut), Timur (Turandot), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), Banco (Macbeth), Cardinal de Brogni (La Juive), Oroveso (Norma), Gremin (Eugene Onegin), et al.
Stages:
Semperoper Dresden, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro di San Carlo, Staatstheater Stuttgart, De Vlaamse Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Opéra National de Paris, Bolshoi Theater Moscow, NCPA Beijing, Palau des Arts Valencia, Teatro Real Madrid, Liceu Barcelona, Grand Théâtre de Génève, Opéra de Lyon, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Richard Eyre, Alex Ollé, David Hermann, Sergio Morabito, Alexander Schulin, Guy Joosten, Jossi Wieler, Achim Freyer, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Mariss Jansons, Zubin Mehta, Sir Simon Rattle, Myung-Whun Chung, Donald Runnicles, Daniele Rustioni, Tomás Netopil, Sylvain Cambreling, Jonathan Nott, Alain Altinoglu, Francois-Xavier Roth, Manfred Honeck, Carlo Rizzi, Tomás Netopil, Shao-chia Lü, Kent Nagano, Antonio Fogliani, et al.
More about Liang Li
photo: Martin Sigmund
Un Moine
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.
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photo: Martina Cyman
Elisabeth de Valois
Nino Machaidze
Soprano
Birthplace:
Tbilisi, Georgia
Studies:
Accademia del Teatro alla Scala (Milan)
Important parts:
Mimí (La Bohéme), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Desdemona (Otello), La Contessa di Folleeville (II viaggio a Reims), Gilda (Rigoletto), Ines (L´Africaine), Luisa (Luisa Miller), Violetta (La Traviata), Micaela (Carmen), Donna Fiorilla (II turco in Intalia), Ninetta (La gazza ladra, Adina (L´elisir d´amore), Leila (Les Pecheurs de perles), Thaïs (Thaïs), Lucia Ashton (Lucia di Lammermoor), Musetta (La Bohème), Marie (La fille du régiment), Giuletta (I Capuleti ed I Montecchi), Manon Lescaut (Manon), Marfa (The Tsar´s Bride), et al.
Stages:
Metropolitan Opera, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Theatre Royale de la Monnaie in Brussels, Opéra national de Paris, Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Los Angeles Opera, Royal Danish Opera, San Francisco Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Real Madrid, Teatro de la Maestranza, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Damiano Michieletto, Andreas Homoki, Christopher Alden, Vera Nemirova, Sonja Nemirova, Amos Gitai, Carlus Padrissa, Lorenzo Amato, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Gustavo Dudamel, Guillermo García Calvo, Marc Piollet, Maurizio Benini, Patrick Fournillier, Simone Young, Stefano Montanari, Daniele Rustioni, Massimo Zanetti, Donato Renzetti, Enrique Mazzola, Daniel Oren, Antonello Manacorda, Gabriele Ferro, Roberto Abbado, Carlo Goldstein, Daniele Squeo, Alexander Joel, Riccardo Frizza, Francesco Rosa, et al.
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photo: Patrizio Taormina
La Princesse d'Eboli
Eve Maud Hubeaux
Mezzosoprano
Geburtsort:
Genf, Schweiz
Studium:
Klavier am Konservatorium von Lausanne
Opernstudio der Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg
Auszeichnungen:
Preisträgerin des Internationalen Belvedere Wettbewerbs (2013) und der 5. Renata Tebaldi International Competition
Wichtige Partien:
Amneris (Aida), Eboli (Don Carlos), Carmen (Carmen), Léonor de Guzman (La Favorite), Judith (Blaubarts Burg), Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde), Gertrude (Hamlet), Baba the Turk (Rake’s Progress), Nerone (Agrippina), Cornelia (Giulio Cesare), Dona Prouhèze (Le Soulier de Satiin) , u. a.
Bühnen:
Wiener Staatsoper, Liceu Barcelona, Opéra de Paris, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Savonlinna Festival, La Monnaie Bruxelles, Opéra de Lyon, Theater Basel, Genfer Oper, Oper Toulon, Salzburger Festspiele, u. a.
Zusammenarbeit mit Regisseuren:
Krzysztof Warlikowski, Damiano Michieletto, Magdalena Fuchsberger, Lydia Steier
Zusammenarbeit mit Dirigent*innen:
Bertrand de Billy, Donato Renzetti, Daniele Rustioni, Alain Altinoglu
photo: Marc Barral Baron
Thibault
Yeonjoo Katharina Jang
Soprano
Birthplace:
Pohang, South Korea
Studies:
Bachelor’s degree in singing at the Seoul National University with Heion Seo, Master’s degree in singing at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar with Marietta Zumbült owning a DAAD scholarship
Prizes:
First prize at the Piero Boni international singing contest (2020), second prize at the Anton Rubinstein internhational music competition (2019), first prize at the Vienna Grand Prize Virtuoso international music competition (2019), special award at the international music competition Paris (2019), second prize at the korean singing competition (2016), first prize at the international singing competition of the korean singing club (2015), third prize at the Dong-A music competition (2015), u. a.
Refernce to the Staatsoper:
Member of the international opera studio at the Staatsoper Hamburg since the 2022/23 season
Master classes:
with Samuel Yoon (2021), Edda Moser (2019)
Important parts:
Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Königin der Nacht / Erste Dame / Papagena (Die Zauberflöte),
Gilda (Rigoletto), Olympia (Les Contes d‘Hoffmann), Ida (Die Fledermaus)
Stages:
Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Daegu Opernhaus, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Christian Weise, Roman Hovenbitzer, Stephanie Koch, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Stefan Lano, Joongbae Jee,et al.
photo: Jörn Kipping
Le Comte de Lerme / Un Héraut
N. N.
Une Voix céleste
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:
Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Il Segreto di Susanna), Queen Mother (The Little Green Swallow), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) [cover], Alcina (Alcina), Romilda (Serse), Thérèse (Les Mamelles de Tirésias), Die Stimme des Falken (Die Frau ohne Schatten),Anna (Nabucco), Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Musetta (La Bohéme), et al.
Stages:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Wigmore Hall, Oxford Lieder Festival, Verbier Festival, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Barbican Centre, Nevill Holt Opera, London Song Festival, Ravinia Festival, Internationale Meistersinger Akademie, Samling Institute, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Martin Lloyd-Evans, Lee Blakeley, Stephen Medcalf, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Sir Andrew Davis, Valery Gergiev, Dominic Wheeler, Stanislav Kochanovsky, et al.
More about Olivia Boen
photo: Jörn Kipping
La Comtesse d'Aremberg
Chorsolist
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
Un Bûcheron
Chorsolist
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
Six Députés flamands I
Chorsolist
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
Six Députés flamands II
Chorsolist
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
Six Députés flamands III
Chorsolist
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
Six Députés flamands IV
Chorsolist
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
Six Députés flamands V
Chorsolist
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
Six Députés flamands VI
Chorsolist
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.
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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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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.
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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.
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