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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.
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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.
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Pollione
Najmiddin Mavlyanov
Tenor
Birthplace:
Samarkand, Usbekistan
Studies:
Singing in Samarkand, Singing at the State Conservatory of Taschkent
Important parts:
Manrico (Il Trovatore), Radames (Aida), Alfredo (La Traviata), Don Carlo, Don Alvaro (La forza del destino), Gustavo (Un ballo in maschera), Gabriele Adorno (Simon Boccanegra), Otello, Cavaradossi (Tosca), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Calaf (Turandot), Dick Johnson (La fanciulla del west), Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana), Canio (Pagliacci), Maurizio (Adriana Lecouvreur), Don José (Carmen), Hoffmann (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Werther, Hermann (Pique Dame), Lenkski (Eugen Onegin), Vaudemont (Iolanta), Sadko, et al.
Stages:
Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen, Nationale Opera Amsterdam, New National Theatre Tokyo, Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, Opera House Sydney, Tashkent Opera, Stanislavsky Theatre Moscow, Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg, Bolshoi Theatre, Mikhailovsky Theatre St. Petersburg, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Alexander Titel, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Barrie Kosky, Peter Stein, Michael Thalheimer,, David Hermann, Jean-Louis Grinda, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Valery Gergiev, Tugan Sokhiev, Daniel Oren, Maurizio Barbacini, Lorenzo Viotti, Omer Meir Welber, et al.
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Oroveso
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
Norma
Saioa Hernández
Soprano
Birthplace:
Madrid, Spain
Prizes:
Winner as Best Female Voice of the Year on 2016 in Spain
Master classes:
Santiago Calderón, Vincenzo Scalera, Renata Scotto and Montserrat Caballé and actually studies with tenor Francesco Pio Galasso
Important parts:
Abigaille (Nabucco), Maddalena di Coigny (Andrea Chenier), Suor Angelica (Il trittico), Madama Butterfly (Madama Butterfly), Aida (Aida) Norma (Norma), Violetta Valéry (La Traviata), Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia di Lammermoor), Gilda (Rigoletto), Leonora (Il Trovatore), Amelia (Un ballo in maschera), Luisa Miller (Luisa Miller), Mathilde (Guillaume Tell), et al.
Stages:
Gran Teatro del Liceu de Barcelona, Melbourne Recital Center, the Opera National du Rhin, Teatro Massimo di Catania, Grand Theater de Genéve, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Regio di Parma, Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, also in Asia with the Korean National Opera, at the Seoul Arts Center and The Muscat ROH, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Riccardo Chailly, Jesús López Cobos, Gianandrea Noseda, Daniel Oren, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Giacomo Sagripanti, et al.
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Adalgisa
Karine Deshayes
Mezzo-soprano
Birthplace:
Rueil-Malmaison (Greater Paris area), France
Studies:
Musicology, Sorbonne/Voice, Conservatoire de Paris
Prizes:
Victoire de la Musique : " Singer of the Year " (2011, 2016, 2020), "Voix Nouvelles" (2002)
Important parts:
Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Charlotte (Werther), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena), Sara (Roberto Devereux), Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda), Adalgisa (Norma), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi ), Valentine (Les Huguenots), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Elisabetta (Elisabetta d'Inghilterra ), Elena (Donna Del Lago), Alceste (Alceste), Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust), Niclausse/ La Muse (Tales of Hoffmann)
Stages:
Metropolitan Opera New York, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Opernhaus Zürich, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Théâtre de la Monnaie Brussels, Opéra national de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Opéra de Lyon, Salzburger Festspiele, Festival de Radio France Occitanie, Rossini Festival Pesaro, Chorégies d'Orange
Cooperations with directors:
Davide Livermore, Olivier Py, David Alden, Robert Carsen, Bartlett Sher, Benoit Jacquot, Damiano Michieletto, Laurent Pelly, Robert Wilson, Pierre Audi
Cooperations with conductors:
James Levine, Michel Plasson, Riccardo Muti, Alain Altinoglu, Jesus López Cobos, Evelino Pidò, Maurizio Benini, Emmanuel Krivine, Lorenzo Viotti, Daniele Rustioni, Josep Pons, Kurt Masur, Bruno Campanella, Roberto Abbado
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Clotilde
Renate Spingler
Mezzo-soprano
Birthplace:
Kempten, Germany
Studies:
Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Munich
Master class:
with Prof. Reri Grist
Prizes:
Honored by the Hamburg Senate with the title of “Hamburger Kammersängerin” (2017)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 1986/87
Important parts:
Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Margret (Wozzeck), Sdena (Das Fest im Meer), Gräfin Helfenstein/Üppigkeit (Mathis der Maler), Sigrune/Rossweiße/Wellgunde (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Herodias (Salome), Adelaide (Arabella), Flora (La Traviata), Larina (Eugen Onegin), Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Prinz Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Lœna (La belle Hélène), Brigitta (Die tote Stadt), Mary (Der fliegende Holländer), Geneviève (Pelléas et Mélisande), Mère Jeanne de l’Enfant-Jésus (Dialogues des Carmélites), Circe (I.th.Ak.A.), Gräfin Geschwitz (Lulu), Mercédès (Carmen), Hippolyta (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Marthe Schwerdtlein (Faust), Lola/Mama Lucia (Cavalleria Rusticana), Ottavia (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), 2. Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Tebaldo (Don Carlos), Emilia (Otello), Gaea (Daphne), Hänsel/Hexe (Hänsel und Gretel), Miss Baggott (Der kleine Schornsteinfeger), Auntie (Peter Grimes), Die böse Königin (Schneewittchen), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Oper Frankfurt, Semperoper Dresden, Theater Bonn, Oper Leipzig, Theater Bremen, La Monnaie, Oper Köln, Königliche Oper Kopenhagen, Prinzregententheater München, Theater an der Wien, Theatro Municipale de Sao Paulo, Gran Teatre del Liceu, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Ruth Berghaus, Willy Decker, Gian-Carlo di Monaco, Dieter Dorn, Adolf Dresen, August Everding, Jürgen Flimm, Achim Freyer, Ramin Gray, Caroline Gruber, Claus Guth, Hans Hollmann, Andreas Homoki, Günter Krämer, Harry Kupfer, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Juri Ljubimov, Marco Aturo Marelli, Christian Pade, Simon Philips, Ernst-Theo Richter, Nils-Peter Rudolf, Johannes Schaaf, Sir Peter Ustinov, Christoph von Bernuth, Robert Wilson, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Gerd Albrecht, Marc Albrecht, Marco Armiliato, Gary Bertini, Michael Boder, Nathan Brock, Semyon Bychkov, Giuliano Carella, Bertrand de Billy, Jaqcues Delaôte, Alessandro di Marci, Peter Eötvös, Alfred Eschwé, Lawrence Foster, Michael Halasz, Eliahu Inbal, René Jacobs, Günter Jena, Alexander Joel, Karen Kamensek, Paul Kildea, Bernhard Klee, Jun Märkl, Cornelius Meister, Ingo Metzmacher, Kent Nagano, Garcia Navarro, Giuseppe Patané, Christoph Prick, Wolfgang Rennert, Donald Runnicles, Michael Schønwandt, Peter Schreier, Klauspeter Seibel, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Leonard Slatkin, Alexander Soddy, Stefan Soltesz, Marcello Viotti, Sebastian Weigle, Bruno Weil, Simone Young, Lothar Zagrosek, Hans Zender, et al.
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Flavio
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
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Orchester
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
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.
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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.
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