Georg Philipp Telemann | Die Kuh - doch halt, nein, nein!
Inszenierung
Vladislav Parapanov
Director
Birthplace:
Sofia, Bulgaria
Studies:
Journalism at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Head stage manager since season 2018/19
Important productions:
Der Rosenkavalier – Ein Hörstück (Kammertheater Stuttgart), La Sonnambula, Salome, Faust, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Medea, Tod in Venedig (Assistant director and evening head stage manager, Staatsoper Stuttgart)
Career stages:
Second assistant to the director Calixto Bieito (Boris Godunov, Bayerische Staatsoper), Dmitri Tcherniakov (Die Zarenbraut, Staatsoper Berlin) and Benedict Andrews (Der Feurige Engel, Komische Oper Berlin), stage manager at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater in Berlin, assistant director at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, assistant director at the Staatsoper Stuttgart
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Musikalische Leitung
Johannes Gontarski
Johannes Gontarski wurde 1982 in Hannover geboren und wuchs in Hamburg auf. Sein Lautenstudium absolvierte er bei Stephen Stubbs, Lee Santana und Joachim Held an der Hochschule für Kunst und Musik in Bremen. Meisterkurse, u.a. bei Nigel North, Paul O'Dette und Hopkinson Smith, begleiteten sein Studium der historischen Zupfinstrumente und der „Alten Musik“.
Er arbeitet regelmäßig mit Künstlern und Ensembles wie Hille Perl, Petra Müllejans, Pablo Heras-Casado, Sasha Walz, Musica Fiata, Freiburger Barock Consort, Sirius Viols, Ensemble Weser Renaissance, Rias Kammerchor, Barockorchester Elbipolis… Sein solistischer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Musik des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts. Konzertreisen brachten ihn über Europas Grenzen hinaus bis nach Japan.
Johannes Gontarski gibt Konzerte in kammermusikalischer Besetzung bis hin zu groß besetzten Opern und Oratorien des späten 18. Jahrhunderts, u.a. beim Bachfest Leipzig, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Festival de Musique Ancienne de Ribeauvillé, Resonanzen Festival Wien. An der Hamburgischen Staatsoper war er als Gast an den Produktionen „Orontea“ (2014), „Orpheus“ (2016) und „¡Gesualdo!“ (2017) in der opera stabile beteiligt.
Er lebt mit seiner Frau und seinen drei Kindern in Hamburg.
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Bühnenbild und Kostüme
Dimana Lateva
Costume- and Stagedesign
Birthplace:
Haskovo, Bulgaria
Studies:
Diploma in Architecture at Hafen City University Hamburg, Master's degree in Stage Design/Scenic Space at TU Berlin
Prizes:
Final thesis was shown in the exhibitions "Sprungbrett 2010" and "Meisterszenen" of the TU Berlin; scholarship holder of the AMTH, Deutsche Bank Foundation, stage design section (2012-2014); "Katerina Izmailova" (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk) won the "Zlatna Lira 2015" award for the best production of the year in Bulgaria
Important productions:
Unser ach so kurzes Leben (Brotfabrik Berlin, 2010), Clyde und Bonnie (Stadttheater Giessen, 2012), Katerina Izmailova (Opera Russe, 2015 und Opera Plovdiv, 2017), Tonguecat (Münchner Opernfestspiele an der Bayerischen Staatsoper, 2016), Weisse Rose (Theater Augsburg, 2016), Hänsel und Gretel (Schloss Weikersheim, Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland, 2017), Don Giovanni (Oper Rund Um, Waidhofen/Ybbs, Österreich, 2017), Moskau Tscherjomuschki (Hamburgische Staatsoper 2019), Das schlaue Füchslein (Volkstheater Rostock 2021), Triolino (Jeunesse- Musikalische Jugend Österreich 2021/22), et al.
Career stages:
Bühnenassistentin bei Marsha Ginsberg für das New York Wotermill Center und Women`s Project (2010), Bühnenassistentin von Stefan Heyne bei zahlreichen Projekten, Bühnenassistenzen Komischen Oper Berlin (Xerxes 2012, Regie Stefan Herheim, Bühne Heike Scheele und Clivia 2014, Regie Stefan Huber, Bühne Stefan Prattes), Bühnenassistenz Salzburger Festspiele (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg 2013, Regie Stefan Herheim, Bühne Heike Scheele), Bühnenassistenzen Oper Frankfurt (Oedipe 2013, Regie Hans Neuenfels, Bühne Rifail Ajdarpasic und Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern 2015, Regie Benedikt von Peter, Bühne Natascha von Steiger), Bühnenbildassistentin am Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart (2015-2016), et al.
Cooperations:
François Baldassare, Abdul Kunze, Vera Nemirova, Daniel Pfluger, Martha Theresa Münder, Seollyeon Konwitschny, Corinna Tetzel, Anna Bernreitner; als Assistentin: David Lavigne, Stefan Herheim, Hans Neuenfels, Stefan Huber, Benedikt von Peter, Armin Petras, Robert Borgmann, Wolfgang Michalek, Benedikt Arnold
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Dramaturgie
Ralf Waldschmidt
Dramaturgy
Birthplace:
Hanau on the Main, Germany
Studies:
Studied German, English and Theatre Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt on the Main; received his doctorate (Dr. phil.) with a thesis on Richard Wagner's “Parsifal” (1987)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera
leading Dramaturge at the Hamburg State Opera since the 2021/22 season
Career stages:
Intendant of the Osnabrück Theatre (2011–2021), opera director at the Augsburg Theatre (2007–2011), chief dramaturge and deputy to the general director at the Bremen Theatre, dramaturge at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden (1999–2003), Engagements as head dramaturge and member of the artistic management at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Freiburg Theatre, dramaturge at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and the Nationaltheater Mannheim (1987–1992), assistant director and dramaturge at the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken and the Frankfurt Opera
Cooperations:
Ruth Berghaus, Jürgen Flimm, Nicolas Brieger, Bruno Klimek, Harry Kupfer, Urs Troller, Rosamund Gilmore, Urs Schaub, Peter Mussbach, Percy Adlon, Alexander May, Barrie Kosky, Yona Kim, Reinhild Hoffmann und Dirigenten wie Friedemann Layer, Marc Albrecht, Michael Gielen, Daniel Barenboim, Philippe Jordan, Lawrence Renes, Stefan Klingele, Sebastian Weigle, Dirk Kaftan, Andreas Hotz, Daniel Inbal, et al.
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Sokrates
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
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Aeneas
Mateusz Ługowski
Baritone
Birthplace:
Działdowo, Poland
Studies:
Solo sining and chor conducting, Vocal- and Conducting isntitute Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań (graduated 2022)
Prizes:
Special Prize by Prof. Tadeusz Pszonka in 10th National Vocal Competition in Mława, Poland (2022), 2nd Prize 10th National Vocal Competition, Mława (2022), Grand Prix International Festival of Arts “Sakura Blossom” (2021), 1st Prize MAP International Music Competition Los Angeles (2021), 1st Prize 4th International Moscow Music Compeitions (2021), Award of Excellence in Angel Voice Classic/2nd Prize Angel Voice Classic in “Opera-Youth”/1st Prize in “Slavic” (2021), 1st Prize International Competition ArtSong Opucs (2021), Grand Prix International vocal and choral competition (2021)
Master classes:
Mariusz Kwiecień, Marcin Koziel, Eytan Pessen, Bogdan Makal, Izabela Kłosińska, Maestro Adi Bar, Maestro Marco Guidarini, Viorica Cortez, Ubaldo Fabbri, et al.
Important parts:
Gianni Schicchi (Gianni Schicchi), Guglielmo (Cosí fan tutte), et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Rares Zaharia, Krzysztof Cicheński, Paweł Szkotak, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Noar Shani, Adi Bar, Grzegorz Wierus, Marco Guidarini, et al.
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Germanicus
Liam James Karai
Bass-Baritone
Bass-baritone Liam James Karai was born in Hong Kong and has Scottish, Irish and Indian roots. He has been a member of the International Opera Studio at the Hamburg State Opera since the 2022/23 season. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Quentin Hayes, where he also completed postgraduate studies on full scholarship after receiving his Master of Music. Additionally, Liam Karai completed a Bachelor's degree in Banking and Finance.
During his time at RNCM, Liam was awarded the Sir John Tomlinson Scholarship and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Scholarship. In 2021, he received the Frederic Cox Award and the RNCM Silver Medal. He also represented the RNCM at the Joaninha Trust Award Competition and the Clonter Opera Prize, where he won first prize and placed second.
His first stage experience was as a cover for the role of Parsi Rustomji in Philip Glass' Satyagraha at English National Opera and as Martino in Rossini's L'occasione fa il ladro at British Youth Opera. His repertoire also includes roles such as Leporello (Don Giovanni), Badger and Priest (The Cunning Little Vixen), and Footman and Steward (Ariadne auf Naxos). He was most recently heard as Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Royal Northern College of Music and in the chorus in Opera North's touring production of Wagner's Parsifal.
Liam made his international debut in the summer of 2022 as part of the Young Artist Program at the Salzburg Festival as Guccio in Gianni Schicchi. He also sang excerpts from Le nozze di Figaro as Figaro, Cosi Fan Tutte as Don Alfonso, and Cenerentola as Alidoro in several concerts in Salzburg with the Mozarteum Orchestra. Other upcoming roles include Steward/Guardian in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Sciarrone in Puccini's Tosca, both of which will be on the main stage of the Hamburg State Opera.
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Bacchus
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
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.
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Don Quichotte
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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Sancho Pansa
Florian Panzieri
Tenor
British-French Tenor Florian Panzieri is currently a member of the International Opera Studio at Die Hamburgische Staatsoper 2022-2024.
During the 2022 season, Florian will be performing the roles of 'Erasmus' in Johannes Harneit's new production of Silvesternacht (January 2023). 'Vendore di Canzonette' in Puccini's Il Tabarro (March 2023). 'Capitano dei Balestieri' in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra (March 2023). 'Erste Vorarbeiter' in Schostakowitsch's Lady Macbeth von Mzensk (January 2023). 'Premier Garde' in Massenet's Manon (September 2022). And 'Sancho Pansa' in a newly curated collection of Telemann's work in Die Kuh! (June 2023).
Florian was born in Paris, moving to Brighton at a young age. He attended Lancing College as a Music and Drama scholar, before reading History and Politics at the University of Warwick. Whilst at Warwick, Florian directed, starred in and translated a plethora of Operas and musicals, all whilst under the tutelage of Johnny Graham-Hall.
Opera credits include: 'Primo Pastore' Orfeo (Garsington), (Cover) Peter Quint The Turning of the Screw (Garsington), ‘Brighella’ The Little Green Swallow by Jonathan Dove (GSMD), Marzio Mitridate (Garsington), Don Ottavio Don Giovanni (Merry Opera),
Berthold, Scoring a Century, (British Youth Opera), Telemachus (Cover) The Return of Ulysses (Royal Opera House).
Concert works include Pelléas from Pelléas et Melisande with London City Orchestra, step-out soloist with the LA-Philharmonic conducted by Dudamel, Concert of English song with Iain Burnside, Tippett Spirituals for the LSO Sing-in Day, Britten’s Canticles with Graham Johnson’s Song Guild, and the Serenade for Tenor and Horn with the West Sussex Orchestra.
He is exceptionally grateful to Help Musicians The Sybil Tutton Award, The Worshipful Company of Leathersellers', The Worshipful Company of Weavers, The Countess of Munster Trust, The Kathleen Trust, The Mario Lanza Educational Foundation, and Mr. John Wates for their generous contributions towards his tuition.
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Die Kuh
Claire Gascoin
Mezzosoprano
Birthplace:
France
Studies:
Bachelor’s degree at the Musikhochschule Leipzig, Master’s degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna,
Prizes:
Kammeroper Rheinsberg (2015), Brahms competition (2014) Clara-
Schumann competition (2014), owner of a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Master classes:
Claudia Visca, Krassimira Stoyanova
Important parts:
Ottone (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Carmen (Carmen), Testo (Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda), Aschenputtel (Cenerentola), Annina (Romilda e Costanza), et al.
Stages:
Staatstheater Cottbus, Oper Krakau, Opéra de Lyon, Royal Opera House Muscat, Opera de Tenerife, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Michael Sturminger, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Stéphane Fuget, Antonino Fogliani, et al.
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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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