Since receiving the German Conductors’ Prize, Markus Poschner has appeared as a guest with the world’s most renowned orchestras and opera houses, including the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, the Vienna Symphony, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo. He has also conducted at the state opera houses in Berlin, Vienna, Munich and Hamburg, as well as at Zurich Opera House. From 2007 to 2017, he was General Music Director of the Bremen Philharmonic. In 2022, he opened the Bayreuth Festival with a new production of "Tristan und Isolde", which he also conducted in 2023. In the 2026/27 season, the Munich-born conductor, who is also a passionate jazz pianist, will become the new Chief Conductor of the prestigious ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna. Since the 2025/26 season, he has been Chief Conductor of the Basel Symphony Orchestra and, from the 2027/28 season, will also take up the position of Music Director of the Utah Symphony Orchestra. From 2015 to 2025, Poschner was Chief Conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, with which he won the prestigious International Classical Music Award in 2018 for the complete recording of the Brahms symphonies and again in 2025 for his recordings of Hindemith and Schnittke. His recording of Offenbach’s "Maître Péronilla" with the Orchestre National de France was awarded the German Record Critics’ Annual Award in 2021. For the complete recording of all Bruckner symphonies with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, whose Chief Conductor Poschner has been since 2017, and the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, he received the Special Achievement Award from the jury of the International Classical Music Awards in 2024. In 2020, Poschner and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz received the Austrian Music Prize.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Opera in two acts
Libretto by Joseph Ferdinand Sonnleithner and
Georg Friedrich Treitschke
From 26. April 2015 until 10. May 2015
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Duration :
2 hrs. Without intermission. -
Language:
In German with German and English surtitles. -
More information:
Introduction 45 min before the performance.
Markus Poschner
Andreas Homoki
Andreas Homoki was born in Germany in 1960 as the son of a Hungarian family of musicians and studied school music and German studies in Berlin (West). In 1987 he went to the Cologne Opera as an assistant director and stage manager, where he remained until 1993. From 1988 to 1992 he was also a lecturer for stage instruction at the opera school of the Cologne University of Music. It was here that his first own productions were created. In 1992 his first guest production took him to Geneva, where his interpretation of "Die Frau ohne Schatten" received international attention. The production, which was later also shown at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, received the French Critics' Prize of the Year in 1994. From 1993 to 2002 Andreas Homoki worked as a freelance opera director and staged productions in Cologne, Hamburg, Geneva, Lyon, Leipzig, Basel, Berlin, Amsterdam and Munich, among others. As early as 1996 he made his debut at the Komische Oper Berlin with "Falstaff", followed by "The Love for Three Oranges" (1998) and in 2000 "The Merry Widow". In 2002 Andreas Homoki was appointed chief director of the Komische Oper Berlin as successor to Harry Kupfer, and in 2004 he became its artistic director. In addition to his directing work at the Komische Oper Berlin, he staged productions at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the New National Theatre Tokyo, the Semperoper Dresden and the Hamburg State Opera, among others. In July 2012, under the musical direction of William Christie, he staged "David et Jonathas" by Marc-Antoine Charpentier for the Festival in Aix-en-Provence – a production that was later also shown in Edinburgh, Paris and New York, among other places. From 2012 to 2025 Andreas Homoki was artistic director of the Zurich Opera House, where he staged productions including "The Flying Dutchman" (co-production with La Scala in Milan and the Norwegian National Opera Oslo), "Fidelio", "Juliette", "Lohengrin" (co-production with the Vienna State Opera), "Luisa Miller" (Hamburg State Opera), "Wozzeck", "My Fair Lady" (Komische Oper Berlin), "I puritani", "Medée", "Lunea" (named "World Premiere of the Year 2017/18" by the magazine Opernwelt), "Iphigénie en Tauride", "Nabucco", "Simon Boccanegra", "Les Contes d'Hoffmann", "Salome", the "Ring des Nibelungen" and "Carmen". Andreas Homoki has been a member of the Academy of the Arts Berlin since 1999.
Henrik Ahr
Henrik Ahr, born in Bensberg, initially worked as a freelance artist after training as a chef and studied architecture in Leipzig from 1995 to 2001. He designed his first stage sets in 2000 for the Neue Szene Leipzig and in 2001 at the Theaterhaus Jena for Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club". Since 2005 Henrik Ahr has lived and worked in Vienna as a stage designer and painter. Since 2010 he has been a Professor of Stage Design at the Mozarteum Salzburg, where he also heads the Department of Scenography. He has a close artistic collaboration, among others, with Michael Thalheimer, Christof Loy and Tatjana Gürbaca. With Thalheimer he created works such as Schnitzler's "Liebelei" at the Thalia Theater Hamburg, which was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen, Brecht's "Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti" in Hamburg, Schubert's "Winterreise" at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and "Rigoletto" at Theater Basel. He first worked with Christof Loy in 2008 at the Theater an der Wien on Strauss's "Intermezzo"; this was followed by productions including "Lucrezia Borgia" at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and "Der Tausch" at Schauspielhaus Zurich. Henrik Ahr has an ongoing collaboration with Tatjana Gürbaca, resulting in productions such as "Arabella" at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, "Parsifal" at the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, Hasse's "Leucippo" at the Schwetzingen Festival and at the Cologne Opera, "La traviata" in Oslo, the "Ring" trilogy and "Capriccio" at the Theater an der Wien, as well as "Le Grand Macabre" and most recently "Das grosse Feuer" in Zurich. At the Zurich Opera House he also designed the stage sets for "Die Schatzinsel", "Fidelio" and "I puritani".
Barbara Drosihn
Born in Hamburg, Barbara Drosihn studied costume design at the University of Applied Sciences in her home city after training as a dressmaker. She has since worked as a freelance costume designer at, among others, Thalia Theater, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Burgtheater Vienna, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Staatsschauspiel Dresden and Schauspiel Köln. Her work has included collaborations with directors such as Michael Thalheimer, Stephan Kimmig, Nicolas Stemann, Andreas Kriegenburg and Stefan Bachmann. In 2009, she designed the costumes for her first opera, Christof Loy’s production of "Lucrezia Borgia" at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. This was followed by, among others, "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Der ferne Klang" at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, "Das Wunder der Heliane" at Deutsche Oper Berlin, "Così fan tutte" at the Salzburg Festival and "Don Pasquale" at Zurich Opera House. There, she also designed the costumes for Andreas Homoki’s productions of "I puritani" and "Fidelio". She has a close artistic collaboration with Tatjana Gürbaca. For her, she has designed the costumes for "Parsifal" and "Der fliegende Holländer" in Antwerp, "La traviata" in Oslo, "Capriccio" and the "Ring" trilogy at Theater an der Wien, as well as "La finta giardiniera" and "Le Grand Macabre" at Zurich Opera House. In recent seasons, she designed the costumes for the zarzuela "Benamor" at Theater an der Wien with Christof Loy, "Isidor", based on Shelly Kupferberg’s novel, at the Akademietheater with Philipp Stölzl, and "Il barbiere di Siviglia" at the Hamburg State Opera with Tatjana Gürbaca.
Franck Evin
Franck Evin, born in Nantes, moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study piano. At night he accompanied singers at the Café-Théâtre Le Connétable and also began to take an interest in lighting. He eventually decided to combine music and technology. Thanks to a scholarship from the French Ministry of Culture, he became assistant to the head of lighting at the Opéra de Lyon in 1983. There he worked with Ken Russell and Robert Wilson, among others. In 1986 he began working as an independent lighting designer at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus and obtained his master’s certificate in lighting in 1993. During this time he had a close collaboration with Werner Schröter and the conductor Eberhard Kloke. This was followed by productions in Nantes, Strasbourg, Paris, Lyon, Vienna, Bonn, Brussels and Los Angeles, among other places. From 1995 to 2012 he was Artistic Director of the lighting department at the Komische Oper Berlin, where he was responsible for all new productions. Important artistic partners during this period included Andreas Homoki, Barrie Kosky, Calixto Bieito and Hans Neuenfels. In 2006 Franck Evin was awarded the German Theatre Prize "Opus" in the category of lighting design. From 2012 to 2025 he was Artistic Director of the lighting department at the Zurich Opera House. In addition to his work in Zurich, he continued to work on international productions at opera houses in Oslo, Stockholm, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Munich and Graz, as well as at the Opéra Bastille, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro La Fenice, the Vlaamse Opera and at the Bayreuth Festival.
Alexander du Prel
Alexander du Prel, who comes from Northern Bavaria, initially worked as a theatre photographer and camera assistant before beginning his studies in visual communication/art at the Gesamthochschule Kassel in 1994. From 1998 he also studied under Michael Ballhaus at the University of Hamburg and completed his studies in 2000 with a diploma as a cinematographer and visual director. Alexander du Prel has worked as a cinematographer on numerous feature films, documentaries and short films, including the Irish feature film "Swan Song" (director: Conor McDermottroe), for which he was nominated for Best Cinematography at the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage in 2010. As a video artist, he has been working with Michael Thalheimer since 2000. This collaboration resulted in installations for "Liliom" at the Thalia Theater Hamburg (2000), "Medea" at the Frankfurt Theatre (2012) – this production opened the Berlin Theatertreffen 2013 – and most recently for "Woyzeck" (2013) and "Peer Gynt" (2018) at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. Du Prel had already worked with Henrik Ahr in 2002 on "Liebelei", also under the direction of Michael Thalheimer. "Fidelio" was his first opera project and at the same time his first collaboration with Andreas Homoki. Alexander du Prel taught at the Mozarteum Salzburg until 2019. He lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin.
Werner Hintze
The author and dramaturg Werner Hintze studied theatre studies at Humboldt University in Berlin. Following an initial appointment at the Landestheater Halle, he worked at the Semperoper Dresden before moving to the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam as chief dramaturg. From 2002 to 2012, he was chief dramaturg at the Komische Oper Berlin. Since 2012, he has lived in Berlin as a freelance dramaturg, author and university lecturer. He worked closely for many years with directors such as Peter Konwitschny, Andreas Homoki and Andreas Baumann, and served as a guest dramaturg at opera houses in Munich, Hamburg, Dresden, Zurich and Essen, amongst others. Since 1985, he has produced more than 30 German-language librettos for operas, mostly in collaboration with Bettina Bartz, as commissioned works for the Komische Oper and other theatres. In addition to his work in theatre, Werner Hintze teaches students of directing, set design and theatre studies at various universities. At the Zurich Opera House, he most recently supervised Andreas Homoki’s sensational new production of "Der Ring des Nibelungen".
Cast
Oliver Widmer
Oliver Widmer, in Zürich geboren, studierte bei seinem Vater Kurt Widmer in Basel, bei Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau und Silvana Bazzoni. Preise gewann er u.a. beim ARD-Wettbewerb München, beim Internationalen Hugo-Wolf-Wettbewerb Stuttgart und beim Othmar-Schoeck-Wettbewerb Luzern. Mit Liederabenden war er bei der Schubertiade Feldkirch, den Salzburger Festspielen, den Wiener Festwochen, in der Londoner Wigmore Hall, in der Berliner Philharmonie, der Münchner Residenz, der Alten Oper Frankfurt, im Pariser Louvre, bei den Fêtes musicales en Touraine (mit Svjatoslav Richter), beim Aldeburgh Festival und im Lincoln Center New York mit Partnern wie Vladimir Ashkenazy, Hartmut Höll, Graham Johnson, András Schiff und Roger Vignoles zu Gast. Als gefragter Solist in Konzert und Oper unter Dirigenten wie Chailly, Dutoit, Gardiner, Jansons, Harnoncourt, Henze, Luisi, Santi, Schreier und Welser-Möst singt er mit den grossen Orchestern Europas (u.a. Wiener und Berliner Philharmoniker) und Amerikas (u.a. Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Symphony) Werke von Bach bis Holliger. 1991/92 kam er als lyrischer Bariton zum Ensemble des Opernhauses Zürich, wo er u.a. als Papageno, Guglielmo, Olivier (Capriccio), Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Agamemnon (La Belle Hélène), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Belcore, Malatesta, Graf Almaviva, Dr. Falke, Valentin, Wolfram, Barbier (Die schweigsame Frau), Ottokar (Der Freischütz), Don Alfonso und Schwarzer Minister (Le Grand Macabre) sowie jüngst als Raimbaud (Le Comte Ory) zu hören war. Über 20 CD-Aufnahmen entstanden mit ihm, u.a. unter Harnoncourt und Gardiner sowie mit verschiedenen Liedrezitalen.
Martin Gantner
Martin Gantner stammt aus Freiburg im Breisgau und erhielt seine Ausbildung an der Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe. Nachdem er den VDMK-Wettbewerb gewonnen hatte, debütierte er als Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) am Stadttheater Koblenz. Später war er in der Uraufführung von Henzes Das verratene Meer (Regie: Götz Friedrich) an der Deutschen Oper Berlin zu hören. Kurz darauf debütierte er in Basel in Così fan tutte, an der Mailänder Scala in Lo sdegno del mare und bei den Salzburger Festspielen in Salome. 1993 bis 2007 war er Ensemblemitglied der Bayerischen Staatsoper, wo er Partien wie Papageno, Guglielmo, Figaro, Dandini, Dr. Malatesta, Dr. Falke und Marcello sang und 2005 zum Bayerischen Kammersänger ernannt wurde. Seither gab er u.a seine Rollendebüts als Albert (Massenets Werther) in Wien sowie als Wolfram (Tannhäuser) in München unter Zubin Mehta und sang ebenfalls in München u.a. Beckmesser (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) und den Musiklehrer in Ariadne auf Naxos unter Kent Nagano. Weitere wichtige Partien in Neuinszenierungen und Rollendebüts waren Amfortas, Kurwenal, Telramund, Faninal, Jochanaan, Don Pizarro, Posa und Eisenstein in München, Dresden, Amsterdam, Zürich, Paris, Chicago, San Francisco, an der Met, in Los Angeles, Toronto und Tokio. Jüngst war er u.a. in der Titelrolle von Cardillac in Florenz, als Beckmesser an den Bayreuther Festspielen, als Musiklehrer (Ariadne auf Naxos) am Edinburgh International Festival, als Kothner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) an der Met sowie als Telramund an der Deutschen Oper Berlin und am Bolschoi-Theater zu erleben. In Zürich sang er u.a. Telramund (Lohengrin), Pizarro und Beckmesser.
Brandon Jovanovich
Brandon Jovanovich studierte an der Northern Arizona University sowie an der Manhattan School of Music. Sein Sieg beim Richard-Tucker-Gesangswettbewerb 2007 war der Auftakt zu einer internationalen Karriere, die ihn seither an die bedeutendsten Opernbühnen geführt hat. So gab er in der Saison 2009/10 sein Debüt an der New Yorker Met als Don José (Carmen). Die gleiche Rolle hat er an der Deutschen Oper Berlin, an der Bayerischen Staatsoper in München, am Opernhaus Zürich, in der Arena di Verona, an der Lyric Opera of Chicago, dem Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona und am Glyndebourne Festival gesungen, sowie unlängst in Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles (unter Plàcido Domingo), Australien und an der Wiener Staatsoper. Sein Repertoire umfasst Partien wie Cavaradossi (u.a. Köln, Seattle, Nizza, Bregenz, Vlaamse Opera), Pinkerton (u.a. New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Stuttgart), Macduff, Alfredo (La traviata) oder Pollione (Norma). Er war u.a. in Les Contes d’Hoffmann an der Mailänder Scala zu hören, in der Titelrolle von Peter Grimes am Teatro di San Carlo in Neapel, sang Stolzing (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) in Paris und San Francisco, Des Grieux (Manon Lescaut) am Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brüssel und an der Bayerischen Staatsoper wie auch Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos) in München und Chicago. 2016/17 sang er u.a. Enée (Les troyens) und Don José in Chicago, Prinz (Rusalka) an der Met, Siegmund (Die Walküre) an der Deutschen Oper Berlin sowie Sergej (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk) an der Wiener Staatsoper und bei den Salzburger Festspielen. In Zürich war er zuletzt als Florestan (Fidelio), Sergej, Tambourmajor (Wozzeck) sowie als Lohengrin zu erleben.
Anja Kampe
The German soprano Anja Kampe is one of the leading singers in her field. With role portrayals such as Brünnhilde in "Der Ring des Nibelungen" at the Berlin State Opera and the Vienna State Opera, Kundry at the Vienna State Opera and the Opéra national de Paris, Sieglinde at the Bayreuth Festival, Isolde at the Berlin State Opera and the Bavarian State Opera, as well as Marie in "Wozzeck" at the Vienna State Opera and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, she has set standards. In the 2025/26 season, she can be seen as Brünnhilde in "Der Ring of the Nibelungen", as Marie in "Wozzeck" and as Ortrud in "Lohengrin" at the Berlin State Opera. At the Hamburg State Opera, she takes on the title role in "Ariadne auf Naxos", and at the Vienna State Opera she can also be heard as Ariadne. At the Wagner Days in Budapest, she sings Kundry in "Parsifal". Concert engagements take her, among others, to the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and to Radio France Montpellier. Highlights of past seasons include Isolde at the San Francisco Opera, her role debut as Ariadne in Hamburg, Ortrud at the Semperoper Dresden and at the Munich Opera Festival, Brünnhilde in Sydney and Berlin, her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Senta in "Der fliegende Holländer", as well as new productions of "La fanciulla del West", "Tristan und Isolde" and "Parsifal". Her repertoire also includes roles such as Senta, Leonore, Lisa, Jenůfa, Carlotta and Tosca. She has worked with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Philippe Jordan, Christian Thielemann, Sir Simon Rattle and Simone Young.
Christof Fischesser
Bass Christof Fischesser was born in Wiesbaden and studied voice with Martin Gründler at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. In 2000, he won First Prize at the Federal Singing Competition in Berlin, followed by an engagement at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. In 2004, he moved to Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. From 2012 to 2015, he was a member of the ensemble at Zurich Opera House, with which he has maintained a close working relationship ever since. Guest engagements have taken him to, among others, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, the Opéra national de Paris, Teatro Real in Madrid, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Opéra de Lyon, the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and the opera house in Antwerp. His wide-ranging repertoire includes roles such as King Marke in "Tristan und Isolde", Landgrave in "Tannhäuser", King Heinrich in "Lohengrin", Gurnemanz in "Parsifal", Sarastro in "Die Zauberflöte", Figaro in "Le nozze di Figaro", Banquo in "Macbeth", Méphistophélès in "Faust" and Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau in "Der Rosenkavalier". Numerous CD and DVD recordings document his artistic work. At Zurich Opera House, he has appeared, among other roles, as King Heinrich, Orest in "Elektra", Kaspar, Daland, Gremin, Gurnemanz, Marchese di Calatrava and Padre Guardiano in "La forza del destino", Hunding in "Die Walküre" and Jacopo Fiesco in "Simon Boccanegra". In the 2026/27 season, he will once again appear in Wagner operas at Zurich Opera House, including "Tannhäuser" and "Die Walküre".
Deanna Breiwick
Deanna Breiwick geboren in Seattle, studierte an der Juilliard School und am Mannes College of Music. Danach verkörperte sie Clizia (Händels Teseo) am Chicago Opera Theater, sang die Titelrolle in Mozarts Zaide in der Zankel Hall (Carnegie Hall) und Najade (Ariadne auf Naxos) im Tanglewood Music Center. An der Met war sie als Ariel (The Enchanted Island) sowie als Solistin in der Summer Recital Series zu hören. Am Opera Theatre of Saint Louis interpretierte sie Mabel (Pirates of Penzance) und Johanna (Sweeney Todd). Als Mitglied des Internationalen Opernstudios in Zürich stand sie in der Spielzeit 2013/14 u.a. als Carolina (Il matrimonio segreto), Contessa di Ceprano (Rigoletto) und Frauke Beeke-Hansen in Das Gespenst von Canterville auf der Bühne. Von 2014 bis 2016 gehörte sie zum Ensemble des Opernhauses Zürich, wo sie als Elisa (Il re pastore), Marzelline (Fidelio), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), böse Kammerjungfer (Die Gänsemagd), Madame Silberklang (Der Schauspieldirektor), Adelaide (Das verzauberte Schwein) und in King Arthur zu erleben war. Seither war sie u.a. an der Met als La Charmeuse in Massenets Thaïs und als Blumenmädchen (Parsifal) zu hören, sang Nannetta (Falstaff) an der De Moines Metro Opera und Gilda (Rigoletto) an der Palm Beach Opera. Sie gab Konzerte mit der Seattle Symphony und sang in Mendelssohns Judas Maccabeus bei den Internationalen Händel-Festspielen in Göttingen. In Zürich war sie zuletzt als Dorothy in Der Zauberer von Oz zu erleben. 2021-2022 ist sie Ensemblemitglied an der Bayerischen Staatsoper, wo sie u.a. als Nannetta in Falstaff, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, Jasmin in Georg Friedrich Haas’ Koma und als Italienische Sängerin in Capriccio auftreten wird.
Michael Laurenz
Born in Halle, Michael Laurenz began his career as a trumpeter, most recently serving as principal trumpet of the Berliner Symphoniker. His vocal training took him to the International Opera Studio of the Opernhaus Zürich, whose ensemble he subsequently joined for nearly a decade. From 2018 to 2020, he was a permanent ensemble member of the Wiener Staatsoper and remains associated with the house as a guest artist. A central focus of his artistic work lies in the character tenor repertoire, with particular emphasis on roles in works by Wagner, Strauss, Mozart and contemporary composers. Numerous new productions and role debuts have taken him to Amsterdam, Geneva, Lyon, Antwerp, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Paris, as well as to the Bregenzer Festspiele, the Glyndebourne Festival and repeatedly to the Salzburger Festspiele. As Mime, Michael Laurenz has appeared with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi in concert performances of "Das Rheingold" and "Siegfried". Collaborations with conductors such as Philippe Jordan, Christian Thielemann, Thomas Guggeis, Cornelius Meister, Franz Welser-Möst and Marc Minkowski shape his artistic work, as does his close collaboration with directors who regularly cast him in complex scenic roles. These include roles such as Josef K. in Gottfried von Einem’s "Der Prozess", Cauchon in Walter Braunfels’ "Jeanne d’Arc", Orsino in Berthold Goldschmidt’s "Beatrice Cenci" and Erich in HK Gruber’s "Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald". In the 2025/26 season, he appears at the Wiener Staatsoper as Wenzel ("The Bartered Bride") and the Witch ("Hänsel und Gretel"), and at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden as the Dancing Master ("Ariadne auf Naxos") and Pedrillo ("Die Entführung aus dem Serail").
Airam Hernandez
Airam Hernández wurde in Teneriffa geboren. Er studierte zunächst Horn und anschliessend Gesang bei Dolors Aldea am Conservatori in Barcelona. Von 2014-2016 war er Mitglied des Internationalen Opernstudios und anschliessend Ensemblemitglied am Opernhaus Zürich. Engagements führten ihn zudem u.a. an die Oper Amsterdam, Opéra National de Lorraine, Opéra de Lausanne, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Theater Basel, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Auditori de Barcelona, Palau de la Música Catalana, Auditorium «Manuel de Falla» in Granada, Ópera de Tenerife, Auditorio Alfredo Kraus in Gran Canaria sowie ans Teatro Real of Madrid. Er sang unter Dirigenten wie Marco Armiliato, Carlo Rizzi, Jesus López-Cobos, James Conlon, Nello Santi, Francesco Ivan Ciampa sowie Fabio Luisi und arbeitete mit Regisseuren wie Barrie Kosky, Hans Neuenfels, Laurent Pelly, David Pountney, Andreas Homoki und Damiano Michieletto. 2016 debütierte er als Alfredo (La traviata) an der Oper in Perm unter Teodor Currentzis und in der Inszenierung von Robert Wilson. 2017 hatte er Rollendebüts wie Apollo und Dionysos (Orest) am Opernhaus Zürich, Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor) an der Opéra de Lausanne sowie Faust (Faust) an der Oper in Teneriffa. In naher Zukunft wird er Rollen wie Fenton (Falstaff), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Gennaro (Lucrezia Borgia), Fernando (Doña Francisquita) und Nemorino (L’elisir d'amore) singen und ihn an Häuser wie die Semperoper Dresden, Musashinos Auditorium (Japan), Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Dallas Opera, Staatsoper Hamburg, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Real de Madrid und Théatre du Capitole Toulouse führen.
Alexei Botnarciuc
Alexei Botnarciuc, Bass, wurde in Moldawien geboren und studierte an der Musikakademie in Chișinău. Er gewann zahlreiche Preise u.a. beim VoxArtis-Wettbewerb in Rumänien (2012) und beim Stanislaw-Moniuszko-Wettbewerb in Polen (2013). Ab 2010 war er als Solist an der Moldawischen Nationaloper in Chișinău engagiert, wo er u.a. Leporello (Don Giovanni), Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Colline (La bohème), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Gran Sacerdote (Nabucco), Gremin (Eugen Onegin) und König René (Iolanta) gesungen hat. 2013 gab er sein Debüt an der Pariser Opéra Bastille als Ramfis (Aida). Er war Mitglied des IOS und war hier u.a. als Narumov (Pique Dame), Ramfis sowie in Salome, Don Carlo und La fanciulla del West zu hören. Seit der Spielzeit 2015/16 ist er festes Ensemblemitglied an der Deutschen Oper Berlin, wo er zuletzt als Sciarrone (Tosca), Reinmar von Zweter (Tannhäuser), Warlaam (Boris Godunow) und Thoré / Maurevert (Les Huguenots) gesungen hat.
Photos «Fidelio»
