Lorenzo Viotti, geboren in Lausanne, studierte Klavier, Gesang und Schlagzeug in Lyon sowie Dirigieren in Wien und Weimar. Von 2018 bis 2021 war er Generalmusikdirektor des Gulbekian-Orchesters in Lissabon und seit der Spielzeit 2021/22 ist er Chefdirigent des Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. Internationale Aufmerksamkeit erlangte er als Gewinner des Internationalen Dirigierwettbewerbs in Cadaqués 2013 sowie des Young Conductors Award der Salzburger Festspiele 2015. 2017 wurde er beim International Opera Award zum Newcomer des Jahres gekürt. Lorenzo Viotti hat bereits zahlreiche bedeutende Orchester dirigiert, darunter das BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester, das Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, das Tokyo Symphony Orchestra , das Concertgebouw-Orchester Amsterdam, die Wiener Symphoniker, das Gewandhaus-Orchester Leipzig, das ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, das Mahler Chamber Orchestra, das Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, das Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, die Camerata Salzburg, die Staatskapelle Dresden und die Münchner Philharmoniker. Als Operndirigent leitete er «Carmen» an der Staatsoper Hamburg und an der Opéra Bastille in Paris, Rossinis «La cambiale di matrimonio» am Teatro La Fenice in Venedig, «Werther» und «Die Csárdásfürstin» am Opernhaus Zürich, «Rigoletto» an der Oper Stuttgart und der Semperoper Dresden, Tosca in Frankfurt und am New National Theater Tokyo, «Cavalleria rusticana», «Pagliacci» und «Turandot» an De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, «Roméo et Juliette» an der Mailänder Scala sowie «La bohème» am Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. Am Opernhaus Zürich dirigierte er zuletzt Erich Wolfgang Korngolds «Die tote Stadt».
Opera by Jules Massenet
Lyrical drama in four acts and five scenes
Libretto by Edoudard Blau, Paul Milliet, and Georges
Hartmann after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From 10. May 2018 until 29. May 2018
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Duration :
2 H. 45 Min. Inkl. Pause after 1st part after approx. 1 H. 15 Min. -
Language:
In French with German and English surtitles. -
More information:
Introduction 45 min before the performance.
Lorenzo Viotti
Tatjana Gürbaca
Tatjana Gürbaca studied directing at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in her hometown of Berlin and complemented her training through masterclasses, especially with Ruth Berghaus. She was a finalist at the international Ring Award Graz. Her productions range from Baroque works such as "Dido and Aeneas" in Baden-Baden to contemporary music theatre pieces such as Dallapiccola’s "Il prigioniero" (Volksoper Vienna) and Philippe Hersant’s "Le moine noir" (world premiere at Leipzig Opera). She also directed a Tchaikovsky cycle at the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp. Further engagements took her to the State Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bühnen Bern, Novosibirsk Opera, Oslo Opera, Graz Opera, and the Lucerne Festival, among others. From 2011 to 2014, she was Opera Director at the Staatstheater Mainz, where she directed productions including "The Bartered Bride", Salvatore Sciarrino’s "Macbeth", "Un ballo in maschera", and Scarlatti’s "Il primo omicidio". In 2013, she was named "Director of the Year" by the magazine Opernwelt for her production of "Parsifal" at the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp. She created a three-part "Ring" project and "Alcina" at Theater an der Wien, "Lohengrin" and "Der Freischütz" in Essen, Korngold’s "Die tote Stadt" at Cologne Opera, "Das schlaue Füchslein" at Theater Bremen, "Così fan tutte" at the National Theatre in Prague, "Káťa Kabanová" at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, "Jenůfa" in Geneva, "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" at the Dutch National Opera, as well as "Ulisse", "La Juive", and "Written on Skin" in Frankfurt. In Zurich, she has directed productions including "Rigoletto", "Die Zauberflöte", "Werther", "Le Grand Macabre", "Lucia di Lammermoor", and in 2025 the world premiere of Beat Furrer’s "Das grosse Feuer".
Klaus Grünberg
Klaus Grünberg comes from Hamburg, studied stage design with Erich Wonder in Vienna, and has since worked as a freelance stage and lighting designer at theatres and opera houses throughout Europe as well as in Kuwait and Buenos Aires. For many years, he has collaborated with the composer and director Heiner Goebbels as well as with Tatjana Gürbaca and Barrie Kosky, including from 2009 to 2011 with Kosky on the "Ring des Nibelungen" at the Hanover State Opera. His recent productions include "Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny", the Berlin evening "... und mit morgen könnt ihr mich!", and Philip Glass’s "Echnaton" at the Komische Oper Berlin, "Ulisse", "La Juive", and "Written on Skin" at Frankfurt Opera, "Simon Boccanegra" at the Aalto Musiktheater Essen, "Rusalka" at the Hanover State Opera, "L’incoronazione di Poppea" at Theater Bremen, Gogol’s "Revisor" at the Burgtheater Vienna, "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" at the National Theatre Mannheim, Rimsky-Korsakov’s "The Night Before Christmas" at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, as well as Chekhov’s "Three Sisters" at the Berliner Ensemble. His work has also been presented at the Ruhrtriennale and the Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen, at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, and at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music. In 1999, he opened the MOMOLMA (museum of more or less modern art) in Hamburg. At the Zurich Opera House, he designed the stage and lighting for productions including "Rigoletto", "Aida", "Die Zauberflöte", "Macbeth", "Werther", "Lucia di Lammermoor", and "Die lustige Witwe".
Anne Kuhn
Anne Kuhn, born in Chemnitz, studied Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen. After numerous stage and set design assistantships, including with Beatrice Schultz, Klaus Grünberg, and Wolfgang Gussmann, she has been collaborating regularly with stage and lighting designer Klaus Grünberg since 2008. In addition, she realizes her own independent projects. Anne Kuhn lives and works as a stage designer and illustrator in Berlin and Hamburg. She has worked on productions such as "The Nose" (Royal Opera House Covent Garden), "Don Giovanni" and "Simplicius Simplicissimus" (Theater Bremen), "Rusalka" (Hanover State Opera), "Der Freischütz" (Aalto Music Theatre Essen), as well as at the Komische Oper Berlin on "Frühlingsstürme," "Pelléas et Mélisande," and "Akhnaten." At the Zurich Opera House, she collaborated with Klaus Grünberg on the stage designs for "Macbeth" and "The Merry Widow" (directed by Barrie Kosky), as well as for "Aida," "The Magic Flute," "Werther," and "Lucia di Lammermoor" (directed by Tatjana Gürbaca).
Silke Willrett
Silke Willrett studied stage and costume design with Jürgen Rose and art history in Stuttgart. In 1999, she completed her state examination in art history. In 2003, she founded the independent theatre group "Fliegen ab Stuttgart" with Tanja Richter and Marc Weeger; the group received the Baden-Württemberg Theatre Prize in the same year. Together with Marc Weeger, she was nominated several times by Deutsche Bühne and Opernwelt as "Best Stage and Costume Designer". She also works as a set and costume designer for film productions. The film "Das Mass der Dinge" was nominated for the First Steps Award in 2005 and by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2006. Among her artistic collaborators are Andrea Breth, Christof Nel, as well as Monique Wagemakers and Jan Essinger. She has worked with Tatjana Gürbaca at Theater Bremen, Staatstheater Mainz, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Teatro Arriaga Bilbao, Aalto Theater Essen, and the Grand Théâtre de Genève, among others. Her recent costume designs include "Il trittico" at the Vienna State Opera, "Ulisse", "La Juive", and "Written on Skin" at Frankfurt Opera, as well as "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" at the Dutch National Opera. She has served on several juries for scholarships and awards, including from 2021 to 2024 for the FAUST Prize. She is a member of the Szenografie-Bund and the German Academy of Performing Arts, as well as a member of the group "Linienscharen". At the Zurich Opera House, she designed the costumes for "Rigoletto", "Aida", "Die Zauberflöte", "Werther", "Lucia di Lammermoor", and "Das grosse Feuer" directed by Tatjana Gürbaca.
Carl-Christian Andresen
Carl-Christian Andresen studied textile and fashion design at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and then moved to Paris for four years. There he worked, among others, for Chloé, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and John Galliano. In 2006 he returned to Germany and shifted to theatre and opera as an artistic costume assistant. He has had a long-standing collaboration with Silke Willrett since 2008. Carl-Christian Andresen has worked on productions at, among others, the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Hamburg State Opera, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Dutch National Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, the Vienna State Opera, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Aalto Theater in Essen and the Teatro Mayor in Bogotá. He created his own costume designs for, among others, "Le nozze di Figaro" at the Landestheater Detmold, "Le journal de Nijinsky" at the Grand Théâtre Bordeaux, "Dangerous Liaisons" at the Lübeck University of Music, "Der Vetter aus Dingsda" at Theater Ulm and "Dinorah" at Theater Görlitz. For Thierry Tidrow’s opera "Persona" at the Staatstheater Darmstadt he created both the stage and costume design in 2023. He also designs for various short films, feature films and commercials, including "My Circumcision" (awarded the Max Ophüls Prize 2013 for "Best Short Film") and the music video "Fräulein Sommer", which received the UNICATO Award for "Best Music Video" in 2014. In 2024 he designed, together with Silke Willrett, the costumes for the German premiere of Louise Bertin’s opera "Fausto" at the Aalto Musiktheater Essen (directed by Tatjana Gürbaca).
Ernst Raffelsberger
Ernst Raffelsberger comes from Gmunden, Upper Austria. He studied music education and church music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna as well as choral conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. From 1983 to 1986 he was Kapellmeister of the Vienna Boys’ Choir. During this time, he led the ensemble in Vienna and on tours through Europe, South Africa, Canada, and the USA. From 1986, Ernst Raffelsberger was choral director and Kapellmeister at the Salzburg State Theatre (participating in the Salzburg Mozart Week and the Salzburg Festival). In 1989 he moved as choral director and Kapellmeister to the theatre in Freiburg/Breisgau. Since autumn 1993, Ernst Raffelsberger has been engaged at the Zurich Opera House as choral director. Here he has since supervised around 150 premieres and countless revivals and worked with many renowned conductors such as Marco Armiliato, Riccardo Chailly, Teodor Currentzis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Zubin Mehta, Gianandrea Noseda, and Franz Welser-Möst. Guest performances with the Zurich Opera House have taken him to Vienna, London, Paris, and Tokyo. From summer 2012 he additionally began a ten-year activity as choral director of the Vienna State Opera Chorus Association at the Salzburg Festival. There he collaborated successfully with, among others, Riccardo Muti, Mariss Jansons, and Sir Simon Rattle. After Ernst Raffelsberger ended this work with the festival summer 2021, he has since 2025 once again been responsible, at Maestro Muti’s request, for choral preparation for his festival concerts in Salzburg. Numerous CD and DVD recordings document his work in Zurich as well as in Salzburg.
Claus Spahn
Claus Spahn was chief dramaturge at the Zurich Opera House during Andreas Homoki’s tenure as artistic director. There, he supervised music theater projects by Wolfgang Rihm, Helmut Lachenmann, George Benjamin, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, and world premieres by Heinz Holliger, Christian Jost, and Stefan Wirth. As a production dramaturge, he worked with directors such as Sebastian Baumgarten, Herbert Fritsch, Jan Philipp Gloger, Tatjana Gürbaca, Andreas Homoki, Barrie Kosky, Nadja Loschky, David Marton, and Evgeni Titov. He also shares a close artistic partnership with the choreographer and former director of Zurich Ballet, Christian Spuck. For him, Spahn was involved in the development of the productions “Anna Karenina,” “Nussknacker und Mausekönig,” and “Monteverdi” in Zurich, he also wrote libretti for the ballets “Orlando” based on Virginia Woolf (world premiere in 2021 at the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet) and “Bovary” based on Gustave Flaubert (world premiere in 2023 at the Berlin State Ballet). Additionally, he is the librettist of the chamber opera “The Dream of You” by Swiss composer Xavier Dayer, which premiered in 2017 at the Zurich Opera House. Before joining the Zurich Opera House, Claus Spahn was the arts editor for 14 years at the German weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT, where he was responsible for the music section. From 1990 to 1997, he worked as a freelance music journalist mainly for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Bavarian Broadcasting. Claus Spahn was born in Germany, studied classical guitar in Freiburg im Breisgau, and completed training at the German School of Journalism in Munich.
Cast
Werther Attilio Glaser 13 May
Piotr Beczała
Piotr Beczała is one of the most sought-after tenors of our time. Since his debut at the Met in 2006 as the Duke ("Rigoletto"), he has also sung there the roles of Lenski ("Eugene Onegin"), the Prince ("Rusalka"), Edgardo, Rodolfo, Vaudémont ("Iolanta"), Riccardo, Gounod’s Roméo, Faust, Maurizio ("Adriana Lecouvreur"), Werther, and Des Grieux ("Manon"). His interpretation of the Duke earned him the Echo Klassik Award for Singer of the Year in 2014. At La Scala in Milan, he has sung the Duke, Rodolfo, and Alfredo ("La traviata"). At the Salzburg Festival, where he made his debut in 1997 as Tamino, he has celebrated major successes as Roméo, the Prince, Rodolfo, Faust, and in concert performances of "Iolanta" and "Werther". He is also in demand worldwide as a concert and recital singer. Piotr Beczała, who comes from Poland and has been a Swiss citizen since 2012, studied at the Academy of Music in Katowice. He was a long-standing ensemble member at the Zurich Opera House. In addition to a number of DVDs, including from the Zurich Opera House, his discography includes solo albums such as "Heart’s Delight: The Songs of Richard Tauber", "The French Collection", "Salut", "Verdi", and "Slavic Opera Arias". At the International Opera Awards 2018, he was named Singer of the Year. In 2016, he made his debut as Lohengrin alongside Anna Netrebko at the Semperoper Dresden and has since sung the role again in Zurich (2017), at the Bayreuth Festival (2018), at the Vienna State Opera (2020), and in Baden-Baden (2026). In Zurich, he was most recently seen as Prince Sou-Chong in "Das Land des Lächelns", as Werther, as Chevalier des Grieux in "Manon", in a song recital, in an operetta gala, and as Calàf in "Turandot". In the current season, he has appeared as Andrea Chénier at the Met, as Radamès in "Aida" in Paris, as the Prince in "Rusalka", and as Don José in "Carmen" at the Vienna State Opera. At the Bavarian State Opera, he has sung Manrico in "Il trovatore" and Faust this season.
Anaïk Morel
Anaïk Morel, Mezzosopran, wurde in Lyon geboren und studierte am Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse in Lyon. Sie ist Preisträgerin des Pierre-Bernac-Gesangswettbewerbes in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, des Internationalen Wettbewerbes für Kammermusik in Lyon und des Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brüssel. Ihre internationale Karriere begann 2006 im Opernstudio der Bayerischen Staatsoper. Als Ensemblemitglied der Bayerischen Staatsoper von 2008 bis 2010 trat sie in Carmen (Mercédès), Nabucco (Fenena), Luisa Miller (Federica), Falstaff (Meg Page), Hänsel und Gretel (Hänsel), Dialogues des Carmélites (Sœur Mathilde), Palestrina (Silla) und Die schweigsame Frau (Carlotta) auf. Seither war sie an der Staatsoper Berlin und am Teatro alla Scala zu erleben(Die Walküre), sang Lazuli in Chabriers L’Étoile und Boulotte in Offenbachs Barbe-Bleue an der Opéra national de Lorraine, gastierte als Mère Marie (Dialogues des Carmélites) in Lyon und Bari, als Siébel (Faust) an der Pariser Opéra und als Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust) am Staatstehater Saarbrücken und an der Staatsoper Stuttgart. Zudem war sie 2014 bei den Salzburger Sommerfestspielen in der Uraufführung von Marc-André Dalbavies Charlotte Salomon zu erleben. In jüngster Zeit gab Anaïk Morel ihr Rollendebüt als Carmen an der Staatsoper Stuttgart und sang diese Partie anschliessend in Zürich und Montpellier. Sie gastierte als Preziosilla (La forza del destino) am Theater Basel, sang Fenena (Nabucco) an der Bayerischen Staatsoper und Charlotte (Werther) am Stadttheater Klagenfurt und an der Opéra du Rhin.
Mélissa Petit
Mélissa Petit wurde in Saint-Raphaël (Südfrankreich) geboren und studierte am Konservatorium in Saint-Raphaël. 2009 gewann sie den 2. Preis des «Concorso Musica Sacra di Roma», später den 1. Preis beim Nationalen Wettbewerb in Béziers. 2013 gewann sie den 3. Preis der «Queen Sonja Competition» in Oslo. 2010-2013 war sie Mitglied des Internationalen Opernstudios in Hamburg. 2014 sang sie die Edilia in Händels Almira in einer Koproduktion der Hamburgischen Staatsoper mit dem Festival für Alte Musik in Innsbruck. Während der Spielzeit 2014/15 war sie u.a. an der Hamburgischen Staatsoper als Schwester Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites von Poulenc zu erleben. Ausserdem sang sie dort Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, Papagena in der Zauberflöte, Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos, Clorinda in La Cenerentola und die Titelrolle in Die unglückselige Cleopatra von Mattheson. Ab der Spielzeit 2015/16 gehörte Mélissa Petit zum Ensemble des Zürcher Opernhauses und war hier u.a. als Madame Silberklang (Der Schauspieldirektor), Philidel (King Arthur), Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Sophie (Werther), Créuse (Médée), Eurilla (Haydns Orlando paladino), Marzelline (Fidelio), Johanna Barker (Sweeney Todd) und Aricie (Hippolyte et Aricie) zu erleben. In der Saison 2015/16 debütierte sie ausserdem an der Opéra Bastille in Paris als Giannetta (L’elisir d’amore), 2017 als Micaëla (Carmen) bei den Bregenzer Festspielen und 2018 als Juliette in Roméo et Juliette am National Center of Performing Arts in Peking. Im Sommer 2019 sang sie auf der Seebühne der Bregenzer Festspiele zudem Gilda in Rigoletto.
Andrei Bondarenko
Andrei Bondarenko stammt aus der Ukraine und studierte in Kiew. Acht Jahre lang war er Solist der Akademie des Mariinski-Theaters. Er ist Preisträger mehrerer Gesangswettbewerbe, u.a. des BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition Song Prize 2011. Am Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg gab er sein Debüt in der Titelrolle von Brittens Billy Budd, am Minsker Bolschoi-Theater in der Titelrolle von Jewgeni Onegin. Er war u.a. in der Carnegie Hall, der Wigmore Hall, beim Glyndebourne Festival, an der Sydney Opera und der Perm State Opera zu erleben. 2010 debütierte er bei den Salzburger Festspielen in Gounods Roméo et Juliette. Er arbeitete mit Dirigenten wie Valery Gergiev, Ivor Bolton, Yannik Nézet-Séguin und Vladimir Ashkenazy. Zu seinen jüngsten Erfolgen zählen Jewgeni Onegin in Köln, Berlin, Stuttgart, São Paulo, Dallas sowie am Mariinski-Theater und beim Glyndebourne Festival, Conte (Le nozze di Figaro) in Madrid, an der Opera Australia und am Bolschoi, Belcore (L’elisir d’amore) an der Bayerischen Staatsoper München, Robert (Iolanta) in Dallas, Marcello (La bohème) an der Bayerischen Staatsoper München und in Köln sowie Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande) an der Scottish Opera. Zu seinen Aufnahmen zählen u.a. Conte (Le nozze di Figaro) und die Titelrolle in Don Giovanni unter Teodor Currentzis. 2017/18 debütiert er als Marcello am Londoner Covent Garden und sang erneut Belcore in München. Am Opernhaus Zürich war er bisher als Marcello, als Malatesta (Don Pasquale), als Ramiro (L‘Heure espagnole) und als Albert (Werther) zu hören. Im Sommer 2018 gastierte er zudem als Belcore in L’elisir d’amore bei den Münchner Opernfestspielen.
Cheyne Davidson
Cheyne Davidson erhielt seine musikalische Ausbildung an der Case Western Reserve University, dem Cleveland Institute of Music und der Manhattan School of Music. Unmittelbar nach seinem Studium wurde er eingeladen, als Escamillo mit Peter Brooks Tragédie de Carmen auf Europa-, Japan- und Israel-Tournee zu gehen. Nach Auftritten in den USA und Europa war er ein Jahr lang Mitglied des IOS. Seit 1992/93 gehört er zum Ensemble des Opernhauses Zürich, wo er u.a. als Marcello, Schaunard und Benoît (La bohème), Escamillo (Carmen), Silvio (Pagliacci), Amfortas (Parsifal), Paolo Albiani (Simon Boccanegra), Donner und Gunther (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Alfio (Cavalleria rusticana), Faninal (Rosenkavalier), Lescaut (Manon Lescaut), Marco (Gianni Schicchi), Barone Douphol (La traviata), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Werschinski (Drei Schwestern), Eisenhardt (Die Soldaten), Chang (Das Land des Lächelns), als Le Bailli in Massenets Werther, Bill (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny), Jonas Fogg (Sweeney Todd), Eurylochos (Die Odyssee) und als Benoît (La bohème) auftrat. Gastverträge führten ihn u.a. an die Opernhäuser Stuttgart, Köln und Hamburg, nach Basel und Luzern, an das Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, die Oper Nancy, zur Hamburger Opernwoche, nach Belgrad und Budapest, zu den Bregenzer Festspielen und zum Classic Open Air Solothurn. Bei der ZKO Opera Box war er in Die schöne Galathée, in Il campanello di notte sowie in Il signor Bruschino zu erleben. Sein Salzburger Festspieldebüt gab er zu Pfingsten 2016 als Doc in der West Side Story; im Sommer 2016 war er ebenfalls in Salzburg in der Uraufführung von Thomas Adès’ Oper The Exterminating Angel zu erleben.
Martin Zysset
Martin Zysset was born and raised in Solothurn. He trained as a clarinetist while simultaneously completing vocal studies, which he rounded off with masterclasses with Ernst Haefliger and Edith Mathis. In 1990/91, he was a member of the International Opera Studio at the Zurich Opera House and at the same time a scholarship holder of the Migros Culture Percentage as well as a prizewinner of the Pro Arte Lyrica Competition in Lausanne. Since 1992, he has been a regular guest at the Selzach Summer Festival. He has been a permanent member of the Zurich Opera House since 1991, where he has developed a wide-ranging repertoire of both buffo and dramatic roles, including Pedrillo, Monostatos, Spoletta, Incredibile ("Andrea Chénier"), Jaquino, Kudrjasch ("Káťa Kabanová"), Alfred ("Die Fledermaus"), Tamino, Tybalt, Dancaïro, Arturo, Knusperhexe, Brighella, as well as the male lead in Udo Zimmermann’s "The White Rose". He portrayed Simplicius in the operetta of the same name by Johann Strauss, which was also released on CD and DVD. Guest appearances have taken him throughout Europe, to Shanghai, and with "The Magic Flute", "Le nozze di Figaro", "Fidelio", and "Tannhäuser" to San Diego. For Bavarian Radio, he recorded Lehár’s operetta "Paganini". In Zurich, he has recently sung roles including Don Basilio ("Le nozze di Figaro"), Tschekalinsky ("Pique Dame"), Triquet ("Eugene Onegin"), the Chief Eunuch ("Das Land des Lächelns"), Goro ("Madama Butterfly"), Spoletta ("Tosca"), Dormont ("La scala di seta"), the White Minister ("Le Grand Macabre"), the Devil/Narrator ("Die Geschichte vom Soldaten"), the Third Jew ("Salome"), Schmidt ("Werther"), Feri ("Die Csárdásfürstin"), and Don Curzio ("Le nozze di Figaro").
Yuriy Tsiple
Yuriy Tsiple wurde in der Ukraine geboren und studierte Gesang an der Universität für Musik in Bukarest bei Ionel Voineag. Bereits während seines Studiums wurde er vom Staatlichen Rumänischen Rundfunk und Fernsehen für Aufnahmen und Konzerte mit dem Rundfunkorchester und dem Kammerorchester des Staatlichen Rundfunks engagiert. Er gewann erste Preise bei renommierten rumänischen Wettbewerben wie 2007 beim Ionel-Perlea-Wettbewerb in Slobozia und beim Mihail-Jora-Wettbewerb in Bukarest. 2009/10 debütierte er an der Oper Frankfurt als Mitglied des Opernstudios. Er sang u.a. Roberto/Nardo in Mozarts La finta giardiniera, Alcindoro in La bohème und die Titelpartie in Telemanns Pimpinone. Er war Mitglied des Internationalen Opernstudios an der Opéra National du Rhin in Strassburg, wo er als Ali Baba in Cherubinis Ali Baba und als Malatesta in Donizettis Don Pasquale zu erleben war. 2011/12 sang er an der Opéra National du Rhin Schaunard in La bohème, Le Roi in Le Chat botté und debütierte als Don Parmenione in Rossinis L’occasione fa il ladro. Gastspiele führten ihn als Ali Baba an das Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris, als Ramiro (L’Heure espagnole) zum Rumänischen Rundfunk nach Bukarest und als Conte (Le nozze di Figaro) an die Nationaloper Bukarest. Unlängst sang er Don Parmenione mit dem Orchestre National de l’Île de France. Seit 2012 ist er Ensemblemitglied der Oper Zürich, wo er u.a. als Moralès (Carmen), Schaunard, Gespenst von Canterville, Jake Wallace (La fanciulla del West), Il Barone di Trombonok (Il viaggio a Reims), Sheriff von Nottingham (Robin Hood), Kilian (Der Freischütz) und Cristiano (Un ballo in maschera) zu erleben war.
Stanislav Vorobyov
Stanislav Vorobyov is from Russia and studied at the Moscow Conservatory. He was a member of the International Opera Studio and has been a member of the ensemble at the Zurich Opera House since the 2018/19 season. Here, he has appeared in roles including Colline ("La bohème"), Alidoro ("La Cenerentola"), the High Priest ("Nabucco"), Reinmar von Zweter ("Tannhäuser"), Zaretsky ("Eugene Onegin"), Angelotti ("Tosca"), the Fifth Jew and First Nazarene ("Salome"), Lord Rochefort ("Anna Bolena"), Dottor Grenvil ("La traviata"), Crébillon ("La rondine"), Zuniga ("Carmen"), Roberto ("I vespri siciliani"), Roucher ("Andrea Chénier"), Marchese Calatrava ("La forza del destino"), Tom ("Un ballo in maschera"), as well as Faust ("Der feurige Engel") and Méphistophélès ("La Damnation de Faust"). Guest engagements have taken him to the Bregenz Festival as Don Basilio in "Il barbiere di Siviglia", Uncle Bonzo in "Madama Butterfly", and Il capitano/L’ispettore in Giordano’s "Siberia", to Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and Luxembourg as Nourabad in "Les Pêcheurs de perles", to the Concertgebouw Amsterdam as Ombra di Nino in "Semiramide", and in 2024 as Colline in "La bohème" at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and the ROHM Theatre Kyōto.
Soyoung Lee
Soyoung (Sarah) Lee stammt aus Südkorea. Sie studierte an der Chugye University of Arts in Seoul und an der Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe bei Donald Litaker und nahm an Meisterkursen von Hartmut Höll und Raina Kabaivanska teil. Sie gewann den 1. Preis beim Internationalen Anneliese Rothenberger-Wettbewerb und war Finalistin beim Internationalen Gesangswettbewerb Francisco Viñas in Spanien. In Korea debütierte sie konzertant als Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) und sang Carmina Burana mit dem Gyeonggi Philharmonic Orchestra. In Deutschland ist sie u.a. beim Festival für zeitgenössische Musik Karlsruhe und mit der Südwestdeutschen Philharmonie Konstanz aufgetreten. Ab der Spielzeit 2016/17 war sie Mitglied des Internationalen Opernstudios in Zürich und war hier u.a. als Tebaldo (Don Carlo), Käthchen (Werther), 1. Nonne (Der feurige Engel) sowie in Trojahns Orest zu hören. Ausserdem sang sie u.a. in Le Comte Ory, Luisa Miller, Der Traum von Dir und Parsifal. Am Staatstheater Kassel trat sie als Zweite Ermittlerin in Einbruch mehrerer Dunkelheiten auf. Mittlerweile ist Soyoung Lee Mitglied des Chors der Oper Zürich.
Photos «Werther»
