Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Don Giovanni
Musikalische Leitung
Francesco Ivan Ciampa
Conductor
Birthplace:
Avellino, Italy
Studies:
Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rom national and international schools and academies under the direction of artists such as Carlo Maria Giulini and Bruno Aprea
Prizes:
National Prize for the Arts (2010/2011) and first prize in the National Conducting Competition at the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (M.I.U.R.)
Career stages:
Assistant to Maestro Antonio Pappano and Maestro Daniel Oren, et al.
Stages:
Opéra Bastille, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Colón, La Fenice, Teatro Regio (Turin) and Teatro San Carlo, et al. Further performances in Ancona, Attila, Bilbao, Salerno, Tel Aviv, Torre del Lago, Parma, Piacenza, Barcelona, Genoa, Monaco, Modena, Ravenna, Verona, Palermo, Tokyo, Las Palmas, Bilbao and Munich, et al.
Cooperation with orchestras:
Münchner Philharmoniker, Philharmonic Orchestra "A. Toscanini" (Parma), Orchestra Filarmonika Salernitana, Orchestra of the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester), Italian Youth Orchestra, Orchestra of the Opéra Bastille (Paris), Orchestra "I Pomeriggi Musicali", Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Orchestra Santa Cecilia "I Solisti di Napoli" and Valencia Symphony Orchestra, et al.
photo: Gianluca D'Argerio
Chor
Christian Günther
Associate Chorus Master
Birthplace:
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Studies:
Conducting at University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, conducting lessons with Neeme Järvi, Jorma Panula and Gianluigi Gelmetti
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Assistant Chorus Master at Hamburg State Opera since the 2019/20 season
Career stages:
Assistant of the Chorus Master at Hamburg State Opera (2008-2019), regular guest appearances at NDR-Chorus (since 2018), Guest Chorus Master at Zürich Opera House (2018), Assistant of Eberhard Friedrich with the Chorus of the Bayreuth Festival (2017), Guest engagements at Music Festival Bremen, at Festival der Projektgruppe Neue Musik Bremen as well as at Oh Ton-Ensemble Oldenburg, Leader of the Ensemble “Atelier Neue Musik”, Lectureship at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (since 2007), Associate Chorus Master and Leader of the children's chorus at Theater Bremen (2002-2007), 2nd Capellmeister at Theater Bremen (2005-2007), Conductor of the Ensemble “piano possible” Munich (1996-2007), Guest répétiteur at Stuttgart State Theater, Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and at the Biennale in Munich
Cooperation with choruses:
Chorus of Hamburg State Opera, NDR Chorus, Children's chorus of Theater Bremen, et al.
Don Giovanni
Alessio Arduini
Baritone
Birthplace:
Desenzano del Garda, Italy
Studies:
opera singing since the age of 15; meanwhile a specialist degree course in Management Engineering
Prizes:
grant from the Lina Aimaro Bertasi Foundation (2010)
Important parts:
Don Giovanni, Leporello and Masetto (Don Giovanni), Conte d’Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Riccardo (I Puritani), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Schaunard and Marcello (La Bohème), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Silvio (Pagliacci), Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale), Prosdocimo (Il turco in Italia), Lescaut (Manon Lescaut), Ping (Turandot), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Silvano (Un ballo in maschera), et al.
Stages:
Teatro Sociale, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Salzburger Festspiele, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Petruzzelli, Bayerische Staatsoper, Metropolitan Opera House in New York, Royal Opera House London, Opéra National de Paris, Gyndebourne Festival, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Christian Thielemann, et al.
photo: n.n.
Leporello
Erwin Schrott
Bass-Baritone
Birthplace:
Montevideo, Uruguay
Prizes:
First Prize Plácido Domingo`s Operalia Competition (1998), First Prize Carlos Gomez Competition, First Prize Juventudes Musicales, et al.
Important parts:
Don Giovanni/Leporello (Don Giovanni), Pagano (I Lombardi alla prima Crociata), Attila (Attila), Banquo (Macbeth), Escamillo (Carmen), Berlioz/Gounod (L’Elisir d’Amore), Procida (Les Vepres Siciliennes), Mefistofele (Mefistofele), et al.
Stages:
Teatro alla Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra National de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper, Washington National Opera, Vienna State Opera, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Hamburg State Opera, Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels, Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, et al.
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photo: Roland Wimmer
Donna Anna
Narea Son
Soprano
Birthplace:
Seoul, South Korea
Studies:
Bachelor's degree at Seoul National University, master's degree opera and concert exam opera at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg
Master class:
with Edita Gruberová, Jaume Aragall, Cheryl Studer, Mariella Devia, Thomas Quastoff, Edda Moser, Brigitte Fassbaender und Joyce DiDonato at Carnegie Hall in New York with Live Stream by Arte TV, et al.
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2019/20 season
Was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera 2016/17 and 2017/18
Important parts:
Adele (Die Fledermaus), Pamina (Erzittre, feiger Bösewicht!, Neufassung der Zauberflöte von J. Harneit), Marzelline (Fidelio), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Katze Ivanka ( U.A. Katze Ivanka ), Ljusja (Moskau, Tscherjomuschki ), Marthe, Sorge, Seliger Knabe und Sopran Solo ( Szenen aus Goethes Faust), Javotte (Manon), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Oberto (Alcina), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Theater Bremen, Sejong Center (Seoul Metropolitan Opera), Shanghai Grand Theater, Geumho-Konzerthalle, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Achim Freyer, Philipp Stölzl, Georges Delnon, Vera Nemirova, David Bösch, BARBE&DOUCET et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Alexander Joel, Johannes Fritzsch, Massimo Zanetti, Christopher Moulds, Renato Palumbo, Axel Kober, Jonathan Darlington, et al.
photo: Sangdon Lee
Don Ottavio
Dovlet Nurgeldiyev
Tenor
Birthplace:
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Studies:
Vocal studies at the Music College in Ashgabat, at the Turkmen National Conservatory, at the Conservatory Tilburg and at Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio (2008/9-2009/10)
Ensemble member since 2010/11
Important parts:
Dmitriy (Boris Godunov), Stewa (Jenufa), Tito (La Clemenza di Tito), Erik (Der fliegende Holländer), Fenton (Falstaff), Nemorino (L’Elisir d’Amore), Alfredo (La Traviata), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Vladimir (Prince Igor), Telemaco (Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Chevalier (Dialogues des Carmelites), Hylas (Les Troyens), Macduff (Macbeth), Ismaele (Nabucco), Cassio (Otello), Naraboth (Salome), Medoro (Orlando Paladino), Belfiore (La finta giardiniera), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, Ungarische Staatsoper, Polnische Staatsoper, Opéra National de Montpellier, Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Auditorium de Bordeaux, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Laeizhalle Hamburg, Prinzregententheater München, Santa Fe Opera(US), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Concertgebow Amsterdam, Palau del la Musica, Auditoriu Barcelona, Auditoriu Madrid,et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Hans Neuenfels, Marie-Eve Signeyrole, Renaud Doucet, Vincent Boussard, Jette Steckel, Willy Decker, Axel Ranisch, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Ivor Bolton, Kent Nagano, Bertrand de Billy, Keri Lynn Wilson, Philippe Auguin, Lothar Zagrosek, Michael Schonwandt, Stefan Soltesz, Henrik Nánási, Stefano Ranzani, Andrea Battistoni, Simone Young, et al.
photo: Jörn Kipping
Il Commendatore
Alexander Roslavets
Bass
Birthplace:
Brest, Belarus
Studies:
Rimsky-Korsakov Staatskonservatorium in St. Petersburg bei Professor Nikolai Okhotnikov (2009-2014), Young Artist Programme Bolschoi-Theater in Moskau (2014-2016)
Master classes:
With Elena Obraztsova, Edda Moser, Dmitry Vdovin, Evgeny Nesterenko, Irina Bogacheva, Lubov Orfenova, Neil Shicoff, Bernd Weikl, Carol Vaness, John Fisher
Prizes:
Third prize in the first International Music Competition in Harbin (2018), third and special prize in the Queen Sonja International Music Competition (2017), second prize in the second International Opera Singing Competition of Portofino (2017), special prize in the 36th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition (2017), grand prix and audience prize in the second International Eva Marton singing competition in Budapest (2016), second prize in the sixth Galina Vishnevskaya International Opera Singers Competition (2016), grand prix in the Special Foundation Of The President Of Belarus Supporting Talented Youth (2016), first prize in the seventh International Competition of Opera Singers in Saint-Petersburg (2015), diploma in the 10th Elena Obraztsova International Competition Of Young Opera Singers (2015), special prize in the first International Christmas Vocal Competition in Minsk (2014), grand prix in the 42nd Russian National Vocal Graduates Competition in St. Petersburg (2014)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 2016/17
Important parts:
Malyuta Skuratov (Die Zarenbraut), Mephistopheles (Faust), König Dodon (Der goldene Hahn), Colline (La Bohème), Bartolo (Le Nozze de Figaro), Commenadatore, Masetto (Don Giovanni), Brander (La Damnation de Faust), Il Conte di Monterone (Rigoletto), 5.Jude (Salome), Lodovico (Otello), Il Sagrestano und Cesare Angelotti (Tosca), Raimondo Bidebent (Lucia di Lammermoor), Peter Quince (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Lo zio Bonzo (Madama Butterfly), Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Fafner (Das Rheingold), Fafner (Siegfried), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), King René (Iolanta), Banco (Macbeth), Prince Gremin (Eugen Onegin), Daland (Der Fliegende Holländer), Vodnik (Rusalka), Dulcamara (L’Elisir d’Amore), Ali Baba (Ali Baba), et al.
Stages:
Mikhailovsky Theater, Bolschoi Theater, Tschaikowsky-Konzertsaal in Moskau, Bolschoi Theater in Weißrussland, St. Petersburger Philharmonie benannt nach Schostakowitsch, Ungarische Staatsoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Berliner Philharmoniker, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Rimas Tuminas, Calixto Bieito, Tito Capobianco, Paul Curran, Stanislav Gaudasinsky, Peter Stein, Alexey Stepaniuk, Achim Freyer, Liliana Cavani, Mariusz Trelinski, Melly Still, Jan Bosse, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Adam Fischer, Robin Ticciati, Henrik Nanasi, Vladimir Jurowski, Ainars Rubikis, Daniele Rustioni, Tugan Sokhiev, Fabio Mastrangelo, Anton Grishanin, Michal Klauza, Gregor Bühl, Kent Nagano, Paolo Carignani, Renato Palumbo, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Yves Abel, Stefano Ranzani, Carlo Rizzari, Christof Prick, Nathan Brock, Sergei Stadler, Yuri Simonov, Michail Jurowski, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Alexander Anisimov, et al.
photo: Martin Paulsson
Donna Elvira
Rachael Wilson
Mezzo-Soprano
Birthplace:
Las Vegas, Nevada
Studies:
Juilliard School,
Opera Studio at the Bayerische Staatsoper
Important parts:
Balkis (Barkouf), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Charlotte (Werther), Carmen (Carmen), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Kay (The Snowqueen), Fricka (Das Rheingold), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), the Gymnast (Lulu), Fatime (Oberon), et al.
Stages:
Staatsoper Stuttgart, Opernhaus Zurich, Glyndebourne Festival, Teatro Real, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Kent Nagano, et al.
photo: Jacobus Snyman
Zerlina
Hera Hyesang Park
Soprano
Birthplace:
Seoul, South Korea
Studies:
Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance from Seoul National University, Artist Diploma in Opera Studies from the Juilliard School, Graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist program
Prizes:
Gerda Lissner Foundation International Competition (winner, 2016), Montreal International Musical Competition (2nd prize + Audience Choice Award, 2015), Operalia (2nd prizewinner and Zarzuela prizewinner, 2015), Queen Elizabeth International Music Competition (5th place, 2014), Korea National Opera and Sejong Center for the Performing Arts competitions (winner, 2010), et al.
Important parts:
Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Musetta (La bohème), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Nannetta (Falstaff), Adina (L’Elisir D’Amore), Despina (Così fan tutte), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Galatea (Acis and Galatea), Aldimira (Sigismondo), et al.
Stages:
Metropolitan Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera de Paris, Berlin Staatsoper, Los Angeles Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Canadian Opera Company, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Nicholas Hytner, Michael Grandage, Amy Lane, Julie Taymor, Barrie Kosky, Mary Zimmerman, Annabel Arden, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Gustavo Dudamel, Pablo Heras-Casado, Daniele Rustioni, Edward Gardner, James Levine, Placido Domingo, Speranza Scapucci, Jordan de Souza, Donald Runnicles, Mark Wigglesworth, Jane Glover, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Bertrand de Billy, Riccardo Minasi, Markus Stenz, Christian Reif, Raphael Payare, Thierry Fischer, Fabio Biondi, Richard Egarr, Harry Bicket, Cornelius Meister, Nicolas Carter, Jader Bignamini, et al.
Masetto
David Minseok Kang
Bass
Origin:
Korea
Studies:
Kyunghee University in Seoul with Alfred Kim, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart Master class Oper with Ulrike Sonntag (2018-2022)
Master classes:
With Jenny Anvelt, Bo Skovhus, Kwangchul Youn, Margreet Honig, Gundula Schneider
Important parts:
Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Colline (La Bohème), Dr. Grenvil (La Traviata), Gremin (Eugen Onegin), Reinmar von Zweter (Tannhäuser), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Colline (La Bohème), et al.
Stages:
Staatsoper Stuttgart, Ettlinger Schlossfestspiele, Theater Kiel, Oper Zürich
Relation to the State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio from 2019/2020 to 2021/2022
Ensemble member since 2022/2023
Cooperations with directors:
Blanka Radoczy, Solvejg Bauer, Bernd Schmitt
Cooperations with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Nicolas Andre, Matteo Beltrami, Paolo Arrivabeni, Giampaolo Bisanti, Francesco Ivan Ciampa
photo: Brinkhoff/Mögenburg
Amor/Tod
Swana Rode
Swana Rode, born in 1991, already took part in numerous productions at the English Theatre Frankfurt and the Junges Schauspiel Frankfurt in her youth. During her acting studies in Hamburg, she performed at the Thalia Theater, Kampnagel and the St. Pauli Theater. She joined the JUNGE STAATSTHEATER as a permanent member of the ensemble in the 2016/17 season. For the 2018/19 season, Swana Rode moved to SCHAUSPIEL, where she performed in SCHAUSPIEL: Carmen, Medea. Stimmen, Apokalypse Baby, Quizoola!, Wunder geschehen and in the title role in Gabriel. She has worked with directors such as Anna Bergmann, Milan Peschel, Alia Luque, Ronny Jakubaschk, Heike M. Goetze, Marthe Meinhold and Marius Schötz. In the 2019/2020 season, she co-directed her first production with director Saskia Kaufmann, the solo performance Das kalte Herz based on Wilhelm Hauff. In the development of Antarktika - White Out, Swana Rode was not on stage for the first time, instead devoting herself entirely to her work as a director.
photo: Felix Grünschloß
Orchester
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Orchestra
The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg’s largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the “Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre” merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.
During its long history, the orchestra encountered great artist personalities. Apart from composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Telemann, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mahler, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, since the 20th century chief conductors such as Karl Muck, Joseph Keilberth, Eugen Jochum, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Aldo Ceccato, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher and Simone Young have shaped the orchestra’s sound. Renowned conductors of the pre-war era such as Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt gave brilliant performances, as did outstanding conductors of our times: suffice it to mention Christian Thielemann, Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Petrenko, Adam Fischer and Sir Roger Norrington.
Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent Nagano has taken on the position of Hamburg’s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera and since June 2023 also its honorary conductor. In his first season Kent Nagano initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016, Nagano and the Philharmonic toured South America, followed by concert tours to Spain and Japan in 2019, and in the spring of 2023, the Philharmonic State Orchestra made its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under his direction, which was acclaimed by audiences and the press. Since 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg Widmann to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall’s opening festivities. The concert recording has been released by ECM, for which Widmann received the OPUS KLASSIK as Composer of the Year 2019, and ARCHE was performed again in 2023 to great acclaim.
The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, making it Hamburg’s busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.
In 2008 Simone Young and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Wagner as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Mahler, Hindemith and Berg, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Hosokawa, Offenbach, Reimann, Auerbach, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Poulenc and Weber.
The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg’s musical tradition and responsible for the city’s artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg’s schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra’s own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic’s musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow’s music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.
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photo: Foto: Felix Broede
