Giuseppe Verdi | Luisa Miller
Musikalische Leitung
Henrik Nánási
Musical Direction
Birthplace:
Pécs, Hungary
Studies:
Piano and Composition, Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest
Orchestral Conducting, Coaching, Composition, University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna
Prizes:
Olivier Award 2022 as Best New Opera Production for Jenůfa – Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Opera Award 2015 as “Opera Company of the Year" – Komische Oper Berlin
Repertoire:
Mazeppa, Eugene Onegin, Turandot, Salome, Elektra, Tristan und Isolde, Don Giovanni, Duke Bluebeard's Castle, The Fiery Angel, Cendrillon, Der Fliegende Holländer, Otello, Falstaff, Der Rosenkavalier, Rusalka, Rigoletto, Jenůfa, Werther, et al.
Career stages:
General Music Director of the Komische Oper Berlin from 2012 to 2017
Stages:
Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro alla Scala, San Francisco Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Opéra National de Paris, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opernhaus Zürich, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Arena di Verona, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Oper Frankfurt, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro di San Carlo, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, et al.
Cooperation with orchestras:
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Essener Philharmoniker, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Palermo, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Simfònica Illes Balears, Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Modena, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, et al.
photo: Henry Fair
Chor
Alice Meregaglia
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Il Conte di Walter
Gábor Bretz
Bass
Geburtsort:
Budapest, Ungarn
Studium:
Gesangsunterricht bei Stephan Czovek in Los Angeles und Prof. Albert Antalffy in Budapest, Gesang am Béla Bartók Konservatorium für Musik bei Maria Fekete und an der Franz Liszt Musikakademie bei Sandor Solyom-Nagy
Auszeichnungen:
Gewinner des „Maria Callas Grand Prix“-Wettbewerbs in Athen (2005)
Wichtige Partien:
Mefistofele (Mefistofele), Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Banquo (Macbeth), Colline (La Bohème), Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Escamillo (Carmen), Gurnemantz (Parsifal), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Orest (Elektra), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Landgraf (Tannhäuser), Shaklovity (Khovanshchina), Phillipe II (Don Carlos), Ferrando (Il Trovatore), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Brander (La Damnation de Faust), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), u. a.
Bühnen:
Ungarische Staatsoper, Wagner Festival Budapest, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, De Nationale Opera, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Neues Nationaltheater Tokio, Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro Comunale, La Monnaie, Salzburger Festspiele, Müpa Budapest, Teatro Massimo, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, u. a.
Zusammenarbeit mit Regisseuren:
Peter Konwitschny, Christof Loy, Eva-Maria Melbye, János Szikora, Calixto Bieito, Olivier Py, Romeo Castellucci, Stefano Ricci, Gianni Forte, Ricci Forte, u. a.
Zusammenarbeit mit Dirigenten:
Daniel Barenboim, Gustavo Dudamel, Ádám Fischer, Ed Gardner, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding, Michele Mariotti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Renato Palumbo, Sylvain Cambreling, Carlo Montanaro, Helmuth Rilling, Ingo Metzmacher, Peter Eötvös, Oliver von Dohnányi, Kevin John Edusei, Alain Altinoglu, Franz Welser-Möst, Gregory Vajda, u. a.
photo: László Emmer
Rodolfo
Pavol Breslik
Tenor
Birthplace:
Kysucké Nové Mesto, Slowakei
Studies:
University of Arts in Banská Bystrica; Cnipal Opera Studio in Marseille
Master classes:
Mady Mesplé, Yvonne Minton, Peter Dvorsky, William Matteuzzi
Prizes:
Appointed Bavarian Chamber Singer (2021), Tatra Banka Foundation Prize for the Arts in the category of music for his interpretation of the role of Jeník in "Die verkaufte Braut" in Bratislava (2018), "Young Singer of the Year" by Opernwelt magazine (2005), 1st prize at the Antonín Dvořák Competition in the Czech Republic (2005)
Important parts:
Rodolfo (La Bohème), Idamante (Idomeneo), Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, (Gennaro) Lucrezia Borgia, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Roberto (Roberto Devereux), Leicester (Maria Stuarda), Macduff (Macbeth), Cassio (Otello), Alfredo (La Traviata), Fenton (Falstaff), Faust (Faust), Nadir (Pêcheurs de Perles), Lenski (Eugen Onegin), Stewa (Jenůfa), Hans (Die verkaufte Braut), Prinz (Rusalka), Narraboth (Salome), Sänger (Rosenkavalier), Henry Morosus (Die schweigsame Frau), Peter Quint (Turn oft the Screw), Alfred (Die Fledermaus), Edwin (Die Csardasfürstin), et al.
Stages:
Ensemblemitglied des Opernhaus Zürich (2012–2018), Ensemblemitglied Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin (2003–2006); Bayerische Staatsoper München, Festival Janáček Brno, Grand Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Slovak National Theatre, Semperoper Dresden, Wiener Staatsoper, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Münchner Opernfestspiele, The Metropolitan Opera New York, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Opera House London, Sydney Opera House, Salzburger Osterfestspiele, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
David Bösch, Barrie Kosky, et al.
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Miller
George Petean
Baritone
George Petean was born in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), where he finished the Music School (piano and trombone) and studied canto at the Music Academy "G. Dima" in Cluj-Napoca, continuing his studies with Vicente Sardinero and Giorgio Zancanaro.
In 1997 he made his romanian debut in the title role of “Don Giovanni”, followed by Malatesta in “Don Pasquale”, Silvio in “Pagliacci”, Figaro in “Il Barbiere di Siviglia”, Valentin in “Faust”, Ford in “Falstaff” and Marcello in “La Bohème” at the Opera in Cluj-Napoca.
In 1999 he was the winner of the Grand Prix of the international singing competition "Hariclea Darclée" in Romania. During the 2000 season he made his international debut in the role of Marcello in “La Bohème” at the Rome Opera House. During the period 2002-2010, he was member of the Hamburg State Opera.
He also appears in the most important international opera stages, as with “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” (in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Vienna State Opera, Peking, ROH Covent Garden, Opéra de Paris Bastille, Teatro Comunale Bologna), “Pagliacci” (in ROH Covent Garden), “Il Trovatore” (in Bregenz Festival, Grand Théâtre de Genève), “La Bohème” (at Opéra de Paris, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Opéra de Monte Carlo, Metropolitan Opera New York), “Don Carlo” (in Vienna State Opera, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg), “Lucia di Lammermoor” (for the Vienna State Opera, Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Hamburg), “L’elisir d’amore” (at Opéra de Paris Bastille, Hamburg), “L’amico Fritz” (at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with recording for Deutsche Grammophon), “Un ballo in Maschera” (at Vienna State Opera, ORW Liège, Opéra de Lausanne, Aalto Theater Essen, Hamburg), “La Traviata” (at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburg, Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla), “Faust” (at the Hamburg State Opera), “Rigoletto” and “Attila” (at the Opéra de Monte Carlo) as well as “I Puritani” in Zurich.
Recently he sang in “Simon Boccanegra” in Sydney, “Otello” in Madrid, “Il Trovatore” in Parma, “Macbeth” in Salerno and “Rigoletto” in Naples. Among his future engagements: “Rigoletto” in Hamburg and Liege, “La Traviata” at Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Royal Opera House in London, “Otello” in Dresden, “Il Trovatore” in Barcelona, “Andrea Chenier” in Munich.
Luisa
Elbenita Kajtazi
Soprano
Birthplace:
Mitrovica, Kosovo
Studies:
Graduated summa cum laude from the Mitrovica Conservatory of Music (2009), subsequently studied at the University of Prishtina
Prizes:
Audience Prize and 3rd place at the first Glyndebourne Opera Cup (2018), first prize and special prize at the Riccardo Zandonai Competition (2015), first prize at the Spiros Argiris Competition of the Sarzana Opera Festival in Italy (2014), scholarship holder of the Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin (2014-2016), participant of the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival (2016), Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer Prize Hamburg (2020).
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2018/19 season
Important parts:
Violetta (La Traviata), Nannetta (Falstaff), Mimi (La Boheme), Manon (Manon), Micaëla (Carmen), Liù (Turandot), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Musetta (La Bohème), Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Marzelline (Fidelio), et al.
Stages:
Staatsoper Hamburg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Bayrische Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Semperoper Dresden, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Aalto-Teater Essen, Philharmonie Essen, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Tomáš Netopil, Friedrich Haider, Riccardo Minasi, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Axel Kober, Patrick Fournillier, Donald Runnicles, Yoel Gamzou, Kent Nagano, Nicholas Carter, et al.
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Wurm
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
Federica
Kristina Stanek
Mezzo-soprano
Birthplace:
Krefeld, Germany
Studies:
Master studies with distinction at the Royal Academy of Music, London
Prizes:
Best young singer at the European Music Festival in Rome, Italy; 1st prize at the Mozart Competition in Prague, Czech Republic; 1st prize at the Rotary Music Competition, Germany
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since season 2020/21
Important parts:
Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde), Prinzessin Eboli (Don Carlos), Azucena (Il trovatore), Carmen (Carmen), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), 2. Norn (Götterdämmerung), Maddalena (Rigoletto), et al.
Stages:
Staatsoper Hamburg, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Theater Basel, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Hans Neuenfels, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Michael Thalheimer, Lydia Steier, Yuval Sharon, David Bösch, Sebastian Baumgarten, Barbara Frey, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Christian Thielemann, Marco Armiliato, Philipp Jordan, Antonello Manacorda, Marek Janowski, Ivor Bolton, Marc Albrecht, Giampaolo Bisanti, Axel Kober, Jonathan Darlington, Erik Nielsen, Kristiina Poska, Joana Mallwitz, Titus Engel, Christopher Moulds, Gianluca Capuano, Jonathan Stockhammer, David Parry, Christian Curnyn, Michele Spotti, Thomas Guggeis, et al.
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Laura
Elizaveta Kulagina
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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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Chor
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
The chorus members appear on stage at the Hamburg State Opera in a different role almost every night. From one day to the next, they might be sailors, pilgrims or conspirators, then courtiers, hunters, the deranged or the imprisoned. In the role of crusaders in I Lombardi alla prima Crociata they travel to Jerusalem, other nights they are invited to Madama Butterfly's marriage or acclaim Prince Igor. The ladies and gentlemen of the opera chorus demonstrate their artistic prowess, their flexibility, and their love of the stage in every performance.
With a membership around 70, the chorus of the Hamburg State Opera has been one of the world’s best opera choruses for many years. The varied repertoire – almost always in the original language – is multifaceted and includes baroque operas and dramatic operas, major works by Verdi and Wagner as well as contemporary pieces. At the start of the 2013/14 season, Eberhard Friedrich took over the post of Chorus Master.
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