Peter I. Tschaikowsky | Pique Dame
Musikalische Leitung
Graeme Jenkins
Conductor
Birthplace:
Croydon, Great Britain
Studies:
Music at the University of Cambridge
Conducting at the Royal College of Music in London with Norman Del Mar and Sir David Willcocks
Repertoire:
Pique Dame is the 200th opera production of 119 different titles that Maestro Graeme Jenkins has conducted.
His repertoire ranges from early Italian baroque: Cesti La Dori, to Handel - both operas and oratorios, all the great Mozart operas, Donizetti Tudor trilogy, Verdi - all the great works,
Puccini: La Boheme (Australian opera, Baz Luhrmann production). Butterfly, Fanciulla (Vienna), Turandot - Berio finale Dallas, most of the Wagner operas: Ring, Tristan (Dallas), Holländer and Lohengrin (Vienna) Parsifal (Cologne) Meistersinger (Sydney), Richard Strauss: Salome, Elektra, Rosenkavalier, Ariadne, Capriccio, Berg Wozzeck, Massenet Manon, Bizet Carmen (Glyndebourne Festival debut), Offenbach Hoffmann (Cologne), Mussorgsky Boris, Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin, Iolanta, Prokofiev: L'amour des trois oranges. Britten Peter Grimes, Billy Budd (debut at the Vienna State Opera), Death in Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Turn of the Screw, Albert Herring and Rape of Lucretia.
World premières: Timon of Athens by Stephen Oliver (ENO), Thérèse Raquin by Tobias Picker (Dallas Opera)
Career stages:
Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera 1985-92
Music Director of the Dallas Opera 1994-2013.
Principal Guest Conductor at Cologne Opera 1997-2002
Guest conductor at the ENO, Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera, Opera North, Paris Opera, Cologne Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Theatre and Vienna, Lisbon Opera, Australian Opera, Dallas Opera, St. Louis Opera and Colorado Opera
Stages:
Royal Opera in Covent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera and Opera North in Great Britain, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Deutsche Oper Berlin, De Nederlandse Opera, Oper Köln, Theater an der Wien, Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, Royal Danish Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, etc.
Cooperation with orchestras:
Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Orquestra Nacional do Porto, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre Symphonique de Toulon, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Royal Danish Orchestra, etc.
photo: Lewis Blackburn
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.
Herman
Najmiddin Mavlyanov
Tenor
Birthplace:
Samarkand, Usbekistan
Studies:
Singing in Samarkand, Singing at the State Conservatory of Taschkent
Important parts:
Manrico (Il Trovatore), Radames (Aida), Alfredo (La Traviata), Don Carlo, Don Alvaro (La forza del destino), Gustavo (Un ballo in maschera), Gabriele Adorno (Simon Boccanegra), Otello, Cavaradossi (Tosca), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Calaf (Turandot), Dick Johnson (La fanciulla del west), Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana), Canio (Pagliacci), Maurizio (Adriana Lecouvreur), Don José (Carmen), Hoffmann (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Werther, Hermann (Pique Dame), Lenkski (Eugen Onegin), Vaudemont (Iolanta), Sadko, et al.
Stages:
Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen, Nationale Opera Amsterdam, New National Theatre Tokyo, Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, Opera House Sydney, Tashkent Opera, Stanislavsky Theatre Moscow, Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg, Bolshoi Theatre, Mikhailovsky Theatre St. Petersburg, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Alexander Titel, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Barrie Kosky, Peter Stein, Michael Thalheimer,, David Hermann, Jean-Louis Grinda, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Valery Gergiev, Tugan Sokhiev, Daniel Oren, Maurizio Barbacini, Lorenzo Viotti, Omer Meir Welber, et al.
Graf Tomsky
Pavel Yankovsky
Baritone
Origin:
Belarus
Studies:
Conducting at State Academy of Music Minsk, Singing at Rimsky-Korsakov-Conservatory
Master class:
with Steffano Gibellato, Paolo di Napoli and Neil Shicoff
Prizes:
Winner of the National Stanislaw Moniusko Competition, Winner of the International Irina Bogacheva Competition (2007), Finalist at Luciano Pavarotti Competition in Modena (2008), Prize as the best male main character for his role of “Robert” in “Jolanthe” (2011), Prize as the best male main character for his role of “Valentin” in “Faust” (2012)
Important parts:
Rigoletto (Rigoletto), Scarpia (Tosca), Escamillo (Carmen), Germont (La Traviata), Marcello (La Bohème), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), Eugen Onegin (Eugen Onegin), Belcore (L'Elisir d'Amore), et al.
Stages:
Theater Basel, Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen und Gent, Wuppertaler Bühnen Opernhaus, Kennedy Centre Washington, Teatro Real Madrid, Academic Opera and Ballett Theatre Novosibirsk, Mariinsky Theater St. Petersburg, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Vasily Barkhatov, Karin Henkel, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Valery Gergiev, Dmitry Jurowkski, Fabio Mastrangelo, Theodor Currentzis, et al.
Fürst Jeletzky
Alexey Bogdanchikov
Baritone
Birthplace:
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Studies:
Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre, Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow
Prizes:
Winner of the 57th International Singing Competition "Voci Verdiane" in Busseto (2019), Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer-Preis (2017), Special Prize at the “Neue Stimmen” competition (2013), representative for Russia at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition (2013), second prize at the European Vocal Competition “Debut” (2012), third prize at the Armel Opera Competition in Hungary (2010)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 2015/16
Important parts:
Barrett (The Servant), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Eugen Onegin (Eugen Onegin), Robert (Iolanta), Prinz Jeletzki (Pique Dame), Belcore (L’Elisir d’Amore), Marcello (La Bohème), Moralès (Carmen), Graf (Le Nozze di Figaro), Mercutio (Roméo et Juliette), Rodrigo (Don Carlo), Frank und Fritz (Die tote Stadt), Silvio (Pagliacci), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Valentin (Faust), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Carlo Gérard (Andrea Chénier von Umberto Giordano), Malatesta (Don Pasquale), et al.
Stages:
Armel Opernfestival in Szeged, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Guangzhou Opera House, Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, Teatro Municipale in Piacenza, Teatro Delle Muse in Ancona, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Astrakhan Opera House, Magnitogorsk Opera House, Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre Moscow, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Hannover, Sankt Galler Festspiele, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Jader Bignamini, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Emmanuel Villaume, Renato Palumbo, Erich Wächter, Alexander Joel, Stefano Ranzani, Josep Caballé Domenech, Nathan Brock, Gregor Bühl, Kent Nagano, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Christoph Gedschold, Carlo Rizzari, Christopher Ward, et al.
photo: PAULINA HOLBREICH
Czekalisnky
Paul Curievici
Tenor
Paul Curievici’s current and future plans include CHEKALINSKY Pique Dame Staatsoper Hamburg, PIRELLI Sweeney Todd Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg, PIRELLI and ORPHÉE Orpée aux enfers Theater Aachen, VITEK The Macropoulos Case Opéra de Lyon and Concertgebouw, KARL ROSSMANN in Haubenstock-Ramati’s Amerika Oper Zürich, ZINOVIY Lady Macbeth von Mzensk Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Billy Budd and Le Grand Macabre Enescu Festival and Radio France, HIGH PRIEST OF AMON Akhnaten English National Opera, and FIRST JEW Salome Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
Recent engagements have included THE MARQUIS The Gambler Martina Franca Festival, MORTIMER Lessons in Love and Violence Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Le Grand Macabre and The Snow Queen Concertgebouw, STEVA Jenůfa Norwegian Opera, Luisa Miller Glyndebourne Festival, Saint Francoise d’Assise and PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY in Michael Wertmüller’s Didodati. Unendlich Theater Basel, Candide (title role) Komische Oper Berlin, TICHON Katja Kabanova and NICK The Handmaid’s Tale, MELOT Tristan und Isolde, PIRELLI Sweeney Todd, and RAUL The Exterminating Angel Royal Danish Opera, FLUTE A Midsummer Night’s Dream and MELOT Tristan und Isolde Opéra de Montpellier. Other engagements have included Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest, EAMES The Virtues of Things, and SECOND JEW Salome Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Les Enfants Terribles The Royal Ballet, ELEMER Arabella, JACK The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and GUIDOBALD Die Gezeichneten Oper Zürich, JACK Landestheater Salzburg, PEDRILLO Die Entführung aus dem Serail Grange Festival, DON CURZIO/DON BASILIO Le nozze di Figaro Scottish Opera, PAINTER in Olga Neuwirth’s American Lulu The Opera Group at the Young Vic, Bregenzer Festspiele and Edinburgh Festival, and FIRST JEW Salome Northern Ireland Opera, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon and ENO. He sang in Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest Barbican and Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic, SAM KAPLAN Street Scene The Opera Group at Liceu Barcelona and Théâtre du Châtelet, STEPHEN in Huw Watkins’ In the Locked Room Music Theatre Wales and Scottish Opera, and Henze's song cycle Voices Barbican.
Paul studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
photo: Nick Ritter
Ssurin
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
Tschaplitzky
Andre Nevans
Tenor
Andre Nevans ist 1. Tenor im Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper.
photo: Niklas Marc Heinecke
Narumoff
Roman Astakhov
Bass
Roman Astakhov is 2nd bass in the choir of the Hamburg State Opera.
photo: Niklas Marc Heinecke
Gräfin
Elena Zaremba
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Lisa
Elena Guseva
Soprano
Birthplace:
Kurgan, Sibiria
Studies:
Choir conducting at Shostakovich College of Music and singing at Moscow Conservatory
Prizes:
First Prize at the Seventh Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Opera Singers (2009), Third Prize at the 48th International Singing Competition Francisco Vinas (2011), Third Prize as well as Audience Award at the 14 th Tchaikovsky Competition (2011)
Important parts:
Aida (Aida), Desdemona (Otello), Leonora (La forza del destino), Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly), Mimì (La Bohème), Floria Tosca (Tosca), Liù (Turandot), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Lisa (Queen of Spades), Nastasia (The Enchantress), Iolanta, Yaroslavna (Prince Igor), Polina (The Gambler), Natasha Rostova (War and Peace), Jenufa (Jenufa), Foreign Princess (Rusalka), Micaëla (Carmen), Antonia (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) , Emma (Khovanshchina), Marietta (The Dead City), et al.
Stages:
Teatro alla Scala Milan, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Stuttgart State Opera, Opéra de Lyon, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Theater Basel, Stanislavsky Theater Moscow, Bolshoi Theater Moscow, National Theater Prague, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Bregenz Festival, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Karoline Gruber, Michael Hartmann, Christof Loy, Alexander Titel, Jere Erkkilä, Andriy Zholdak, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Simone Young, Kent Nagano, Valery Gergiev, Alexander Lazarev, Alexander Vedernikov, Daniele Rustioni, Marco Armiliato, Mikhail Tatarnikov, Evgeny Brazhnik, Timur Zangiev, Modestas Pitrėnas, Björn Huestege, et al.
Pauline
Kai Rüütel-Pajula
Mezzo-soprano
Birthplace:
Eesti, Estonia
Studies:
Georg Ots Music School in Tallinn, Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, Dutch National Opera Academy, Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, et al.
Important parts:
Sonyetka (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Judith (Bluebeard’s Castle), Die Wirtstochter (Königskinder), Fricka (Die Walküre), Wellgunde (Götterdämmerung), Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Second Norn (Götterdämmerung), Emilia (Otello), Waltraute (Die Walküre), Meg Page (Falstaff), et al.
Stages:
Royal Opera House, Dutch National Opera, Theater an der Wien, Teatro Real, Opera Vlaanderen, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Scottish Opera, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Dallas Opera, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Christof Loy, Andriy Zholdak, Calixto Bieito, Keith Warner, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Han-Na Chang, Dennis Russel Davies, Vasily Petrenko, et al.
photo: Kroot Tarkmeel
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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