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Kazushi Ono
conductor
Birthplace:
Tokyo, Japan
Studies:
Tokyo University of the Arts
Awards:
“Officier de l´ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French cultural minister (2017), Asahi Prize (2015), Gramophone´s Opera Award at the Glyndebourne Festival (2014), Grammy Award for “Diva Divo” (2012), Prix de la critique and Prix de Claude Rostand for “Le Rossignol et autres fables” (2011), The Imperial Prize and Japan Arts Academy Prize, Suntory Music Award (2010), Prix de la critique, Prix de Claude Rostand for “Le Joueur”, “Lulu” and “Mort à Venise”, Exxon Mobil Music Award (2009), Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts (2007), Prix de la critique and European Grand Prize for Opera (2006), Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award, Idemitsu Music Award (1997), Akio Watanabe Music Foundation Award, Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists by Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts (1993), Muramutsu Award (1989), Arturo Toscanini International Competition for Conductors (1987)
Repertoire:
Kazushi Ono’s musical influence and vision span and connect continents and cultures; russian repertoire, new music, et al.
Career stages:
Artistic Director of Opera at the New National Theatre Tokyo (since 2018), Music Director of Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra (since 2017), Music Director of Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (since 2017), Artistic Consultant of Opera at the New National Theatre Tokyo (2016), Principal Guest Conductor of Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Principal Conductor of Opéra National de Lyon (2008–2017), Music Director of Theatre Royal de la Monnaie (2002–2008), General Music Director of Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (1996–2002), Music Director of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra (1990–1996)
Stages:
Opera at the New National Theatre Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Suntory Hall, 2017 BBC Proms, Opéra National de Lyon, Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Oper Frankfurt, Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opéra National de Paris, Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, et al.
Cooperation with orchestras:
London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, et al.
photo: Luca Trascinelli
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.
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David Leigh
Bass
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photo: Jiyang Chen
Senta
Simone Schneider
Soprano
Birthplace:
Hagen, Germany
Studies:
Studied voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, and member of the opera studio of the Bavarian State Opera
Awards:
Appointed Kammersängerin of the Stuttgart State Opera in 2016.
Important roles:
Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Leonore (Fidelio), Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Madame Lidoine (Dialogues des Carmélites), Chrysothemis (Elektra), Gutrune (Götterdämmerung), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Feldmarschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), Die Kaiserin (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Salome (Salome), among others.
Stages:
Stuttgart State Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Leipzig Opera, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Vienna State Opera, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Komische Oper Berlin, among others.
Collaboration with directors:
Kirill Serebrennikov, Christoph Marthaler, Peter Konwitschny, Harry Kupfer , Georges Delnon, Árpád Schilling, among others.
Collaboration with conductors:
Adam Fischer, Marek Janowski, Kent Nagano , Valery Gergiev, Ulf Schirmer, Georg Fritzsch, Sylvain Cambreling, Cornelius Meister, and others.
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Attilio Glaser
Tenor
Birthplace:
Ulm, Germany
Studies:
Singing, Munich conservatory
Important parts:
Alfredo (La Traviata), Don José (Carmen), Duca (Rigoletto), Idomeneo (Idomeneo), Ismaele (Nabucco), Narraboth (Salome), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Tamino (Zauberflöte), Werther (Werther), et al.
Stages:
Bayreuther Festspiele, Deutsche Oper Berlin, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Oper Frankfurt, Oper Leipzig, Opernhaus Zürich, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro La Fenice Venedig, Wiener Staatsoper, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Sven-Eric Bechtolf, David Hermann, Vincent Huguet, Christof Loy, Damiano Michieletto, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Graham Vick, Rolando Villazón, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Marc Albrecht, Alain Altinoglu, Paolo Arrivabeni, Andrea Battistoni, Giampaolo Bisanti, Nicholas Carter, Riccardo Chailly, Michele Gamba, Daniele Gatti, Thomas Guggeis, Marie Jaquot, Oksana Lyniv, Zubin Mehta, Franz Welser-Möst, Markus Poschner, Ivan Repušić, Sir Donald Runnicles, Giacomo Sagripanti, Giedrė Šlekytė, Markus Stenz, Sir Jeffrey Tate, Christian Thielemann, Lorenzo Viotti, Stephan Zilias, et al.
photo: Simon Pauly
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Katja Pieweck
Soprano
Birthplace:
Hannover, Germany
Studies:
Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg with Prof. Ks. Judith Beckmann
Prizes:
Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer Preis of the Körber-Stiftung (2007), Cultural Prize of the Berenberg Bank Hamburg (2000), First Prize of the International Robert Stolz Singing Competition in Hamburg (2000), Masefield Fellowship of the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 1999/2000, member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera (1997/98 to 1998/99)
Important parts:
Adalgisa (Norma), Mercédès (Carmen), Hexe (Königskinder), Smeton (Anna Bolena), Alisa (Lucia di Lammermoor), Marquise de Berkenfield (La fille du régiment), Sélysette (Ariane et Barbe-Bleue), Arsamene (Xerxes), Sancta Susanna (Klementia), Gertrud/Sandmännchen (Hänsel und Gretel), Frau des Dorfrichters (Jenufa), Valencienne (Die lustige Witwe), Witwe Browe (Zar und Zimmermann), Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), Damigella Pallade (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Schenkwirtin (Boris Godunov), Mutter (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Mère Marie (Dialogues des Carmélites), Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Frugola (Il Tabarro), Goneril (Lear), Berta/Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Marchese Melibea (Il Viaggio a Reims), Ariadne (Ariadne), Adelaide (Arabella), Annina (Der Rosenkavalier), Aufseherin/1. Magd (Elektra), Curra/Preziosilla (La Forza del Destino), Annina (La Traviata), Meg Page/Alice Ford (Falstaff), Giovanna/Maddalena (Rigoletto), Fenena (Nabucco), Emilia (Otello), Fricka (Das Rheingold), Siegrune/Sieglinde (Die Walküre), Magdalena (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Adriano (Rienzi), Eglantine (Euryanthe), Ericlea (Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria), Larina (Eugen Onegin), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Semperoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Staatstheater Mainz, Bayerische Staatsoper, Oper Leipzig, Internationale Herrenchiemsee Festspiele, Staatsoper Hannover, et al.
Zusammenarbeit mit Regisseuren:
Peter Konwitschny, Karoline Gruber, Claus Guth, Willy Decker, Achim Freyer, Roger Vontobel, Stefan Herheim, Michael Thalheimer, et al.
Zusammenarbeit mit Dirigenten:
Simone Young, Sir Simon Rattle, Peter Schneider, Ingo Metzmacher, Gerd Albrecht, Sebastian Weigle, Rolf Beck, Krzysztof Penderecki, et al.
photo: Ida Aldrian
Der Steuermann Dalands
Daniel Kluge
Tenor
Birthplace:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Studies:
Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Klaus Dieter Kern
Master classes:
with Roman Trekel, Julia Varady and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as well as master classes for „Liedgesang“ with Markus Hadulla, Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2019/20 season
Important parts:
Normanno (Lucia di Lammermoor), Abdallo (Nabucco), Remendado (Carmen), Flavio (Norma), Knappe und 1. Gralsritter (Parsifal), Kilian (Freischütz), Dr. Blind (Die Fledermaus), Spoletta (Tosca), Schreiber (Chowanschtschina), Jacquino (Fidelio), Ein Soldat (Reigen), Chick (Der Schaum der Tage), Borsa (Rigoletto), Knusperhexe (Hänsel und Gretel), Orpheus (Orpheus in der Unterwelt), Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Truffaldino (Die Liebe zu drei Orangen), Balakin (Charodeyka), Max (Der Freischütz), Tanzmeister (Ariadne auf Naxos), Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer), Vierter Jude (Salome), et al.
Stages:
Staatsoper Stuttgart, Staatsoper Wien, Volksoper Wien, Stadttheater Bern, Aalto-Theater Essen, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Opéra National de Lyon, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito, Kirill Serebrennikov, Nicola Hümpel , Tobias Hoheisel, Imogen Kogge, Armin Petras, Demis Volpi, Axel Ranisch, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Sylvain Cambreling, Georg Fritzsch, Roland Kluttig, Giacomo Sagripanti, Johannes Witt, Hans Christoph Bünger, Kirill Karabits, Willem Wentzel, Alejo Pérez, Christopher Schmitz, et al.
photo: Martina Cyman
Der Holländer
Jordan Shanahan
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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.
photo: Foto: Felix Broede
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.
photo: Niklas Marc Heinecke
