Giuseppe Verdi | Il trovatore
Musikalische Leitung
Matteo Beltrami
Conductor
Birthplace:
Genoa, Italy
Studies:
Musical Conduction at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, Violin at Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini in Genoa
Repertoire:
From Baroque to contemporary opera, mainly Italian opera repertoire (Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Giordano, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Nino Rota, Ciro Menotti) and Mozart
Career stages:
Music Director of the Teatro Coccia in Novara 2016, Artistic Director of the Teatro Coccia 2018/2019.
Stages:
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Oper Köln, Aalto Theater Essen, Opera Graz, Royal Opera Stockholm, Nationl Center for Performing Arts Beijing, Opéra de Montpellier, Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao, Teatre Principal de Palma, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, et al.
Cooperation with orchestras:
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestra i Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, Symphony Orchestra of Goyania, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Latvia, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, State Orchestra of Hermitage, Philharmonic Orchestra of St. Petersburg, et al.
photo: Teresa Rothwangl
Chorleitung
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.
Luna
Boris Pinkhasovich
Baritone
The Russian-Austrian baritone Boris Pinkhasovich received his musical training in conducting and voice at the Conservatory of his hometown, St. Petersburg. Immediately after graduating, he was engaged as a soloist at the renowned Mikhailovsky Theatre and soon after celebrated his international breakthrough.
Since then, Boris Pinkhasovich has been a sought-after guest at leading opera houses worldwide. At the Bavarian State Opera, he has captivated audiences in roles such as Onegin, Ford, Sharpless, Rodrigo, Lescaut, Yeletsky, and Kovalyov in Shostakovich’s acclaimed production of “The Nose”. He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 2018 as Figaro in “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” and has since appeared regularly in roles such as Onegin, Sharpless, Ford, Rodrigo, Yeletsky, Marcello, and Lescaut. Further engagements have taken him to the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Marcello), Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Enrico, Marcello), the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Shchelkalov, Marcello, Belcore), the Zurich Opera House (Enrico), as well as the Opéra de Paris, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Salzburg Festival, the Baden-Baden Easter Festival, and the Berlin Philharmonic.
In September 2023, Boris Pinkhasovich was awarded the Austrian Music Theater Prize for his interpretation of Yeletsky in Pique Dame at the Vienna State Opera.
In the 2024/2025 season, he will be seen at the Vienna State Opera as Robert in a new production of Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta” and as Yeletsky in “Pique Dame”. Further highlights of the season include his role debut as Valentin in Gounod’s “Faust” at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and his return to the Bavarian State Opera as Yeletsky in “Pique Dame”.
photo: Franz Pfluegl
Manrico
Enea Scala
Tenor
Studies:
Voice, Conservatory of Bologna
Master classes:
Fernando Cordeiro Opa
Important parts:
Arnoldo (Guillaume Tell), Arnolde (Guillaume Tell), Roudi (Guillaume Tell), Belfiore (II viaggio a Reims), Rinaldo (Armida), Piladre (Ermione), Mosé (Egitto), Rodrigo (La donna del lago), Libenskof (II viaggio a Reims), et al.
Stages:
Bayerische Staatsoper, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Teatro Regio di Torino, Opera di Firenze, Teatro San Carlo, Opéra de Marseille, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Opéra Grnier, La Monnaie, Opera Vlaamse, London´s Royal Opera House, Royal Opera House Muscat, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Bruno Bartoletti, Andrea Battistoni, Giampaolo Bisanti, Enrique Mazzola, paolo Cargnani, Emmanuelle Haim, Jesús López Cabos, Michele Mariotti, Ricardo Muti, Christophe Rousset, Fredric Wake-Walker, Jean-Louis Grinda, et al.
photo: Franco Lannino
Leonora
Eleonora Buratto
Soprano
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photo: Dario Acosta
Azucena
Clementine Margaine
Mezzo-soprano
Birthplace:
Narbonne, France
Studies:
Paris Conservatory
Prizes:
Special Jury Prize at Le Concours International de Chant – Nuits Lyriques de Marmande
Important parts:
Carmen (Carmen), Léonor (La Favorite), Fides (Le Prophète), Amneris (Aida), Concepcion (L’Heure Espagnole), Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust), Dulcinee (Don Quichotte), Sara (Roberto Devereux), Rebecca (Il Templario), Dalila (Samson et Dalila), Charlotte (Werther), Zayda (Don Sebastien), Gertrude (Hamlet), et al.
Stages:
Opéra National de Paris, Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Opera Australia, Canadian Opera Company, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Opéra Municipal de Marseille, Oper Köln, Semperoper Dresden, Washington National Opera, Musikverein in Vienna, Salzburg Festival, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Christian Spuck, Hugo De Ana, Daniele Finzi Pasca, John Bell, Béatrice Lachaussée, Matthew Ozawa, Calixto Bieito, Olivier Py, Jean-Louis Grinda, Derek Gimpel, Jakop Ahlbom, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Riccardo Muti, Daniele Gatti, Stéphane Denève, Emmanuel Villaume, Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli, Giuseppe Finzi, Donald Runnicles, Raphaël Pichon, Jacques Lacombe, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Josep Caballé Domenech, Vladimir Kiradžijevs, Luciano Acocella, Michel Plasson, Ira Levin, Will Crutchfield, Evan Rogister, Charles Dutoit, Paolo Carignani, Andrea Molino, Sir Andrew Davis, Friedrich Haider, Juraj Valcuha, Paolo Arrivabeni, Enrique Mazzola, Maxime Pascal, Patrick Summers, et al.
photo: Dario Acosta
Ferrando
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
Inez
Elizaveta Kulagina
Soprano
Sorry, there is no biography available at the moment.
photo: Daniil Rabovsky
Ruiz
Colin Aikins
Tenor
Sorry, there is no biography available at the moment.
photo: Eva Ravel
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
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