Cast

Director

Dmitri Tcherniakov

Birthplace:
Moscow, Russia

Studies:
Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, Moscow (1993)

Prizes:
The Golden Mask, Premio Franco Abbiati, Premios Líricos Teatro Campoamor, International K. S. Stanislavsky Prize, The International Opera Award (Category: Best Director), Stage Designer and Director of the Year (Opernwelt-Magazine)

Important productions:
„Salome“ (Hamburgische Staatsoper, 2023), „From the House of the Dead“ (Ruhrtriennale, 2023) „War and Peace“ (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2023), „Der Ring des Nibelungen“ (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2023), „Der fliegende Holländer“ (Bayreuth Festival, 2021), „Eugene Onegin“ (Wiener Staatsoper, 2020), „Cosi fan tutte“ (Aix-en-Provence Fesitval, 2020), „Les Troyens“ (Opéra national de Paris, 2019), „Tristan und Isolde“ (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2018), „Fürst Igor“ (Dutch National Opera Amsterdam, 2017), „Snegourochka“ (Opéra National de Paris, 20217), „Carmen“ (Festival d‘Aix-en-Provence, 2017), „Iolanta/Der Nussknacker“ (Opéra National de Paris, 2016), „Pelléas et Mélisande“ (Opernhaus Zürich, 2016), „Herzog Blaubarts Burg/Senza Sangue“ (Hamburgische Staatsoper, 2016), „Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District“ (English National Opera, 2015 and Deutsche Oper am Rhein, 2008), „Don Giovanni“ (Canadian Opera Company, 2015), „Parsifal“ (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2015), „Lulu“ (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2015), „Die Legende von der unsichtbaren Stadt Kiteg“ (Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2014 and Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, 2012), „La Traviata“ (Teatro alla Scala, 2013), „Die Zarenbraut“ (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2014), „Fürst Igor“ (Metropolitan Opera, 2014), „Jenufa“ (Opernhaus Zürich, 2012), „Il trovatore“ (La Monnaie, 2012), „Don Giovanni“ (Festival d‘Aix-en-Provence, 2010), „Ruslan und Ludmila“ (Bolschoi-Theater,2011), „Simone Boccanegra“(English National Opera, 2011), „Dialogues des Carmélites“ (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2010), „Wozzeck“ (Bolschoi-Theater, 2010), „Macbeth“ (Opéra national de Paris, 2009), „Chowanschtschina“ (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2008), „Der Spieler“ (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2008), „Eugen Onegin“ (Bolschoi-Theater, 2006), „Boris Godunow“ (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2005), „Aida“(Novosibirsk, 2004), „The Rake’s Progress“ (Bolschoi-Theater, 2003), „Ein Leben für den Zaren“ and „Tristan und Isolde“ (Mariinski-Theater, 2002), et al.

Career stages:
Director, Stage and Costume Designer since 1993

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

photo: Doris Spiekemann-Klaas

General Music Director of Hamburg

Kent Nagano

Kent Nagano is considered one of today’s outstanding conductors for both operatic and orchestral repertoire. Since September 2015, he has been General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. In addition, he is committed as Artistic Director of the Ring project “The Wagner Cycles” of Dresdner Musikfestspiele with Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln, and as patron of the Herrenchiemsee Festival. He has been Honorary Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin since 2006, Concerto Köln since 2019, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal since 2021 and the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester since 2023.

The 2024/25 season is Kent Nagano's last season as General Music Director in Hamburg and brings four new productions to the Staatsoper under Nagano's musical direction: Carl Orff's Trionfi, Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, Unsuk Chin's The Dark Side of the Moon, and Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier's The Illusions of William Mallory. Furthermore, he conducts symphony concerts with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester in the Elbphilharmonie as he does every season, including the New Year's performance and the world premiere of Alex Nante's symphony Anahata, a work commissioned by the Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Highlights of recent seasons in Hamburg have included opera productions such as Boris Godunov, Salome, performances of Sciarrino's Venere e Adone and Britten's Peter Grimes, Les Troyens, Lulu, Lessons in Love and Violence and the world premiere of Stilles Meer as well as Les Contes d'Hoffmann in the new production by Daniele Finzi Pasca (released on DVD by EuroArts, February 2022), the “Philharmonic Academy” in St. Michaelis, open-air concerts at the Rathausmarkt and the world premiere of Pascal Dusapin's work Waves for organ and orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie. Orchestral tours with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg have taken Kent Nagano to Japan, Spain and South America.

In the 2024/25 season, Kent Nagano conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Passau, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in Montréal and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester in Berlin, among others. He also conducts Dusapin's Il Vaggio, Dante in a production by Claus Guth at the Paris Opera and the revival of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre in a production by Krzysztof Warlikowski at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

As a much sought-after guest conductor, Kent Nagano regularly works with leading international orchestras worldwide, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique Radio France, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre de l'Opéra national in Paris, the Chicago and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and the Wiener Symphoniker. A special project was the Bernstein opera A quiet place at the Paris Opera. Other opera productions include the world premiere of Dusapin's Il viaggio, dante at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Hindemith's Cardillac, Henze's Die Bassariden and the world premiere of Saariaho's L'amour de loin at the Salzburg Festival. Other world premieres conducted by Nagano include Bernstein's A White House Cantata and the operas Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin, Three Sisters by Peter Eötvös and The Death of Klinghoffer and El Niño by John Adams.

Under the artistic direction of Kent Nagano and the Intendant of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele Jan Vogler, Wagner's Ring Tetralogy will be performed in the artistic context of the period in which it was composed, based on the latest findings of research into Wagner and performance practice, and integrated into an extensive supporting program as part of the multi-year project The Wagner Cycles of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele from 2023 to 2026. The first performance in 2023 was Das Rheingold at the Dresden Music Festival and the tour to Cologne, Ravello and Lucerne under the musical direction of Kent Nagano. Die Walküre followed in 2024 as the second work in the epochal narrative in Prague, Amsterdam, Cologne, Dresden, Hamburg and Lucerne. In 2025, the project devotes itself to Richard Wagner's Siegfried and gives historically informed concert performances in international concert halls and opera houses.

Highlights of Kent Nagano's collaboration with the OSM as Music Director from 2006 to 2020 included the inauguration of the orchestra’s new concert hall La Maison Symphonique in September 2011, performances of the complete cycles of Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, concert versions of Wagner's Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Das Rheingold, Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bücher, and Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise. Tours have taken Nagano and the orchestra to Canada including the Northern Territories, Japan, South Korea, Europe (latest 2019), Latin America and the USA. In July 2018, Kent Nagano conducted Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion with the OSM at the Salzburg Festival opening concert.
His recordings with the OSM on Sony Classical/Analekta include Mahler’s Orchestral Songs with Christian Gerhaher in 2013 and a complete recording of all of Beethoven’s symphonies in 2015. Decca released a recording of the North American premiere of L'Aiglon, a rarely performed opera by Honegger and Ibert in 2016, conducted by Nagano in 2015. Further releases by Decca are Danse Macabre with works by Dukas, Saint-Saens, Ives and others in 2016 as well as a recording of Bernstein's A quiet place in 2018 on the occasion of the composer's 100th birthday. John Adams' Common tones in simple time & harmony (Decca) was released in 2019, the Lukas Passion by Penderecki (BIS) and works by Ginastera, Bernstein and Moussa (Analekta) in 2020.

At the Bayerische Staatsoper, where he was General Music Director from 2006 to 2013, Kent Nagano commissioned new operas such as Babylon by Jörg Widmann, Das Gehege by Wolfgang Rihm and Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin. New productions included Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina, Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos and Die Frau ohne Schatten, Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites, Messiaen’s Saint François d'Assise, Berg’s Wozzeck, George Benjamin's Written on skin and Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Tours took Nagano and the Bavarian State Orchestra through Europe and Japan. In addition to Bruckner's Symphonies Nos. 4 and 7 (Sony), Kent Nagano has released several opera performances with the Bavarian State Orchestra on DVD: Unsuk Chin's opera Alice in Wonderland (2008) and Mussorgsky's Chowanschtschina (2009) with unitel classica/medici arts, Dialogue des Carmélites with Bel Air Classiques (2011) and Lohengrin (2010) with Decca.

Another very important period in Nagano’s career was his time as Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin from 2000-2006. He performed Schönberg’s Moses und Aron with the orchestra (in collaboration with Los Angeles Opera) and took them to the Salzburg Festival to perform both Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules and Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten, as well as to the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden with Parsifal and Lohengrin in productions by Nikolaus Lehnhoff. Recordings with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for Harmonia Mundi include repertoire as diverse as Bernstein’s Mass, Bruckner’s Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6, Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge, Wolf’s Mörike-Lieder, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Schönberg’s Die Jakobsleiter and Friede auf Erden, as well as Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 and Schönberg’s Variationen für Orchester Op. 31. In June 2006, at the end of his tenure with the orchestra, Kent Nagano was given the title Honorary Conductor by members of the orchestra – only the second recipient of this honour in their 60-year history. To this day he maintains a close friendship with the orchestra.

In October 2019, Kent Nagano and Mari Kodama expanded their joint recordings of Beethoven's works for piano and orchestra with Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 0 E-flat Major WoO 4, a nearly unknown work from the composer’s youth, and his Rondo for Piano and Orchestra WoO 6 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. The complete edition of Beethoven’s piano concerti was released on the Berlin Classics label.

Nagano was awarded Grammys for his recordings of Busoni’s Doktor Faust with Opéra National de Lyon, Prokofjew’s Peter and the Wolf with the Russian National Orchestra and Saariaho’s L’amour de Loin with the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin. He has worked with labels such as BIS, Decca, Sony Classical, FARAO Classics and Analekta for many years, and has also recorded CDs with Berlin Classics, Erato, Teldec, Pentatone, Deutsche Grammophon and Harmonia Mundi.

To celebrate Kent Nagano's 70th birthday in 2021, a 3-CD box set of works by Olivier Messiaen was released in October on the BR Klassik label. The release includes live recordings of the works Poèmes pour Mi, Chronochromie and La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ from his concerts with the Symphonieorchester und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, demonstrating Nagano's close familiarity with Messiaen's musical language in a special way.

In September 2021, Kent Nagano published his second book with Berlin Verlag. In "10 Lessons of my Life", he recalls ten deeply personal encounters from which he learned important lessons, not only for his career but for his life more broadly. Among those experiences are encounters with the Icelandic pop artist Björk, Frank Zappa, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and the Nobel Prize winner in physics Donald Glaser.
In 2015 Kent Nagano published "Erwarten Sie Wunder!" also in Berlin Verlag, a passionate appeal for the relevance of classical music in today's world. In 2019 the book was released in English by the Canadian McGill-Queen's University Press under the title ″Classical Music - Expect the Unexpected" and in 2015 under "Sonnez, merveilles!" in French by Éditions du Boréal.

Born in California, Nagano maintains close connections with his home state and was Music Director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra from 1978-2009. His first major successes came with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1984, when Messiaen appointed him assistant to conductor Seiji Ozawa for the premiere of his opera Saint François d'Assise. Nagano’s success in America led to European appointments: Music Director of Opéra National de Lyon (1988-1998) and Music Director of the Hallé Orchestra (1991-2000). Kent Nagano became the first Music Director of Los Angeles Opera in 2003 having already held the position of Principal Conductor for two years.

Kent Nagano was awarded an honorary doctorate from McGill University in Montréal in 2005, an honorary doctorate from the Université de Montréal in 2006, and an honorary doctorate from San Francisco State University in 2018. Since 2017, Kent Nagano has been a "Compagnon" of the "Ordre des arts et des lettres" of Québec and in the fall of 2023, Kent Nagano was also awarded the title of "Chevalier" in the "Ordre des art et des lettres" of France. In February 2024, Kent Nagano was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal President and in June 2024 he was awarded the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor. Kent Nagano is the recipient of the 2024 Brahms Prize of the Brahms Society of Schleswig-Holstein.

Find further information about Kent Nagano here.

Performances

• Rathausmarkt Open Air
• 1st Academy Concert - Program I
• 1st Academy Concert - Program II
• 1st Academy Concert - Program III
• Trionfi
• 1st Philharmonic Concert
• Boris Godunov
• Special chamber concert
• Jubiläumsgala: 30 Jahre Internationales Opernstudio
• 3rd Philharmonic Concert
• Elektra
• New Year's Eve concert
• Der fliegende Holländer
• Orchesterprobenbesuch
• 5th Philharmonic Concert
• Ariadne auf Naxos
• 6th Philharmonic Concert
• Les Contes d'Hoffmann
• Opening concert of the Hamburg International Music Festival
• Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
• Die Illusionen des William Mallory
• Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
• 10th Philharmonic Concert

photo: Dominik Odenkirchen

Costumes

Elena Zaytseva

Elena Zaytseva was born in Saint-Petersburg. In 1991 she completed her studies at the faculty of theatre production at the Saint-Petersburg Academy of Theatre Art. From 1990 until 1995 she worked at Lenfilm studio, St Petersburg. From 1995 until 2001 she worked as Chief Specialist in Design at Mariinsky Theatre. In 2001-2003 she was Head of the Costume Department for the New Opera Company. In 2003 she joined the Bolshoi Theatre as Head of the Costume Department and designed the costumes for operas such as "Lady Macbeth von Mzensk" (2004), "Le Corsaire" (2007), "Wozzeck" (2009), "Don Giovanni" (2010), "Petruschka" (2010) und "Ruslan und Ljudmila" (2011).

Since then she realised costumes for Modest Mussorgski´s "Chowanschtina" (Bayerische Staatsoper), "Lady Macbeth von Mzensk" (Deutsche Oper am Rhein), Giuseppe Verdi´s "Macbeth" (opera in Nowosibirsk and Opèra Bastille). In 2013 she designed the costumes for Dmitri Tscherniakov´s production of Rimsky-Korsakow´s "Die Zarenbraut" (Staatsoper im Schiller Theater Berlin and Teatro alla Scala) and Alexander Borodin´s "Fürst Igor" (Metropolitan Opera New York). 2014/15 she realised the costume design for Tcherniakov´s prodcution of Verdi´s "Il trovatore" (Mikhailovsky-Theatre Sankt Petersburg) and Mozart´s "Don Giovanni" (Canadian Opera Company).

In the season 2016/17 she was responsible for the costume design in "Senza Sangue/Herzog Blaubarts Burg" at the Hamburg State Opera.

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

Gleb Filshtinsky

Gleb Filshtinsky stammt aus St. Petersburg und studierte an der dortigen Akademie für Theaterkunst, wo er sich bereits auf Bühnenbild spezialisierte. Als Lichtdesigner gestaltete er neben zahlreichen Theaterproduktionen auch Showprogramme inklusive Pyrotechnik. Seine Arbeiten wurden mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, u.a. dem Estischen Nationalpreis für Theater. Seine Produktionen „The Rake’s Progress“ und „Eugen Onegin“ am Moskauer Bolschoi- Theater erhielt die Goldene Maske, den wichtigsten russischen Theaterpreis. Er gestaltete zahlreiche Produktionen für das Alexander- und Mariinski-Theater, wie zum Beispiel „Der Ring der Nibelungen“ (2002-2003), „Mazeppa“ (2006, Y.Alexandrov) und „Tristan und Isolde“ (2005, D.Tcherniakov). Des Weiteren wirkte er an vielen internationalen Produktionen mit, unter anderem an „Ruslan und Ludmila“ am Bolshoi Theater in Moskau (2003, V Kramer), „Der Spieler“ an der Staatsoper Unter den Linden (2008, D.Tcherniakov) und „Iolanta/Nußknacker“ an der Oper Paris.
In der Spielzeit 2016/2017 gestaltet er das Licht für „Herzog Blaubarts Burg/Senza Sangue“ an der Staatsoper Hamburg, „Fürst Igor“ an der Dutch National Opera Amsterdam, „Snegourochka“ an der Opéra national de Paris und „Carmen“ in Aix en Provence (Regie: Dmitri Tcherniakov). Ebenfalls in dieser Spielzeit entwickelt er das Lichtdesign für „Madame Butterfly“ an der Mailänder Scala und „Parsifal“ an der Wiener Staatsoper (Regie: Alvis Hermanis).

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

Dramaturge

Tatiana Werestchagina

Birthplace:
Russia

Studies:
Musicology, Moscow Conservatory

Important Pieces:
Tristan und Isolde, Der fliegende Holländer, et al.

Stages:
Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Bayreuther Festspiele, Bolshoi Theater Moskau, die Metropolitan Opera New York, die Opéra Nationale de Paris, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, La Monnaie/De Munt, et al.

Cooperations:
Dmitri Tcherniakov, et al.

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

photo: Privat

Dramaturgy

Michael Sangkuhl

Birthplace:
Regensburg, Germany

Studies:
Historical musicology, philosophy and art history at the University of Regensburg

Relation to the State Opera:
Dramaturge at the Hamburg State Opera and for the concerts of the Philharmonic State Orchestra since the 2022/23 season

Stations:
Internships, assistant director, evening stage manager and stage manager for surtitles at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, at the Theater Regensburg and at the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl
Academic teaching in the field of musicology at the University of Regensburg

Performances

• Dollhouse
• Ariadne auf Naxos
• Mitridate, re di Ponto
• Die dunkle Seite des Mondes

photo: Johannes Xaver Zepplin

Dramaturge

Dr. Angela Beuerle

Origin:
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Studies:
Musicology, German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Hamburg; doctorate (Dr. phil.) with a thesis on medieval language theory

Career stages:
Freelance dramaturge for music theatre (since 2014), teaching at the theatre academy of the HfMT Hamburg (since 2014), dramaturge for music theatre at Staatstheater Stuttgart (2006-2014), freelance artistic participation at Hamburgische Staatsoper, Ruhrtriennale (until 2006); publishes regularly in the fields of opera, concert, music and literature

Cooperations:
Peter Konwitschny, La fura dels baus, Joachim Schlömer, Igor Bauersima, Yona Kim, Thomas Bischoff, Markus Dietz, Calixto Bieito, Andrea Moses, Jossi Wieler/Sergio Morabito, Lydia Steier, Philipp Himmelmann, u. a.

Performances

• La clemenza di Tito
• Der Freischütz
• Ariadne auf Naxos
• Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
• Frühlings Erwachen

Assistant director

Thorsten Cölle

Birthplace:
Stuttgart, Germany

Studies:
Theater studies and political science, Free University of Berlin
Opera directing, Hanns Eisler School of Music, Berlin

Important productions:
Opernzeit_Zeitoper (Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin), Melusine (Staatsoper Stuttgart), before the war several productions in Ukraine such as Don Giovanni at the Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre Lugansk

Career stages:
Stage manager at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (2005-2011), since 2011 engagements in Europe, North America and Asia: Bavarian State Opera Munich, Hamburg State Opera, Stuttgart State Opera, Bayreuth Festival, Metropolitan Opera New York, Canadian Opera Company Toronto, Royal Opera House Copenhagen, Dutch National Opera Amsterdam, Théatre de la Monnaie Brussels, Opéra National de Lyon, Festival in Aix-en-Provence, Teatro Real Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Teatro de la Maestranza Sevilla, Teatro alla Scala Milan, Vienna State Opera, Bolshoi Theater Moscow, Mikhailovsky Theater Saint Petersburg, Greek National Opera Athens, English National Opera London, Bunka Kaikan Tokio, Kanagawa Kenwin Hall Yokohama

Cooperations:
Peter Mussbach, Robert Wilson, Jossi Wieler, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Luk Perceval, Jürgen Flimm, David Alden and several more. Since 2011 personal assistant to Dmitri Tscherniakow.

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

photo: Privat

Danila Travin

Biography will be published shortly.

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

Actor

Wolfram Koch

Wolfram Koch was born in Paris in 1962 and trained at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. His first engagements took him to the Freie Volksbühne, the Schiller Theater Berlin and the Schauspiel Frankfurt. From 1995 to 2000 he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, since then he has worked freelance at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, among others. Wolfram Koch has performed regularly for Dimiter Gotscheff and, since his role as the servant Mosca in Volpone, has formed “a new dream couple of the stage” with Samuel Finzi (Frankfurter Rundschau). The artistic quartet Koch, Finzi, Gotscheff and Almut Zilcher received the Berlin Theater Prize in 2011 for their “epoch-making performances in which great acting is combined with extraordinary, intelligent approaches to the material”. Samuel Finzi and Wolfram Koch were awarded the 2015 Gertrud Eysoldt Ring for their roles in Waiting for Godot (directed by Ivan Panteleev, invited to the 2015 Theatertreffen).

Koch made his cinema debut as a 13-year-old in Voytech Jasny's adaptation of the novel Views of a Clown (1975). His films include Draußen ist Sommer (2011, directed by Frederik Jehn), Ein großes Versprechen (2019, directed by Wendla Nölle) and Seneca (2021, directed by Robert Schwentke). Koch is also active as an audio book narrator and has played numerous roles in film and television. In October 2013, Hessischer Rundfunk presented him as the new Tatort commissioner for his home town of Frankfurt am Main, which he played until 2024.

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

photo: Klaus Dyba

Bariton

Martin Gantner

Birthplace:
Freiburg, Germany

Studies:
Singing at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe

Prizes:
Appointment as Kammersänger (Bayerische Staatsoper München, 2005)

Important parts:
Telramund (Lohengrin), Beckmesser (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Amfortas (Parsifal), Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Kaiser Overall (Der Kaiser von Atlantis), Diktator (Der Diktator), Cardillac (Cardillac), Jochanaan (Salome), Pizarro (Fidelio), Faninal (Der Rosenkavalier), Posa (Don Carlo), Il Conte d‘Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), et al.

Stages:
Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Teatro alla Scala Mailand, Opéra Bastille, Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera Company, Opernhaus Zürich, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, New National Theatre Tokyo, et al.

Cooperation with directors:
David Alden, Andreas Homoki, Arpad Schilling, Herbert Wernicke, Maximilian Schell, Martin Kusej, David Pountney, Tim Albery, et al.

Cooperation with conductors:
Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann, Kent Nagano, Semyon Bychkov, James Conlon, Peter Schneider, Fabio Luisi, Gianandrea Noseda, Bertrand de Billy, Philippe Jordan, Bernard Haitink, et al.

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

photo: Tom Jasny

Soprano

Ella Taylor

Birthplace:
Sheffield, United Kingdom

Studies:
University of Sheffield; Royal Academy of Music, London (Distinction in MA Performance, Dip RAM); National Opera Studio, London

Prizes:
Charles Norman Prize, Royal Academy of Music; Second Prize, Kathleen Ferrier Awards

Important Roles:
The Governess/The Turn of the Screw, Füchslein/Das schlaue Füchslein, Fiordiligi/Così fan tutte, Donna Anna/Don Giovanni, Anne Trulove/The Rake’s Progress

Important Stages:
Royal Ballet and Opera, London; English National Opera; Glyndebourne; Dutch National Opera

Cooperations with conductors:
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Nefeli Chadouli, Karen Kamensek, Bertrand de Billy, Jonathan Bloxham, Semyon Bychkov, Finnegan Downie Dear, Adam Hickox, Manoj Kamps, Rory Macdonald, Michael Papadopoulos, Eduardo Strausser, Oliver Zeffman

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

photo: Christa Holka

Tenor

Jamez McCorkle

Studies:
Curtis Institute of Music,
Mannes College, The New School for Music,
Loyola University, New Orleans
International Opera Studio in Zurich
Young Artist Program of the Salzburg Festival in 2017

Prizes:
Finalist in the Neue Stimmen competition in 2019, winner awards and competitions including the George London Competition, Sullivan Foundation, Brava! Opera Competition, National Opera Association Vocal Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Gulf Coast Region

Important parts:
Duke of Cornwall (Lear), Omar (Omar), Telemaco (Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria), Peter the Honeyman (Porgy and Bess), Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos), Leonard Woolfe (The Hours), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Froh (Das Rheingold), et al.

Stages:
San Francisco Opera, Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, Spoleto Festival, LA Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Vlaamse Opera, Carolina Performing Arts Center, San Francisco Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Theatre Basel, Metropolitan Opera, et al.

Cooperations with conductors:
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Fabio Luisi, et al.

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

photo: Sophia Germer

Tenor

Peter Tantsits

Birthplace:
Allentown, Pennslyvania USA

Studies:
Yale University, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme

Important parts:
Emigrante (Intolleranza), Maximilian Aue (Les Bienveillantes), Herodes (Salome), Desportes (Die Soldaten), Piet vom Fass (Le Grand Macabre), Aegisth (Elektra), Wachtmeister (Die Nase), Graf Ferraud (Oberst Chabert), Alviano (Die Gezeichneten), Erik (Der fliegende Holländer), Eumolpe (Perséphone), Gandhi (Satyagraha), Andres (Wozzeck), Perelà (Perelà - Uomo di Fumo), Danilowitz (L’étoile du nord), Oscar Ekdahl (Fanny och Alexander), Pellerin (Volo di notte), Poe (The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe), L’Autre (Point d’orgue), Michael (Donnerstag aus Licht), Electrician (Powder Her Face), Mr. Smith (Die kahle Sängerin), John Worthing (The Importance of Being Earnest), Georges Méliès (Die Reise zum Mond) et al.

Stages:
Teatro alla Scala Mailand, Salzburger Festspiele, Bayerische Staatsoper, Gran Teatre del Liceu, La Monnaie / De Munt, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Semperoper Dresden, Los Angeles Opera, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, New National Theatre Tokyo, Theater Basel, Oper Köln, Berliner Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Musiikkitalo Helsinki, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Beijing Music Festival, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Holland Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden et al.

Cooperation with directors:
Lydia Steier, Calixto Bieito, Peter Sellars, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Milo Rau, Ivo van Hove, William Kentridge, Herbert Fritsch, Robert Lepage, Benedikt von Peter, Barbora Horáková, Antony McDonald, Robert Woodruff, Andreas Kriegenburg, et al.

Cooperation with conductors:
Simon Rattle, Kirill Petrenko, Sakari Oramo, Thomas Adès, Alan Gilbert, Peter Rundel, Emmanuelle Haïm, Titus Engel, Fabio Luisi, Leonard Slatkin, Lorin Maazel, Kazushi Ono, Tito Ceccherini, Joana Mallwitz, Hannu Lintu, André de Ridder, Emilio Pomàrico, Ariane Matiakh, Josep Pons et al.

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

photo: Don Freeman

Baritone

Grzegorz Pelutis

Birthplace:
Słupsk, Poland

Studies:
Bachelor and Masters at Academy of Art in Szczecin, both graduated with honours, Janusz Lewandowski’s singing class (2016-2021)

Master classes:
Opera Academy Young Talent Development Programme of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera In Warsaw (since 2021):
Consant tutelage by: Izabela Kłosińska, Olga Pasiecznik, Eytan Pessen, Matthias Rexroth, Michał Biel, Katelan Tran Terrell;
Guest masterclasses: Edith Wiens, Ewa Podleś, Mariusz Kwiecień, Maciej Pikulski, Hedwig Fassbender, Tobias Truniger, Adrian Kelly, Vesselina Kassarova, Fausto Nardi, Małgorzata Walewska

Prizes:
3rd prize and Juan Pons Prize at I International Juan Pons Singing Competition - Palma de Mallorca, Spain, June 2022
2nd prize winner at 1st Swiss International Music Competition – online, July 2021
2nd prize winner and special prize winner of the Director of the K. Namysłowski Symphony Orchestra in Zamość at 7th Krystyna Jamroz National Vocal Competition - Kielce/Busko-Zdrój, Poland, February 2022
3rd prize winner at 7th National Vocal Competition in Drezdenko, Poland, November 2021
3rd prize winner in"Opera Singers" category at"Prague Romansiada" competition, Prague 2017
Only Polish contestant of Plácido Domingo's Operalia 2022

Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since the season 2023/24

Important parts:
Chorąży “Ensign” (Hrabina - "The Countess"), Dudziarz (Halka), The Mayor “Burmistrz” (Szarlatan, czyli wskrzeszanie zmarłych - “Charlatan, or resurrection of the dead”), Escamillo (Carmen), Archiereios (King Roger), et al.

Stages:
Teatr Wielki – National Polish Opera, The Castle Opera in Szczecin, Polish Philharmonic "Sinfonia Baltica" named after Wojciech Kilar in Słupsk, Gorzów Philharmonic, Tadeusz Baird Philharmonic in Zielona Góra, Stanisław Moniuszko Philharmonic in Koszalin, Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in Cracow, Various concerts across Europe, e. g. Berlin, Kaliningrad, Prague, Magdeburg, Warsaw, Varna

Cooperation with directors:
Mariusz Treliński, Barbara Wiśniewska, Rafał Matusz, Jitka Stokalska, et al.

Cooperation with conductors:
Jerzy Wołosiuk, Małgorzata Bornowska, Tadeusz Kozłowski, Michał Klauza, Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny, Stefan Plewniak, et al.

Performances

• Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna
• Tosca
• Jubiläumsgala: 30 Jahre Internationales Opernstudio
• La Bohème
• Bühne frei!
• Ariadne auf Naxos
• Rigoletto
• La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West)
• Konzert des Internationalen Opernstudios

photo: Jörn Kipping

Bass

Hubert Kowalczyk

Birthplace:
Radom, Poland

Studies:
Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin with Prof. Martin Bruns and Prof. Dr. Michail Lanskoi; Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali "Pietro Mascagni" in Livorno with Prof. Graziano Polidori; Young Talents Development Program - Opera Academy in Warsaw

Master class:
Lioba Braun, Helmut Deutsch, Brigitte Fassbaender, Tomasz Konieczny, Bogdan Makal, Olga Pasiecznik, Eytan Pessen, Rudolf Piernay, Matthias Rexroth, Harald Stamm, et al.

Important parts:
Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro), Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia), Colline (La Bohème), Crespel (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Haly (L'italiana in Algeri), Nourabad (Les Pêcheurs de perles), Oroveso (Norma), Pistola (Falstaff), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Zuniga (Carmen), et al.

Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2021/22 season
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera from 2019/20 to 2021/22

Stages:
Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Zurich Opera House, Bregenz Festival, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, Opera Rara Festival in Krakow, et al.

Cooperation with directors:
Calixto Bieito, David Bösch, Frank Castorf, Petra Deidda, Brigitte Fassbaender, Herbert Fritsch, Alexander Riemenschneider, Dmitri Tcherniakov, et al.

Cooperation with conductors:
Matteo Beltrami, Bertrand de Billy, Giampaolo Bisanti, Jonathan Brandani, Daniele Callegari, Paolo Carignani, Nicholas Carter, Vladimir Conta, Axel Kober, Volker Krafft, Carlo Montanaro, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Kent Nagano, Ivan Repušić, Sébastien Rouland, Robin Ticciati, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Lidiya Yankovskaya, et al.

Find further information about Hubert Kowalczyk here.

Performances

• Der Freischütz
• Bühne frei!
• Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
• Ariadne auf Naxos
• Rigoletto
• Il trovatore
• Parsifal
• Salome

photo: Martina Cyman

Soprano

Nadezhda Pavlova

Nadezhda Pavlova startete ihre Karriere in der russischen Republik Karelien, zuerst als Studentin an der Musikhochschule der Hauptstadt Petrosawodsk, dann als Solistin am dortigen Opernhaus. Kurz nachdem Teodor Currentzis zum Künstlerischen Leiter der Staatsoper Perm ernannt wurde, wechselte die Sopranistin ebenfalls nach Perm, wo sie seit 2012/13 Solistin ist.
Für ihre Interpretation der Titelrolle von „La traviata“ erhielt Nadezhda Pavlova 2017 die „Goldene Maske“, den bedeutendsten russischen Theaterpreis. Unter Currentzis sang sie diese Partie im Oktober 2018 in einer konzertanten Aufführung auch in der Elbphilharmonie, wofür sie vom Publikum mit Standing Ovations bedacht wurde. Sie ist regelmäßig als Gastsolistin am Musiktheater zu erleben, u.a. auch an der Lettischen National¬oper. Auf der Opernbühne feierte sie Erfolge in Partien wie der Titelrolle in Donizettis „Lucia di Lammermoor“, in Poulencs „Les dialogues des Carmélites“ und Honeggers „Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher“. Ihr Konzertrepertoire umfasst Werke von Bach bis Strauss sowie Liederzyklen russischer Komponisten. Nadezhda Pavlova ist Preisträgerin mehrerer internationaler Wettbewerbe sowie Honored Artist der russischen Föderation.



Find further information about Nadezhda Pavlova here.

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

Soprano

Anja Kampe

Birthplace:
Zella-Mehlis, Germany

Studies:
Vocal training in Dresden and Turin

Prizes:
Appointment as Bavarian Kammersängerin (2018)

Important parts:
Leonore (Fidelio), Brünnhilde (Ring des Nibelungen), Isolde (Tristan und Isolde), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Kundry (Parsifal), Sieglinde (Walküre), Senta (Der fliegende Holländer), Katerina Ismailova (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Floria Tosca (Tosca), Giorgetta (Tabarro), Minnie (Fanciulla del West), Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos), Carlotta (Die Gezeichneten), et al.

Stages:
Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Zurich Opera House, Opéra National de Paris, Bayreuth Festival, Ruhrtriennale, Salzburg Easter Festival, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro Real in Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro di San Carlo, Budapest Wagner Days, Metropolitan Opera New York, Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Glyndebourne Festival, et al.

Cooperations with directors:
Lydia Steier, Calixto Bieito, Willy Decker, Claus Guth, Andreas Homoki, Peter Konwitschny, Harry Kupfer, Dimitri Tschnerniakow, Richard Jones, Tatjana Gürbaca, et al.

Cooperations with conductors:
Zubin Mehta, Kirill Petrenko, Daniel Barenboim, Philippe Jordan, Christian Thielemann, Claudio Abbado, Semyon Bychkov, James Conlon, Mark Elder, Adam Fischer, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding, Marek Janowski, Simone Young, Vladimir Jurowski, Jesùs López-Cobos, Fabio Luisi, Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Andris Nelsons, Kazushi Ono, Donald Runnicles, Franz Welser-Möst, et al.

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

photo: Sasha Vasiljev

Baritone

Björn Bürger

Birthplace:
Rodgau, Germany

Studies:
singing at the Frankfurt Conservatoire, taught by Hedwig Fassbender

Master classes:
with Kurt Moll, Helmut Deutsch and Christoph Pregardien.

Prizes:
Winner of the Frankfurt Polytechnic Society competition (2012),
First Prize in the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang competition in Berlin (2012)

Important parts:
Don Giovanni/Masetto (Don Giovanni), Il Conte di Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Marquis von Posa (Don Carlos), Doktor Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus), Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Wolfram von Eschenbach (Tannhäuser), Billy Budd (Billy Budd), Georg (Der Mieter), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Owen Windgrave (Owen Windgrave), Frank/Fritz (Die tote Stadt), Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande), König Argante (Rinaldo), Osmin (Mozarts Zaide), Bengtsson (Die Gespenstersonate), Schaunard (La Boheme), Astolfo (Orlando Furioso), Don Bucefalo (Le cantatrici villane)

Stages:
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Opéra National du Rhin, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Opéra National de Paris, Norwegische Oper Oslo, Bayerische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Opéra de Lausanne, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Oper Frankfurt, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Glyndebourne Festival, Händelfestspiele Kralsruhe

Cooperations with directors:
Christoph Loy, Robert Carsen et.al.

Cooperations with conductors:
Ingo Metzmacher, Kirill Garrijewitsch Petrenko et.al.

Find further information about Björn Bürger here.

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

photo: Matthias Baus

Tenor

Florian Panzieri

Birthplace:
Paris, France

Studies:
History and Politics, University of Warwick
Singing, Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London

Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2022/2023 season

Important parts:
Peter Quint (The Turn of the Screw), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Primo Pastore (Orfeo), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Berthold (Scoring a Century), Erasmus (Silvesternacht), 1. und 3. Vorarbeiter (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk), Un Venditore di Canzonette (Il trittico), et al.

Stages:
Garsington Opera, Reggio Emilia Teatro Valli, The Merry Opera, British Youth Opera, Royal Opera House London, Staatsoper Hamburg, et al.

Cooperations with directors:
Paul Curran, John Caird, Keith Warner, Fabio Condemi, Axel Ranisch, Mart Van Berckel, et al.

Cooperations with conductors:
Kent Negano, Giampaolo Bisanti, Francesco Bossaglia, Ivan Repusic, et al.

Find further information about Florian Panzieri here.

Performances

• Boris Godunov
• Ariadne auf Naxos
• Salome

photo: Benjamin Reason

Bass, Bass-Baritone

Stephan Bootz

Birthplace:
Mainz, Germany

Studies:
Singing/music theater (diploma), HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin

Important parts:
Wotan (Das Rheingold), Wotan (Die Walküre), Der Wanderer (Siegfried), König Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Kaspar/Eremit (Der Freischütz), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Il grande Inquisitore (Don Carlo), Pimen (Boris Godunov), Jochanaan (Salome), Il padre Guardiano (La forza del destino), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Oroveso (Norma), Ramfis (Aida)

Stages:
Staatstheater Mainz (Stammhaus), Staatsoper Stuttgart, Ruhrtriennale, Theater Freiburg, Landestheater Niederbayern, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Stadttheater Gießen, Staatstheater Oldenburg, Staatstheater Cottbus, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

Cooperations with directors:
Dimitri Tcherniakov, Elisabeth Stöppler, Lydia Steier, Immo Karaman, Alexander Nerlich, Johannes Reitmeier, Eva-Maria Höckmayr, Robert Lehmeier, Stefan Tilch, Luise Kautz, Bernd Mottl, Frank Hilbrich

Cooperations with conductors:
Dennis Russel Davies, Hermann Bäumer, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Phillipe Jordan

Find further information about Stephan Bootz here.

Performances

• Ariadne auf Naxos

photo: Peter Litvai

Tenor

Daniel Kluge

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.

Performances

• Der fliegende Holländer
• Ariadne auf Naxos
• Falstaff
• Salome

photo: Martina Cyman

Soprano

Olivia Warburton

Birthplace:
Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

Studies:
Royal Academy of Music, London (Bachelor of Music with honours, Master of Arts with distinction, Artist Diploma in Opera studies), Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Köln (Erasmus MA), Georg Solti Accademia, Tuscany.

Masterclasses:
Anne Sofie von Otter (Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme), Richard Bonynge (Georg Solti Accademia), Barbara Frittoli (Georg Solti Accademia), Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Royal Academy of Music), Florian Boesch (Royal Academy of Music).

Prizes:
Winner of Arthur Bucher Memorial Prize for highest mark in final recital, Prize winner at the 1st International Haydn Competition in Vienna, Finalist in Renata Tebaldi Competition 2022.

Important parts:
Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Euridice (L’anima del Filosofo), Anne Frank (Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank), Teseo (Teseo), Valetto (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen), L’enfant (L’enfant et les sortilèges), et al.

Stages:
Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar; Festival d’Aix en Provence; The Grange Festival; Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris; London Handel Festival; Halle Handel Festival; Wigmore Hall, London; Oxford Lieder Festival; The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace; Aldeburgh Festival; Lincoln Centre, New York; Royal Festival Hall, London et al.

Cooperations with directors:
Simon McBurney, Tim Supple, Jack Furness, Jonathan Moore, Kay Kuntze, Martin Duncan, Olivia Fuchs, Oliver Platt.

Cooperations with conductors:
John Adams, Masaaki Suzuki, Jane Glover, Gregor Bühl, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Jan Pascal Tortelier, Finnegan Downie Dear, Laurence Cummings, Victor Jacob, Ruben Gazarian, et al.

Find further information about Olivia Warburton here.

Performances

• Bühne frei!
• Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
• Ariadne auf Naxos
• „Muss denn in diesem Land immer alles politisch sein?“
• Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank

photo: Elena Ramirez

Mezzo-Soprano

Aebh Kelly

Birthplace:
Dublin, Ireland

Studies:
Mascarade Emerging Artists, Florence
Georg Solti Accademia
Irish National Opera Studio
Royal Irish Academy of Music (BMus)

Master class:
Richard Bonynge, Aigul Akhmetshina, Freddie De Tommaso (Georg Solti Accademia), Vivica Genaux (Mascarade Emerging Artists), Tara Erraught, Paula Murrihy (Irish National Opera), Bernarda Fink (Neue Stimmen Masterclass), Ann Murray (Royal Irish Academy of Music)

Prizes:
2nd Prize & Dermot Troy Prize (Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition)
Final Round (Neue Stimmen)
1st Prize (Maura Dowdall Concerto Competition)

Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2024/2025 season.

Important parts:
Dido (Dido & Aeneas), Flora (La Traviata), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Popova (The Bear), Endimione (La Calisto), Catherine (A Thing I Cannot Name), Melissa (La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina)

Stages:
Teatro La Fenice, Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, Teatr Wielki Opera, National Opera House Wexford, Cork Opera House, National Concert Hall Dublin

Cooperation with directors:
Marie Lambert-Le Bihan, Noa Naamat, Jean-Romain Vesperini, Pedro Ribiero, Federico Grazzini, Olivia Fuchs, Sonja Trebes

Cooperation with conductors:
Laurent Wagner, Roland Kluttig, Jonathan Santagada, Jonathan Bloxham, Wyn Davies, Christian Curnyn, Fergus Sheil, Killian Farrel, David Brophy, Jonathan Cole-Swinard

Find further information about Aebh Kelly here.

Performances

• Boris Godunov
• Jubiläumsgala: 30 Jahre Internationales Opernstudio
• Dollhouse
• Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
• Ariadne auf Naxos
• Rigoletto
• Maria Stuarda
• La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West)
• Konzert des Internationalen Opernstudios

photo: Jörn Kipping

Soprano

Marie Maidowski

Birthplace:
Berlin, Germany

Studies:
Bachelor in singing and music theater with KS Prof. Julie Kaufmann at the Berlin University of the Arts Master in concert singing with KS Prof. Christiane Iven at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich

Master class:
19th Lotte Lehmann Week in Perleberg (2016)
Masterclass with Prof. Marga Schiml in Switzerland (2019)
Masterclass with Prof. Gabriele Lechner in Baden near Vienna (2020)

Prizes:
Scholarship from the Young Musicians Foundation in Mühlheim (2018) Scholarship from the Cusanuswerk study grant (since 2020) Finalist at the German National Singing Competition in the Junior Competition category (2020) Scholarship from the German Stage Association (2023) Staetshuys Fund Prize and Van Amelsvoort Prize for the best interpretation of a work by a female composer at the International Vocal Competition 2023 in `s Hertogenbosch with Lied Duo partner YoungSeob Jeon
Audience and jury prize at the HIDALGO Song Prize 2023 with Lied Duo partner YoungSeob Jeon

Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera from the 2024/25 season

Important parts:
Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro), Nurse (Alzheim), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Silvia (L'isola disabitata), Lovis (Der Baumgeist), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Daphne Colgate (Georgia Bottoms), et al.

Stages:
Staatstheater Cottbus, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Cuvilliéstheater Munich, et al.

Cooperation with directors:
Frank Hilbrich, Bernarda Horres, Tomo Sugao, Maximilian Berling, Isabel Hindersin, et al.

Cooperation with conductors:
Errico Fresis, Johannes Zurl, Johanna Soller, Aris Blettenberg, Henri Bonamy, Gad Kadosh, et al.

Find further information about Marie Maidowski here.

Performances

• Boris Godunov
• Jubiläumsgala: 30 Jahre Internationales Opernstudio
• Elektra
• Dollhouse
• Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
• Ariadne auf Naxos
• „Muss denn in diesem Land immer alles politisch sein?“
• Il trovatore
• Le Nozze di Figaro
• Konzert des Internationalen Opernstudios

photo: Jörn Kipping

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

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.

Performances

• Rathausmarkt Open Air
• 1st Academy Concert - Program I
• 1st Academy Concert - Program II
• 1st Academy Concert - Program III
• 4th Academy Concert
• Trionfi
• Carmen
• The Times Are Racing
• 1st Philharmonic Concert
• Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna
• Boris Godunov
• Special chamber concert
• Tosca
• Jubiläumsgala: 30 Jahre Internationales Opernstudio
• La clemenza di Tito
• Orchesterprobenbesuch
• 2nd Philharmonic Concert
• Don Giovanni
• Jane Eyre
• 3rd Philharmonic Concert
• Elektra
• Der Freischütz
• Luisa Miller
• La Bohème
• Slow Burn
• 4th Philharmonic Concert
• Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
• Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
• The Nutcracker
• New Year's Eve concert
• Der fliegende Holländer
• 5th Philharmonic Concert
• Die Kreide im Mund des Wolfs
• Ariadne auf Naxos
• Manon
• 6th Philharmonic Concert
• Les Contes d'Hoffmann
• Mitridate, re di Ponto
• Eugene Onegin
• 7th Philharmonic Concert
• PhiSch - das Staatsorchester hautnah...
• Don Pasquale
• Rigoletto
• Maria Stuarda
• La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West)
• Il trovatore
• Falstaff
• 8th Philharmonic Concert
• La Traviata
• The Odyssey
• Parsifal
• Pique Dame
• Opening concert of the Hamburg International Music Festival
• Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank
• Romeo and Juliet
• Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
• Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
• 9th Philharmonic Concert
• Salome
• National Youth Ballet
• Nijinsky
• Frühlings Erwachen
• Così fan tutte
• Le Nozze di Figaro
• 10th Philharmonic Concert
• Demian
• Nijinsky Gala L

photo: Foto: Felix Broede