Gioachino Rossini | Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Sat, May 23, 2026, 7.30 pm - 11.00 pm
Cast
Musikalische Leitung
Teresa Riveiro Böhm
Chorleitung
Alice Meregaglia
Alice Meregaglia
Biography will be published shortly.
Performances
Conte Almaviva
Jonah Hoskins
Jonah Hoskins
Biography will be published shortly.
Performances
Don Bartolo
Johannes Martin Kränzle
Baritone
Johannes Martin Kränzle
Birthplace:
Augsburg, Germany
Studies:
Violin with Rudolph Koeckert at the conservatory in Augsburg, musical theater directing in Hamburg and singing with Martin Gründler at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt am Main
Teaching:
Visiting professor at the Cologne University of Music (since 2013), honorary visiting professor in Natal, Brazil (since 1991), various master classes
Prizes:
"Singer of the Year" in the OPERNWELT critics' poll (2011), "Singer of the Year " in the OPERNWELT critics' poll (2018), Der deutsche Theaterpreis DER FAUST (2019 and nomination : 2010), Cologne Opera Prize (2011), winner of the Primo Grande Premio in Rio de Janeiro (1991), winner of the international singing competitions in Vercelli (Viotti), Perpignan and Paris (Placido Domingo). 3rd prize at the composition competition in Berlin for Der Wurm (1997)
Important parts:
Wozzeck (Wozzeck), Blaubart (Bartok), Alberich (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Amfortas, Klingsor (Parsifal), Beckmesser (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Siskov (Aus einem Totenhaus), Prus (Die Sache Makropulos), Griasnoj (Die Zarenbraut), Bolkonski (Krieg und Frieden), Tomsky (Pique Dame), Ford (Falstaff), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Don Alfonso and Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Conte Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Papageno (The Magic Flute), Pizarro (Fidelio), Secretary (The Young Lord), Vershinin (Tri Sestri) Nietzsche (Dionysus), Bill (Mahagonny), Paolo (Simone Boccanegra), et al.
Stages:
Permanent engagements: Theater Dortmund, Hanover State Opera and Frankfurt Opera.
Hamburg State Opera, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Berlin State Opera, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Metropolitan Opera New York, La Scala Milan, Royal Opera House London, National Opera de Paris, Teatro Real Madrid, San Francisco Opera, Bayreuth Festival, Salzburg Festival, Bregenz Festival, Glyndebourne Festival, Lucerne Festival, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Nicolas Brieger, Richard Jones, Barrie Kosky, Harry Kupfer, Christof Loy, David McVicar, David Mouchtar-Samorai, Dmitri Tscherniakov, Keith Warner, Jossi Wieler, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Daniel Barenboim, Simeon Bychkov, Bernard Haitink, Marek Janowsky, Philippe Jordan, Wladimir Jurowsky, Kent Nagano, James Levine, Fabio Luisi, Ingo Metzmacher, Sir Antonio Pappano, Kirill Petrenko, Donald Runnicles, et al.
Performances
photo: Monika Rittershaus
Rosina
Raffaella Lupinacci
Mezzo-soprano
Raffaella Lupinacci
Birthplace:
Acri, Italy
Studies:
Conservatorio Stanislao Giacomantonio, Cosenza
Masterclasses with, among others, Mirella Freni
Prizes:
ASLICO 2012
Accademia Rossiniana Pesaro 2012, et al.
Important parts:
Tancredi (Tancredi), Melibea (Il Viaggio a Reims), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Doralice (La Gazetta), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Carlotta (Torvaldo e Dorliska), Jane Seymour (Anna Bolena), Adalgisa (Norma), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Leonora (La Favorita), Sara (Devereux), Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda), Carmen (Carmen),Fenena (Nabucco), Arturo (Rosmonda d’Inghilterra), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Cherubino (Nozze di Figaro), Donna Elvia (Don Giovanni), Suzuki (Madame Butterfly), et al.
Stages:
Théâtre la Monnaie, Brussels, Rossini Opera Festival, ROF Pesaro, Muskat, Royal Opera House, Theatro Massimo, Palermo, Amsterdam Opera, Teatro Carlo Felice , Genova, Opera House of Menorca, the opera houses of Lima and Seoul, Teatro Petruzzelli, Bari, Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Teatro Comunale, Bologna, Donizetti Festival, Bergamo, Wexford Festival, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Mario Martone, Moshe Leiser, Allex Aguilera, Olivier Fredj, Rosetta Cucchi, Davide Livermore, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Alberto Zedda, Michele Mariotti, Daniel Oren, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Gabriele Ferro, Giampaolo Bisanti, Francesco Lanzillotta, Sesto Quatrini, Jader Bignamini, Michele Gamba, et al.
Performances
photo: Victor Santiago
Figaro
Mattia Olivieri
Don Basilio
Ilia Kazakov
Ilia Kazakov
Biography will be published shortly.
Performances
Berta
Hellen Kwon
Soprano
Hellen Kwon
Birthplace:
Seoul, South Korea
Studies:
Hochschule für Musik Köln with Dietger Jacob (1979-1984)
Prizes:
First prize in the Novara International Singing Competition (1984), winner of the Dr. Wilhelm Oberdörffer Preis (1987), Rolf-Mares-Preis in the category “Exceptional Performances of an Actresses” for her interpretation of “Frau” in Wolfgang Rihm’s “Das Gehege” (2010), Grammy Award Nomination for the recording of Walter von Braunfels’ “Die Vögel” conducted by Lothar Zagrosek, honored with the title of “Hamburger Kammersängerin” by the Hamburg Senate (2011), “Order of Civil” by the Korean Government for exceptional artistic achievements (2013), “Star of Ewha” Prize (2018)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 1987/88
Important parts:
The Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Zdenka (Arabella), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Blonde/Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Donna Anna/Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Despina/Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Elettra (Idomeneo), Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Musetta/Mimì (La Bohème), Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly), Liú (Turandot), Violetta Valéry (La Traviata), Gilda (Rigoletto), Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Micaëla (Carmen), Norina (Don Pasquale), Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore), Adele/Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Senta (Der fliegende Holländer), Minni (La Fanciulla del West), Frau (Das Gehege), Salome/Herodias (Salome), Chrysothemis (Elektra), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayreuther Festspiele, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Oper Leipzig, Oper Stuttgart, Oper Köln, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Festwochen, Salzburger Festspiele, Opernhaus Zürich, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Festival d‘Aix-en-Provence, Opéra Comique de Paris, Glyndebourne Festival, Den Norske Opera, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Teatro Filarmonico Verona, The Israeli Opera, Jerusalem Opera Festival, New National Theatere Tokio, Korean National Opera, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Achim Freyer, Peter Konwitschny, Johannes Schaaf, Günther Krämer, Marco Marelli, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Peter Sellars, John Dew, Adolf Dresen, Nikolas Brieger, Johannes Erath, Claus Guth, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Giuseppe Sinopoli, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Horst Stein, Neville Marriner, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Jeffrey Tate, Marcello Viotti, Simone Young, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Kent Nagano, Christian Thielemann, et al.
Performances
- Elektra
- Bühne frei!
- Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
- Die Gänsemagd
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia
photo: Martina Cyman
Fiorello
William Desbiens
Baritone
William Desbiens
Birthplace:
Québec City, Canada
Studies:
Bachelor in voice. Mannes School of Music in New York, Mascarade Emerging artist program
Prizes:
Finals at the Paris opera competition at the Palais Garnier
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera from the season 2024/25
Important parts:
Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Schaunard (La Boheme), Conte almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Dandini (La cenerentola)
Stages:
Opéra de Québec, Teatro la fenice, Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, Landestheater Linz, Palais Garnier
Cooperation with directors:
Robert Lepage, Fabricio Melano, Damon Nestor Ploumis, Marie Lambert-Le Bihan, Jean-Romain Vesperini, Guillermo
Cooperation with conductors:
Wyn Davis, Jonathan Santagada, Elias Grandy, Kens Lui, Claudio Novati, Thomas Rösner, Jorge Parodi
Find further information about William Desbiens here.
Performances
- Jubiläumsgala: 30 Jahre Internationales Opernstudio
- Elektra
- Der Freischütz
- Bühne frei!
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann
- Eugene Onegin
- Eugen Onegin (concerted)
- Rigoletto
- La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West)
- La Traviata
- Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
- Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
- Konzert des Internationalen Opernstudios
- Salome
- Tosca
- Ariadne auf Naxos
- Madama Butterfly
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia
photo: Jörn Kipping
Chor
Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper
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.
Performances
- Rathausmarkt Open Air
- Hamburg Theatre Night
- Trionfi
- Carmen
- Tosca
- La clemenza di Tito
- Der Freischütz
- Luisa Miller
- La Bohème
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
- Der fliegende Holländer
- Manon
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann
- Eugene Onegin
- Eugen Onegin (concerted)
- Don Pasquale
- Rigoletto
- Maria Stuarda
- La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West)
- Il trovatore
- Falstaff
- La Traviata
- Parsifal
- Pique Dame
- Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
- Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
- Così fan tutte
- Le Nozze di Figaro
- HOUSE WARMING CONCERT
- Das Paradies und die Peri
- Ruslan und Ljudmila
- L'elisir d'amore
- The great silence
- Lohengrin
- Madama Butterfly
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia
photo: Niklas Marc Heinecke
Orchester
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
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
- Ariadne auf Naxos (concerted)
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann
- Mitridate, re di Ponto
- Eugene Onegin
- Mitridate, re di Ponto (concerted)
- Eugen Onegin (concerted)
- 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: Die Unsichtbaren
- Nijinsky
- Frühlings Erwachen
- Così fan tutte
- Le Nozze di Figaro
- 10th Philharmonic Concert
- Demian
- Nijinsky Gala L
- 1st Philharmonic Concert
- The Seagull
- HOUSE WARMING CONCERT
- Das Paradies und die Peri
- 3. Blaues Konzert
- Schulkonzert
- 2nd Philharmonic Concert
- Kids only #1: Erwachsene verboten
- Ruslan und Ljudmila
- Lady of the Camellias
- 3rd Philharmonic Concert
- Surrogate Cities
- L'elisir d'amore
- 4th Philharmonic Concert
- New Year's Eve concert
- 5th Philharmonic Concert
- Monster´s Paradise
- Kids only #2: Überall doch nirgends zuhause
- 6th Philharmonic Concert
- POINT OF NO RETURN
- The great silence
- Lohengrin
- 7th Philharmonic Concert
- Women's love and death
- Madama Butterfly
- 8th Philharmonic Concert
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia
- Special concert music festival
- 9th Philharmonic Concert
- Kids only #3: Ich zieh aus!
- Wonderland
- 10th Philharmonic Concert
- Nijinsky Gala LI
photo: Foto: Felix Broede
