Peter I. Tschaikowsky | Pique Dame
Sat, Feb. 07, 2026, 7.00 pm - 9.45 pm
Cast

Musikalische Leitung
Timur Zangiev

Chor
Christian Günther

Associate Chorus Master
Christian Günther
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.
Performances
- Carmen
- Tosca
- Don Giovanni
- Der Freischütz
- La Bohème
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
- Eugene Onegin
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann
- Eugen Onegin (concerted)
- Don Pasquale
- La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West)
- Il trovatore
- Falstaff
- La Traviata
- Pique Dame
- Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
- Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
- Così fan tutte
- Der fliegende Holländer
- Monster´s Paradise

Herman
Najmiddin Mavlyanov

Tenor
Najmiddin Mavlyanov
Birthplace:
Samarkand, Usbekistan
Studies:
Singing in Samarkand, Singing at the State Conservatory of Taschkent
Important parts:
Manrico (Il Trovatore), Radames (Aida), Alfredo (La Traviata), Don Carlo, Don Alvaro (La forza del destino), Gustavo (Un ballo in maschera), Gabriele Adorno (Simon Boccanegra), Otello, Cavaradossi (Tosca), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Calaf (Turandot), Dick Johnson (La fanciulla del west), Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana), Canio (Pagliacci), Maurizio (Adriana Lecouvreur), Don José (Carmen), Hoffmann (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Werther, Hermann (Pique Dame), Lenkski (Eugen Onegin), Vaudemont (Iolanta), Sadko, et al.
Stages:
Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen, Nationale Opera Amsterdam, New National Theatre Tokyo, Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, Opera House Sydney, Tashkent Opera, Stanislavsky Theatre Moscow, Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg, Bolshoi Theatre, Mikhailovsky Theatre St. Petersburg, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Alexander Titel, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Barrie Kosky, Peter Stein, Michael Thalheimer,, David Hermann, Jean-Louis Grinda, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Valery Gergiev, Tugan Sokhiev, Daniel Oren, Maurizio Barbacini, Lorenzo Viotti, Omer Meir Welber, et al.
Find further information about Najmiddin Mavlyanov here.
Performances

Graf Tomsky
Łukasz Golinski

Bass-Baritone
Łukasz Golinski
Important parts:
Rangoni (Boris Godunov), Sonora (La fanciulla del West), High Priest of Dagon (Samson et Dalila), Count Tomsky (Pique Dame), Escamillio (Carmen), Marcello (La bohème), Grand Pretre (Samson et Dalila), Scarpia (Tosca), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), et al.
Stages:
Salzburger Festspiele, Staatsoper Berlin, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Savonlinna Festival, Narodni Divadlo, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Opernhaus Zürich, Glyndebourne Festival, Oper Frankfurt, Stockholm Royal Swedish Opera, Staatsoper Hamburg, National Theatre Prague, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Staatsoper Berlin, Opera Australia, et al.
Performances
photo: Kinga Karpati & Daniel Zarewicz

Fürst Jeletzky
Kartal Karagedik

Baritone
Kartal Karagedik
Birthplace:
Izmir, Turkey
Studies:
Singing in Izmir at the University of Istanbul, among others with Alper Kazancioglu and Prof. Güzin Gürel
Master classes:
With Giorgio Zancanaro, Paolo Ballarin, Barbara Frittoli, Luciana Serra and Alfonso Antoniozzi.
Prizes:
First Prize at the Debut Competition (2012), Third Prize and Critics' Award at the Ottavio Ziino Concorso Lirico Internazionale in Rome (2011), Second Prize at the Leyla Gencer Competition in Istanbul (2010), Second Prize at the Beniamino Gigli Competition in Rome (2009), "Best Male Singer" at the International Duchi d'Acquaviva Competition in Atri (2008), "Special Mention Prize" at the International Opera Competition in Como (2008), third prize at the Ferruccio Tagliavini Competition in Graz (2007), first prize at the Güzin Gürel Foundation Lieder Competition in Istanbul (2007)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since 2015/16
Important parts:
Renato (Un ballo in maschera), Rodrigo (Don Carlo), Germont (La Traviata), Simon Boccanegra (Simon Boccanegra), Onegin (Eugeny Onegin), Lescaut (Manon Lescaut), Marcello (La Bohème), Sharpless (Madama butterfly), Sonora (La Fanciulla del West), (Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Duca D'alba (Duca D'alba), Belcore (L'Elisir d'Amore), Riccardo (I Puritani), Il Conte d'Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Carlo Gérard (Andrea Chénier), Mischonnet (Adriana Lecouvreur), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Poeta ( Il Turco in Italia), Chorébe (Les Troyens), Escamillo (Carmen), Valentin (Faust), Ford (Falstaff), Malatesta (Don Pasquale), et al.
Stages:
Hamburg State Opera, Opera Vlaanderen, Theater St. Gallen, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Puccini Festival at Torre del Lago, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Komische Oper Berlin, Theater Magdeburg, Theater Erfurt, Oper Leipzig, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Izmir State Opera, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Georges Delnon, Stefan Herheim, Kirsten Harms, Herbert Fritsch, Michael Thalheimer, Guy Montavon, Carlos Wagner, Stefano Poda, Robert Carsen, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Kent Nagano, Stefano Ranzani, Ottavio Dantone, Eliahu Inbal, Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli, Christoph Prick, Valerio Galli, Andriy Yurkevych, Yves Abel, John Storgårds, Anthony Bramal, Ulf Schirmer, Manlio Benzi, Joana Mallwitz, Peter Feranec, Modesta Pitrenas, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, et al.
Performances
- Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
- Don Pasquale
- Le Nozze di Figaro
- Meet the Artists
- La Traviata
- Pique Dame
- Madama Butterfly
photo: Kartal Karagedik

Czekalinsky
Jürgen Sacher

Tenor
Jürgen Sacher
Birthplace:
Augsburg, Germany
Studies:
Church music and music education at the Leopold-Mozart Konservatorium in Augsburg, vocal studies with Leonore Kirschstein
Prizes:
Scholarship of the Richard Wagner Verband, Promotion Prize of the Hamburgische Staatsoper, appointment as Hamburger Kammersänger (2017)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Staatsoper Hamburg since 1991/92
Important parts:
Mime (Siegfried), Mime/Loge (Das Rheingold), Herodes (Salome), Knusperhexe (Hänsel und Gretel), Hauptmann/Andres (Wozzeck), Monostatos/1. Geharnischter (Die Zauberflöte), Maler/Prinz/Marquis/Kammerdiener (Lulu), Dr. Cajus (Falstaff), Tichon (Katja Kabanova), Truffaldino (Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen), Valzacchi (Der Rosenkavalier), David (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Junger Mann (Moses und Aron), Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer), Peter Iwanow (Zar und Zimmermann), Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser), Goro (Madame Butterfly), Graf Elemer (Arabella), Raoul de St. Brioche (Die lustige Witwe), Novagerio (Palestrina), Orontes (Flavius Bertaridus), Asasello (Der Meister und Margarita), Tanzmeister (Ariadne auf Naxos), Graf von Kent (Lear), Reverend Adams (Peter Grimes), L´Aumonier (Dialogues des Carmélites), Aegisth (Elektra), Fedotik (Tri Sestri), Sylvester von Schaumburg (Mathis der Maler), et al.
Stages:
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, La Monnaie, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Königliche Oper von Kopenhagen, Teatro alla Scala, Salzburger Festspiele, Theater an der Wien, Budapester Staatsoper, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Wagner Festival Budapest, Theater Dortmund, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Staatsoper Budapest, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Harry Kupfer, Willy Decker, Claus Guth, Mario Martone, Achim Freyer, Géza M. Tóth, Livia Sabag, Roger Vontobel, Stefan Herheim, Karoline Gruber, Vincent Boussard, Jochen Biganzoli, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Adam Fischer, Bertrand de Billy, Claudio Abbado, Kent Nagano, Semyon Bychkov, Horst Stein, Christian Thielemann, Ingo Metzmacher, Michael Boder, Kirill Petrenko, Simone Young, Daniel Barenboim, et al.
Performances
- Boris Godunov
- Bühne frei!
- Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann
- Falstaff
- Parsifal
- Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
- Die dunkle Seite des Mondes
- Salome
- Le Nozze di Figaro
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
- Pique Dame
photo: Martina Cyman

Ssurin
Hubert Kowalczyk

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
- Ariadne auf Naxos (concerted)
- Rigoletto
- Il trovatore
- Parsifal
- Salome
- Falstaff
- La Traviata
- Pique Dame
- The great silence
photo: Martina Cyman

Tschaplitzky
Mziwamadoda Sipho Nodlayiya

Tenor
Mziwamadoda Sipho Nodlayiya
Birthplace:
Cape Town, South Africa
Studies:
Postgraduate Diploma in Opera Performance (2023), Diploma in Opera Performance (2021)
Master class:
Martin Hundelt – Johannesburg International Mozart festival (2024)
Levy Sekagapane - Opera UCT Masterclass Series (2023)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since the season 2024/25
Important parts:
Camille, Count de Rosillon (The Merry Widow), Hendrik Cesars (Sara Baartman), Cochenille (Le Conte d’Hoffmann, Bertrando (L’inganno felice), Ernesto (don Pasquale)
Stages:
Artscape Opera House, Pam Golding/Baxter Theatre
Cooperation with directors:
Steven Stead, Matthew Wild, Claudia Blersch, Christine Nolte, Janice Honeyman, Zenobia Kloppers
Cooperation with conductors:
Jeremy Silver, Kamal Khan, Richard Cock, Jochen Rieder
Performances
- Jubiläumsgala: 30 Jahre Internationales Opernstudio
- Dollhouse
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
- Manon
- Rigoletto
- La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West)
- Parsifal
- Konzert des Internationalen Opernstudios
- Salome
- La Traviata
- Pique Dame
photo: Jörn Kipping

Narumoff
Keith Klein

Bass-Baritone
Keith Klein
Birthplace:
Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America
Studies:
Bachelors Degree in Vocal Performance, Eastman School of Music
Masters Degree in Vocal Performance, Florida State University
Prizes:
Laffont Competition Regional 3rd Place Winner, Metropolitan Opera, 2024
Laffont Competition District Winner, Metropolitan Opera, 2024
Barbara and Stanley Richman Memorial Award, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, 2022
NATS SouthEast Conference- Best College Male Florida State University, 2019
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since the season 2024/25
Important parts:
Dr. Grenville (La Traviata), Colline (La boheme), Sparafucille (Rigoletto), Angelotti (Tosca), Notary (Der Rosenkavalier) Dr. Podsnap (Awakenings)
Stages:
Santa Fe/Crosby Theatre, Opera Colorado/Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Florida Grand Opera/ Adrienne Arscht Theatre, Lyric Opera of Kansas City/Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Opera Theatre of St. Louis/ Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts
Cooperation with directors:
James Robinson, Patricia Racette, Chia Patiño, Matthew Lata
Cooperation with conductors:
Patrick Summers, Roberto Kalb, Daniella Candillari, Benton Hess
Find further information about Keith Klein here.
Performances
- Tosca
- Jubiläumsgala: 30 Jahre Internationales Opernstudio
- Dollhouse
- La Bohème
- Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
- Manon
- Eugene Onegin
- Eugen Onegin (concerted)
- Rigoletto
- La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West)
- La Traviata
- Blubb blubb – abgetaucht!
- Le Nozze di Figaro
- Konzert des Internationalen Opernstudios
- Salome
- Ariadne auf Naxos
- Pique Dame
- Lohengrin
- Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
photo: Jörn Kipping

Gräfin
Doris Soffel

Mezzo-soprano
Doris Soffel
Geburtsort:
Hechingen Hohenzollern
Studium:
erst Violine, dann Gesang bei Marianne Schech an der Münchener Hochschule für Musik
Auszeichnungen:
Kammersängerin und Trägerin des Königlichen schwedischen Nordsternordens
Wichtige Partien:
Kundry (Parsifal), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Fricka (Das Rheingold), Fricka (Die Walküre), Erda (Rheingold), Erda (Siegfried), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung), Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde), Venus (Tannhäuser), Amme (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Herodias (Salome), Klytämnestra (Elektra), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos), Clairon (Capriccio), Amneris (Aida), Eboli (Don Carlo), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Preziosilla (Forza del destino), Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera), Isabella (L´italiana in Algeri), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Rossina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Sinaide (Mosé i Egitto), Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda), Adalgisa (Norma), Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), Prinz Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Carmen (Carmen), Charlotte (Werther), Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust), Geneviève (Pelléas et Mélisande), Mme de Croissy (Dialogues des Carmelites), Marfa (Chowanschtschina), Jezibaba (Rusalka), Kabanicha (Katia Kabanova), Gräfin (Pique Dame), Judit (Herzog Blaubarts Burg), Geschwitz (Lulu), Kassandra (Troades), Leokadja Begbik (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny), u.a.
Bühnen:
Bayreuther Festspiele, Salzburger Festspiele, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Bregenzer Festspiele, Glyndebourne Festival und u. a. London, Edinburgh, Brüssel, Amsterdam, Paris, Montpellier, Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Oviedo, Lissabon, Mailand, Venedig, Parma, Genua, Bologna, Rom, Neapel, Palermo, Catania, Wien, Graz, Zürich, Genf, Basel, München, Stuttgart, Baden-Baden, Köln, Essen, Hamburg, Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin, Prag, Warschau, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Göteborg, Kopenhagen, New York, Washington, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Montreal, Vancouver, Sao Paolo, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Peking, Shanghai, Hongkong
Zusammenarbeit mit Regisseuren:
Günther Rennert, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Götz Friedrich, Harry Kupfer, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Peter Konwitschny, Christof Loy, Robert Carsen, Pierre Audi, Stefan Herheim, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Marco Marelli, Philipp Stölzl, Andreas Dresen, u.a.
Zusammenarbeit mit Dirigenten:
Wolfgang Sawallisch, Herbert von Karajan, Sergiu Celibidache, Sir Georg Solti, Carlo Maria Giulini, Richard Bonynge, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle, Christian Thielemann, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Hartmut Haenchen, Philippe Jordan, Daniele Gatti, Kent Nagano, u.a.
Find further information about Doris Soffel here.
Performances
photo: Boris Streubel

Lisa
Vida Miknevičiūtė

Soprano
Vida Miknevičiūtė
Herkunft:
Litauen
Studium:
Magister in Gesang an der Litauischen Akademie für Musik und Theater in Kaunas, Ersamus-Stipendium an der Leipziger Hochschule für Musik „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ (2003)
Auszeichnungen:
Erster Preis und Publikumspreis beim Robert-Stolz-Gesangswettbewerb „Wiener Operette“ in Hamburg, dritter Preis beim Gesangswettbewerb „Operette meine Liebe“ in Kaunas (Litauen), Stipendiatin der Barenberg-Bank für künstlerische Entwicklung Hamburg sowie des Concorso Riccardo Zandonai in Riva del Garda und Diplomandin bei Gesangswettbewerben in Litauen und Russland
Wichtige Partien:
Hebe und Phani (Les Indes galantes), Pamina und Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore), Sandmännchen und Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Micaëla (Carmen), Wellgunde und Freia (Rheingold), Helmwige (Walküre), Elisabeth (Tannhäuser), Senta (Der fliegende Holländer), Elettra (Idomeneo), Eva (Eva), Lydia Ivanovna (Fatinitz), Natalie Prinzessin von Oranien (Der Prinz von Homburg), Tatjana (Eugen Onegin), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Margherita (Mefistofele), Violetta Valéry (La Traviata), Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Margarete(Faust), Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites), Mimi (La Boheme), Ursula (Mathis der Maler), Elisabeth (Don Carlo), Die grosse Hure (Antikrist), Kaiserin (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Sylva Varescú (Die Csárdásfürstin), Irene (Rienzi), Chrysothemis (Elektra), Maddalena di Coigny (Andrea Chenier), u.a.
Bühnen:
Opernhaus Zürich, Hamburgische Staatsoper (Mitglied des Internationalen Opernstudios von 2008-2010), Staatstheater Mainz, Festival Aix-en-Provence, Theater Basel, Staatstheater Kassel, Oper Frankfurt, Oper Leipzig, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Lettische Nationaloper, u.a.
Zusammenarbeit mit Regisseuren:
Lorenzo Fioroni, Katharina Thalbach, Johannes Schütz, Tilman Knabe, Harry Kupfer, Christof Nel, Tom Ryser, Vera Nemirova, u.a.
Zusammenarbeit mit Dirigenten:
Simone Young, Daniel Barenboim, Adam Fischer, Valery Gergiev, Alexander Joel, Eun Sun Kim, Peter Schneider und Hermann Bäumer, u.a.
Find further information about Vida Miknevičiūtė here.
Performances

Pauline
Annika Schlicht

mezzo-soprano
Annika Schlicht
Birthplace:
Stuttgart, Germany
Studies:
Singing at Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ in Berlin with Prof. Renate Faltin
Master class:
with Julia Varady, KS Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, KS Brigitte Fassbaender, KS Deborah Polaski und Patricia McCaffrey
Prizes:
3rd prize at international Wilhelm Stenhammar Competition in Sweden (2016), 2nd prize at Anneliese Rothenberger Wettbewerb (2013), Grand Prix an several special prizes at Giulio Perotti Competition (2012), 3rd Liedpreis and Förderpreis des Bronnbach e.V. at DEBUT Wettbewerb (2012), scholarship holder of Liz-Mohn Kultur Stiftung, scholarship holder of Richard-Wagner-Verband
Important parts:
Adriano (Rienzi), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Olga (Eugen Onegin), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Auntie (Peter Grimes), Försterin (Das schlaue Füchslein), 1. Magd (Elektra), Page (Salome), Flosshilde (Das Rheingold, Götterdämmerung), Siegrune (Die Walküre), Contessa di Coigny (Andrea Chenier), Mercedes (Carmen), Dryade (Ariadne auf Naxos), 2. Dame (Die Zauberflöte), u. a.
Stages:
Deutschen Oper Berlin, Deutschen Oper am Rhein, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera Bastille, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Berlin, Bergen International Festival, Salzburger Festspiele u. a.
Cooperation with directors:
Harry Kupfer, Hans Neuenfels, Luc Bondy, Claus Guth, Dmitri Tcherniakov und Johannes Erath, u. a.
Cooperation with conductors:
Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Metha, Donald Runnicles, Alondra de la Parra, Enrique Mazzola, Asher Fisch, Edward Gardner, Ingo Metzmacher, Christopher Moulds, Stefan Soltesz, Sebastian Weigle, u. a.
Performances
- Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
- Das Paradies und die Peri
- Ariadne auf Naxos
- 3rd Philharmonic Concert
- Pique Dame
- Women's love and death
photo: Simon Pauly

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

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