Albert Pesendorfer

Albert Pesendorfer (born June 21, 1967 in Regau ) is an Austrian opera singer ( bass ) and professor of singing at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Life

Born in Upper Austria, he studied flute / instrumental pedagogy at the Bruckner University Linz and the Music University Vienna . He then completed a vocal course, also in Linz and Vienna. He took master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender , Gundula Janowitz , Walter Berry and Kurt Widmer .

In addition to a lively activity as a flutist (Ensemble HALIL, ensemble currently under Franz Welser-Möst , Landestheater Linz ) Albert Pesendorfer taught flute and singing from 1987 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2002 at the Upper Austrian State Music School.

From 1997 to 1999 Pesendorfer was engaged in the Vienna State Opera Choir. Fixed engagements as a soloist led him to the Erfurt Opera from 2002 to 2005 . From 2005 to 2006 Brigitte Fassbaender brought him to the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck , where he made his debut as Hans Sachs and Zaccaria. From 2006 to 2012 he was engaged at the Hanover State Opera . Most important roles: Baron Ochs, Landgraf Hermann, Rocco, Fasolt, Hunding, Hagen, Osmin and v. m.

Pesendorfer has been a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin since the 2012/2013 season . At this house he sang Baron Ochs, Gurnemanz, Titurel, Hans Sachs, Fasolt, Hagen, King Brand, King Heinrich, Landgrave Hermann, Grand Inquisitor, Sparafucile, Sarastro, King Treff, Hobson.

Guest performances have taken the singer to the following opera houses: Hamburg State Opera (Daland), Deutsche Oper Berlin (Baron Ochs), State Opera Stuttgart (Daland), State Opera Budapest (Gurnemanz), Musikpalast (Müpa) Budapest (Gurnemanz), State Theater Nuremberg (Hans Sachs), Aalto-Theater Essen (Baron Ochs), Staatstheater Wiesbaden (Baron Ochs, King Heinrich, Daland, Fasolt, Hagen), Staatstheater Darmstadt (Baron Ochs, Filippo II), Leipzig Opera (Sarastro), Vienna Volksoper (Sarastro, Timur, Eremit, Sebastian Kundrather), Graz Opera (Landgraf Hermann), Linz State Theater (Hans Sachs, Hunding, Hagen), Brucknerhaus Linz (Don Fernando), Halle / Saale Opera (Baron Ochs), Lübeck Theater (Gurnemanz), Kiel Theater (Filippo II, Hans Sachs), Theater Osnabrück (Filippo II), Theater Magdeburg (Sarastro), Goethe Theater Bad Lauchstädt (Sarastro), Opera Festival St. Margarethen (Sparafucile, Sarastro).

Albert Pesendorfer Sebastian Kundrather was in Kehraus around St. Stephan von Ernst Krenek at the Bregenz Festival 2008 ; In 2013/14 he could be heard as Sarastro on the lake stage, in 2014 on the festival stage as the Magic King in HK Gruber's setting of stories from the Vienna Woods .

On July 31, 2016, he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Hagen in Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung . At NNT Tokyo 2016/17 he sang Hunding and Hagen in Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen . On April 15, 2018 he made his debut as Hagen in Götterdämmerung at the Vienna State Opera. On September 24, 2018, she made her debut at the Zurich Opera House as Lodovico Nardi in Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichen in a production by Barrie Kosky under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski . He returned to Zurich in February 2019 as Baron Ochs ( Der Rosenkavalier ) under the baton of Fabio Luisi. In January 2019 he made his debut at the Teatro Real in Madrid as Fasolt in Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold in a production by Robert Carsen . Albert Pesendorfer made his debut at the Opéra de Monaco in March 2019 as Osmin ( The Abduction from the Seraglio ) in a production by Dieter Kaegi under the conductor Patrick Davin . In April 2019 he worked at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Pastor Balzer in the world premiere of the opera Oceane by Detlev Glanert (conductor: Donald Runnicles , director: Robert Carsen). In October 2019 he made his debut at the Semperoper Dresden as Baron Ochs in Richard Strauss' Rosenkavalier.

In the concert area, Albert Pesendorfer has performed in numerous recitals and oratorio concerts. His repertoire includes, for example, the passions of Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn's Creation and Seasons , the Requiem settings by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms and Giuseppe Verdi. Pesendorfer was heard as Elias in Felix Mendelssohn's work of the same name at the Wiener Musikverein, and in Nagoya / Japan as a soloist in Beethoven's 9th Symphony . At the Grant Park Music Festival Chicago in 2011 the singer made his US debut as the voice of the Lord in Franz Schmidt's The Book with Seven Seals . At the Brucknerhaus in Linz he was a soloist in Verdi's Messa da Requiem , as well as in Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Albert Pesendorfer sang the roles of Landgrave Hermann and Kaiser Friedrich in the oratorio Die Legende der Sankt Elisabeth by Franz Liszt at the Music Palace in Budapest .

From October 2015 Albert Pesendorfer accepted a call to the Berlin University of the Arts as professor for singing.

repertoire

Albert Pesendorfer's opera repertoire currently comprises over 60 roles, including roles such as Hans Sachs, Gurnemanz, Fasolt, Hunding, Hagen, Landgraf Hermann, Daland, Baron Ochs, Holsteiner, Rocco, Osmin, Leporello, Sarastro, Komtur, Bartolo, or roles in the Italian field like Filippo II, Zaccaria, Grand Inquisitor, Sparafucile, Oroveso and Timur.

Song and concert tours have taken him to the Wiener Musikverein , the Wiener Konzerthaus , the Berlin Philharmonie , the Brucknerhaus Linz , as well as to Japan and the USA.

Albert Pesendorfer has appeared on stage several times at world premieres, for example at the opening of the Erfurt Opera as Lucas Cranach in Peter Aderhold's Luther . Opera guest performances have already taken him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Baron Ochs), the Hamburg State Opera (Daland), the Aalto-Theater Essen (Baron Ochs), the Cologne Opera (Hunding), the Stuttgart State Opera (Daland), the Darmstadt State Theater (Filippo II, Baron Ochs), the Wiesbaden State Theater (Baron Ochs, König Heinrich), the Nuremberg State Theater (Hans Sachs), as well as the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp , the Graz Opera , the Landestheater Linz , the Volksoper Vienna , the Bregenz Festival and the Opera Festival St. Margarethen .

Web links

• Homepage of Albert Pesendorfer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From the Bregenz Festival: "Stories from the Vienna Woods" . In: tv.orf.at , accessed on July 27, 2014.
2. ^ Albert Pesendorfer. In: www.bayreuther-festspiele.de. Retrieved August 16, 2016 .