Alexander Puhrer

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Alexander Karl Puhrer (born in Vienna ) is an Austrian opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

Alexander Puhrer grew up in Vienna and was educated in the USA. His repertoire includes around thirty-five opera and operetta roles as well as numerous songs and oratorios. His career began in the USA, u. a. as Figaro, Marcello, Almaviva and Sid. One of his first orchestral concerts took place under the direction of Seiji Ozawa .

Alexander Puhrer has won numerous singing competitions, a. a. the International Competition for Lied Art, Stuttgart and the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg.

Alexander Puhrer spent the first three years of his artistic career in Europe as a member of the Graz Opera ensemble . There he sang some of his star roles (Almaviva, Papageno, Malatesta, Harlequin, Graf Eberbach) under the direction of well-known conductors such as Philippe Jordan , Karel Mark Chichon and Arnold Östman . Further engagements took the artist , who lives in Vienna , to the Grand Théâtre de Genève , the Theater an der Wien , the Wiener Musikverein , the Wiener Konzerthaus , the Haus für Mozart in Salzburg , the Stadttheater Klagenfurt , the Landestheater Salzburg and the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca. There were also performances on festival stages, such as the Mörbisch Seefestspiele or the Eisenstadt Haydn Festival under Adam Fischer.

The repertoire of the baritone also includes roles from contemporary pieces such as Christ in Harrison Birtwistle's The Last Supper (OsterKlang Wien), Peter in Herbert Willis Schlafes Bruder, the title role in the opera Franz Jägerstätter, or Ben from The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti ( Wiener Living room opera ).

Alexander Puhrer is also an internationally sought-after concert singer and song interpreter. His repertoire includes sacred music and oratorios - special attention heard Handel's Messiah and Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Vienna Musikverein, as well as Bach's St. Matthew - and St. John Passion with the Capella Savaria - and concert repertoire, including Orff's Carmina Burana and Frank Martin's Jedermann Monologues (Philharmonic Orchestra Mexico City), Bach's Magnificat (Seiji Ozawa) and Mass in B minor , Brahms' Requiem and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Missa Solemnis as well as Samuel Barbers Dover Beach. As a Mahler specialist, he has performed the Gesellen , Rückert and Wunderhorn songs several times with various orchestras and recorded them on CD. a. with the ALEA Ensemble in an arrangement for piano quartet by Gerhard Present . In 2010 a recording of Schubert's Winterreise was made together with pianist David Lutz .

Repertoire (selection)

Opera

operetta

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personal data
SURNAME Puhrer, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puhrer, Alexander Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna