Alfred Vokt

Alfred Vökt ( May 21, 1926 in Basel - June 14, 1999 ibid) was a Swiss opera and concert singer ( tenor ).

Life

First he studied law at the University of Basel and received his doctorate in this subject in 1955. In addition, he was trained in singing by Ernst Reiter.

From 1955 to 1957 he was a choir member of the Basel Theater . This was followed by employment at the municipal theaters of Oberhausen (1958–1959), at the city theater in Gießen (1959–1960), at the theaters of the state capital Kiel (1960–1962), at the state theater in Kassel (1962–1965), at the municipal theaters in Dortmund ( 1965–1968) and most recently at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt am Main (1968–1992).

He has also made guest appearances in Bordeaux, at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg, at the Edinburgh Festival, at the Hamburg State Opera, at the Théâtre Musical de Paris, in Toulouse and at the Theater an der Wien .

Repertoire (selection)

Bardolfo in Verdi's Falstaff
Narrator in Orff's The Moon
Goro in Puccini's Madama Butterfly
Hauk-Šendorf in Janáčeks The Makropulos Case
Jacob Glock in Prokofiev's L'Ange de feu
Yeroshka in Borodin's Prince Igor
Crunchy witch in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel
Monsieur Triquet in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
Professor von Mucker in Henze's The Young Lord
Insane in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
Wenceslaus in Smetanas The Bartered Bride
Wolfgang Capito in Hindemith's Mathis the painter

Awards

1987: Appointment as chamber singer

literature

Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. Munich 2003. Volume 5: Seideman – Zysset, p. 4919. ISBN 3-598-11419-2
Paul Suter : Alfred Vökt . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , pp. 2021 f.

Web links

Alfred Vökt at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Alfred Vökt at Bach Cantatas (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Paul Suter : Alfred Vökt . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , pp. 2021 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Vokt, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss opera and concert singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH	May 21, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel
DATE OF DEATH	June 14, 1999
Place of death	Basel

[Vökt-1] Paul Suter : Alfred Vökt . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , pp. 2021 f.