Andreas Schager

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Andreas Schager as Siegfried at the Berlin State Opera, 2016

Andreas Schager (born September 14, 1971 as Andreas Schagerl in Rohrbach an der Gölsen , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian opera singer ( hero tenor ).

Life

After his first appearances with the Vienna Singing Academy , Schager began studying singing with Walter Moore at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and made his operatic debut as Ferrando ( Così fan tutte ) at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn while he was still studying . Then he was engaged as a lyric operetta tenor at the Theater Krefeld and Mönchengladbach .

Schager then sang the lyric subject in Bologna , Frankfurt , Vienna , Gent and at the Royal Opera Canada. He appeared as Tamino in the Magic Flute , David in the Meistersingern , Max in Freischütz and Florestan in Fidelio . He can now be heard primarily in Wagner roles such as Siegmund, Siegfried or Tristan , but also as Rienzi ( Deutsche Oper Berlin ).

He sang Rienzi with Simone Young in the Hamburg State Opera and in Rome with Stefan Soltesz . A close collaboration with Daniel Barenboim led him to La Scala in Milan and the BBC Proms in London in 2013 . Since 2015 he has been in the ensemble of the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden . In May 2015 Schager made his debut as Parsifal also under Daniel Barenboim , then under Franz Welser-Möst in Cleveland and New York as Apollo in Richard Strauss ' Daphne . In 2015 he sang his first Tannhäuser in the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp . In 2016 he made his debut as Erik in the Flying Dutchman at the Bayreuth Festival , where he also performed a performance of Parsifal for the sick Klaus Florian Vogt . For 2018/19 he is also cast as Parsifal in Bayreuth. As Siegfried ( Götterdämmerung ) he is a frequent guest at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg under Valery Gergiev . In this role he also appeared for the first time under Johannes Debus at the COC Toronto.

Schager also sang Mahler's 8th Symphony under Riccardo Chailly in Lucerne and the Gurre-Lieder in the Philharmonie in Paris under Philippe Jordan . Under Gustav Kuhn he sang Gustav Mahler's Lied von der Erde at the South Tyrolean Festival in Toblach . He was heard in Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Bamberg Symphony under Jonathan Nott . He made his debut at the Warsaw Philharmonic with Arnold Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder . Under Marek Janowski Schager made his debut at the Spring Festival in Tokyo in 2016 as Siegfried in Siegfried .

Schager made his debut with Apollo in Daphne on December 1, 2017 at the Vienna State Opera . It was there that he received outstanding reviews in 2018 for his portrayal of Max in Der Freischütz .

In 2019 he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC. Schager embodied both Siegfrieds in the Ring of the Nibelung.

literature

  • Gregor Hauser: Magical Sounds. Austrian tenors of the post-war period . Verlag Der Apfel 2020, ISBN 978-3-85450-019-3 . Pp. 13-27.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Opera: In the new "Freischütz" only Andreas Schager shines in the lead role, the director misses the mark. on wienerzeitung.at, accessed on June 15, 2018
  2. ^ Premiere of Carl Maria von Weber's "Freischütz" at the Vienna State Opera on news.at, accessed on June 15, 2018
  3. ^ H & P Huber: NEW YORK / Metropolitan Opera: THE RING OF THE NIBELUNGS - SIEGFRIED and GÖTTERDÄDMERUNG . onlinemerker.com. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Schager, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schagerl, Andreas (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Rohrbach an der Gölsen , Lower Austria