Arnold Busshoff

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Arnold Busshoff (born December 24, 1944 in Rhede –Vardigholt, Westphalia ) is a German opera and concert singer ( bass baritone ).

Life

Arnold Busshoff came from a small farming family. From 1968 to 1972 he studied at the Folkwang Musikhochschule Essen with Clemens Kaiser-Breme and at the Musikhochschule Hamburg with Helmut Melchert . After graduating in 1975, he made his debut as Baron Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca at the Stadttheater Pforzheim , where he also sang the title role in Rigoletto . He was then a member of the ensemble at the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater in Flensburg up to and including the 1980/81 season . Here he sang a. a. Telramund in Lohengrin (alongside Karl Sablotzke in the title role ) and the music teacher in Ariadne on Naxos .

He sang hero baritone roles at many European opera theaters, such as Verdi's Nabucco , Macbeth , Simon Boccanegra , La traviata (Germont), Leoncavallos Pagliacci (Tonio), Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (Figaro and Graf), Don Giovanni , The Magic Flute (Sarastro), Beethoven's Fidelio (Don Pizarro and Don Fernando), as well as Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold (Wotan), Lohengrin (Telramund), The Flying Dutchman , Richard Strauss' Salome (Jochanaan) and Hindemith's Cardillac . In 1984 he appeared at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven as the title hero in the Verdi opera Simone Boccanegra . In 1988 he appeared at the Eutin Summer Festival as hereditary forester Kuno in Der Freischütz . At the Sofia National Opera he appeared as Don Pizarro in Fidelio .

Arnold Busshoff also appeared as a soloist in many oratorios, including in Johann Sebastian Bach's oratorios as Christ and Aria Singer, in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Elias and Paulus, and Ludwig van Beethoven's Missa Solemnis . He also appeared as a lieder singer with works by Franz Schubert ( Winterreise ), Carl Loewe , Hugo Wolf and others.

In 1982 he received the Tito Gobbi Prize from the Associazione Musicale Tito Gobbi for the role of Scarpia in Tosca.

On tours with the “Wiener Operetten-Theater” he also sang classical operettas such as Zsupan in Johann Strauss' Der Zigeunerbaron and Baron Weps in Carl Zeller's Der Vogelhändler . At the Hamburg St. Pauli Theater he sang and played the butcher Lazar Wolf in Anatevka . In 2003 he made a guest appearance at the Hamburg “Theater for Children” as Mayor van Bett in a Tsar and Zimmermann adaptation.

From 1984 to 1988 Busshoff was an honorary lecturer at the University of Education Flensburg-Kiel in the musical field as a voice trainer. In 2012 he retired.

In 2002 he married the Polish soprano Ewa Mockałło and in December 2012 settled in Mińsk Mazowiecki near Warsaw. As a pensioner, he takes an active part in the life of the Polish population as a KOD member.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical Index for Theater, Dance and Music / Biographical Index for Theater, Dance and Music . Berlin publishing house. Arno Spitz GmbH. 1997. Page 274. ISBN 978-3-87061-479-9
  2. ^ Arnold Busshoff: Theater debut as Rigoletto . Finale of the premiere in 1975 (audio document). Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ In: Opera 1980 . Yearbook of Opernwelt magazine . Page 136.
  4. ^ In: Richard Wagner sheets . Journal of the action group for the work of Richard Wagner. Volume 5. 1981. page 95.
  5. ↑ Daniel Thu: FLENSBURG: Ariadne auf Naxos . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Edition 11/12. December 1980. Page 769/770.
  6. ↑ Simon Neubauer: Modern habitus, no new knowledge . Performance review. In: Opera world . Edition March 1984. Pages 44/45.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Denker: EUTINER SOMMERSPIELE . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue November 13, 1988. Page 1058/1059.
  8. ^ Arnold Busshoff: Don Pizarro . Aria Fidelio Beethoven National Theater Sofia. Sound document. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  9. ↑ Anatevka . Tavern scene. Ks. Ude Krekow (Tevje). Arnold Busshoff (Lazar Wolf). St Pauli Theater Hamburg. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  10. ↑ Lots of mix-ups . Performance review. In: Hamburger Abendblatt of February 15, 2003. Retrieved on April 20, 2019.
  11. ↑ Die Welt May 20, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Busshoff, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and concert singer (bass baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Rhede -Vardigholt, Westphalia