Benjamin Bruns

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Benjamin Bruns (left in the picture with Elisabeth Kulman and Marlis Petersen ) 2019 - Beethoven's Ninth under Kiril Petrenko at the Brandenburg Gate with the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Benjamin-Helge Bruns (* 1980 in Hanover ) is a German opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Benjamin Bruns began his singing career as an alto soloist in the boys' choir in his hometown of Hanover. After four years of private vocal training with Prof. Peter Sefcik, he studied at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater with Kammersängerin Renate Behle. While still a student, the Bremen theater offered him a first permanent engagement, which enabled him to build up a wide-ranging repertoire at an early stage and which was soon followed by an ensemble contract at the Cologne Opera . Via the Saxon State Opera in Dresden , his path led him directly to the Vienna State Opera , to which he is still linked with a residency contract.

His musical range includes roles such as Belmonte ( Die Entführung aus dem Serail ), Tamino ( The Magic Flute ), Don Ottavio ( Don Giovanni ), Fenton ( Falstaff ), Camille de Rosillon ( The Merry Widow ), Lysander (Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream ), Don Ramiro ( La Cenerentola ), Boris Grigorievič (Janáček: Káťa Kabanová ), Max ( Der Freischütz ), Erik ( The Flying Dutchman ), Loge ( Das Rheingold ), Lohengrin ( Lohengrin ), Matteo ( Arabella ), Leukippos ( Daphne ) as well as the Italian tenor in Capriccio and Der Rosenkavalier .

Guest performances led him a. a. to the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden , the Bavarian State Opera , the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the State Theater Nuremberg , the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Zurich Opera House , the Teatro Municipal de Santiago in Chile, and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. In summer 2010 he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival as the helmsman in The Flying Dutchman .

For Benjamin Bruns, oratorio and lieder form an important antithesis to his stage work. The core of his extensive concert repertoire consists of the great sacred works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn. He played with such renowned ensembles as the Berlin Philharmonic , the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden , the Bavarian State Orchestra , the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen , the Czech Philharmonic , the MDR Symphony Orchestra , the Munich Philharmonic , the Bamberg Symphony , and the WDR Symphony Orchestra , the Choir and Orchestra of the Dutch Radio, the Tölzer Knabenchor , the Bremen Philharmonic , the London Symphony Chorus as well as the orchestra of the Stuttgart Bach Academy and the Gächinger Kantorei under the direction of Helmuth Rilling.

Benjamin Bruns is the winner of the National Singing Competition in Berlin, the Hamburg Mozart Competition and the international singing competition of the Rheinsberg Castle Chamber Opera. In 2008 he received the Kurt Hübner Prize of the Bremen Theater and in 2009 the Young Talent Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival as special awards.

His recently released lied CD Dichterliebe , with Schumann's Dichterliebe and Der arme Peter , Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte and Wolf's lieder bouquet with Karola Theill at the piano, was highly praised by the press and won both the International Classical Music Awards and the German Record Prize in nominated in the “Vocal Recital” category.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stay Friends
  2. ↑ Manfred Merz: Goosebumps right from the start. In: Gießener Allgemeine. June 23, 2019, accessed June 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bruns, Benjamin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruns, Benjamin-Helge (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (lyric tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover