Bodo Schwanbeck

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Bodo Schwanbeck (born July 20, 1935 in Schwerin ) is a German opera singer ( bass / bass baritone ) and chamber singer .

Life

Schwanbeck studied singing with Franz-Theo Reuter at the Musikhochschule in Munich and with Karl Heinz Jarius in Stuttgart. He received his first contract in 1958 at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. From 1959 to 1961 he went to the Landestheater Detmold , where he was the inaugural role of Warlaam in Boris Godunow . From 1961 to 1962 he appeared at the Landestheater Saarbrücken and from 1962 to 1966 at the Stadttheater Augsburg . In 1965 he came to the Zurich Opera House for four years . He then moved to the Frankfurt Opera , where he was appointed chamber singer in 1986. In May 2000, after 32 years at the Frankfurt Opera, he said goodbye as Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and has been a freelance artist ever since. In June 2009 he retired from the stage.

In addition to his permanent engagements, he has worked at Opera London , La Scala Milano, Vienna State Opera , Opera Bastille Paris, Garnier and Chatelet Paris, State Opera and Komische Oper Berlin, Opera Cologne , La Monnaie Brussels, Geneva, Amsterdam, Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Tel Aviv , Tehran, City Opera New York and Tokyo.

He sang under the directors and conductors Leopold Lindtberg , Rudolf Noelte , Otto Schenk , Harry Kupfer , Hans Hollmann , Ruth Berghaus , Patrice Chéreau , Peter Mussbach and Hans Neuenfels and on the conductor's podium with Ferdinand Leitner , Carlos Kleiber , Christoph von Dohnányi , Bernard Haitink , Sir John Pritchard , Jeffrey Tate , Michael Gielen , Sylvain Cambreling and Giuseppe Sinopoli .

Own directorial works were L'elisir d'amore , The Bartered Bride and La Vie parisienne .

Self-published in 2014 Have you also something from Wagner? Memories of 50 years on the opera stage.

repertoire

His repertoire began with Mozart -Bassrollen (Figaro, Leporello, Alfonso, Osmin) on the Italian Buffopartien (Bartolo, Magnifico, Mustafa, Pasquale, Dulcamara, Melitone) and the German game operas (van bed, Baculuc, Falstaff) to Richard Strauss -Opera (Ochs, Morosus, Waldner). Excursions into the character baritone subject were added, such as Falstaff (Verdi) , Gianni Schicchi , Golaud, Pizarro.

He sang two Alban Berg roles in many productions : Wozzeck and Athlet ( Lulu ). The modern repertoire includes a .: The soldiers ( Zimmermann ), the walls ( Hölszky ), Jakob Lenz ( Rihm ).

He also sang operettas , Offenbach and classical musicals in Die Fledermaus , The Gypsy Baron , The Begging Student , The Merry Widow , La Belle Hélène , Barbe Bleue , The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein , La vie Parisienne , My Fair Lady and the Tevje in Anatevka .

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SURNAME Schwanbeck, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (bass / bass baritone) and chamber singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin