Carsten Lepper

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Carsten Lepper (born October 29, 1975 in Reken , Westphalia ) is a German actor and performer, producer and director in the field of musicals .

Carsten Lepper (2019)

Career

Carsten Lepper completed an apprenticeship as a graduate actor at the Saarland University of Music and Theater in Saarbrücken . He did his musical training at the Stella Academy in Hamburg . He then worked at the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken in Sigmunds Freude , Doktor Faustus Lichterloh and One Night in September , as well as at the Coesfeld open-air theater as Tony in the West Side Story . His breakthrough came in the role of Luigi Lucheni in the German premiere of Elisabeth in Essen. For this he received the criticism award for best actor.

This was followed by engagements at the Theater Neue Flora in Hamburg with the play Titanic as Thomas Andrews, as well as at the Palladium-Theater Stuttgart in Das Phantom der Oper as Raoul and at the Stadttheater Pforzheim in Hair as Claude Hooper Bukowski. At the same time he played Luigi Lucheni again at the Apollo Theater Stuttgart in the musical Elisabeth. At the Raimund Theater in Vienna he played the role of Jack Favell in the world premiere of the musical Rebecca .

At the German-language world premiere of Der Graf von Monte Christo in St. Gallen, he was Fernand Mondego. For the role of Chris in Miss Saigon in the Austrian premiere at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt , he was named one of the best actors of 2010/11 by the musical magazine Musicals .

As a solo singer, he made guest appearances in various cities with the Aspects of Andrew Lloyd Webber program .

At the open-air premiere of Der Graf von Monte Christo at the Tecklenburger Festspiele, he worked as a co-director in addition to his role as Mondego. In the 2013/14 season he is engaged as Judas in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hagen Theater. In the summer of 2014 he played the Baron von Gaigern at the Ettlingen Castle Festival in the rarely played musical Grand Hotel . He was then part of the cast as Lord Farquaad in the German-language premiere of Shrek-the musical at the Capitol Theater in Düsseldorf. In the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons he was seen as Tony in the highly acclaimed new performance of West Side Story at the Leipzig Opera. He was also accompanied there as a soloist at the New Year's Eve gala by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under the direction of General Music Director Ulf Schirmer. From March 2016 he played the choreographer Zach in the original Broadway production of A Chorus Line at Theater Klagenfurt . From April to August 2017 Carsten Lepper was seen as “Sy Spector” in the musical Bodyguard . As Valentine in Lazarus (musical by David Bowie ), as father in the musical Ragtime and as Charles Ephrussi in The Rabbit with the Amber Eyes , he was seen at the Landestheater Linz.

Lepper directed Tell me on a sunday by Andrew Lloyd Webber and The last 5 years by Jason Robert Brown in Vienna.

He also dubbed Raoul, played by Patrick Wilson , in the movie The Phantom of the Opera . Other synchronized roles were the musical villain Music Meister in the animated series Batman: The Brave And The Bold and Sir Henry in Disney's Once Upon a Time ... the Princess and the Pea .

Most recently, Carsten Lepper produced the Austrian premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love under his new label The Musical Showroom . Here he was also responsible for the staging.

Roles (selection)

Director

Movies

Discography

  • Elisabeth- Original German Cast - Essen (2001)
  • Titanic- Original Hamburg Cast (2002)
  • Elisabeth- Original Vienna Concert Cast (2002)
  • Romeo & Juliet- European Tour Cast (2004)
  • The Phantom of the Opera- Original Film Soundtrack (2004)
  • The Phantom of the Opera - DVD Original Movie (2004) - Dubbing Raoul
  • Elisabeth- Original Stuttgart Cast (2005)
  • Rebecca-LIVE-Complete recording-Original Cast Vienna (2006)
  • Rebecca-Studio Cast Vienna (2006)
  • The Count of Monte Christo-Original Switzerland Cast (2010)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review of the German premiere of the musical Shrek at the Capitol Theater in Düsseldorf

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personal data
SURNAME Lepper, Carsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lepper, Carsten Axel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and musical performer
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Reken , Westphalia