Christian Voigt (singer)
Christian Voigt (born August 27, 1969 in Berlin ) is a German opera singer ( tenor ).
Life
Voigt began his vocal studies in his hometown at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin with Heinz Reeh and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and completed masterclasses with Peter Schreier , Josef Protschka , Kurt Equiluz , Wolfram Rieger and as a scholarship holder of the " Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes " René Kollo . He received his first engagement as a lyric tenor at the Theater Vorpommern Stralsund / Greifswald .
Engagements have taken him to several European countries such as Austria , Switzerland , Italy , France , Belgium , the Netherlands , Denmark , Poland , Estonia and Hungary , where he worked under important conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Helmuth Rilling , Philippe Herreweghe , Gerd Albrecht and Dietfried Bernet , Will Humburg and Michael Schønwandt and sang with well-known orchestras such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe , La Chapelle Royale / Orchester des Champs-Elysees , the Staatskapelle Berlin , the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart and the Danish Radio Orchestra .
He is often a guest at the Styriarte music festival in Graz , the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , the Bad Hersfeld Opera Festival , the Wiener Festwochen , the Dresden Music Festival , the Schwetzinger Festival and the Schubertiade Feldkirch .
Repertoire (selection)
- Florestan in Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca by Giacomo Puccini
- Gabriel von Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss
- Count Baldwin Zedlau in Viennese blood by Johann Strauss
- Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss
- Siegmund in Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
- Siegfried in Siegfried and Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner
- Lohengrin in Lohengrin by Richard Wagner
- Parsifal in Parsifal by Richard Wagner
- Tristan in Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner
- Tannhäuser in Tannhäuser and the singer's war on Wartburg by Richard Wagner
- Oberon in Oberon (Weber) by Carl Maria von Weber
Prizes, awards
- 1995: Winner of the 6th International Mozart Competition in Salzburg
- 2009/10: nomination as Young Singer of the Year by the trade magazine for music theater " opera world "
Web links
- Christian Voigt at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Christian Voigt homepage
- Christian Voigt agency profile
- Audio sample: "Nothung, Nothung, envious sword ..." from "Siegfried" on YouTube , accessed on December 22, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Voigt on Theapolis , accessed February 6, 2016
- ↑ Christian Voigt on the website of musicaglotz.com ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 25, 2015
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| SURNAME | Voigt, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |