Christophe Villa

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Christophe Villa (* 1980 in France ) is a French opera and concert singer ( countertenor ).

Life

He received singing and directing training at the Conservatoire National de Région Pierre Barbizet in Marseille and completed his singing training at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy with Renate Faltin from 2004 to 2010 . In addition to his studies, he attended various master classes, among others with Magreet Honig, Håkan Hagegård , Júlia Várady , Andrew Watts, Gerd Uecker , with which he was able to further qualify.

In 2005 he made his debut in Germany in a co-production of the Komische Oper Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts in Giacomo Carissimi's oratorio Historia di Jephte . In February 2007 he could be heard as Tolomeo in Georg Friedrich Handel's opera Giulio Cesare , a joint production by the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts.

This was followed by numerous appearances as Medoro in Georg Friedrich Händel's Orlando at the Neukölln Opera from September to November 2007 ; In July 2008 he performed on the occasion of the Classic Open Air in Berlin on Gendarmenmarkt for the night of 1000 voices . He also sang the leading role of Nerone in a production of L'incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi under the direction of Wolfgang Katschner , Lautten Compagney Berlin. Another appearance took place in Carmina Burana by Carl Orff in the Berlin Philharmonic , where he sang the role of the swan. In June 2009 he sang Carmina Burana at a concert in the Neuzelle monastery . From October to December 2010 Christophe Villa sang the role of Sesto in the opera La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Bode Museum Berlin. The specialist magazine Opernglas wrote in a review of Villas' interpretation: "This [di Christophe Villa] masterfully designed the famous" Parto aria ", but in the course of the evening ... lost its vocal and interpretational flexibility."

Christophe Villa is also very active as a concert and oratorio singer. His repertoire includes not only early music , but also songs and operettas . In 2006, at the invitation of Ms. Eva Wagner-Pasquier , he was a guest of the Académie Européene de Musique d'Aix-en-Provence, in 2008 of the Akademie für Musik Schloss Rheinsberg and in 2010 at the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Premiere Neukölln Opera: Orlando  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 241 kB) Press release (with CV of Christophe Villa)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.neukoellneroper.de  
  2. ↑ Enthusiastic Carmina Burana concert review , in: Märkische Oderzeitung from June 30, 2009
  3. ↑ Mozart's Titus in the Bode-Museum: Large production on the "Catwalk" From a performance review: "Above all, the great voice of the countertenor Christophe Villa in the role of" Sesto "has a decisive influence on this evening."
  4. ↑ Fateful Desire in the Bode Museum ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Vita Christophe Villa  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.titus-im-bode.de
  5. ↑ Performance review in: Opernglas , Edition 12/2010, p. 58
personal data
SURNAME Villa, Christophe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French opera and concert singer (countertenor)
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH France