Cornel Frey
Cornel Frey (born on 3. October 1977 in Lucerne is) a Swiss opera singer ( Buffo - tenor ).
life and work
Cornel Frey received his first training with the Lucerne Singing Boys and then studied singing with Jakob Stämpfli at the Bern University of Music and Theater . In 2003 he completed his studies with a concert diploma.
In the 2002/03 season he became a member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich , where he made his debut as Albert Herring in Britten's opera of the same name. From 2003 to 2009 Frey was a member of the Wuppertaler Bühnen ensemble . Here he sang all the important parts of the game, and for his interpretation of Pedrillo he was nominated by the specialist journal Theater Pur as the best young singer in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 2009 he moved to the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where he could be seen and heard as Lindoro in L'italiana in Algeri and as Fatty in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny . Frey has made guest appearances at the Bavarian State Opera (as Remendado in Carmen ), several times at the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival , the Lucerne Festival , the Wiener Festwochen and the styriarte . There he played Baron Puck in Offenbach's La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein in 2003 under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt and directed by Jürgen Flimm . At the Wiener Festwochen 2005 and in the Vienna Mozart Year 2006 he sang - at the Theater an der Wien - the Aufifio in Mozart's Lucio Silla , again under Harnoncourt.
Frey has been a member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg since the 2012–13 season . There he sings, among others, Spoletta , Tamino in a magic flute for children, Count Boni Káncsiánu in the Csárdásfürstin , Pedrillo, the prince in Ernst Toch's setting of the princess and the pea , the crispy witch in Hansel and Gretel and Andres in Wozzeck .
A CD with Beethoven and Schubert songs was released in 2005 by Sonarte.
Web links
- Cornel Frey at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Cornel Frey homepage
- Cornel Frey at Styriarte
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Frey, Cornel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss opera singer (buffo tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd October 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lucerne |