Detlef Roth

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Detlef Roth (* 1969 in Freudenstadt ) is a German singer with a baritone and bass voice .

Live and act

Detlef Roth studied singing with Georg Jelden at the Stuttgart University of Music . During his studies he won the National Singing Competition in Berlin in 1990 , the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna in 1992 and the International Singing Competition for Wagner Voices in Strasbourg in 1994 .

His operatic repertoire includes works by Richard Wagner such as Wolfram von Eschenbach in Tannhäuser , the King's Heerufer in Lohengrin , Donner in Das Rheingold , Amfortas in Parsifal and Gunther in Götterdämmerung . Other vocal parts are Papageno in Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart and roles in Hans Heiling by Heinrich Marschner , Die Bassariden by Hans Werner Henze and Königskinder by Engelbert Humperdinck .

His repertoire as a concert singer includes Elias by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms , Carmina Burana by Carl Orff , passions, masses and oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach and songs by Franz Schubert .

Detlef Roth sang at La Scala in Milan , at the Royal Opera House in London, at the Lincoln Center in New York and at the Paris Opera and has appeared at the Bayreuth Festival , the Salzburg Festival and the Salzburg Easter Festival . Well-known orchestras with whom he has sung are the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia , the Vienna Philharmonic , the Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam and the Strasbourg Philharmonic . With the French soprano Sandrine Piau and the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France he interpreted love arias by Mozart at the Cité de la musique in Paris.

Detlef Roth lives in Freudenstadt and Fort Lauderdale , Florida .

Contribution to CD publications

  • Symphony No. 9 in D minor op.125 by Ludwig van Beethoven, BMG Ariola, Hamburg 1999 (bass)
  • Doctor Faust by Ferruccio Busoni, East West Records, Hamburg 1999
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra in A minor op.7 by Clara Schumann , Frankfurter Museums-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main 2001 (bass)
  • A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms, Cappella, Wiesbaden 2001
  • Königskinder by Engelbert Humperdinck, Universal Music Entertainment, Berlin 2006
  • Symphonies 1–9 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 2007 (bass)
  • The first Walpurgis Night by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Farao, Munich 2010
  • German folk songs, part 1: If I were a bird. Sony Music Entertainment, Munich 2010
  • Johannes Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 245), Förderkreis Thomanerchor, Leipzig 2011 (bass)
  • Regina by Albert Lortzing, Cpo, Georgsmarienhütte 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Previous winners on the website of the Richard Wagner Association Karlsruhe
  2. Sandrine Piau and Detlef Roth sing Mozart ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2014 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. on arte.tv  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv