Endrik Wottrich

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Endrik Wottrich (born October 13, 1964 in Celle ; † April 26, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Endrik Wottrich studied singing with Ingeborg Hallstein and violin in Würzburg . With a scholarship from the German Study Foundation he continued his vocal training at the Juilliard School in New York with Daniel Ferro .

In September 1992 he made his stage debut in the role of Cassio in the opera Otello at the Wiesbaden State Theater . In the 1992/93 season he sang as an alternative cast the male, teenage heroic tenor role of Mathias Freudhofer in the opera Der Evangelimann , whereby his “baritone-pithy tenor largely effortlessly overcame the heroic hurdles of the title role, but also the necessary lyrical smoothness owned ". In the same season he also took on the role of Cassio in Verdi's opera Otello as an “appealing” new line-up . He then worked from 1993 to 1999 at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden . An important role debut for Wottrich was the title role in the opera Don Carlo at the Bonn Opera in the 2000/01 season . In a production of the Zurich Opera ( Wiener Festwochen 1997) Wottrich was Alfonso in Franz Schubert 's opera of the same name.

He made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 1996 as a young sailor in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and then sang regularly in Bayreuth until 2009. In summer 2001 he sang Walther von Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg for the first time at the Bayreuth Festival under the direction of Christian Thielemann .

Wottrich sang the title role in Wagner's opera Tannhäuser at La Scala in Milan and Florestan ( Fidelio ) at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. He made his debut as Siegmund in Wagner's Walküre at the Dresden State Opera , and sang Parsifal for the first time in Oslo . During rehearsals for the Bayreuth Festival in 2004, there was a heated argument with Parsifal director Christoph Schlingensief . In 2015 he sang the title role in the first performance of Tristan at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples under Zubin Mehta , and at the Leipzig Opera he was Arindal in Wagner's Die Feen . Wottrich had one of his last stage appearances as Hagenbach in the production of Alfredo Catalani's La Wally at the Vienna Volksoper .

Private

Before 2008, Wottrich was in a relationship with Katharina Wagner , who later became director of the Bayreuth Festival.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wagner tenor Endrik Wottrich died unexpectedly
  2. ↑ Michael Arndt: ALTERNATIVE ASSIGNMENT . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue February 2, 1993. Page 38.
  3. ↑ Gerhard Fehrer: DURCHS REPERTOIRE . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue April 4, 1993. page 46.
  4. ↑ Schlingensief tenor dispute - The "high point of German nonsense". In: sueddeutsche.de. May 17, 2010, accessed May 2, 2017 . Wolfgang Höbel, Joachim Kronsbein, Johannes Saltzwedel : The zebra greets tenderly . In: Der Spiegel . No.
     34 , 2004, pp. 108-109 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Wottrich, Endrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2017
Place of death Berlin