Erich Syri
Erich Syri (born December 8, 1937 in Weißenthurm ) is a German opera singer (bass).
Life
After his first singing lessons with Elly Lauer in Neuwied, he studied singing with Professor Clemens Glettenberg at the State University of Music in Cologne. His debut as Sarastro in Mozart's Magic Flute was in Passau in 1962 at the Südostbayerisches Städtebundtheater. He had his first engagement as a "serious bass" (professional designation) at the Landestheater Linz, from 1963 to 1966. From 1966 to 1968 he was engaged in the same position at the Landestheater Saarbrücken with the artistic director Hermann Wedekind and GMD Siegfried Köhler. This was followed by a season at the Stadttheater Freiburg im Breisgau with Hans Reinhard Müller and General Music Director Leopold Hager.
In 1969 he was engaged by General Music Director Horst Stein at the National Theater Mannheim, where he worked until 1999.
His stage repertoire includes both serious and comic roles, such as: E.g. the Pimpinone in the opera of the same name by Telemann, the Baculus in Wildschütz by Albert Lortzing, the Pogner in the Meistersinger , the Hagen in Götterdämmerung , Fasolt and Fafner from Rheingold , the Daland from the Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner, Count Waldner in Arabella by Richard Strauss, the title role in Viva la Mamma by Donizetti, King Philipp in Verdi's Don Carlos , the Mephisto from Margarethe von Gounod, the Lothario from Mignon by Ambroise Thomas, the matchmaker Kezal from Smetana's The Bartered Bride , the Konchak in Fürst Igor von Borodin, and the cardinal in The Maid of Orleans by Tchaikovsky and the athletes in Lulu by Alban Berg.
He was involved in world premieres with Helmut Eders Der Kardinal in the title role, with Giselher Klebes The Youngest Day as innkeeper or with A. Kovacs Medea as Orest, and as co-author and actor of Josef Bieder in the one-person play Die Sternstunde des Josef Bieder by Eberhard Streul . At the same time he appeared as a concert and oratorio singer.
Honors
- 1989 Appointment as Baden Württemberg Chamber Singer by Prime Minister Lothar Späth.
Web links
- Erich Syri at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Erich Syri sings a Telemann trio, youtube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of the Baden Württemberg Ministry for Science and Art No. 133/1989 of October 24, 1989
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Syri, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (bass) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weißenthurm |