Esa Ruuttunen
Esa Kustaa Ruuttunen (born March 11, 1950 in Nivala ) is a Finnish opera singer ( baritone ).
Life
Ruuttunen studied singing and music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki from 1974 to 1980 . At the same time he completed a degree in theology. From 1974 he was employed as a vicar in the Temppeliaukio Church in Helsinki. From August 1984 he concentrated only on his work as a singer and accepted a teaching position at the Sibelius Academy. Master classes with Rudolf Bautz and Ralph Gothóni followed.
A second place in 1981 at the international singing competition Concours de Genève made him known internationally. He then performed numerous recitals with the Finnish pianist Marita Viitasalo-Pohjola, among others in Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the USA, Korea and Estonia. His repertoire included above all the song cycles by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms , Finnish and Scandinavian songs and contemporary song compositions.
Ruuttunen had appearances at numerous important opera houses, including the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, the Tampere Theater (including 1991 as Klingsor in Parsifal ) and from 1987 to 2005 at the Savonlinna Opera Festival . With the Helsinki Opera Ensemble, he gave guest appearances at the Aalto Theater in Essen in 1989 in the Finnish opera Juha by Aarre Merikanto , in 1990 in the Estonia National Opera in Tallinn as Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and in 1992 in Los Angeles in the world premiere of the opera Kullervo by Aulis Sallinen . He also worked with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, among others .
Ruuttunen's repertoire includes, among others, the Monterone in Verdi's Rigoletto , the Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen , the Valentin in Gounod's Faust , the Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca , the Pizarro in Beethoven's Fidelio , the Herr Fluth in Nicolai's Lustigen Weibern von Windsor , the Alberich in Wagner's Rheingold and roles in Finnish operas (including appearing as a judge in Pohjalaisia by Leeri Madetoja in 1992 ). In 1995 Ruuttunen took part in the premiere of the opera Das Buch Jonah by Olli Kortekangas in Helsinki in the title role. In 1996 he appeared at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in the title role in The Flying Dutchman . In 2004/2005 he sang the title role in the opera Oedipe by George Enescu at the Vienna State Opera .
Awards
- 1981 Second place in the International Singing Competition Concours de Genève
- 2000 Artist of the Year at the Savonlinna Opera Festival
literature
- Hako Pekka: Esa Ruuttunen - Oopperapappi . Kirjapaja, Helsinki 2007 (Finnish).
Web links
- Ruuttusen elämän roolit : Article about Ruutunen's life from 2007 with some photos (Finnish), accessed on December 21, 2015
- Literature by and about Esa Ruuttunen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Esa Ruuttunen in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89853-133-3 ( excerpts online [accessed on December 21, 2015]).
- ↑ Esa Ruuttunen at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- ↑ Axel Schniederjürgen (ed.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook (2006) . De Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ^ Esa Ruuttunen in "Oedipe" at the Vienna State Opera , accessed on February 28, 2016.
- ^ Artist of the Year. (No longer available online.) Www.operafestival.fi, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on December 21, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruuttunen, Esa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ruuttunen, Esa Kustaa (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish opera singer (baritone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nivala |