Gosta Winbergh

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Gösta winbergh (* the 30th December 1943 in Stockholm ; † 18th March 2002 in Vienna ) was a Swedish opera singer of the vocal range tenor . He performed at all the major opera houses in the world.

Life

Origin and education

There was no musical tradition in Winbergh's parents who dealt with opera. He attended his first opera performance in 1967. Winbergh initially trained as a civil engineer and sang in a rock band on the side. At the Royal Music Academy in Stockholm he studied singing from 1969 to 1971 with his uncle Carl Martin Oehman (1887-1967) as well as with Erik Saedén and Hjördis Schymberg . In later years he also took lessons from Nicolai Gedda .

Start of career

1971 Winbergh debuted as an opera singer at the Stora Theater (Stora Teatern) in Gothenburg with the role of Rodolfo in La Bohème ; his partner as Mimì was Helena Doese . In 1973 he was engaged (inaugural role: Alfredo in La traviata ) at the Royal Stockholm Opera. There he was a permanent member of the ensemble until 1981; after that he continued to appear there regularly as a guest. Winbergh initially sang mainly the lyric tenor, especially Mozart roles, as well as Conte Almaviva in The Barber of Seville and Nemorino in The Love Potion . During this time he also sang roles in operettas, including Alfred in Die Fledermaus and Symon in Der Bettelstudent . In 1977 he sang the painter in the Swedish premiere of the opera Lulu in the three-act version supplemented by Friedrich Cerha at the Stockholm Opera .

In the 1970s he made guest appearances at the Royal Copenhagen Opera House , at the San Francisco Opera (1974, as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni , later again as Don Ottavio in 1981 and as Ferrando in 1983), at the Hamburg State Opera (1977, as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte ) and from 1976 several times at the Aix-en-Provence Festival .

Winbergh made his international breakthrough at the Royal Stockholm Opera with the roles of Ferrando in Così fan tutte (premiere: 1972 at the Drottningholm Palace Theater ) and David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (premiere: October 1, 1977), both directorial works by Götz Friedrich .

Career in the 1980s

From the beginning of the 1980s, Winbergh significantly expanded his international guest appearances and in the following years appeared almost exclusively in leading roles worldwide. He made his first guest appearance at the Zurich Opera House in the 1980/81 season (as Sali in the Swiss premiere of the opera Romeo and Juliet in the village of Frederick Delius ). In 1981 he first appeared at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich ; his inaugural role there was Tamino .

Since 1982 he has appeared regularly at the Vienna State Opera ; he made his debut there in September 1982 as Belmonte in Mozart's Singspiel Die Entführung aus dem Serail . Winbergh sang ten different roles in a total of 90 performances at the Vienna State Opera. In addition to Belmonte (1982–1986), his roles in Vienna also included the Mozart roles Tamino (1982–1998) and Ferrando (1987–1991). After switching to a hero tenor , Winbergh appeared at the Vienna State Opera as Walther von Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1995–1999), as Lohengrin (1996–2000), as Florestan in Fidelio (1996–2002), as Cavaradossi in Tosca (February 1998) and as Tristan in Tristan und Isolde (2000–2001). Winbergh sang his last performance (as Florestan in Fidelio ) there on March 17th, 2002.

In the 1983/1984 season he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City ; there he sang Don Ottavio as the inaugural role . In 1995 he performed there again, this time as Tamino . In 1985 Winbergh made his successful debut as Tamino in Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte at La Scala in Milan . In 1990 he made a guest appearance there in the title role of Mozart's opera Idomeneo .

Winbergh also gave guest appearances in the 1980s at the Covent Garden Opera in London (1982, title role in La clemenza di Tito ; he later appeared there in 1993 as Tamino), at the Grand Théâtre de Genève (1983, as Narraboth in Salome ), on Gran Teatre del Liceu (1986, as Don Ottavio), at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (1988, as Don Ottavio) and at the Houston Opera House (1988, as Ferrando).

Festival appearances and concert in the Vatican

Winbergh was invited to all major music festivals. He was a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival . There he sang: Jaquino in Fidelio (1982), Ferrando (1982; 1991), Tamino (1983–1986), Don Ottavio (1987) and Idomeneo (1989). He also appeared there in oratorios, masses and concerts, for example in Haydn's oratorio Die Schichtung in 1987 and in Mozart's Requiem in 1990 . At the Glyndebourne Festival in 1988 he sang the role of Belmonte.

In June 1985 Winbergh sang the tenor solo in Mozart's coronation mass at a concert in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome , in the presence of Pope John Paul II , who also celebrated the mass himself.

Change of subject and hero tenor

At the end of the 1980s / beginning of the 1990s, Winbergh made a change of subject, from the role of " lyric tenor " to the role of "youthful heroic tenor " and finally to "heroic tenor ". A lifelong dream came true for Winbergh. Winbergh planned carefully and carefully when changing his subject; There was no damage to the voice. Winbergh tried to also "sing Italian" roles in Wagner's subject; He always laid out his Wagner roles on the basis of bel canto .

Winbergh's change of subject began in 1991 at the Bonn Opera House as Hans in the opera The Bartered Bride . He now sang mainly Wagnerian roles such as Lohengrin (1990 at the Zurich Opera House; 1993 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu; 1996 and 2000 at the Vienna State Opera; 1997 at the Covent Garden Opera London; 1998 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin ; 1999 at the Mariinski) -Theater in St. Petersburg ; 2001 at the Los Angeles Opera ), as Walther von Stolzing (1993 and 1998 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; 1999 at the Lyric Opera Chicago), the title role in Parsifal (1995 at the Royal Stockholm Opera; 1998 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin), Erik in The Flying Dutchman (1997 at the San Francisco Opera), Siegmund in Die Walküre (2001 at the Zurich Opera House) and Tristan (2000/2001 at the Vienna State Opera; conductor: Semjon Bytschkow ).

Winbergh's other hero tenor roles were Hüon in Oberon (1998 at the Zurich Opera House), Cavaradossi (1994 at the Berlin State Opera ; 1998 at the Vienna State Opera) and Don José in Carmen (1999 at the Royal Stockholm Opera). With the role of Idomeneo (including 1998 at the Bavarian State Opera and 1999 at the San Francisco Opera), he still had a Mozart role in his repertoire, parallel to his hero tenor roles.

Honors and death

In 1988 Winbergh was appointed Swedish court singer. His appointment as Austrian Chamber Singer was planned for June 2002 .

Winbergh died on March 18, 2002, presumably of heart failure . According to the Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse, he was found dead two days after his death in his Vienna apartment. The day before his death, on March 17, 2002, he last appeared at the Vienna State Opera.

Winbergh was married. He left a wife and two children, a son and a daughter.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f DIED: Gösta Winbergh Death report and obituary in: Der Spiegel from March 25, 2002; Edition 13/2002
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Gösta Winbergh dies in Vienna Press release of the Vienna State Opera from March 20, 2002
  3. ↑ Gösta Winbergh is dead? ( Memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Forum of the Vienna State Opera ; Contributions from March 20, 2002. This information on the circumstances of death can also be found in Kutsch / Riemens, p. 5064.
personal data
SURNAME Winbergh, Gosta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 2002
Place of death Vienna