Günther Groissböck

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Günther Groissböck (born September 24, 1976 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs ) is an Austrian opera singer with a bass voice .

Life

Groissböck studied singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and his teachers included Robert Holl and José van Dam . In 2002 he made his debut as one of the four kings in Strauss ' Die Liebe der Danae at the Salzburg Festival and was then engaged as an ensemble member at the Vienna State Opera , where he made his debut as Luther in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann and a. a. sang the 2nd mate in Billy Budd , the 2nd armored man in the Magic Flute and the 2nd Knight of the Grail in Parsifal .

stage

In 2003 Alexander Pereira brought him to the Zurich Opera House , where he was permanently engaged for four years and was able to prove himself in larger roles. a. as Sarastro in the Magic Flute , as Sparafucile in Rigoletto or as Titurel in Parsifal . In 2005 he sang Sarastro at the Salzburg Festival - as a second cast alongside René Pape , and in 2006 and 2007 he took on minor roles there in Idomeneo and Freischütz .

Groissböck has been working as a freelancer since 2007 - at the New York Met , the Milan Scala , the Bavarian and Berlin State Operas , the Opéra National de Paris , the Deutsche Oper Berlin , at the De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona. The bass has developed into a broad repertoire, including almost all of the important Wagner roles (Fafner, Fasolt, Hunding, Landgraf, Pogner, König Marke, Gurnemanz and König Heinrich), Orestes in Elektra , Prince Gremin and the second Saretzki in Eugene Onegin , as well as the title role in Boris Godunow .

Groissböck did not return to Vienna until autumn 2010 - as Sarastro , where he sang Fafner and Hunding in 2011 and appeared in two state opera premieres in 2014: as Wassermann in Dvořák's Rusalka and as Heinrich der Vogler in Wagner's Lohengrin . He made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2011 as Landgrave Hermann im Tannhäuser , sang this role there in 2012 - under Christian Thielemann - and in 2013, most recently taking on Fasolt in Frank Castorf's controverial new production of the Ring of the Nibelung .

At the Salzburg Festival in 2014, Groissböck's successful role debut as Ochs auf Lerchenau in Harry Kupfer's Rosenkavalier production followed: “Günther Groissböck as Ochs was one of the trump cards of the evening, right up to the end of his voice. As a matter of course he accepted the singing challenge of the otherwise piquant boasting of his - cheap - conquests of women, he is a "new" ox in general. Quasi ideal in the sense of the inventors, not a rough fat idiot, but active in the atmosphere of the imperial court, but "built up". And devious, as it turns out later. It could be that this overrides a cliché that has been cultivated by plump comedians for decades since Richard Mayr , the obese Salzburg man who became a legend. “Groissböck is also given Ochs at the Met in New York, Vienna, Munich and Embody Berlin.

In 2016 he was seen as Sarastro in the Magic Flute at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden . In the Bayreuth production of the Mastersingers by Barrie Kosky in 2017, Groissböck's portrayal of Veit Pogner was positively highlighted by the critics. In 2017 he sang Kaspar im Freischütz at La Scala in Milan.

concert

Groissböck is also successful as a concert singer, u. a. He performed in the Berlin Philharmonie , the Gewandhaus Leipzig and the Dresden Frauenkirche , the Munich Philharmonie am Gasteig , in Vienna both in the Musikverein and in the Konzerthaus , in the Boston Symphony Hall and in 2014 in New York's Carnegie Hall . He sings the classic bass parts in great choral and orchestral works , such as Haydn's Creation and Die Jahreszeiten , Beethoven's Missa solemnis and Bruckner's Te Deum , the Requien by Mozart and Verdi , as well as Beethoven's Ninth and Mahler's Eighth .

Recordings (selection)

Movie

  • KulturWerk. Opera singer Günther Groissböck. Conversation with video recordings, Austria, 2014, 45:20 min., Moderation: Barbara Rett , production: Don't panic Productions, ORF III , series: KulturWerk, first broadcast: August 12, 2014 on ORF III, summary by ORF.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Günther Groissböck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

proof

  1. ↑ Ernst P. Strobl: Nachtkritik zum Rosenkavalier: The world of yesterday , Salzburger Nachrichten , August 2, 2014
  2. ↑ Christoph Irrgeher: Wassermann and Jung-Ochs , Wiener Zeitung , January 22, 2014
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel, Die Festwiese als Nürnberger Prozess, July 26, 2017 - accessed on July 29, 2017  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.spiegel.de  
  4. ^ Austrian music theater award to Günther Groissböck. In: musik-heute.de. July 18, 2020, accessed July 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Groissböck, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (bass)
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Waidhofen an der Ybbs