Georg Zeppenfeld

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Fierrabras , Salzburg Festival 2014

Georg Zeppenfeld (born 1970 in Attendorn ) is a German opera singer ( bass ).

Life

Zeppenfeld first studied the teaching in music and German , after that concert - and opera singing at the music schools in Detmold and Cologne , concluded with Kammersänger Hans Sotin . About his voice training, the singer said: “As a Westphalian, you are not necessarily born to sing art. Where we speak, namely in the back, there is usually no singing. It took a long time and it cost my teacher a lot of patience until I understood how to bring the voice forward. "

Opera

After his first years on stage at the Münster Theater (1997–1999) and at the Bonn Opera (1999–2001), Zeppenfeld was engaged by the Semperoper in Dresden, which has since been his artistic home. Under the direction of well-known conductors such as Myung-Whun Chung , Daniele Gatti , Fabio Luisi , Kent Nagano , Peter Schneider and Marcello Viotti , the artist was able to develop a broad repertoire of bass parts from different eras and styles. These include the classic Mozart roles Sarastro ( The Magic Flute ), Komtur ( Don Giovanni ), Figaro and Bartolo ( Le nozze di Figaro ) and Don Alfonso ( Così fan tutte ), the Verdi roles Pater Guardiano ( La forza del destino ), Sparafucile ( Rigoletto ), Zaccaria ( Nabucco ), Banco ( Macbeth ) and Philipp II. ( Don Carlos ), Mussorgski's Pimen ( Boris Godunow ), as well as the Wagner parts Fasolt ( Das Rheingold ), Landgraf Herrmann ( Tannhäuser ), König Marke ( Tristan and Isolde ) and Gurnemanz ( Parsifal ).

Zeppenfeld made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2002 - as Philebos in The King Kandaules by Alexander Zemlinsky, as Le Duc de Vérone in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette , and as a concert soloist. In 2003 he took over the Teiresias in a concert at the Salzburg Festival of Egon Wellesz 's Bakchantinnen . Guest appearances have taken him to the State Operas of Hamburg and Munich , the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Royal Opera in Stockholm , to Prague, to the Scala in Milan and the Roman Opera , to Madrid, Barcelona and Paris.

Sarastro's star role was in Mozart's Magic Flute , which he sang in 2005 under Claudio Abbado at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , 2007 at the San Francisco Opera , 2008 at the Theater an der Wien , 2009 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, 2011 at the Wiener State Opera and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, as well as in 2012 at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona and at the Salzburg Festival.

Zeppenfeld made his debut at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in 2008 as König Heinrich im Lohengrin under the direction of Leif Segerstam . In August 2009 he sang King Marke in Tristan und Isolde at the Glyndebourne Festival . At the Bayreuth Festival in 2010 and 2011, Zeppenfeld played Heinrich im Lohengrin , in 2011 also Veit Pogner in the Meistersingern von Nürnberg , 2015 and 2016 King Marke in Tristan and Isolde, in 2016 also Hunding in Walküre and in 2016 Gurnemanz in Parsifal. In December 2011 he took over the Peneios in Richard Strauss' Daphne at the Vienna State Opera . In 2013 he sang Steffano Colonna in concert for the first time in Wagner's Rienzi (at the Salzburg Festival), and for the first time staged the Flying Dutchman (in Dresden) and Wassermann in Dvořák's Rusalka (in Munich). In 2013 he was cast as Veit Pogner in Stefan Herheim's enthusiastically received production of the Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Salzburg Festival. In 2014 she made concert role debuts as the old Duke in Strauss' Guntram (in Dresden) and as Tirésias in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex , as well as scenic as King Karl in Schubert's Fierrabras - again at the Salzburg Festival. At the Salzburg Easter Festival 2019 he sang Hans Sachs in the Mastersingers of Nuremberg .

concert

The focus of his international concert activities is on choral orchestral works by Bach , Handel , Haydn , Mozart and Beethoven , as well as the great late romantic oratorios. Zeppenfeld sang a. a. with the Munich Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann , the Concentus Musicus Wien under Nikolaus Harnoncourt , the Orchester National de France and the Filarmonica alla Scala under Kurt Masur . He is also a regular guest at renowned European music festivals.

In 2003 Zeppenfeld sang in the Hugo Wolf Marathon of the Salzburg Festival together with Barbara Bonney , Thomas Hampson , Angelika Kirchschlager and Michael Schade . In 2004 he was there - again together with Bonney and Hampson, as well as with Michelle Breedt - in the recital Antonín Dvořák and his time .

Awards

Discography

There are numerous recordings by Zeppenfeld, including the Verdi Requiem published live and on DVD by Arte live from the Dresden Semperoper, conducted by Daniele Gatti on the 60th anniversary of the destruction of Dresden. CD recordings were made for Deutsche Grammophon, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Oehms Classics and others. a., radio and television productions for West German, Central German, North German and Bavarian Radio, Deutschlandfunk, ORF, 3sat, arte, RT Svizzera Italiana, Radio France u. a.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile: Georg Zeppenfeld , Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 26, 2016, accessed on September 11, 2016
  2. ↑ The bassist Georg Zeppenfeld: "As a Westphalian you are not necessarily born to sing art!" , Capriccio, accessed September 14, 2014
  3. ↑ Georg Zeppenfeld. In: www.bayreuther-festspiele.de. Retrieved April 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Gerald Felber: Easter Festival in Salzburg: Between the stage and outside. In: www.faz.net. April 17, 2019, accessed April 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Zeppenfeld, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (bass)
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Attendorn