Hans Michael Sablotny

Hans Michael Sablotny (born March 2, 1965 in Cologne ) is a German opera and concert singer ( tenor ).

Life

Sablotny spent his childhood and youth in his hometown and passed the technical abitur for design at a vocational school in Cologne . Since the age of 16 he played and sang in several ensembles , with light music including pop and rock being the repertoire .

In 1990 he moved to Switzerland for professional reasons , where he was discovered for classical singing by Yvonne Zollikofer, the founder of the Zurich Opera School, and supported by a scholarship in 2000 . Already during vocal training he undertook with the opera Zurich School tours by the German Switzerland . He attended the Zurich Conservatory before continuing his studies from 2003 to 2006 with the opera singer Werner Mann from the Stadttheater Luzern and from 2006 with Peter Galliard from the Hamburg State Opera . Voice training with Roland Hermann in Zurich and master classes with Bodil Gümoes, Peter Galliard and Hubert Saladin supplemented his musical training.

In 2003 he made his stage debut in the role of Count Peter Homonay in the operetta " Der Zigeunerbaron " by Johann Strauss at the Operettenbühne Bremgarten .

Engagements took him to the Bregenz Festival Hall , the Theater am Kornmarkt in Bregenz, the Theater Winterthur , the guest theater in Zurich and other venues in German-speaking Switzerland.

The focus of his opera and operetta repertoire is the German character subject, he uses his skills in the comic subject and performs a lively concert activity in the field of light music.

Sablotny is a founding member of the singing theater "FünfTakt", which aims to "bring the extensive literature of opera, operetta, musical and all-time classics closer to the audience than is possible in a theater."

social commitment

After the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011 on March 11, 2011, which led to the environmental catastrophe in Japan , Sablotny took the initiative for an additional benefit performance as one of the leading actors in a performance by the "Arth Theater" . All around 200 participants in front of, on and behind the stage waived their fees for the additional performance and the theater-restaurant operator also made the net proceeds available that evening. This and the sold out house generated total proceeds of around 25,000 SFr. , which was made available for the disaster victims.