Horst Lamnek

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Horst Lamnek (* 1977 in Vienna ) is an Austrian opera singer with a bass-baritone voice .

Life

education

Horst Lamnek attended the Sigmund-Freud-Gymnasium in Vienna and then did his community service . From 1996 he studied solo singing with Leopold Spitzer , lied and oratorio with Charles Spencer and musical dramatic performance with Reto Nickler and Ivan Parík at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . In 2004 he completed his artistic training with distinction in musical dramatic performance as well as in song and oratorio. As a singer he took masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender , Reri Grist , Nicolai Gedda , Olaf Bär , Horst Günter and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau .

Engagements

During his studies Horst Lamnek sang Figaro in Figaro's wedding , Giove in La Calisto , father in Hansel and Gretel , prison director Frank in the bat and Kagler in Viennese blood . His first engagements took him as a singer to Meran, Salzburg, Mödling, Hainsdorf and the Regensburg Theater. In the 2003/2004 season he was engaged at the Zurich International Opera Studio, where he made his debut as an Indian in The Bartered Bride at the Zurich Opera House .

From 2004 to 2006 Horst Lamnek was part of the ensemble at the Ulm Theater . Here he sang Hidraot in Armide , Leporello in Giovanni , Don Magnifico in Cenerentola , Don Alfonso in Così and Fürst Ypsheim in Wiener Blut.

He has been working as a freelancer since 2006 and has since made guest appearances at the opera houses in Bonn ( Leander ), Chemnitz ( Klingsor ), Essen, Wiesbaden ( Don Alfonso ), Hagen, at the Leipzig Opera ( Bill ), at the New Music Theater Linz ( Monterone , Baron Gondremark , Frank ), at the Theater an der Wien ( Athlete in O. Neuwirth's American Lulu) and at the New National Theater Tokyo ( Frank ). Horst Lamnek has been a regular guest at the Komische Oper Berlin since 2008 as Leander in Die Liebe zu den Drei Orangen , as Bill in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny , as Erdal in Mikropolis (by C. Jost) and Frank in Die Fledermaus. He made his debut as La Roche (Capriccio by Richard Strauss) at the Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole in 2016. Horst Lamnek is also a frequent guest in Italy: at the Teatro Verdi Trieste ( speaker , Frank ), at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, and most recently at the Teatro Regio Torino ( 5th Jew ).

The bass-baritone has also performed at numerous festivals: Grafenegg Music Festival, Klosterneuburg Opera, St. Margarethen Opera Festival, Autumn Days Blindenmarkt, Wiener Festwochen, Festival de Pâques (Aix en Provence) and at the Mörbisch Seefestspiele.

He works with the conductors Alfred Eschwé, Michael Gielen, Henrik Nánási, Felix Bender, Johannes Kalitzke, Stefan Soltesz, Stefan Blunier, Dirk Kaftan, Michael Guettler, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Martin Haselböck, Giovanni Antonini, Peter Schneider, Ulf Schirmer, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Franz Welser-Möst., Diego Fasolis, Nir Kabaretti and Gianandrea Noseda.

Horst Lamnek is also a sought-after song and concert singer. His repertoire includes works by Franz Schubert , Hans Pfitzner , Johannes Brahms , Robert Schumann , Samuel Barber , Wolfgang Fortner , Frank Martin and Anton von Webern . With particular devotion he devotes himself to the songs of Hugo Wolf . In 2003, on the 100th anniversary of Hugo Wolf's death, he performed the Italian songbook in Brezice (SLO) and Erba (I) with Tania Oppel (soprano), Eva-Maria Riedl (mezzo-soprano) and Charles Spencer (piano) . He sings in concerts with ensembles such as the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Academy, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, I Barocchisti, or the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in Vienna (Konzerthaus), Berlin (Philharmonie), Hamburg (Laeiszhalle), Bremen (Die Glocke), Athens (Megaron) and Madrid (Auditorio Nacional).

Discography

Numerous recordings have been made by Horst Lamnek, B. The cheerful wolf - humorous songs by Hugo Wolf together with Elena Larina (Coviello Classics, 2017), Mozart - Requiem completed by Mozart'sThamos (RTSI Multimedia, 2007), Bizet - Carmen, Puccini - La Bohème (Opernfestspiele St. Margarethen , 2012/2013), Zeller - The Bird Trader (Mörbisch Seefestspiele, 2017).

Awards

  • 1999 Bayreuth scholarship from the Richard Wagner Association
  • 2001 Special prize in the Gradus Ad Parnassum competition in Innsbruck
  • 2003 laureate at the International Ada Sari Competition of Vocal Art in Nowy Sącz in Poland
  • 2004 Prize of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

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personal data
SURNAME Lamnek, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna