Jörg Schneider (singer)

Jörg Schneider (* 1969 in Wels ) is an Austrian opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Schneider received his first musical training with the Vienna Boys' Choir and studied in Vienna with Elfriede Obrowsky . In 1995 he became a member of the ensemble at the Wiesbaden State Theater . For the years 1997 to 2000 he moved to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf as a member of the ensemble . Jörg Schneider has been a member of the Vienna Volksoper since 2007 . In autumn 2012 he made his debut as Iro in Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria at the Theater an der Wien (production: Claus Guth ). In 2012/13 he sang David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Bunka Kaikan Theater Tokyo and Belmonte in Mozart's Entführung in Düsseldorf and Flamand in Capriccio at the Palace of the Arts in Budapest . In 2014 Schneider sang Oskar at the Bregenz Festival in the world premiere of Tales from the Vienna Woods by HK Gruber (based on the play of the same name by Ödön von Horváth ), a performance that was repeated at the Theater an der Wien. Schneider sang his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona as Leukippos in Daphne , and at the Vienna State Opera he made his role debut as Narraboth in Salome .

Guest engagements led Schneider primarily to Italy, a. to the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari , the Teatro Bellini in Catania , the Teatro Communale Ferrara , the Teatro Comunale and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , the Teatro alla Scala di Milano , the Teatro Regio di Parma , the Teatro Massimo Palermo , Teatro dell'Opera di Roma , the Teatro Regio di Torino , the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona , in Germany to the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Semperoper Dresden , the State Opera Stuttgart , in Belgium to the Théâtre De La Monnaie Brussels, in Spain to the Teatro Real Madrid , in Switzerland to the Zurich Opera House , and in East Asia to Tokyo and Hong Kong.

The conductors he has worked with include Claudio Abbado , Bertrand de Billy , Semyon Bychkov , Dennis Russell Davies , Theodor Guschlbauer , Gustav Kuhn , Zubin Mehta , Riccardo Muti , Christoph Prick , Christophe Rousset , Peter Schneider , Pinchas Steinberg , Christian Thielemann , Edo de Waart .

Concerts

Schneider's repertoire also includes the tenor parts in JS Bach's St. John Passion , Joseph Haydn's Creation , Mozart's Requiem , Mendelssohn Bartholdy's The First Walpurgis Night , R. Schumann's Dichterliebe , Verdi's Messa da Requiem and Berlioz 's Te Deum . Schneider has made guest appearances at the Dresden Philharmonic , Royal Albert Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Wiener Musikverein , the Wiener Konzerthaus , the Brucknerhaus in Linz , Radio France and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam .

Sound carrier

• Alfred - Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss (son) (with Edita Gruberová ) at Nightingale Classics
• Stanislaus - the bird dealer by Carl Zeller Seefestspiele Mörbisch
• Marquese Sebastiani - The Merry War (Johann Strauss)

Web links

• Jörg Schneider Homepage
• Jörg Schneider at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• Jörg Schneider at Operabase (engagements and dates)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ list of singers