Jan-Hendrik Rootering

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Jan-Hendrik Rootering (born March 18, 1950 in Wedingfeld near Flensburg ) is a German opera, lied and concert singer ( bass baritone ).

Life

Jan-Hendrik Rootering is the son of the Dutch tenor Hendrikus Rootering , who was his teacher and mentor. During his vocal studies at the Hamburg University of Music , he sang small parts at the Hamburg State Opera and at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen .

In 1982 the artist made his debut as a ghost messenger in Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Over the years he was heard there in almost all of the major bass roles, for example in the major Wagner repertoire (Fasolt, Gurnemanz, Pogner, Landgraf, Daland, Sachs), as a Mozart interpreter (Commendatore, Sarastro) and in various roles of the Italian repertoire (Macbeth, Fiescom Simone Boccanegra). In 1990 he sang Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier in the much acclaimed and discussed production by Brigitte Fassbaender .

Jan-Hendrik Rootering sang and sings on all major opera stages in the world, including, in addition to those already mentioned, in the La Scala in Milan, in the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, in the Opéra Bastille in Paris, in the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Dresden Semperoper, the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Oper Frankfurt, the Théatre de la Monnaire Brussels and many more. With the Metropolitan Opera, where he was Landgrave in Tannhäuser in the 1986/87 season and the Singers' War at the Wartburg debuted, he works regularly with each other. He also appears as a guest at all major international festivals, for example in Munich, Vienna, Salzburg, Oslo, Schubertiade Hohenems, etc.

Rootering is a popular song and concert singer. He works u. a. with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as well as with renowned conductors, among others. a. Carlos Kleiber , Riccardo Chailly , Leonard Bernstein , Claudio Abbado , Zubin Mehta , Wolfgang Sawallisch and James Levine .

Rootering also devotes himself to vocal pedagogy. He taught at the Munich University of Music and the Cologne University of Music . From 2007 to 2014 he taught as a professor for singing at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen . He also gives master classes at home and abroad.

Rootering has twice received one of the Grammy Awards : for his role as Fasolt in the opera Das Rheingold and as Kaspar in Der Freischütz . In 1986 he was awarded the title “Bavarian Chamber Singer”.

His extensive repertoire is documented by many radio, video and television productions as well as CD recordings.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan-Hendrik Rootering in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Rootering, Jan-Hendrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera, lied and concert singer (bass baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Wedingfeld near Flensburg