Jochen Kupfer

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Jochen Kupfer (* 1969 in Grimma ) is a German opera singer ( baritone ).

life and career

education

Jochen Kupfer received regular singing lessons from the age of 10 . He attended the St. Augustin high school in his hometown and, after graduating from high school, studied singing with Helga Forner at the Leipzig Music Academy . He completed master classes with Aldo Baldin, Theo Adam and Elio Battaglia, among others . He received lessons from Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf .

Artistic career

During his studies he was engaged at the Meiningen State Theater, where he sang roles such as Wolfram von Eschenbach in Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser . From the 1997/98 season to 2005 he was a member of the ensemble at the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Semperoper), where he sang roles such as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro , Papageno in Die Zauberflöte , Guglielmo in Così fan tutte and Olivier in Capriccio .

Kupfer had guest engagements at the State Opera Unter den Linden (as Olivier) and at the Bavarian State Opera (as Guglielmo). In 2008 he appeared at Theater Bremen as Papageno and Jochanaan in Salome , in 2009 as Eisenstein.

From 2005, Kupfer had a permanent guest contract at the State Theater in Nuremberg . There he appeared in the title role of Don Giovanni and Eugen Onegin (with Anne Lünenbürger as a partner), as Figaro in Der Barbier von Sevilla , as Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro , as Wolfram in Tannhäuser , as Frank / Fritz in Die dead city , as a music teacher in Ariadne auf Naxos , as Danilo in The Merry Widow and as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus . In 2011 he made his role debut there as Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg . In the 2012/13 season there sang Kurwenal in Tristan and Isolde, among others . In the 2015/16 season Jochen Kupfer made his role debut as Gunther in Wagner's Götterdämmerung (new production, Nuremberg State Theater). Another role debut followed in February 2016 as Escamillo in Carmen at the State Theater in Nuremberg. In March / April 2018 he sang Stolzius in Peter Konwitschny's new production of the opera The Soldiers at the State Theater in Nuremberg .

Jochen Kupfer has worked with conductors such as Giuseppe Sinopoli , Riccardo Chailly , Constantin Trinks , Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Hartmut Haenchen , René Jacobs , Philippe Herreweghe , Mark Soustrot , Jeffrey Tate , Marcus Bosch , Peter Schreier , Helmuth Rilling and Trevor Pinnock .

Kupfer has given concerts in San Francisco , Los Angeles and New York's Carnegie Hall . He has appeared at various international festivals such as the Nuits Romantiques in Aix-les-Bains , the Salzburg Festival , the Festival International de Musique et d'Art lyrique in Montreux and the Festival of Early Music in Boston . In addition to his concert activities, Kupfer also appears as a lieder singer . In 1996 he sang the songs of a traveling journeyman by Gustav Mahler for the first time in the Gewandhaus Leipzig with the Gewandhausorchester under the direction of Kurt Masur .

Awards

Jochen Kupfer is the winner of the Mozart Festival Competition in Würzburg , the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig , the VDMK Federal Singing Competition in Berlin, the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition in Berlin and the Meistersänger Competition in Nuremberg . He is the Luitpold Prize laureate of the Kissingen Summer 2001. In 2016 he was appointed Bavarian Chamber Singer and in 2018 he was awarded the City of Nuremberg Prize.

Discography

There are several CD recordings with Jochen Kupfer, including the complete song works of Franz Schreker and Robert Schumann's Kernerlieder and Liederkreis op. 24, the Richard Strauss opera Der Friedensstag and Bach cantatas .

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personal data
SURNAME Copper, yokes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Grimma