Johannes Chum

Johannes Chum (* 1968 in Vorau , Styria ) is an Austrian tenor .

Life

Johannes Chum began his musical training with the Vienna Boys' Choir . He studied at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz , theology and music education , and at the Vienna Academy of Music , song and oratorio at Kurt Equiluz . He completed further vocal training with the bass player Arthur Korn .

Opera roles

Chum made his debut in St. Pölten in 1994 as Lysander in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream . This was followed by Caramello in the Strauss opera One Night in Venice at the Klagenfurt City Theater and then quickly appearances at important opera houses and festivals in Europe, such as the Frankfurt and Graz Opera , the Opéra Bastille in Paris and the De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam , as well the Mozart Week , the Lucerne Festival , the Bregenz and Salzburg Festival .

His repertoire focuses on the classic Mozart roles - Belmonte , Tamino , Don Ottavio , Ferrando , as well as the title roles in Idomeneo and Titus . He also sang the Belfiore in La finta giardiniera (in Graz) and the Aufidio in Lucio Silla (in Amsterdam), as well as the smaller tenor roles Don Curzio (in Le nozze di Figaro ) and Arbace (in Idomeneo ). In addition, he took over the Jaquino in Beethoven's Fidelio , the singer in Rosenkavalier and the young man in Frau ohne Schatten .

At the Burgenland Haydn Festival in 1998 he played Germando in L'isola disabitata and in 1999 Rinaldo in Haydn's Armida . In Frankfurt he appeared as Nerone in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea , at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music in Conti's Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena , and at the Berlin State Opera as Monteverdi's L'Orfeo . He made his debut as Don Ottavio a. a. at the Volksoper Vienna and the Opéra de Rouen . At the Bregenz Festival in 2002, Chum sang Michel in Martinů's Juliette , at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona he took over the Conte di Libenskof in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims and at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp he embodied the Trimalchio in the opera Satyricon by Bruno Maderna .

A long-term collaboration connected the singer with the Komische Oper Berlin and the director Harry Kupfer from 2000 . At this house he sang the Mozart roles Tamino, Titus, Ferrando and Don Ottavio, Romeo in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette , as well as Jonathan in Handel's oratorio Saul and Piquillo in a new production of Offenbach's La Périchole in the 2009 season / 10.

At the Theater an der Wien Chum u. a. In 2008 as Kudrjaš in Janáček's Katja Kabanowa , in 2009 as Count Hohenzollern in Henze's Prince of Homburg and 2013 as Jaquino in Nikolaus Harnoncourt's Fidelio production. In 2013 he sang two tenor roles there in a concert performance of Viktor Ullmann's chamber opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis .

In 2012 Chum made his debut at the Royal Copenhagen Opera (in a staged version of the Messiah ), in 2013 at the Munich Theater am Gärtnerplatz (in Flotow's Martha ) and at the Prague Estates Theater (in Mysliveček's L'Olimpiade ). He could great personal success in the same year win with two role debuts in Graz: When Styriarte Chum sang the title role in Offenbach's Bluebeard , in September, he sang at the season opening of the Graz Opera to Lohengrin .

In 2014, she made her role debut as Verdi's Don Carlos and as Stolzing in Wagner's Meistersingern von Nürnberg , both at the Chemnitz Opera House , and as Loge in Rheingold at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl .

Concert repertoire

Chum also regularly sings important tenor parts in sacred works by Bach , Handel and Mendelssohn , and others. a. in the Christmas Oratorio , in the St. John and Matthew Passions , Saul and Messiah . At the turn of the year 2012/2013 Chum could be heard live on MDR with Beethoven's Ninth and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly . At the Gewandhaus he also sang Schubert's Winterreise in the orchestral version by Hans Zender .

Johannes Chum has worked with a number of well-known conductors , including Sylvain Cambreling , Dennis Russell Davies , Christopher Hogwood , René Jacobs , Fabio Luisi , Sir Charles Mackerras , Ingo Metzmacher , Sir Roger Norrington , Jordi Savall , Peter Schreier and Bruno Weil .

Honors

• In 2000 he was awarded the Eberhard Waechter Medal .
• In 2001 he received the Karl Böhm Interpretation Prize from the State of Styria.

Web links

• Johannes Chum at kulturserver.de
• OperaBase , directory of some roles