Johannes Martin Kränzle

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Johannes Martin Kränzle (* 1962 in Augsburg ) is a German opera and concert singer ( baritone ).

Life

Kränzle attended the St. Stephan humanistic high school in Augsburg and came to singing after studying the violin (with Professor Rudolf Koeckert ) and studying music theater directing in Hamburg. After training with Martin Gründler at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts , he began his first engagements from 1987 to 1991 at the Theater Dortmund and from 1991 to 1997 at the Lower Saxony State Opera in Hanover ; from 1998 to 2016 he was part of the ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera .

In addition to his operatic activities, he is regularly active as a lieder and oratorio singer, for example in Notre Dame in Paris, in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden .

Since 1992 he has been a visiting professor at various universities in Brazil (including Natal at the University of Rio Grande do Norte). Furthermore, he taught as a visiting professor at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne and gave various master classes.

In 2015, Kränzle was diagnosed with an aggressively progressive form of the bone marrow disease MDS , which is why he had to undergo a stem cell transplant .

Johannes Martin Kränzle is the father of two sons.

Opera

In 1987 Kränzle began his career as an opera and also began his extensive guest activities. In the 1987/88 season he sang the "fashion poet" Pacuvio at the Dortmund Theater in Rossini's early work La pietra del paragone (in the new, true-to-original German translation by Claus H. Henneberg ). (Premiere: March 1988, director: Heinz Lukas-Kindermann ). In the 1987/88 season he also took on the role of Harlequin in a new production of the Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos (premiere: April 1988, director: Peter Brenner ). In the 1988/89 season Kränzle was a guest at the Landestheater Detmold as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (premiere: January 1989). In the 1989/90 season he was a guest at Theater Aachen as Schaunard in La Bohème .

Further guest performances took him in 1990 as a money box-Bill in Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Hamburg State Opera , in the season 1991/92 to the German Oper am Rhein in Duisburg (Schaunard), in 1992 as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Heidelberg Castle Festival , then in 1995 as secretary in Henze's The Young Lord at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich . Also in 1995 he sang Jan Janicki in Carl Millöcker's operetta Der Bettelstudent at the Mörbisch Seefestspiele . In 1997 he played Britten's Billy Budd in Hanover in a production by David Mouchtar-Samorai .

Kränzle introduced himself as an interpreter of contemporary music in the 1991/92 season at the Staatstheater Hannover, where he sang the solo role of the king in the chamber opera Eight Songs for a Crazy King (premiere: November 1991, rehearsal stage) by Peter Maxwell Davies . In 1994 he played Beckmann in the premiere of Xaver Thomas, Outside in front of the door .

At the Frankfurt Opera he sang all Mozart roles (Giovanni, Papageno, Conte Almaviva, Guglielmo and Don Alfonso) as well as u. a. Wolfram ( Tannhäuser ), Gunther ( Götterdämmerung ), Count Tomsky ( Pique Damne ), the black violinist ( Frederick Delius : Romeo and Juliet in the village ) and Jaroslav Prus ( The Makropulos Case , directed by Richard Jones). At the Cologne Opera he designed a. a. the Beckmesser ( Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , director: Uwe Eric Laufenberg ), Bartók's Duke Blaubart (director: Bernd Mottl) and the forester in Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen .

He worked several times with the director Nicolas Brieger (Henze: Lescault in Boulevard Solitude in Frankfurt, Prokofieff: Andrej Bolkonski in War and Peace in Cologne, and Messiaen: Frère Léon in Saint François d'Assise at the San Francisco Opera ). He also appeared in San Francisco and at the Stuttgart Opera as the girl's brother in Busoni's Doctor Faust (director: Jossi Wieler , production of the year 2005).

With the director Christof Loy he worked a. a. at the Frankfurt Opera as Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte (Production of the Year 2008 / Theater Prize: Der Faust ). At the Salzburg Festival in 2009 he made his debut as Valens in Handel's Theodora . In 2010 he sang Danilo in The Merry Widow ( Grand Théâtre de Genève ).

He made his debut at La Scala in Milan (2010) and the Berlin State Opera as Alberich in Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen under Daniel Barenboim . He was the protagonist N. (Nietzsche) in the world premiere of Rihm's Dionysus at the Salzburg Festival 2010 under Ingo Metzmacher . In 2011 he was Beckmesser at the Glyndebourne Festival for the first time . In Milan and Berlin he sang Griasnoj in Rimsky-Korsakov's Die Zarenbraut under Daniel Barenboim, directed by Dimitri Tscherniakov . Further productions led him a. a. to Tbilisi (Ford in Falstaff ), Tokyo and Cairo (Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus ), Tel Aviv, Spoleto, Sofia ( Don Giovanni ) and to the Bregenz Festival .

He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in December 2014 as Beckmesser under James Levine . In 2016 he gave debuts at the Royal Opera House in London with Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte , and in 2017 at the Opéra National de Paris as Wozzeck (director: Christoph Marthaler , conductor: Michael Schønwandt ). In 2017 he was the Beckmesser at the Bayreuth Festival for the first time .

In the role of Orpheus in Offenbach's opera buffa of the same name, he played the violin solo himself. Kränzle has since sung 120 different opera roles. Mozart's Papageno in The Magic Flute is his most sung role with over 110 performances.

He has appeared in the DVD productions of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen - complete recordings from La Scala in Milan (as Alberich) and from the Frankfurt Opera (as Gunther), in Rimski-Korsakow's Die Zarenbraut from the Berlin State Opera , Handel's Theodora von den Salzburg Festival, Rihm's Dionysos there and Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg from the Glyndebourne Festival.

The CD recordings include Pfitzner's Palestrina as Cardinal Morone (conductor: Kirill Petrenko ), Aribert Reimann's Lear as Graf Gloster (conductor: Sebastian Weigle ), Wagner's Götterdämmerung (as Gunther) and Glyndebourne's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg as Beckmesser (conductor: Vladimir Jurowski ) appeared.

Awards

Kränzle has won several national ( VDMK Singing Competition Berlin, Art Promotion Prize of the City of Augsburg, Singing Competition Hanover) and international competitions (Vercelli: GBViotti, Perpignan: Concours de Chant, Paris: Operalia Plácido Domingo ). Since winning the Primo Grande Premio in Rio de Janeiro in 1991, he has been an honorary visiting professor in Brazil.

In autumn 1997, his chamber opera Der Wurm received third prize at the composition competition in Berlin and was premiered there at the Neukölln Opera .

In 2010 he was nominated for the German theater prize Der Faust . In 2011 he was voted "Singer of the Year" ( critics survey of the opera world ) and received the Cologne Opera Prize. In 2014/15 the audience honored him with the Public Award for best operatic debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. In 2018 Johannes Martin Kränzle was again named "Singer of the Year" (critics survey of the opera world ).

Johannes Martin Kränzle is a member of the German Academy of Performing Arts .

As part of the Faust awarding in 2019 he was awarded in the category singer / actress music theater for his portrayal of Šiškov in From a House of the Dead at the Frankfurt Opera .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Opera singer fights his way back to life: "It's a miracle" . Interview with Johannes Martin Kränzle. In: Münchner Merkur from June 28, 2017. Accessed February 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ H.-Dieter Thummes: Successful resuscitation . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue May 5, 1988. Page 359.
  3. ↑ H.-Dieter Thummes: a beautiful sound . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue June 6, 1988. Page 450/451.
  4. ↑ Rainer Schouren: Senza happy ending . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue April 4, 1989. Page 293.
  5. ↑ Martin Müller: DOR repertoire . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Edition February 2. Page 23/24.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Denker: varieties of madness . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Edition February 2. Page 35.
  7. ^ Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), performance details, The Metropolitan Opera
  8. ↑ Singer of the Year 2018: Johannes Martin Kränzle . Retrieved January 7, 2019.
  9. ↑ DER FAUST German Theater Prize 2019: The Prize Winners. In: buhnenverein.de. November 9, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kränzle, Johannes Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and concert singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg