Karl-Friedrich Dürr

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Karl-Friedrich Dürr (born April 18, 1949 in Stuttgart ) is a German opera and lied singer ( bass baritone ).

Life

Karl-Friedrich Dürr, who at the age of 16 worked as an extra at the Stuttgart State Opera, first completed a university degree in German studies, which he obtained with a doctorate in Dr. phil. completed. He then worked for a short time as a teacher at grammar schools in Göppingen and Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.

Dürr took private singing lessons from an early age, among others with Günther Reich . He has been a permanent member of the Stuttgart State Theater ensemble since 1980 . There the artist made his debut with the title role in Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz . During his long membership in the Stuttgart Opera House, Dürr sang the central repertoire of the bass baritone such as Leporello in Don Giovanni , Figaro, Klingsor in Parsifal , Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier , Father in Hansel and Gretel , Baculus in Der Wildschütz , Ruggiero in Die Jüdin , die Main roles in Krenek's Dictator and The Honor of the Nation . He also took part in the world premieres of Henze's The English Cat (in Schwetzingen) and Hans Zender's Don Quichotte .

Guest performances have taken the singer to the stages in Düsseldorf, Bonn, Munich, Dresden, Paris, Trieste, Paris, New York and St. Petersburg. Regional highlights are his appearances in the Historical City Theater Weissenhorn (e.g. Bastien and Bastienne ; The Swabian Creation - or Adam and Evan's Creation and their Fall ), at the summer plays in the Bebenhausen Monastery (e.g. The Forced Marriage ) or at the Heidenheim Opera Festival (e.g. Die Zauberflöte ; Der Freischütz ).

Since 1991 Dürr has given concerts with Brecht songs by Dessau, Eisler and Weill as well as the Goethe songs by Ferruccio Busoni . In 1998 he was appointed chamber singer of the Stuttgart State Opera.

Fonts

  • Operas based on literary models. Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor in the settings by Mosenthal-Nicolai: The merry women of Windsor and Boito-Verdi: Falstaff. A contribution to the topic of genre transformation. Heinz, Stuttgart 1979. (= Stuttgart theses on German studies; 62)

Discography

  • Moses and Aron , Label: Naxos 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Dürr, Karl-Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and lied singer (bass baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart