Kay Stiefermann

Kay Stiefermann (born March 19, 1972 in Düsseldorf ) is a German opera and concert singer ( baritone ).

Life

After graduating from high school, Kay Stiefermann studied voice with Kurt Moll from 1992 to 1997 at the Cologne University of Music .

His first engagement took him in 1997 to the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera , of which he was a member of the ensemble from 1999 to 2001. His roles in Hamburg included Papageno in Mozart's Magic Flute in the production of Achim Freyers , Danilo in Lehár's The Merry Widow and Schaunard in La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini . Since 2001 he has been a member of the Wuppertaler Bühnen ensemble , where he has sung numerous main roles in the lyric and cavalry baritone disciplines . Among them are title roles such as Mozart's Don Giovanni , Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin , Rossini's Barbier , and the four “villains” from Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann . Guest engagements have taken him to the Komische Oper Berlin , the Vienna Volksoper and the Graz Opera , the National Theater Mannheim and many other theaters. In 2006 he appeared in Bizet's Carmen at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden under Daniel Barenboim . Stiefermann made his Wagner debut in the same year as Amfortas in Richard Wagner's Parsifal at the Erfurt Theater .

Stiefermann also pursues a career as a concert and oratorio singer, which is documented in numerous radio recordings. He sang all the well-known oratorio roles in the bass and baritone areas, with conductors such as Toshiyuki Kamioka , Helmuth Rilling , Valery Gergiev and Marcus Creed , among others .

Sound carrier (selection)

• Alban Berg : Wozzeck - (second craftsman), conductor Ingo Metzmacher , EMI
• Georg Friedrich Händel : Imeneo - (Imeneo), conductor Andreas Spering , production: WDR, cpo 999 915-2
• Georg Friedrich Händel: Messiah , conductor: Jörg Breiding, Ars Musica AM 1359-2
• Albert Lortzing : The Ascension of Jesus Christ - (Petrus), conductor Helmuth Froschauer, production: WDR, cpo 999 837-2
• Franz Schubert : Mass in A flat major , conductor Philippe Herreweghe , harmonia mundi France HMC 901786
• Johannes Brahms : A German Requiem op.45 , version for two pianos and kettledrum by Heinrich Poos, production WDR 2007, NEOS 30803

Awards

• 2004 Prize of the Enno and Christa Springmann Foundation

Web links

• Kay Stiefermann at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Kay Stiefermann homepage