Klaus Gerber

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Klaus Gerber (born January 16, 1943 in Chemnitz ) is a German opera singer ( hero tenor ).

Life

Klaus Gerber studied singing privately with Johannes Kemter in Dresden . In 1989 he received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Foundation in Bayreuth. In the same year he began a master class with Jean Cox and Anna Reynolds , which he completed in 1997.

His engagements have taken him to the Karl-Marx-Stadt opera house as first choir leader, to the Stralsund Theater as a play tenor and to the Meiningen Theater as a young lyrical tenor . There he was also on stage with Erik in The Flying Dutchman and in 1969 at the age of 26 as the youngest Lohengrin in German theater history, alongside singers such as Günther Hofmann as Telramund and in some festival performances Elisabeth Grümmer as his Elsa in his first Wagner roles.

In addition to engagements at the theaters in Halberstadt and Görlitz , from 1985 to 1994 he could be seen as a hero tenor at the German National Theater in Weimar in many major roles in his field.

He has been working as a freelancer since 1994 .

Guest performances have taken him with almost the entire Wagner repertoire of his vocal subject such as Siegfrieden, Tristan, Erik, Lohengrin, Stolzing, Tannhäuser, as well as roles such as Otello, Calaf, Manrico, Herodes, Florestan, Hoffmann, Canio, Turiddu and others. a. to large opera houses such as the Semperoper Dresden, German State Opera Berlin , Opera House Leipzig , Slovak National Theater Bratislava, South Thuringian State Theater Meiningen , Opera House Würzburg.

From March 2009 Gerber could be seen in the new production of Turandot at the German National Theater in Weimar in the production of Andrea Moses .

Games (selection)

Richard Wagner

Giuseppe Verdi

Giacomo Puccini

Other composers (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Gerber, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (hero tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz