Kobie van Rensburg

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Kobie van Rensburg (2009, Passau )

Kobie van Rensburg (born May 23, 1969 in Johannesburg ) is a South African opera singer ( tenor ) and opera director .

Life

Van Rensburg studied singing with Werner Neel at the University of Potchefstroom , as well as law and politics. In an interview, van Rensburg said: "I was always a better lawyer back then, as a singer I was last in class."

He sang his debut role in 1991 at the age of 21 in a production of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Roodeport City Opera in Roodepoort . There he embodied the Belmonte. In 1996 he got an engagement at the Munich Gärtnerplatztheater. Van Rensburg's work has been linked to Lautten Compagney Berlin under the direction of Wolfgang Katschner since 2000 . With them he performed Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in Halle an der Saale and released three CDs. Since 2011 van Rensburg has been working with the ensemble for old and new music so facciamo , with whom he performed Handel's Ariodante .

In song singing , van Rensburg has so far concentrated on English baroque composers (e.g. Dowland , Byrd , Purcell ), but his repertoire also includes compositions by Beethoven , Schumann and Schubert , among others .

In 2006 he made his debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera as Mozart's Idomeneo .

Van Rensburg's repertoire focuses primarily on the musical style epoch of the Baroque .

Directorial work

At the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich, Peer Boysen staged the pasticcio Ein Theater nach der Mode with van Rensburg, which includes works by other baroque composers in addition to Handel's music. In 2006 he made his directorial debut at the Halle ad Saale Opera House with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo , in which he also sang the title role. Handel's first oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno was performed in Passau in 2009 under van Rensburg's direction. His most recent directorial work is concerned with Handel's opera Ariodante , which was performed for the first time in February 2011 at the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich, and Mozart's opera Le Nozze di Figaro , which premiered in Mönchengladbach in October 2011. As in its production Il Pianto d'Orfeo van Rensburg joined in Ariodante the dance as a means of expression with the music. The dancer acts as the singer's alter ego and illustrates the feelings of the acting person.

Roles (selection)

Discography

  • 2000: Handel's Beard , arias for tenor (Georg Friedrich Händel, Kobie van Rensburg, Lautten Compagney)
  • 2001: Songs of An English Cavalier (various composers, Kobie van Rensburg, Lautten Compagney)
  • 2001: Liededition Vol.1 & 2 ( Fanny Hensel , Kelvin Groot)
  • 2002: Madrigali Guerrieri ad Amorosi (Claudio Monteverdi, René Jacobs, Concerto Vocale)
  • 2003: Griselda ( Alessandro Scarlatti , René Jacobs, Academy for Early Music Berlin)
  • 2004: Le nozze di Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, René Jacobs, Concerto Cologne)
  • 2005: The Flying Dutchman ( Richard Wagner , Bruno Weil, Cappella Coloniensis)
  • 2006: Il pianto d'Orfeo (various composers, Kobie van Rensburg, Lautten Compagney)
  • 2006: Catone in Utica ( Giovanni Battista Ferrandini , Christoph Hammer, Neue Hofkapelle Munich )
  • 2006: Messiah (Georg Friedrich Händel, René Jacobs, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra)
  • 2007: The Messiah (Georg Friedrich Händel, Wolfgang Katschner, Lautten Compagney, Dresdner Kammerchor)
  • 2008: Saul , Messiah (Georg Friedrich Händel, René Jacobs , Concerto Köln & Freiburg Baroque Orchestra)
  • 2009: Alcina (Georg Friedrich Händel, Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco)
  • 2009: Bach Cantatas - Vol.4 ( Johann Sebastian Bach , John Eliot Gardiner , English Baroque Soloists)
  • 2009: Rodrigo (Georg Friedrich Händel, Eduardo Lopéz Banzo, Al Ayre Español)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b New Classical Adventure ( RTF ; 9 kB), accessed on December 12, 2010
  2. ↑ a b c Artist Agency Augstein & Hahn ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 12, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.augstein.info
  3. ^ Münchner Merkur , accessed on December 12, 2010.
  4. ↑ Ensemble "così facciamo" accessed May 16, 2011
  5. ↑ A knight plays the air guitar - by Kultur-Vollzug BR-Klassik. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
  6. ↑ Short article on Le Nozze di Figaro . ( Memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) GURU magazine ; Retrieved October 29, 2011.
  7. ↑ Il Pianto d'Orfeo . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 10, 2007.
  8. ↑ Booklet on Il Pianto d'Orfeo . ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. TV Berlin; Retrieved May 16, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ncamusic.de
personal data
SURNAME Rensburg, Kobie van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African opera singer (tenor) and opera director
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg