Ladislav Elgr

Ladislav Elgr (born August 19, 1980 ) is a Czech opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Ladislav Elgr studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and was already singing at various city theaters in the Czech Republic.

Opera

At the Litomyšl Smetana Festival , Elgr made his successful debut as Jenik in The Bartered Bride . After a season at the Opera Studio of the Nuremberg State Theater (2005/2006) he was until 2008 a member of the International Opera Studio at the Hamburg State Opera . After that, Ladislav Elgr switched to the ensemble of the Volksoper Wien for two seasons , where he sang Tamino , Alfred , Lysander and other roles in Vetter from Dingsda , Fra Diavolo and Tiefland .

Guest engagements took the artist to the Wexford Festival in 2004, to the Teatro La Fenice in 2006, to the Macerata Festival in 2007, and to the Janáček Festival in Brno in 2008 . Elgr also appeared as Froh at the Wagner Days in Budapest under Ádám Fischer , in 2009 at the Osterklang in Vienna and in 2010 as Edwin in Peter Konwitschny's production of Csárdásfürstin at the Graz Opera . In autumn 2011 he was Bes in the world premiere of Lera Auerbach's Gogol at the Theater an der Wien , where he sang in new productions of Francesca da Rimini and Jolanthe the following year .

In 2012 he made his role debut as Prinz in Dvořák's Rusalka in Glyndebourne (on tour) , and sang the same role in 2013 at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and in 2014 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam . In 2013 he made his role debut as Albert Gregor in Robert Carsen's production of The Makropulos Case at La Fenice, as Janek in the Opéra Bastille in Paris, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Steva in Christof Loy's production of Jenůfa , and in the Antwerp Opera as Sergei in Calixto Bieito's new production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk . In December 2013 he took on the role of Nathaniel in Claus Guth's staged realization of Schubert's Lazarus at the Theater an der Wien . In 2014 he made his debut as Don José in Carmen at the Theater St. Gallen and returned to the Semperoper Dresden for the resumption of Daphne and Schwanda, the bagpiper , where he had already sung the respective premiere series in 2010 and 2012. In December Ladislav Elgr sang Skuratov for the first time under the direction of Simon Rattle at the Berlin State Opera in From a House of the Dead by Leoš Janáček in a production by Patrice Chéreau . In April / May 2015 he made his role debut as Matteo in Arabella by Richard Strauss at the Cologne Opera .

In February 2017 Elgr took on the leading tenor role at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as a partner of Michael Nagy in an opera about Edward II (libretto based on Marlowe by Thomas Jonigk ) (musical direction: Thomas Søndergård , staging: Christof Loy ). In autumn 2017 he returned to the Paris Opera as Skuratov in From the House of the Dead by Leoš Janáček (staging: Patrice Chéreau , conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen ) .

concert

In the concert hall, Elgr sang, among others, Dvořák's Stabat Mater , Mendelssohn Bartholdy's The First Walpurgis Night under Thomas Hengelbrock and Elias with the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen, Janáček's Šárka with the RSB under Marek Janowski , Bruckner's Te Deum , Haydn's Creation , Handel's Messias and Beethoven's Ninth . In March 2010 Ladislav Elgr made his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Pierre Boulez at the Wiener Musikverein with Janáček's Glagolitic Mass . In November 2010 he appeared for the first time in Verdi's Requiem in the Herkulessaal in Munich. In 2017 Elgr sang Janáček's Glagolitic Mass with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Recordings

• Richard Wagner : The Rheingold under Simone Young
• Leoš Janáček : Výlety páně Broučkovy ( The Excursions of Mr. Brouček ) under Sir Charles Mackerras
• Saverio Mercadante : La vestale under Paolo Arrivabeni
• Jaromír Weinberger : Švanda Dudák under Constantin Trinks
• Leoš Janáček : Jenůfa under Donald Runnicles , directed by Christof Loy from the Deutsche Oper Berlin on DVD by Unitel Classica

Web links

• Ladislav Elgr at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Ladislav Elgr on the website of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
• Ladislav Elgr on the pages of the Semperoper

Individual evidence

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