Leif Roar
Leif Roar (born August 31, 1937 in Copenhagen , † March 26, 2003 ibid) was a Danish opera singer ( baritone ).
Life
Leif Roar received his vocal training from Vagn Thordal at the Royal Conservatory of Music and in the Det kgl. Teaters Operaskole des Det Kongelige Teater (Opera School of the Royal Theater) in Copenhagen.
In 1964 he made his debut as Thoas in Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck at the Royal Copenhagen Opera House , where he sang other major roles . In important roles such as Rigoletto and Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi or Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten , he could also be heard at the Jutland Opera Aarhus .
His first foreign engagement took him to the Theater Kiel in 1967 , before his great international career began in the same year with the appointment to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf - Duisburg . There he caught in 1972 in the title role in The Flying Dutchman stir and was considered since then as an outstanding Wagner - Artist .
At the Schwetzingen Festival on May 15, 1969, he took part in the world premiere of Giselher Klebe's fairy tale of the beautiful lily and has been a guest at the Bavarian State Opera since 1971 . At the Salzburg Easter Festival in 1973 he sang the Donner im Rheingold and the following year also the Kurwenal in Tristan and Isolde . In 1974, Leif Roar was a guest at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and made guest appearances at the Bavarian State Opera, the Munich Opera Festival and the Stuttgart State Opera .
In 1975 Roar sang Hans Sachs in the Meistersinger at the Royal Swedish Opera and had guest performance contracts with the opera houses of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg , Munich and Stuttgart . He has made guest appearances at La Scala in Milan , the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow , the Brussels Opera House , the San Francisco Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago , the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the National Theater Mannheim and participated in the Bregenz Festival .
Since 1976 he has been a participant in the Bayreuth Festival as Kurwenal, Telramund and Klingsor. In 1982 he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera New York in the role of Don Pizarro and celebrated success as Telramund. Since 1984 he has appeared again regularly at the Copenhagen Opera and since 1987 at the Jutland Opera in Aarhus.
In addition to the Wagner repertoire, he was also successful in other dramatic baritone roles and made a career as a concert and oratorio singer. In 1995 he ended his singing career.
Repertoire (selection)
- Wotan, The Ring of the Nibelung (R. Wagner)
- Wanderer, The Ring of the Nibelung (R. Wagner)
- Don Pizarro, Fidelio ( Beethoven )
- Jochanaan, Salome ( R. Strauss )
- Escamillo, Carmen ( G. Bizet )
- Friedrich von Telramund, Lohengrin (R. Wagner)
- Klingsor, Parsifal (R. Wagner)
- Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni ( WA Mozart )
- Count Almaviva, Marriage of Figaro (WA Mozart)
- Saul, Saul and David ( C. Nielsen )
- Mathis, Mathis the painter ( P. Hindemith )
- Baron Scarpia, Tosca ( G. Puccini )
- Nick Shadow, The Rake's Progress ( IF Stravinsky )
- Mandryka, Arabella (R. Strauss)
- Orest, Elektra (R. Strauss)
Filmography
- 1982: TV recording Parsifal (Klingsor), director: Horst Stein
- 1982: TV recording Lohengrin (Friedrich von Telramund), director: Woldemar Nelsson
- 1986: TV recording Lohengrin (Friedrich von Telramund), director: James Levine
Discography
- 1983: Complete recording of Lohengrin from the Bayreuth Festival
Web links
- Leif Roar in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Audio sample Leif Roar "Do not despise the masters" on YouTube accessed on March 29, 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ Portrait of the artist on the Bayreuth Festival website, accessed on March 29, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roar, Leif |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish opera singer (baritone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 2003 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |