Manfred Schmidt (singer)

Manfred Schmidt (born June 27, 1928 in Berlin ) is a German opera , operetta , concert and radio singer with a tenor voice .

Live and act

Manfred Schmidt studied from 1951 with Jean Nadolovitch and Herbert Brauer . From 1954 he was supported by the singer and singing teacher Tiana Lemnitz and the conductor Erich Kleiber , who used him in several operas in the Berlin State Opera 's junior studio. In 1956 he became a concert and radio singer and made his stage debut at the Bielefeld Opera House , of which he was a member until 1961. From 1965 to 1990 he was part of the ensemble of the Cologne Opera House .

Manfred Schmidt is one of the representatives of the easy tenor subject, he appeared - often in Comprimariopartien - as a tenor buffo , lyrical tenor and character singer. His repertoire includes the operas Der Bajazzo , Der Troubadour , Die Kluge , Der Vampyr , Violanta , Mathis der Maler , Die Zauberflöte , Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , La traviata and Turandot , the comic operas Die allegedly simple-minded , Tsar and Zimmermann and Don Pasquale and the operettas A Waltz Dream , Friederike , The Merry Widow , The Begging Student and The Gypsy Baron .

Manfred Schmidt has made guest appearances on stages in Germany and abroad, for example in London, Paris, Prague and at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He appeared at the Salzburg Festival , the Bregenz Festival , the Holland Festival and the Festival van Vlaanderen . Several broadcasters and labels use it for studio and vinyl recordings. In 1964 he took part in the studio production of Der Kuckuck von Theben under the direction of Rudolf Alberth and in 1970 with Kurt Eichhorn Die Kluge with the sopranos Anneliese Rothenberger and Herta Staal and the tenor Harry Friedauer he performed the Singspiel under the direction of Werner Schmidt-Boelcke In the white Rößl .

Manfred Schmidt also worked as an opera director.

Web links

• Works with Manfred Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 4. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2004, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 4227 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Short biography on ku-spiegel.de
• Manfred Schmidt at Discogs (English)

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ The entry in the French National Library gives the date of birth July 14th.
2. ↑ Theben's cuckoo on ku-spiegel.de.
3. ^ Karsten Steiger: Opera discography. De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-095596-5 , p. 323 ( limited preview in Google book search).
4. ↑ Anneliese Rothenberger & Manfred Schmidt - In the weissen Rössl SP on ivedia.com.