Manuel from Senden

Manuel von Senden (born November 11, 1953 in Plauen ) is a German character tenor . He also made a name for himself in the GDR as a singer with the rock band electra and as a songwriter .

Life

Manuel von Senden was born in Plauen in 1953 as the son of a singer and an opera director. From 1973 to 1977 he studied piano and composition in Leipzig, but did not complete his studies with an exam. From 1976 to 1978 he was the singer of the hard rock- oriented band GRH-Projekt, in 1978 he switched to the rock band Electra as a singer, keyboard player and percussionist . With them he recorded a total of five albums until he left the band in 1989. Well-known songs like never before and a thousand and a feeling come from him .

After an appearance in Gunther Emmerlichs show Showkolade where Senden sang an operatic aria, there was the first requests from opera houses. After leaving Electra in 1989, he took singing lessons from Johannes Kemter, who had already taught Peter Schreier and Klaus Gerber , and received an engagement at the Dresden Semperoper . There he initially took on smaller roles and Comprimario roles and was a permanent member of the ensemble until 1994, when he was exposed as an unofficial employee in the Ministry for State Security and the related dismissal. He has been part of the Graz Opera ensemble since 1994 and has lived in Austria ever since .

Manuel of sending sang as an opera singer focus rolls from the compartment of the Tenorbuffos , the game operative part and the operative part of character. His repertoire included roles such as Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail , Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte , Jaquino in Fidelio , Peter Iwanow in Zar und Zimmermann , Goro in Madama Butterfly , Knusperhexe in Hansel and Gretel , David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Mime in The Rheingold .

Manuel von Senden gave guest appearances at La Scala in Milan (2002, as 1st Jew in Salome ), at the Teatro Regio in Turin (as mime in Das Rheingold ), at the Komische Oper Berlin (as captain in Wozzeck ) and several times at the Vienna Volksoper ; there appeared in the 1997/1998 season as Prince Ypsheim-Gindelbach in the operetta Wiener Blut .

Electra founder Bernd Aust ruled out further joint appearances of the band with von Senden due to his activity as IM in 2009 on the occasion of the band's 40th stage anniversary .

In 2015/16 Manuel von Senden took on the role of Emperor Altoum in Turandot by Giacomo Puccini as part of the Bregenz Festival . In 2019 he left the ensemble of the Graz Opera as a permanent member, but will continue to be a guest there in the 2019/20 season.

The actress and singer Dana Golombek is his half-sister.

literature

• Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. Munich 2003. Volume 6: Rasa – Sutton, p. 4349. ISBN 3-598-11598-9

Web links

• Official website
• Manuel von Senden on the Graz Opera website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Christian Reder: What is actually doing ... Manuel von Senden. Musik aus Deutschland eV, September 19, 2009, accessed on September 12, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Jürgen Balitzki: Electra. Lift. Stern Combo Meissen: Stories from the Saxon three . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2001, ISBN 978-3-89602-323-0 , pp. 189 f .
3. ↑ Cäcilia Fischer: 40 years of Electra: We remain loyal to Dresden! (No longer available online.) Super Illu , June 10, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 13, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ↑ Manuel von Senden on the Graz Opera website , accessed on October 7, 2019.
5. ↑ Press portrait of Dana Golombek ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 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.