Markus Oak

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Markus Eiche (born June 24, 1969 in St. Georgen in the Black Forest ) is a German opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

After graduating from high school, Eiche first began studying electrical engineering at what is now KIT ​​(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), from which he graduated as a graduate engineer. During his technical studies, he began to study singing at the University of Music in Karlsruhe . He continued his singing studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart . In 1996 he was a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association and first prize winner of the Robert Saar Singing Competition in Bad Kissingen . In 1998 he received a scholarship from the Podium Young Musicians Foundation . In the same year he won the first Grand Prix of the Generalidad de Catalunya at the international singing competition Francesco Viñas in Barcelona as well as a special prize for the best oratorio and song interpreter.

In addition to his concert activities, the baritone gained his first stage experience during the summer stagione 1997 of the Prague Estates Theater , where he took on the role of Conte Almaviva in a production of the Prague Mozart Society in Le nozze di Figaro . In the autumn of the same year, Markus Eiche received a guest engagement at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart as part of the Young Opera Stuttgart project .

Musical theater

From 2001 to 2007 Markus Eiche was a member of the ensemble at the Mannheim National Theater . There he sang “Marcello” in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème , “Papageno” in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Zauberflöte , “Guglielmo” in Mozart's Così fan tutte , “Heerrufer” in Wagner's Lohengrin , as well as the title roles in Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Mozart's Don Giovanni . Oak worked with conductors such as Kent Nagano , Bertrand de Billy , Kirill Petrenko , Ádám Fischer , Christoph von Dohnányi and Riccardo Muti .

From 2007 to 2010, Eiche was a member of the Vienna State Opera , where he played as Conte Almaviva ( Le nozze di Figaro ), Jeletzki ( Pique Dame ), Belcore ( L'elisir d'amore ), Albert ( Werther ), Lescaut ( Manon Lescaut ), Doktor Falke ( Die Fledermaus ), Donner ( Das Rheingold ) and Fritz and Frank in Die Tote Stadt by Erich Wolfgang Korngold . In the summer of 2007 he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Kothner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , a role that he also performed from 2008 to 2011.

Markus Eiche has also appeared at La Scala in Milan , at the Munich Biennale , at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam , at the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona (including a staged production of Schubert's Winterreise ), at the Komische Oper Berlin , the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin and the Semperoper Dresden .

The artist was often a guest at the Salzburg Festival (including Doctor Faustus , Don Carlos , Tristan and Isolde , Ariadne auf Naxos , Die Zauberflöte and Les Contes d'Hoffmann ), he also performed at the Prague Estates Theater , the Lucerne Theater and the State Opera Stuttgart on. In July 2009 he worked as a substitute for "Wolfram" in Katharina Wagner's production of Tannhäuser on Gran Canaria .

His concert and song repertoire includes Carl Orff's Carmina Burana , Johannes Brahms ' Requiem , Benjamin Britten's War Requiem , Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion , St. John Passion and Christmas Oratorio , Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Gustav Mahler's Songs of a Traveling Journeyman and Song of the Earth and Works by Aribert Reimann , Wolfgang Rihm and Luigi Dallapiccola . A close collaboration connects the artist with Helmuth Rilling . Together with his companion Jens Fuhr he made his debut in February 2009 at the Wiener Musikverein with a program of songs by Schumann , Mahler, Strauss , Korngold and Schubert.

CD recordings

  • Schubert's Friends Vol.1 Naxos, 2002.
  • Carmina Burana (Carl Orff), Naxos, 2007.

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personal data
SURNAME Oak, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Georgen in the Black Forest