Matthias Goerne

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Goerne in the Gewandhaus Leipzig (2015)

Matthias Goerne (born March 31, 1967 in Weimar ) is a German song , concert and opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

Goerne was born the son of the dramaturge and later Dresden artistic director Dieter Görne . He studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music in Leipzig and with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau .

Goerne is considered a first-rate lieder singer and is a regular guest at renowned festivals and in major concert halls around the world such as Wigmore Hall in London and Carnegie Hall in New York.

He works with famous orchestras (including the Berlin Philharmonic , Vienna Philharmonic , Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam , Gewandhausorchester , Philharmonia Orchestra , London Philharmonic Orchestra , Los Angeles Philharmonic , New York Philharmonic , Philadelphia Orchestra , Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony ) and with well-known conductors ( Claudio Abbado , Riccardo Chailly , Christoph Eschenbach , Christoph von Dohnányi , Bernard Haitink , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , James Levine , Lorin Maazel , Ingo Metzmacher , Seiji Ozawa , Esa-Pekka Salonen , Leonard Slatkin ).

Since his operatic debut at the Salzburg Festival (1997) he has appeared on the world's major opera stages, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Zurich Opera House , the Dresden Semperoper and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. His roles range from Papageno and Wolfram to Wotan in Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen to the title roles in Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck and Aribert Reimann's Lear .

From 2001 to 2004 he taught as an honorary professor for song composition at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf.

Goerne is exclusively under contract with Decca / Universal . Numerous CD recordings, including Franz Schubert's winter journey with Alfred Brendel , document his artistic work. For the Harmonia Mundi label , Goerne recorded a series of eleven CDs of Schubert songs between 2008 and 2010 (Goerne Schubert Edition), previously he had already worked with Graham Johnson on his Schubert song recordings for Hyperion Records .

Honors (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Munzinger archive
  2. ^ San Francisco Symphony Orchestra: Playbill. Playbill Incorporated 2008, p. 31.
personal data
SURNAME Goerne, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German song, concert and opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar