Michael Schade (singer)

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Michael Schade as Tamino in The Magic Flute, Part Two. The labyrinth , Salzburg Festival 2012

Michael Schade (born January 23, 1965 in Geneva ) is a Canadian - German opera, concert and lieder singer .

He was considered a leading Mozart tenor of the 1990s and has meanwhile expanded his repertoire into dramatic regions, including Walter von Stolzing in Wagner's Meistersinger . It also includes works by Richard Strauss , Stravinsky , Rossini , Donizetti and Beethoven .

Life

Schade's parents come from Gelsenkirchen in Germany. His father Hans worked as an engineer in Geneva, where his three children, Johannes (Hans), Michael and Isabelle, were born. After Hans Schade was employed by the Canadian nickel company Inco, the family moved to Toronto in 1977 .

Michael's parents were both musical: they sang in church and semi-professional choirs. Michael attended St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto. While studying zoology he joined the university choir, where his singing talent was noticed and promoted. He got a scholarship for a music education.

After graduating in 1988 Michael Schade attended the Master's Program at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia / USA. In the same year he was invited by the Pacific Opera Victoria / Canada to sing the role of Jacquino in Beethoven's “Fidelio”. In 1990, still a student at Curtis, he won the New York Oratorio Competition and got the chance to sing in Handel's Messiah at Carnegie Hall . That was the start of his career.

Michael Schade was married to the mezzo-soprano Norine Burgess . He currently lives in an extended family with his wife Dee McKee and eight children.

career

Michael Schade's first engagements took him to Pesaro, Bologna, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Helmuth Rilling engaged him in 1991 for a European tour as an evangelist in Bach's St. John Passion .

In 1992, Schade was awarded the $ 27,000 Virginia P. Moore Prize by the Canadian government. The prize money enabled further training and trips to auditions. In 1992 Schade became a member of the ensemble at the Vienna State Opera, which is still his “main theater” today. Schade also sings at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Scala in Milan , the San Francisco Opera , the Los Angeles Opera , the Lyric Opera of Chicago , the Canadian Opera Company , the Hamburg State Opera and the Paris Opera .

Schade has a particularly close collaboration with the Salzburg Festival , where he has appeared regularly since 1994. Schade sang three important Mozart tenor roles in Salzburg ( Tamino , Don Ottavio , Titus ), but also leading roles in Cherubini's Médée (2000), Purcell's King Arthur (2004), Haydn's Armida (2007 and 2009), and in Peter von Winters Labyrinth (2012). Schade also performed several song recitals and numerous orchestral concerts and oratorios as part of the Salzburg Festival, most recently in 2013 The Creation and The Seasons under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt .

Michael Schade appears regularly as a concert and lieder singer. He is a regular guest at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg song and chamber music festival . From December 2011 to October 2013 Michael Schade was a member of the board of the European Music Theater Academy . Michael Schade took over the artistic direction of the International Baroque Days Melk Abbey in 2013 , he is responsible for the artistic programming of the festival from Pentecost 2014 to Pentecost 2019.

Discography - selection

Michael Schade with Angelika Kirchschlager , opening of the Wiener Festwochen 2013
  • Bach, St. John Passion (Rilling) Hänssler
  • Bach, St. Matthew Passion (Harnoncourt) Teldec
  • Beethoven, Fidelio (Davis) BMG
  • Handel, Messiah (Harnoncourt) DHM
  • Haydn, The Creation (Gardiner) DGG / Archive
  • Haydn, Theresienmesse (Pinnock) DGG / Archive
  • Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde (Boulez) DGG
  • Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Elias (Rilling) Hänssler
  • Mozart, The Magic Flute (Gardiner) DGG Archive
  • Mozart, Requiem (Abbado) DGG
  • Verdi, Otello (Chung) DGG
  • Wagner, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Sawallisch) EMI
  • Of Ladies and Love, songs by Schubert, Fauré a. a., Hyperion

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norine Burgess: Biography in Classical Today , accessed on February 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ Schade and McKee: “Don't just watch!” Interview article in the press on May 17, 2012, accessed on February 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ Opera singer Michael Schade is Gourmet of the Year. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME It's a shame, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-German opera, concert and lieder singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva , Switzerland