Michael Volle

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Michael Volle (* 1960 in Freudenstadt ) is a German opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

The baritone Michael Volle was born in 1960 in Freudenstadt in the Black Forest . His brothers are the actor Hartmut Volle and the opera singer Dietrich Volle . After studying with Josef Metternich and Rudolf Piernay , the winner of numerous international singing competitions, including the CIEM in Geneva and New Voices in Gütersloh , made his first engagement in Mannheim. Further stations were the opera houses in Bonn , Düsseldorf and Cologne . Since the 2007/08 season he has been engaged at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

Guest contracts followed with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden , the Opéra National de Paris , the Milan Scala , the Berlin State Opera , the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Théâtre de la Monnaie Brussels , the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival . The artist was a member of the Zurich Opera Ensemble from 1999 to 2007, where he excelled in almost all major roles in his field. a. as Marcello in La Bohème , as Jeletzki in Pique Dame , as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro , as Sixtus Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , in the title role of Don Giovanni , as Barak in Die Frau ohne Schatten or in the title role of Eugene Onegin . In 2007 he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Sixtus Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, which he sang again there in 2008, while Volle shone as Hans Sachs in the highly acclaimed festival production of this Wagner opera of the year 2017 , for which Barrie Kosky was responsible .

Michael Volle is engaged worldwide as a song and concert singer. He works (e) with conductors and conductor inside and Veronika Stoertzenbach , Zubin Mehta , Seiji Ozawa , Riccardo Muti , James Levine , Wolfgang Sawallisch , Marek Janowski , Michel Plasson , Charles Dutoit , Ingo Metzmacher , Helmuth Rilling , Philippe Herreweghe and Valery Gergiev , is u. a. Has performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , the Bamberg Symphony , the DSO Berlin , the Scala Orchestra in Milan , the Dresden Staatskapelle and the Munich Philharmonic . His artistic work is also documented on numerous CD recordings and television recordings.

Volle lives in Berlin; he is married to the Swiss opera singer Gabriela Scherer for the second time .

repertoire

The full repertoire extends from Mozart (Don Giovanni, Graf, Figaro, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso, Papageno), Bach ( coffee cantata ), Carl Maria von Weber ( Der Freischütz , Kaspar) Tchaikovsky (Onegin, Jeletzki), Humperdinck (Peter Besenbinder), over Wagner (Sachs, Wolfram, Beckmesser, Amfortas, Gunther, Kurwenal, Holländer, Wotan), Verdi (Falstaff, Ford, Posa, Amonasro, Germont, Macbeth), Puccini (Marcello, Lescaut, Scarpia), Strauss (Mandryka, Barak, music teacher , Jochanaan, Orest), Pfitzner (Borromeo), Debussy ( Pelléas et Mélisande , Golaud), Lehár (Danilo) zu Britten (Billy Budd) and Berg (Wozzeck) and Henze (Pentheus).

Awards

Discography (selection)

CD

DVD

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. A world star makes his debut as Falstaff. In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 23, 2018, accessed March 27, 2018.
  2. Laurence Olivier Awards. (No longer available online.) In: The Official London Theater Guide. Archived from the original on December 21, 2010 ; Retrieved December 19, 2011 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk