Oliver Zwarg

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Oliver Zwarg (* 1971 in Bergisch Gladbach , Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German concert and opera singer ( bass baritone ) and vocal teacher.

Life

After graduating from high school in Syke ( Lower Saxony ) in 1991 , Zwarg began studying history, school music (main subjects: piano, choral conducting and music history) and education at the University of Bremen . At the same time he received private singing and speaking training from Marianne Spiecker and Heribert Langosz . In 1996 he went on to study with Klaus Nagora and Kathrin Prick at the Stuttgart Opera School with singing lessons with Julia Hamari and the répétiteur Carl Davis at the Stuttgart Music Academy . In 1997 an additional study in the song class of Konrad Richter took place . In 1999 Zwarg completed his university studies in Stuttgart with distinction.

Act

As an opera singer

Zwarg made his stage debut in 1997 at the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival. After that, he had permanent engagements at the Hamburg State Opera (1999) and the Hanover State Opera (2001). Here he sang roles such as Gianni Schicchi, Schaunard, Fra Melitone, Ramphis, Monterone, Papageno, Figaro, Leporello, Kecal, Bartolo in "Barbiere von Sevilla", Frank in "Die Fledermaus" and Mirko Zeta in "Wozzeck". During these years guest performances a. a. to Barcelona, ​​to the Komische Oper Berlin, to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, to the State Theater in Mannheim and in Saarbrücken. He appeared at the Wiener Festwochen, the Edinburgh Festival, the Lucerne Festival and repeatedly at the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival and at the Stuttgart State Opera as Leporello and Golaud. He had resounding success on his French debut as Kurwenal at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse . In 2014/2015 he was seen as Barak in Frau ohne Schatten at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden . In 2015 he sang “Gyges” in König Kandaules at the Augsburg Theater .

As a concert singer

Zwarg has been working as a freelance concert and opera singer and singing teacher since 2006. His concert repertoire includes works by Bach, Beethoven, Bruckner, Buxtehude, Donizetti, Dvorak, Handel, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Mozart, Puccini, Reinthaler, Rossini, Saint-Saens, Schubert, Schütz, von Suppè, Telemann, Verdi and others. a.

Theater educational projects

In the 1990s, Zwarg repeatedly led music theater workshops at Syke High School . In 2001, a specialist contract was signed at the Hanover State Opera for collaboration in the theater-pedagogical opera project "Club X". In 2002 he took over and directed the opera project “Club X” together with the theater pedagogue Irina Graf. The musical theater piece "Real cool" was created. In 2003 he was co-founder and director of the music theater project “Club XL” together with a theater teacher at the Hanover State Opera.

As a singing teacher

In 1998 Zwarg began working as a freelance singing teacher. Since 2003 he has been teaching singing at the Hanover University of Music and Theater .

Prizes and awards

Radio and television recordings

Radio and television recordings were made on the following broadcasters: NDR , WDR , Radio Bremen , SFB , arte , ZDF , Spanish television, Belgian radio, Dutch radio, Germany radio, MDR, Chinese television

CD and DVD recordings

In the meantime, Zwarg can be heard and seen on some CD and DVD recordings:

literature

  • Oliver Zwarg. In: Stephan-Rupert Steinkühler: Music and people. 25 years of music school in the district of Diepholz. 1981-2006. Syke / Diepholz 2006, page 41

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The King Kandaules ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. at the Augsburg Theater @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theater-augsburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Zwarg, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert and opera singer (bass baritone) and vocal teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergisch Gladbach , Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis , North Rhine-Westphalia