Oskar Hillebrandt
Oskar Hillebrandt (born March 15, 1943 in Schopfheim ) is a German opera singer ( baritone ).
Life
Oskar Hillebrandt was born in 1943 in Schopfheim, Baden-Württemberg . After successfully completing an apprenticeship as a goldsmith in Recklinghausen , he served in the armed forces . Since the age of 14 he took singing lessons at the Gelsenkirchen Conservatory . In 1965 he was selected from 69 applicants for the Bayreuth Youth Festival Meeting in the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth . He completed his vocal studies at the State University of Music in Cologne with Professor Josef Metternich .
His first engagement was as bass at the Württemberg State Opera in Stuttgart , followed by the Vienna State Opera (debut on October 21, 1991), La Scala in Milan , the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Hamburg State Opera , the Bayreuth Festival , the Bregenz Festival , the Grand Théâtre de Genève , the Carnegie Hall in New York , the Zurich Opera House , the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Bolshoi Theater , the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires , the Huju Opera in Shanghai , u. v. a.
Oskar Hillebrandt sang with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra ( Vienna Philharmonic ), the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , the Vienna Hofburg Orchestra , the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, the Orchestra della Scala di Milano, the Cleveland Orchestra , the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Kungliga Hovkapellet of the Royal Opera Stockholm , the Hamburg Philharmonic , the Hamburg Symphony , the Orchester symphonique de Montréal , etc. v. a.
He is married to the soprano Kayo Hashimoto , has three children and has lived in Vienna for many years.
repertoire
The important roles of the hero baritone subject are part of his repertoire:
By Richard Wagner to Hans Sachs , from the Ring of the Nibelung Wotan and Alberich, the Flying Dutchman , from Tristan and Isolde the Kurvenal, from the Parsifal Klingsor and Amfortas from which Tannhauser to tungsten; from Richard Strauss from Arabella the Mandryka, from Salome the Jochanaan, from Intermezzo the Robert Storch; by Giuseppe Verdi to Nabucco , from Othello Iago, the Macbeth , the Simone Boccanegra , the Falstaff , from La forza del destino Don Carlos; by Giacomo Puccini from Tosca den Scarpia; by Carl Maria von Weber from Der Freischütz den Kaspar; from Ludwig van Beethoven from Fidelio the Don Pizarro; by Georges Bizet from Carmen den Escamillo; by Alban Berg from Lulu the Dr. Nice; by Arnold Schönberg from The Jacob's Ladder the Chosen, a. v. a.
Savior at the Vienna State Opera
At the Valkyrie premiere on December 3, 2007 at the Vienna State Opera under director Sven-Eric Bechtolf , the singer of Wotan, Juha Uusitalo , lost his voice in the second act . Director Ioan Holender reached Oskar Hillebrandt on his cell phone at 6.30 p.m., who was just going to pick up a friend at Vienna's Westbahnhof and go out to eat pizza with him. Hillebrandt drove to the opera and after a brief communication with the conductor Franz Welser-Möst , he sang the part standing on a pedestal next to the stage, while Uusitalo acted in silence.
Awards
- The title Kammersänger was awarded to Oskar Hillebrandt in Dortmund in 1988.
See also
Web links
- Homepage of Oskar Hillebrandt
- Der Standard (January 3, 2007): The Savior in Wagner Need
- Oskar Hillebrandt in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hillebrandt, Oskar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (baritone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schopfheim |