Peter-Christoph Runge
Peter-Christoph Runge (born April 12, 1933 in Lübeck , Germany ; † June 25, 2010 in Verviers , Belgium ) was a German opera singer ( baritone ). His repertoire spanned the entire spectrum from the Renaissance to the modern age, both in chamber music (song) and in oratorio (from Monteverdi, Bach to Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms to Stravinsky, Schönberg , Britten , Penderecki, Reimann ) to melodrama .
Life
Peter-Christoph Runge received his first musical training as a choir singer and soloist in the Lübeck Knabenkantorei while he was still at school .
After completing his studies at the Hamburg Conservatory, he came to Flensburg in 1958. From 1959 to 1964 he worked in Wuppertal and finally in 1964 he moved to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, to which he remained loyal from then on.
At the same time his international career as an opera and concert singer began. So he was z. It can be heard , for example, at the Glyndebourne Festival (1966 debut as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte ), Salzburg , Edinburgh, the Berliner Festwochen and the Holland Festival .
He sang at opera houses such as the Vienna State Opera , the Bavarian State Opera , the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the State Opera Unter den Linden , the Hamburg State Opera , the Moscow Bolshoi Theater , in Buenos Aires, Parma, Verona and Florence. It was also sought after by radio and television producers. His performances have been recorded in Vienna, Milan, Rome, Paris, London, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Brussels, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Berlin and Dresden.
He was a professor at the Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf and at the University of Music and Dance Cologne , Aachen department. Peter-Christoph Runge was an honorary member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and a chamber singer .
literature
- KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, second volume M – Z, Sp. 2543, ISBN 3-907820-70-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter-Christoph Runge in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Runge, Peter-Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (baritone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 2010 |
| Place of death | Verviers , Belgium |