Peter Edelmann

Peter Edelmann (* 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian opera singer ( baritone ). Since January 1, 2018 he has been the artistic director and artistic director of the Mörbisch Seefestspiele .

Life

Edelmann completed a vocal study with a diploma at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with his father, the bass Otto Edelmann . He made his debut as an opera singer at the Koblenz Theater as Heerrufer in Richard Wagner's Lohengrin .

In 1989 he won the First Prize and the Mozart Prize at the International Belvedere Competition in Vienna. He was then engaged by Götz Friedrich at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , where he performed the baritone roles in Die Zauberflöte (Papageno), Tannhäuser (Wolfram), Così fan tutte (Guglielmo), Le nozze di Figaro (Conte d'Almaviva), Faust (Valentin ) and La Bohème (Marcello) sang. Guest appearances have taken him to various opera and concert halls. He also had television and radio appearances on ORF, ZDF, ARD, 3sat and on Belgian television.

Peter Edelmann worked with the conductors Lawrence Foster , Friedemann Layer , Jacques Delacôte , Christian Thielemann , Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Jiří Kout , Bruno Weil , Ralf Weikert , Leopold Hager , Franz Welser-Möst , John Eliot Gardiner , Eliahu Inbal , Dan Ettinger and Asher Fisch and the directors Götz Friedrich , Günter Krämer , Hellmuth Matiasek and Willy Decker .

Edelmann has been a professor since 2012 and has been head of the institute at the Institute for Singing and Music Theater at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since October 2014 .

Web links

• Peter Edelmann at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• Peter Edelmann homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lake Festival: Edelmann instead of Pichowetz - burgenland.ORF.at. Retrieved May 31, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Peter Edelmann, baritone on mdw.ac.at , accessed on January 28, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
Dagmar Schellenberger	Director of the Mörbisch Seefestspiele since 2018	-