Rafael fingerless

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Lech Napierala and Rafael Fingerlos in Husum Castle (2011)

Rafael Fingerlos (born August 31, 1986 in Tamsweg , Land Salzburg , Austria ) is an Austrian opera singer ( baritone ) and is a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera.

Life

Fingerlos comes from Mariapfarr ( Tamsweg (Lungau) district ) in the state of Salzburg.

Training and beginnings

In July 2011 he finished his bachelor's degree in singing with distinction. He then completed a master's degree in solo singing with Uta Schwabe at the Vienna Conservatory , graduating with honors in 2013.

As a young baritone he has already won numerous awards. He is a multiple winner of “Prima la musica”. As the winner of the 2012 Fidelio competition of the Hugo Breitner Society, he received a scholarship of 1,500 euros from the Tsuzuki Foundation in the solo singing category.

As the winner of the “Musica Juventutis” competition held in the Wiener Konzerthaus in 2013, he was heard in March 2014 with songs by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms in the Schubert Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus.

Also in 2013 he won the Brahms competition and received the first jury award and the audience award at the 2nd International Franz Schubert Lied Competition in Steyr . The audience award also brought the winner an invitation to the Roskilde Festival in Denmark and the Schubert Festival 2014.

As a concert soloist he made a guest appearance. a. in the Wiener Konzerthaus (as in Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony , or in a recital in the Schubert Hall), in the Musikverein in Vienna (recital in Brahms Hall, various concerts in the Glass Hall), in the Brucknerhaus in Linz, in the Herkulessaal in Munich and in the Konserthuset in Stockholm. In April 2015 he gave a recital with Angelika Kirchschlager in the Ehrbar Hall in Vienna. In October 2015 he made his debut at the Expo 2015 in Milan with Franz Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin .

The way to the opera stage and the Vienna State Opera

As a participant in the Young Singers Project , Rafael Fingerlos sang Figaro in The Barber of Seville for children at the 2015 Salzburg Festival . In the summer of 2016 he returned to the Salzburg Festival as Pablo in the world premiere of Thomas Adès' The Exterminating Angel . In February 2016 he made his debut at the Semperoper Dresden as Papageno and in autumn 2016 he toured the Netherlands as Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos with the Nationale Reisopera. Since 2016/17 he has been a permanent member of the Vienna State Opera ensemble. His first assignments were harlequin at a Japanese guest game in Tokyo and his house debut as Dr. Falcon in bat . In summer 2017 he made his debut at the Bregenz Festival as Morales in Carmen and in 2018 as Captain Handy in the soldiers at the Teatro Real in Madrid. In 2017/18 he also made regular guest appearances at the Semperoper Dresden, for the first time as Figaro in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, where in 2018 he sang Harlequin in the new production of Ariadne auf Naxos under the direction of Christian Thielemann.

In his parent company, the Vienna State Opera, he was and can be seen as Papageno, Dr Falke, Figaro ( l barbiere di Siviglia ) or Belcore in L'Elisir d'amore . In the “Midsummeright's Dream” premiered in October 2019, directed by Irina Brook and directed by Simone Young, he sang Demetrius.

A successful artistic collaboration connects him with conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Simone Young, Peter Schneider, Jesús López Cobos, Evelino Pidò, Thomas Adès, Adam Fischer, Marek Janowski, Jonathan Darlington, Antonino Fogliani, Kristiina Poska or Andreas Spering and directors and Directors such as Calixto Bieito, Irina Brook, David Hermann, Vincent Huguet, Kaspar Holten and Barbora Horáková.

The song and the concert area

The song and the concert area play a central role in his artistic activity. For example, at Easter 2017 he sang the bass arias in Bach's St. Matthew Passion with the Kreuzchor Dresden, and in 2018 toured with the Orfeo Barockorchester under Michi Gaigg and the Insula Ensemble by Laurence Equilbey. In spring 2020 followed a tour with Gustav Mahler's "Lieder eins fahrenden Gesellen" through Belgium and the Netherlands with the Nederlandse Filharmonisch Orkest under Omer Meir Wellber.

Further current concert engagements have taken Rafael Fingerlos to Tehran for the Fajr Festival, the Musica em Trancoso Festival in Bahia, Hong Kong, Grafenegg, the Great Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Tivoli Utrecht or the Elisabethzaal Antwerp.

He gave recitals a. a. in London, Milan, Florence, at the Nice Opera, the Cologne Opera, the National Theater Zagreb, the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, at the Mondsee Music Days, the Schubertiade in Vorarlberg, at the Znojmo and Kutna Hora music festivals in Czech Republic, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Lucerne Festival, the Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf or in the Meistersingerhalle Nuremberg.

Rafael Fingerlos has a permanent song partnership with Sascha El Mouissi.

Recordings

Bach cantatas with Rafael Fingerlos (who won an Echo Klassik in 2017 ) were released by Harmonia Mundi, a song CD with world premieres by Robert Fürstenthal was released by Toccataclassics, and a first song CD entitled Silence and Night was released by Oehms Classics , which was awarded the Ö1- in 2018. Pasticciopreis was awarded. He could be seen as Papageno in the break film of the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in 2019.

The current song CD "Fremde Heimat" is a co-production with BR-Klassik and the label Oehms Classics.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ December 12, 2015, opera gala “in memoriam Götz Friedrich 1930–2000” - the siaa foundation scholarship recipients sing. ( Memento from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Rafael Fingerlos, baritone. Interview of the ORF / Ö1, December 13, 2013. The occasional indication Mariapfarr as the birthplace might be an inaccurate reference to the fact that Fingerless (where he grew up) from Mariapfarr comes ; so on the website of the Salzburg Festival in the German version "grown up", in the English version "born".
  3. ↑ Rafael Fingerlos on the website of the Vienna State Opera , accessed on August 19, 2018.


personal data
SURNAME Fingerless, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Tamsweg , State of Salzburg , Austria