Ralf Willershäuser

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Ralf Willershäuser (* 1964 in Gießen ) is a German opera singer ( hero tenor / baritone ) and singing teacher. In addition to tenor and baritone roles in German, Italian, French and Russian operas, his repertoire includes musicals , operettas and works by modern composers.

Life

Ralf Willershäuser studied from 1991 to 1995 at the University of Music in Karlsruhe under the direction of Renate Ackermann, with Aldo Baldin and Lucretia West. He was later looked after by the well-known singers Josef Metternich and Nicolai Gedda . In 1995 he passed his university degree with grade 1.

During his studies he already had guest engagements at the Stuttgart State Opera , at the Ludwigsburg Festival and at the Heidenheim Opera Festival .

In 1995 Ralf Willershäuser was hired as a member of the ensemble at the Mannheim National Theater . He sang the roles of Hans ( Bartered Bride ), Max ( Der Freischütz ), Lenski ( Eugen Onegin ), Narraboth ( Salome ), Alfred ( Die Fledermaus ), Arturo ( Lucia di Lammermoor ), Tamino / Erste Geharnischter ( Die Zauberflöte ), Pedro ( The Corregidor ), Jack ( Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ), Tony ( West Side Story ).

As a guest singer he took part in performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from the 1996/97 season . In 1998, artistic director Götz Friedrich took him into the permanent ensemble, of which he was a member until August 2003. Ralf Willershäuser sang the roles of Erik ( The Flying Dutchman ), Jim Mahonny ( Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ), Froh ( Das Rheingold ), Dimitri ( Boris Godunow ), Erste Geharnischter ( The Magic Flute ), Elector ( The Prince ) at the Deutsche Oper von Homburg ), Lepreux ( Francois d'Assis ), Aegisth ( Elektra ) as well as the tenor solo in Das Lied von der Erde by Gustav Mahler and the song cycle From the Jewish Folk Poetry by Dmitri Shostakovich .

In 2002 he sang the title role in Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin for the first time at the Staatstheater Darmstadt . Since that time he has performed as a guest singer in the heroic tenor and baritone classes on the stages of over 30 opera houses in Germany and abroad. For example Berlin ( Komische Oper ) (Deutsche Oper), Hamburg, Hanover, Kassel, Cologne, Wiesbaden, Athens, Bologna, Ferrara, Modena, Palermo, Parma, Klagenfurt, Sankt Gallen, Gelsenkirchen, Freiburg, Stuttgart, Lucerne, Magdeburg, Cottbus, Giessen, Rostock, Mannheim, Regensburg, Erfurt, Gera / Altenburg, Nordhausen, Brandenburg, Flensburg etc.

He gave concerts under well-known conductors at the Philharmonie Berlin and in the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt as well as in the Cologne Philharmonic .

Ralf Willershäuser has worked with conductors Christian Thielemann, Jiri Kout, Julius Rudel, Vladimir Jurowski, Michail Jurowski, Marc Albrecht, Jun Märkl, Lawrence Foster and Stefan Blunier, among others.

At the Schleswig-Holstein Festival he interpreted Gustav Mahler's Lied von der Erde and the part of Florestan in Ludwig von Beethoven's opera Fidelio under the direction of Gerard Oskamp. The orchestra of the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen engaged him as Siegmund for the Wagner concert series of the Ruhrfestspiele in Recklinghausen, Gelsenkirchen and Kamen under the direction of general music director Heiko Förster. At the Chiemgau Festival he sang Erik in the Flying Dutchman. The Ludwigsburg Festival engaged him in the role of 1st armored man.

In addition to his work as a singer, Ralf Willershäuser also gives singing lessons based on the bel canto technique of the German and Italian subjects as well as the art song .

Publications

Radio recordings were made with the Berliner Rundfunkchor with the German Motet by Richard Strauss (tenor solo) and our father by Leoš Janáček (tenor solo). Recordings of D. Shostakovich's song cycle from Jewish folk poetry (tenor solo) were made with the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin , with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra of Beethoven's 9th Symphony (tenor solo) and in the German House in Flensburg of Gustav Mahler's Lied von der Erde .

CD productions of the operas Die Zauberflöte by WA Mozart of the Ludwigsburg Festival under the direction of Wolfgang Gönnenwein and Der Corregidor by Hugo Wolf with the orchestra of the Mannheim National Theater under the direction of Jun Märkl are available.

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SURNAME Willershauser, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (hero tenor / baritone) and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH to water