Ralph Ertel
Ralph Ertel (* 1972 in Crivitz near Schwerin) is a German opera, operetta, lied and concert singer with a tenor voice .
Life
The tenor became a member of the Schwerin Singing Academy in 1984. In 1988 he began to take singing lessons at the Schwerin Conservatory , and from 1994 he studied singing at the Rostock University of Music and Theater .
His first engagement took him from 1999 to 2002 at the Hamburg Chamber Opera , where he played Oronte in Handel's Alcina , George in Halévy's Der Blitz and Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte . The Stuttgart State Theaters signed him in 2001 as a prince in the children's opera “The Swineherd” by Gerhard Schedl .
In Carl Orff's “ Der Mond ” he was the third boy to appear at the DomStufen-Festspiele in Erfurt. From 2002 to 2005 he was engaged at the Osnabrück Theater, where he worked as a Knirps in Hans Werner Henze's one-act play Das Wundertheater (available on CD), as Monostatos in Mozart's Magic Flute , as Valzacchi in Richard Strauss' ' Rosenkavalier , as Caramello in Johann Strauss' A night in Venice when there was nothing new to be heard as the helmsman in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and as Kemerich and Major in the world premiere of Nancy Van de Vate's opera Im Westen .
In 2006 he moved to the Stadttheater Bremerhaven , where he sang Pedrillo in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio , Pong in Puccini's Turandot , Adam in Zeller's operetta The Bird Trader , Fritz in Offenbach's Grand Duchess von Gerolstein , the architects in Aribert Reimann's Melusine and Severin in Weill's Der Silbersee .
Ertel has been a member of the Halle Opera ensemble since August 2010 . There he sings among others Mime ( Das Rheingold , Siegfried ), Alwa ( Lulu ) and Macduff ( Macbeth ).
Discography
- Hans Werner Henze: "The Wonder Theater" - ARS 38 454
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| SURNAME | Ertel, Ralph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Crivitz |