René Rumpold

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René Rumpold (born January 25, 1959 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian opera singer ( tenor ), director , author , librettist and teacher .

Life

Rumpold was born the son of a businessman and spent his early childhood with his parents in Trieste . After four years of high school in Klagenfurt, at his father's request, he switched to the Klagenfurt Commercial Academy and passed the Matura there.

His mother recognized and encouraged her son's artistic and musical talent early on. During elementary school he was a member of the ORF boys' choir and sang as a soloist in several other choirs. He became a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir , whose leadership at the time said goodbye to him after a month. Nevertheless, Rumpold made his operatic debut as a nine-year-old choir singer in the opera Carmen at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt , where he played a street boy.

A two-year stay abroad also led Rumpold to Athens , where he established a close friendship with Melina Mercouri . He interpreted a number of musical roles there at the Kaloutha Theater and then chose Vienna as his new home. He began studying theater, music and German at the University of Vienna and did his doctorate in theater and musicology. This was followed by studying acting with Fritz Muliar in Vienna and studying singing in New York , Zurich , Sydney and Vienna with Carol Blaikner-Mayo and Joan Sutherland .

In 1984 René Rumpold made his debut as "Jaggerl" (Jago) in the Nestroy opera parody Othellerl, the Mohr of Vienna at the Vienna Chamber Opera , where he later sang other roles under the direction of Hans Gabor . Since 1985 Rumpold has worked as a tenor, actor and director at international theaters, opera houses and festivals. He also devotes himself again and again to the film / television film category.

Since 2008 Rumpold has also been working as a singing teacher. The repertoire includes classical music (opera, operetta, lied) as well as musical and jazz. His main focus is on voice training and guidance, flowing breathing and the correct use of the body. The second stage is the interpretation and understanding of the music to be singed.

He also teaches acting students. As with singing, he attaches particular importance to voice training and guidance. This is followed by rhetoric and then work on the repertoire.

In the course of his activities as a singer, actor and director, Rumpold has worked with numerous important artistic personalities. These include Agnes Baltsa , Leonard Bernstein , Gerhard Bronner , Jerry Bock , Anthony Davies, Plácido Domingo , Edita Gruberová , Philip Glass , Sheldon Harnick, Hans Werner Henze , Tamar Iveri, Hilde Krahl , Heinz Marecek , Zubin Mehta , Ernst Meister , Melina Mercouri, Fritz Muliar, Nigel Osborne , Elfriede Ott , Harold Prince , Walther Reyer , Maximilian Schell , Neil Shicoff , Martin Sieghart, George Tabori , Mikis Theodorakis , Gerhard Track , Guido Wieland , Peter Zadek and others.

Rumpold speaks several languages ​​such as English, Italian, French and Greek.

repertoire

Opera

operetta

musical

Directorial work

  • Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart) - Festival Reinsberg, Musis Sacrum Arnhem / Holland, Amsterdam Concert Gebouw
  • Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss) - Musis Sacrum Arnhem / Holland, Vienna Chamber Opera
  • The Magic Flute (Mozart) - Opera Minneapolis
  • Countess Mariza (Kálmán) - Glimmerglass Festival / State New York
  • Tosca (V. Sardou) - Schauspielhaus Wien
  • Susanne's Secret (E. Wolf-Ferrari) - Tobacco Museum Vienna
  • No, I have no regrets, Edith Piaf (Rumpold) - Vienna, Baden, Reinsberg Festival
  • Myth, so nonsense - Marlene Dietrich (Rumpold) - Vienna, Hamburg
  • Peter and Paul in the land of plenty (Lehár) - Perchtoldsdorf
  • The George Gerswhin-Story (Gershwin / Rumpold) - Vienna, Baden, Reinsberg Festival, Stockerau, Basel, Lörrach

author

  • The George Gershwin Story (world premiere 2006) - Publisher: Gallissas / Berlin
  • No, I have no regrets - Edith Piaf (world premiere 2008)
  • Myth? So ´n Nonsense - Marlene Dietrich (world premiere 2009)
  • KFJ - Kaiser Franz Joseph - Das Musical (composition: Frizz Fischer - world premiere 2009)
  • My Last Journey - Melina Mercouri (World Premiere 2010)
  • Springs (world premiere 2011)
  • Max and Moritz and their last pranks - a musical for children aged 3–90 (composition Frizz Fischer - world premiere 2011)

Discography

  • Rebel - Musical by Lubomir Veteska - Rebel (Nicolaus)
  • She Loves Me - Original recording of the German-language premiere in Vienna / Ronacher (J.Bock / S.Harnick) - Georg Nowack
  • Ode to the Westwind - Composition: Frizz Fischer - Duets with Lucia Nistler with texts by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Waltz dream - operetta by Oscar Straus - live recording from St. Pölten - (Leutnant Niki)
  • The Opera Ball - operetta by Richard Heuberger - live recording from St. Pölten - (Paul Aubier)
  • René Rumpold - Musical (Special-Guest: Carin Filipcic)
  • But why only once a year - Christmas CD - vocals: René Rumpold, recitation: Elfriede Ott - arrangements and composition: Frizz Fischer

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Reason: "Good voice, but not tamed"
  2. ↑ Dissertation: "Faust and Satanism"
  3. ↑ Dissertation: "The true story of Floria Tosca"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ René Rumpold on the website of the Volksoper Wien ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 11, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksoper.at
  2. ↑ René Rumpold's website accessed on November 11, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Rumpold, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (tenor), director, author, librettist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt , Carinthia , Austria