Robert Holzer (singer)

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Robert Holzer (born May 8, 1963 in Waldhausen , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian opera singer ( bass ).

Life

Robert Holzer studied at the Bruckner University Linz with Gertrud Schulz and at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Rudolf Knoll . His career began with a first prize at the Austrian Federal Youth Competition and his debut at the Vienna Chamber Opera . Afterwards he was a member of the ensemble at the Stadttheater Bern . In the 1989/90 season he sang Wassermann in a new Rusalka production (director: Klaus Froboese ) and was, according to a contemporary opera review , in the role of “a discovery”. International guest contracts followed.

In the 1991/92 season he made his debut as a police commissioner in Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna State Opera , where he sang other small roles in June 1992 (in Baal by Friedrich Cerha ) and in January 1994 (as Shtschelkalov in Boris Godunow ). In the 1992/93 season he sang Mephisto in Margarethe Stadttheater Koblenz . In the 1993/94 season he took over Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau in Der Rosenkavalier at the Dortmund Opera House . In 1995 he appeared as Teiresias in Oedipus Rex in Madrid in performances at the Teatro de la Zarzuela. From 1996 to 2000 he was the first serious bass player at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . In the 1997/98 season he sang at the Kassel State Theater in a production of Beethoven's original Fidelio Leonore as part of the Kassel Musiktage .

His repertoire included numerous major roles in the Italian and German subject from Figaro ( Le nozze di Figaro ), Philipp ( Don Carlos ), Sarastro ( Die Zauberflöte ), Rocco ( Fidelio ), La Roche ( Capriccio ) to Baron Ochs ( Der Rosenkavalier ). Holzer also interpreted the Wagner subject with roles such as Landgraf ( Tannhäuser , inter alia in the 1993/94 season at the State Theater Braunschweig ), Gurnemanz ( Parsifal ), Fasolt and Hunding ( The Ring of the Nibelung ) and King Heinrich ( Lohengrin ), which he in directed by Peter Konwitschny at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona .

Holzer has performed in Amsterdam, Athens, Buenos Aires, Brussels, Catania, Lisbon, Madrid, Monte Carlo, at the Metropolitan Theater in Seoul, Palermo, Rome, Turin, Santiago de Chile and at the Wexford Festival. He worked with the conductors Christian Arming, Dennis Russell Davies , Sylvain Cambreling , Ádám Fischer , Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Leopold Hager , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Thomas Hengelbrock , Jan Latham-König , Jun Märkl , Peter Schneider , Michael Schønwandt , Bernhard Sieberer , Horst Stein , Pinchas Steinberg , Marcello Viotti , Lothar Zagrosek , Hans Wallat and Franz Welser-Möst . He was also a guest at international festivals and concert halls in Amsterdam, Berlin, Madrid, Munich, Salzburg, Warsaw, Vienna, Zurich, New York and Japan, where he performed the 8th Symphony by Gustav Mahler and the Brahms Requiem with the New Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra sang. Holzer has given concerts with the Vienna Symphony , the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Orquesta Nacional de España, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic .

Since the 2006/07 season, Holzer has been teaching song, oratorio and opera school at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz. Since 2011 he has been the institute director of the singing and music theater department.

The most important works of his discography are Ludwig van Beethoven ( 9th Symphony ), Jean Françaix ( L'Apocalypse de Saint-Jean ), Georg Friedrich Handel ( The Messiah ), Joseph Haydn ( The Creation , Masses), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( The Magic Flute , Requiem and Masses), Franz Schmidt ( The Book with Seven Seals ) and songs by Robert Schumann , Hugo Wolf and Hans Pfitzner as well as a recording of Bruckner songs and a CD with ensembles by Franz Schubert .

Discography

  • F. Schubert: Polyphonic chants (U. Langmayr, M. Seelinger, H. Lippert, R. Holzer, Th. Kerbl)
  • L. v. Beethoven: 9th Symphony (Naxos) (conductor: Richard Edlinger)
  • Max Brand: Machinist Hopkins, complete recording, (ORF-Vienna) (Dir .: Peter Keuschnig )
  • M. Bruch: Odysseus, complete recording (NDR-Hannover) (Dir .: Leon Botstein)
  • A. Bruckner: Sacred and secular songs (Bruckner's vocal work Vol.3 Th. Kerbl, piano)
  • A. Bruckner: Mass in F minor, Württemberg Philharmonic, Conductor: R. Paternostro
  • A. Bruckner: Mass in D minor, Württemberg Philharmonic Conductor: R. Paternostro
  • J. Francaix: L'Apocalypse selon St. Jean (Wergo) (Dir .: Christian Simonis )
  • J. Haydn: The Creation (Dir .: Erwin Ortner, Concentus musicus, Arnold Schönberg Choir)
  • J. Haydn: Nelson Messe (Naxos) Dir .: Bela Drahos
  • G. Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (New Tokio Philharmonic, Cir. Chr. Arming)
  • JM Malzat: Requiem solenne, Missa solemnis (Tyrolean music research) (Dir .: Bernhard Sieberer)
  • WA Mozart: Missa Solemnis (Naxos) Dir .: Michael Halasz
  • WA Mozart: The Magic Flute, complete recording, (Naxos), (Dir .: Michael Halasz)
  • F. Schmidt: The Book with Seven Seals (Weltbild Verlag) (Dir .: Horst Stein, Wiener Symphoniker)
  • R. Schumann: Songs based on texts by Joseph von Eichendorff (Preiser Records) by H. Wolf, H. Pfitzner (Robert Holzer, bass; Thomas Kerbl, piano)
  • F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Paulus (Dir .: U. Chr. Harrer)
  • Where the soul makes waves / Music and literature from the Salzkammergut: CD for the Upper Austria state exhibition
  • V. Ullmann: The Emperor of Atlantis (DVD), Dir .: Peter Keuschnig - Styriarte Graz
  • Weber / Mahler: The Three Pintos (Naxos) Dir .: P. Arrivabeni - Wexford Operafestival

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ch. Bendig: BERN. RUSALKA . Performance review. In: Opera glasses . Issue May 5, 1990. Page 36.
  2. ↑ Heinz-Harald Löhlein: From the heroic back to the touching . Performance review. In: Opera world . Issue December 12, 1997. Page 39.
personal data
SURNAME Holzer, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (bass)
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldhausen