Rolf Apreck

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Rolf Apreck (born February 9, 1928 in Leipzig ; † May 21, 1989 there ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Training and commitment in Halle

Apreck was born the son of a bank manager and studied singing at the University of Music in Leipzig from 1946 to 1949. During this time he was already singing oratorio solo parts in the university church. His first engagement took him to Halle / Saale, he was part of the ensemble of the Handel Festival in Halle. At the same time his career as a concert and oratorio singer began. Guest performances with the Leipziger Thomanerchor and the Dresdner Kreuzchor , song recitals and concerts took him all over the world. In 1956 he was signed to the State Theater in Halle, where he made his debut with Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni .

Chamber singer in Leipzig

In 1959 he was awarded the title “Chamber singer” and the national prize. From the 1959/60 season he was hired as a hero tenor at the Leipzig Opera House , of which he was a member until 1989.

At the opening of the new opera house Leipzig sang Apreck the Tigrane in Handel's Radamisto , and at his side. a. Hanne-Lore Kuhse , Sigrid Kehl and Bruno Aderhold . During the years of his engagement in Leipzig, he sang all the major roles in his field, such as Max in Der Freischütz , Don José in Carmen , the Kaiser in Die Frau ohne Schatten in the legendary production by Joachim Herz and Florestan in Fidelio , Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos , Riccardo in A masked ball and Alvaro in La forza del destino .

Rolf Apreck took on numerous roles from the opera and concert literature of modern music. He sang the tenor role in the premiere of Paul Dessau's Requiem Deutsches Miserere in 1966 in Leipzig. His interpretation as Pierre in Sergei Prokofiev's opera War and Peace was also considered outstanding . Towards the end of his career he sang character roles in The Miraculous Shoemaker's Wife by Udo Zimmermann and in The Makropulos Case by Leoš Janáček .

Apreck was also a singing teacher in Jena , Halle and Leipzig .

Guest appearances

Rolf Apreck had guest appearances at the Berlin State Opera and the Komische Oper in Berlin. In 1965 Apreck also gave a guest appearance at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow as Erik in the Flying Dutchman . As a concert singer he performed in West Germany , Switzerland and England .

Film and sound recordings

In 1964 he took over the vocal part of the role of Erik in the DEFA feature film The Flying Dutchman . The actor Herbert Graedtke played the role himself . With all the important conductors in Leipzig, Rolf Apreck recorded a number of works from classical and contemporary music literature for the radio and for domestic and foreign record companies.

Discography

Total recordings:

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Epilogue to Miserere by Paul Dessau and Bertolt Brecht. (No longer available online.) In: www.musikmph.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on October 4, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.musikmph.de
  2. ↑ The Flying Dutchman. (No longer available online.) In: DEFA-Spielfilm. Formerly in the original ; accessed on October 4, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.filmportal.de
personal data
SURNAME Apreck, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1989
Place of death Leipzig