Thomas Laske

Thomas Laske (born October 27, 1969 in Stuttgart ) is a German opera singer ( baritone , bass ).

Life

Laske attended the Fanny-Leicht-Gymnasium in Stuttgart-Vaihingen until 1989 and was a singer with the Stuttgart Hymn Choirboys for ten years (1978-89) . From 1990 he studied sound and image technology in Düsseldorf (graduating in 1996), then singing. He received singing lessons from Brigitte Dürrler , Ria Goetze, from 1997 also from Andreas Schmidt and in master classes with Otto Edelmann , Elio Battaglia, John Shirley-Quirk , Wolfgang Schöne and Edith Wiens , among others .

He began his career as an opera singer from 1997 to 1999 as a member of the opera studio of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg . From 1999 he was a member of the ensemble of the Gelsenkirchen-Wuppertal stages (Schillertheater, NRW Gelsenkirchen / Wuppertal); there he sang Valentin in Faust and Schaunard in La Bohème . From 2001 he was engaged at the Wuppertal theaters . He made guest appearances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , at the Cologne Opera , the Opera House Frankfurt / Main and at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich .

His stage repertoire included the following roles: Figaro ( The Barber of Seville ), Count Almaviva and Figaro ( Le nozze di Figaro ), the title role in Don Giovanni , Escamillo ( Carmen ), the title role in Eugene Onegin , Consul Sharpless ( Madama Butterfly ) and Marcello ( La Bohème ). He has appeared as a concert soloist in Germany, Austria, France, Italy and the Czech Republic. His concert repertoire includes composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach , Gioachino Rossini , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Giuseppe Verdi .

In 2003 he was voted the best young opera singer by the magazine “Theater pur”. Since 2010 he has been teaching singing at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf .

Since 2019 he has been the second chairman of the Wuppertaler Kurrende .

Prices

• 1997: First prizes at the Richard Strauss Competition in Munich

literature

• Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon . Supplementary volume, part 3. K – L. Page 287. De Gruyter, Berlin [et al.]. December 2014. ISBN 978-3-11-031137-2 (accessed via De Gruyter Online)
• Karl J. Kutsch and Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 4: Kainz – Menkes, p. 2624. Fourth, expanded and updated edition. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Laske in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Laske - Internet presence
• Thomas Laske at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• Thomas Laske at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Thomas Laske at Allmusic (English)
• Thomas Laske at Discogs (English)
• Thomas Laske on MusicBrainz (English)