Xavier Sabata

Xavier Sabata

Xavier Sabata (* 1976 in Avià ) is a Catalan opera singer ( countertenor ) and actor .

life and work

Sabata studied acting at the Barcelona University of Theater , saxophone at the Barcelona Conservatory , and singing and song at the Escola Superior de Musica Catalunya and the Karlsruhe University of Music with Hartmut Höll and Mitsuko Shirai . He completed master classes a. a. with Montserrat Figueras , Richard Levitt and Christoph Prégardien . Since his engagement at the Opéra de Lyon in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea under the direction ofWilliam Christie with Les Arts Florissants , he works regularly with this ensemble. Here he is u. a. performed in Brussels, Paris, New York, London, Madrid and Caen.

Sabata had other guest appearances at the Festival of Early Music in Innsbruck (under the direction of René Jacobs ), at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona and at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas ), at the Teatro Malibran in Venice , in the Megaron of Athens , at the Opéra royal de Versailles as well as the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and in the Theater an der Wien . Sabata often sings with early music ensembles such as the Venice Baroque Orchestra , I Barochisti , Al Ayre Español , Gabriel Elyma , La Rissonanza , Les Sacqueboutiers de Tolousse , El Concierto Español , Laberintos Ingeniosos and Forma Antiqva .

His stage roles include Ottone in Agrippina (at the Opéra Royal d'Oviedo ) and Iarba in Cavallis La Didone (Paris). He is at the Freiburg Theater in 2009/10 as Prinz Gogo (Ligetis Le Grand Macabre ), 2010/11 as Mignon (in Kagels Aus Deutschland ), 2011/12 as the creator (in de la Barras Das Großes Welttheater ) and as Rinaldo (Handel) occurred. In the 2015/16 season he can be seen and heard there as Kaspar Hauser in the opera of the same name by Hans Thomalla .

Sabata also appears as an actor in well-known Spanish companies such as the Teatre Lliure Barcelona or the Teatre Nacional Catalonia and has appeared in Spanish television series.

Selected recordings

• Handel: Faramondo , complete recording (2008): Max Emanuel Cenčić (Faramondo), Sophie Karthäuser (Clotilde), In-Sung Sim (Gustavo), Marina de Liso (Rosimonda), Philippe Jaroussky (Adolfo), Xavier Sabata (Gernando), Fulvio Bettini (Teobaldo), Terry Wey (Childerico). I Barocchisti ; Conductor: Diego Fasolis (166 min, Virgin Classics 50999 2-16611-2-9)
• Bad Guys , solo album with arias by Handel (2012). Il pomo d'oro ; Conductor: Riccardo Minasi

Web links

• Tutti Magazine , interview with Xavier Sabata, January 14, 2013 (fr)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theater Freiburg: Kaspar Hauser. Retrieved April 14, 2016 .