Claudio Otelli - Baritone/Bass
Biography
The repertoire of the Austrian baritone Claudio Otelli comprises a broad spectrum of classical as well as contemporary works in opera literature. He is as interested in the dramatic as in the musical presentation of his vocal parts. The collaboration with directors such as Nicolas Brieger, Klaus Michael Grüber, Alfred Kirchner, Johannes Schaaf, Adolf Dresen, Giancarlo del Monaco, Christof Nel, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Peter Mussbach, Nicolas Joel, Harry Kupfer and David Pountney, as well as with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Pinchas Steinberg, Stefan Soltesz, Michael Gielen, Leopold Hager, Jeffrey Tate and Lothar Zagrosek has had a formative influence.
After studying voice at the Viennese Conservatory of Music, Claudio Otelli began his career as a member of the ensemble of the Viennese State Opera. Since 1994 he has been engaged as a freelance artist on important stages in Europe as well as the USA and Japan. He sang at the Aalto Theater Essen as Count Figaro, Marcello, Mandryka, Telramund and Gregor (Elegie für junge Liebende); at the Bavarian State Opera Munich and at the Festival of Savonlinna as Oreste; at the Deutschen Oper Berlin as Count Figaro; at the Semper Opera Dresden as Mandryka; at the State Opera Stuttgart as Count Tamare in Schreker’s Gezeichneten; at the Milan Scala and at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse as Gunther; at the Teatro Regio Turin as Olivier; at the Opéra du Rhin Strassburg as Amfortas; at the Opéra de Lyon as Don Pizarro; at the Teatro San Carlo Naples as Herzog Blaubart; at the Geneva Grand Théâtre in the title role of Jarrell’s Galilée and as Dr. Falke; at the Ruhrtriennale 2006 as Stolzius in Die Soldaten by Bernd Alois Zimmermann; at the Stadttheater Bern as De Flores in Christian Jost’s Vipern; at the Theater Basel as Dr. Schön in Lulu and Siskov in House of the Dead; in the Tosca production at the Bregenz Festival as Scarpia and at the Leipzig Opera as Telramund. His engagements at the Frankfurt Opera have been particularly varied: Siskov in Janáček’s House of the Dead, Don Giovanni, Tonio in I Pagliacci, Jochanaan, Cardillac, Scarpia and Ryuji in Das verratene Meer by Henze.
In the USA, Otelli was introduced as Jochanaan at the Santa Fe Festival, as Graf in Los Angeles and at Lincoln Center in New York. He gave his Japanese début as Ramiro in L’heure espagnol at the New National Theatre Tokyo, where he was also heard as Dr. Schön and Sharpless. At the Tokyo Santori Hall, he was a guest singer as Ryuji in a concert performance of Das verratene Meer.
The next stations on his calendar: The Komische Oper Berlin (The Carmelites, Lulu and Grand Macabre), the teatre Basel (Lo stimolatore cardiaco by Christoph Marthaler), Antwerp (Dreieinigkeitsmoses in Mahagonny) and the Stuttgart Opera (Wozzeck).
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