Gerhard Siegel - Tenor
Biography
Born in Trostberg/Alz (Germany). Trained on different instruments already at the age of three. Later on, he wrote down his first compositions and realized numerous first performings in the chamber and vocal music fields. Special Award for Creative Arts in Berlin (1984) and East German Cultural Award from the Federal Ministry of the Interior (1990). Graduation from the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg as a concert and opera singer after having studied there with KS Liselotte Becker-Egner.
Engagement at Stadttheater Trier, where also the first performance of the stage adaptation of Heinrich Heine’s Deutschland – ein Wintermärchen with Gerhard Siegel’s composition for soprano, tenor, actor and piano took place. After a short intermezzo at the theatre in Dessau, the artist worked as a free lance opera and concert singer with guest appearances at various German opera houses, including the State Theatres of Saarbrücken and Brunswick, as well as in Bulgaria, the Netherlands and Spain.
He was a prize-winner of the 14th International Belvedere/Hans Gabor Vocal Competition. First CD production. In 1997, debut at Bavarian State Opera Munich and engagement at the Theatre of Augsburg. In 1999, he joined the ensemble of the Theatre in Nuremberg where he sang Parsifal, Bacchus, Herodes, Mefistofele/Doktor Faust (Busoni), Alfredo, Tom Rakewell, Aeneas, Florestan, Laca/Jenufa, Sergej/Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and with triumphant success his first Stolzing/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the title role of Siegfried.
He sang Max in a new production of Der Freischütz at Komische Oper Berlin, Hindemith’s Nusch-Nuschi in a new production under Gerd Albrecht in Cologne, Florestan/Fidelio at Granada Festival, Parsifal in Kassel, Mime in Rheingold and Siegfried on the occasion of his debuts at the Metropolitan Opera New York and at Bayreuth Festival as well as in the Cologne Ring under Jeffrey Tate, Mime/Siegfried at New National Theatre Tokyo under Jun Märkl and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, the title roles of Tannhäuser in Augsburg and of Kurt Weill’s Der Protagonist at Bregenz Festival as well as Max/Jonny spielt auf (by Krenek) in Cologne, Herodes/Salome at Opera Montpellier, Wozzeck/Hauptmann at Teatro Real Madrid and Opera Bastille in Paris, and with outstanding success Klaus Narr in Gurrelieder by Schoenberg on a tour with Michael Gielen and the SWR Symphony Orchestra.
Future plans include: Traumgörge at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Rheingold and Siegfried/Mime at Bayreuth Festival and Covent Garden Opera London; The Rake’s Progress/Sellem at Theater an der Wien; Lulu/Alwa in Geneva and Madrid; Salome/Herodes at Teatro Real Madrid, Liceu Barcelona and Vienna State Opera, Wozzeck/Hauptmann at Metropolitan Opera New York; as well as Margarito in the world premiere of Faust-Bal by Leonardo Balada in Madrid.
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