Wolf Matthias Friedrich
Wolf Matthias Friedrich | |
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| Born | Schönheide, Germany |
| Education | Musikhochschule Leipzig |
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| Website | wolfmatthiasfriedrich.de |
Wolf Matthias Friedrich is a classical singer of baritone and bass roles, especially of Early music and Baroque music.
Friedrich studied at the Musikhochschule Leipzig.[1] In 1980, he was the winner of the International Dvorák Competition in Karlovy Vary.[2] From 1982 to 1986 Friedrich was a member of the Opera Studio of the Dresden State Opera.[2] The bass has made guest appearances at the Dresden Music Festival, the Handel Festival in Halle, the Schwetzingen Festival as well as in Berlin, Hanover, Potsdam, Edinburgh and Australia.[1] In 2000, he performed the role of Pluto in the first modern revival of Giovanni Legrenzi's La divisione del mondo at the Schwetzingen Festival.[3] He has focused on Baroque operas.[4] He has often collaborated with the conductor Alessandro De Marchi.[4] In 2002/03, he appeared as Licomede in Handel's Deidamia at the Handel Festival in Halle, conducted by De Marchi.[2] In the 2006/07 season Friedrich performed the role of Publio in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito in a production by Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann, and under the musical direction of De Marchi at the Estates Theatre in Prague.[2] He worked with Norman Shetler in various lied projects, including Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn and Carl Loewe).[2] His recordings have included Schubert’s Schwanengesang.[5] He works regularly with the ensembles Musica Fiata and Cantus Cölln,[5] also as a member of Cantus Cölln.[6][7] In 2002, Friedrich was one of the co-founders of the Kerll-Rosenmüller Festival, which was held annually from 2002 to 2006 to promote the musical heritage of the Baroque composers Johann Caspar Kerll, Johann Rosenmüller and Sebastian Knüpfer.[8]
Opera productions
[edit]Source:[9]
- Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (Cologne Opera)
- Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne)[10]
- Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Cologne)
- Peranda/Bontempi: Dafne (Dresdner Musikfestspiele)[11]
- Legrenzi: La divisione del mondo (Schwetzingen Festival)[12]
- Steffani: Orlando (Hannover Herrenhausen)
- Handel: Deidamia,[13] Semele (Halle)
- Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (Potsdam)
- Handel: Orlando (Göttingen, Drottningholm, Berlin, New York, Tanglewood)[14]
- Handel: Admeto (Göttingen, Edinburgh)[15]
- Handel: Rinaldo (Cologne, Prague)
- Handel: Alcina (Cologne, Wiesbaden)
- Haydn: Armida (Schwetzingen)
- Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Hannover Herrenhausen, Wiesbaden)
- Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (Wiesbaden)
- Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (Prague)[5]
- Mozart: Entführung aus dem Serail (Potsdam, Cologne, Wiesbaden)[5]
- Mozart: Don Giovanni (Cologne)
- Mussorgski: Boris Godunow (Wiesbaden)
- Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto (Dresden)
- Weill: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Cologne)
- Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri (Cologne)
- Matthus: Cornet (Dresden)
- Shih: Vatermord (Dresden Hellerau)[16]
- Tschaikowski: Eugene Onegin
- Zimmermann: Weiße Rose (Schwerin).
References
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b "Wolf Matthias Friedrich". Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (in German). Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Wolf Matthias Friedrich · Duisburger Philharmoniker · Spielzeit 2020/2021". Duisburger Philharmoniker · Spielzeit 2020/2021 (in German). Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "Review: La divisione del mondo". Early Music Review (66): 10–11. 2000.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Wolf Matthias Friedrich". Theater und Orchester Heidelberg (in German). 6 July 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Wolf Matthias Friedrich". Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "Cantus Cölln, Abschiedstournee mit Motetten von Johann Sebastian Bach". Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (in German). Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "Biographie". CANTUS CÖLLN (in German). Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "Wolf Matthias Friedrich – Biographie". CANTUS CÖLLN (in German). Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "Wolf Matthias Friedrich" (in German). Freunde Alter Musik Basel. 20 June 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ Miller, Andrew (25 September 2012). "Monteverdi's L'Orfeo with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra". Hudson-Housatonic Arts. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "Dafne". Opéra Baroque (in French). 6 July 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "La Divisione del Mondo". Opéra Baroque (in French). 6 July 2021. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "Halle: Händel-Festspiele 2002". Deidamia / Online Musik Magazin (in German). 19 June 2000. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ Wallach, Larry (23 August 2011). "McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Doing Handel's Orlando at Tanglewood—Less is More". Hudson-Housatonic Arts. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "Admeto". Kulturstiftung des Bundes (in German). Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "Vatermord – Kammeroper in neun Episoden". db.musicaustria.at (in German). Retrieved 6 July 2021.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Wolf Matthias Friedrich (Bass-Baritone) Bach Cantatas Website
- Bach cantatas with Wolf Matthias Friedrich as bass soloist on bachipedia.org (videos included, since 2007)
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