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 René Pape
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René Pape, one of the leading international basses of the younger generation, received his musical education in his native city of Dresden. He made his debut while still a student in 1988 at the Berlin State Opera and has been a member of this company ever since. There, René Pape has performed the main roles of his repertoire, such as Rocco, König Marke, König Heinrich, Pogner, Fasolt, Hunding, Sarastro, Figaro, Leporello all in new productions conducted by Daniel Barenboim and in May 2002 he made his debut as Don Giovanni/title role (also under Maestro Barenboim). He also sang Ramphis under Zubin Mehta, Don Carlos/Philipp II., new production Parsifal/Gurnemanz (March 2005, produced by Bernd Eichinger and conducted by Daniel Barenboim)
and new production Boris Godunow/title role (December 2005, conducted by Daniel Barenboim). It was from Berlin that René Pape developed his impressive worldwide career.
René Pape has appeared at all the major opera houses in Europe, Japan (tours with the Metropolitan New York and Berlin State Opera) and the USA. Since his successful debut René Pape has been a welcome regular guest artist of the Metropolitan Opera New York with commitments reaching up to 2009/2010. Under James Levine he has appeared in new productions of Tristan und Isolde/König Marke, Fidelio/Rocco, Don Giovanni/ Lepo-rello and revivals of Lohengrin/König Heinrich, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg/Pogner, under Valerij Gergiev he sang his first Gurnemanz in Parsifal. James Levine is the conductor in a further new production Faust/ Mephisto in 2005. At the Lyric Opera of Chicago he performed Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg/Pogner under Christian Thielemann, Tristan und Isolde/König Marke under Semyon Bychkov, Fidelio/Rocco under Christoph von Dohnanyi (2005) and has appeared at the San Francisco Opera (several productions) as well as at the Bayreuth, Glyndebourne, Lucerne, Munich Opera, Orange, St. Petersburg („White Nights Festival“), Salzburg and Verbier Festivals.
Equally at home on the concert platform, René Pape has appeared in all major concert halls all over the world, such as in Tokyo, Madrid, London, Florence (Maggio Musicale), New York (New York Philharmonic under Sir Colin Davis in the Verdi-Requiem and under Lorin Maazel and Kurt Masur in Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 9), Chicago (with the Chicago Symphony under Sir Georg Solti and Daniel Barenboim), Paris (Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim and Semyon Bychkov), Philadelphia (Philadelphia Orchestra under Wolfgang Sawallisch), Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Opera (under Zubin Mehta) and Munich Philharmonic, Boston Symphony under James Levine as well as at the 2004 Lucerne Festival, Tristan und Isolde/König Marke, 2nd act under Claudio Abbado.
René Pape has won two Grammy Awards and Vocalist of the Year 2002 of the magazin „Musical America“.
He has made TV-appearances, recordings and DVD’s among others on the BMG, EMI, DGG, TELDEC labels under conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, James Levine, Sir Georg Solti, Antonio Pappano.
TV-portrait for ARTE and different German channels. Film production The Magic Flute/Sarastro and Sprecher, directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Management:
Robert Slotover
e: robert@alliedartists.co.uk
t: 020 7589 6243
f: 020 7581 5269
Representation:
UK
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