Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester
Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, previously also Alexander Marco-Buhrmester[1] (born 1964) is a German operatic baritone.[2]
Life
Born in Basel, Marco-Buhrmester began studying singing at the Musikschule Konservatorium Bern in 1984 and won the MGB Study Prize for Singing of the City of Zurich from 1985 to 1987.
In 1987, he moved to the opera studio of the
This was followed by permanent engagements at the Aalto-Theater Essen (1989-1992) and the Theater Dortmund (1992-1995), where he sang roles such as Papageno, Guglielmo, Jeletzky (alongside Martha Mödl), Danilo, Marcello and Sharpless. In 1995, Harry Kupfer invited him to join the ensemble of the Komische Oper Berlin, where he was a permanent member until 1999 and then sang roles such as Dr. Falke, Harlequin, Dandini and Barber as a guest until 2005. Since 1999, Marco-Buhrmester is a freelance artist.
Since then he has been a guest at the Bielefeld Theatre as Lindorf/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto (
In 2003, the baritone worked as cover for
Marco-Buhrmester debuted in Bayreuth in 2001 in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the last production of Wolfgang Wagner under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann. In 2002, he sang there, also under Christian Thielemann, in Tannhäuser, In 2004, he took over the role of Amfortas in Christoph Schlingensief's Parsifal conducted by Pierre Boulez. In 2006, he made his debut in Bayreuth as Gunther in Götterdämmerung, again conducted by Christian Thielemann. He also sang at the Paris Opéra Bastille in 2005 as Melot in Peter Sellars' production of Tristan und Isolde under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen and then in the same production as Kurwenal under Valery Gergiev.[5]
Since the 2017/18 season, Marco-Buhrmester has been a permanent member of the Staatstheater Augsburg.
Repertoire
- Giorgio Germont – La traviata
- Miller – Luisa Miller
- Amfortas – Parsifal
- Conte Almaviva – The Marriage of Figaro
- Kurwenal – Tristan und Isolde
Recordings
- Capriccio 2001 (Der Protagonist by Kurt Weill)
- Capriccio 2004 (La celebre Natività del Redentore by Antonio Casimir Cartellieri)
References
- ^ Alejandro MARCO-BUHRMESTER – Probleme mit der deutschen "Schubladisierung"
- ^ Marco-Buhrmester, Alejandro on Forum Opéra
- ^ Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester at his agent Boris Orlob Management
- ^ Marco-Buhrmester Alexander on Operissimo
- ^ Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester on Operabase