Christian Elsner
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Born | Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany | 11 August 1965
Education | Musikhochschule Frankfurt |
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Christian Elsner (born 11 August 1965) is a German tenor in opera and concert, and an academic voice teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. He focused first on lied and oratorio, then entered the opera stage in roles such as Handel's Tabarco and Mozart's Pedrillo. From 2007, he also performed roles such as Wagner's Siegmund and at international opera houses and festivals.
Career
Born in Freiburg im Breisgau,[1] Elsner was a member of the boys' choir and later the cathedral choir at the Freiburg Minster, where he received first singing lessons with the American opera tenor Richard Riffel.[2][3] From 1987 he studied at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt[1] (Frankfurt University of Music)[3] with Martin Gründler,[1] where he studied vocology.[3] He also studied lieder with Charles Spencer[4] and took supplementary master classes[3] with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Berlin[1] and Neil Semer in New York.[2]
He appeared as Tabarco in Handel's Armida at the Handel Festival, Halle, in 1994, and as Macduff in Verdi's Macbeth at the Heidelberg Theatre.[1] He appeared as a guest at the Oper Frankfurt, the Staatstheater Mainz and Theater Bremen.[1] He performed the role of Pedrillo in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Staatstheater Darmstadt in the 1996–97 season. Also among his lyric roles were Lenski in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin[1] and the title role in Mozart's Idomeneo.[5]
Since 2007, after a
As a concert soloist he sang in the
He was appointed professor of voice at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg in 2006 and has held the position at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe since 2017.[2][9]
Awards
- 1989 Scholarship of the International Association of Wagner Societies in Wiesbaden
- 1990 Franz-Völker Prize of Neu-Isenburg[10]
- 1993 2nd prize of the Internationaler Walther Gruner-Wettbewerb in London[1][3]
- 1994 2nd prize of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich[1][3]
Publications
- Lennie und die Zauberflöte. With illustrations by Beate Tamchina. Thiasos Musikverlag, Darmstadt 2002,
- Lennie in der Wolfsschlucht. With illustrations by Beate Tamchina. Thiasos Musikverlag, Darmstadt 2003,
- Lennie und der Ring des Nibelungen. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009,
References
- ^ ISBN 978-3-59-844088-5.
- ^ Musikhochschule Karlsruhe. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-476-03616-2.
- ^ a b c d e f "Christian Elsner / tenor". Lucerne Festival. February 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ISBN 978-84-8415-770-0.
- ^ a b Zibulski, Axel (28 June 2011). "John Dews Darmstädter "Walküre" ist vor allem ein musikalischer Genuss / Wünschen und Wollen". Offenbach-Post (in German). Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ "Staatskapelle Weimar 2018/2019" – via Issuu.
- ^ "Honeck / Schmidt Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln". Wiener Symphoniker. 2016-07-15. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
- ^ Tetzlaff, Gerhard (6 July 2018). "Packende Stimme". Die Rheinpfalz (in German). Ludwigshafen. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ "Franz-Völker-Preis". hugenottenhalle.de. Neu-Isenburg. 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ a b "Christan Elsner (Tenor)". Bach Cantatas website.
External links
- Official website
- Christian Elsner discography at Discogs
- "Christian Elsner", Gasteig
- "Christian Elsner", JPC