Liviu Holender

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Liviu Holender
Born
Vienna
OccupationOperatic baritone
OrganizationsOper Frankfurt
Websitewww.liviuholender.art/about

Liviu Holender is an Austrian operatic

Le nozze di Figaro, Henrik in Carl Nielsen's Maskarade and Hans in Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge. He has appeared internationally. In recital, concert and recording he has focused on Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn
and music by other composers of the early 20th century.

Life and career

Holender was born in Vienna,[1] the son of Ioan Holender who was for years director of the Vienna State Opera after a career as a singer; his mother was a dramaturge in Lucerne. As a child he was a member of the opera school for children of the State Opera, singing solo such as the shepherd boy in Puccini's Tosca with Johan Botha as Cavaradossi and Stefan Soltész conducting.[2] He studied clarinet and law in Vienna, and then voice from 2013.[1]

Holender became a member of the ensemble of

Die Zauberflöte for children.[5][6]

Holender moved to the ensemble of the

Le nozze di Figaro in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in a version adhering to social distancing, Holender appeared as the Count alongside Adriana González as the Countess. A reviewer of this production described the complete ensemble as young, agile, and with flexible voices; he noted that Count and Countess, as a couple also privately, were the only ones holding hands.[7] When Carl Nielsen's Maskarade was played the following year in a new rhymed translation into German staged by Tobias Kratzer, Holender portrayed the servant Henrik, and a reviewer noted that he "wielded a beautifully sonorous baritone in a role that requires both a bel canto-style cantilena line and devilishly fast patter", in "extremely charismatic stage presence".[8]

Holender appeared as Hans in Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge (Görge the Dreamer) in 2024, directed by Tilmann Köhler and conducted by Markus Poschner. Zemlinsky's work was not performed when it was composed in 1907 at the Vienna State Opera as planned by Gustav Mahler, then the music director, and was revived only in 1980.[9][10] While the title character Görge is an outsider as a bookworm, dreamer and intellectual,[9][10] Grete whom he is supposed to marry, and Hans, his rival, are village people who do not comprehend him. They were portrayed by Magdalena Hinterdobler and Holender with "resolute voices and acting".[11]

Internationally, Holender portrayed Mozart's Almaviva at the

Bregenz Festival 2019, and as Silvio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and Almaviva at the Romanian National Opera, Bucharest.[4] He appeared at La Scala in Milan as Silvano in a new production of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera in 2022, conducted by Giampaolo Bisanti.[12]

In concert, Holender was in 2023 the

Erich Korngold, concluding with Schönberg's Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1. A reviewer noted that he achieved to give the songs individual character, using varied tonal colours of his warmly grounded baritone voice.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Liviu Holender". Oper Frankfurt. 2024. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  2. ^ a b Wagner, Renate (3 March 2022). "Das Singen mit der Muttermilch mitbekommen". Online Merker (in German). Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Liviu Holender". Gärtnerplatztheater. 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Liviu Holender". Latvian National Opera. 2024. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  5. ^ "2018 - Oper / Oper für Kinder · Die Zauberflöte 2018". Salzburg Festival. 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  6. ^ Oberhummer, Florian (28 July 2024). ""Zauberflöte für Kinder": Wenn die Mama wieder vor Wut rast". Salzburger Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  7. ^ "Liebe im Setzkasten". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 20 September 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  8. ^ Ng, Kevin W (21 November 2021). "It's party time onstage: Carl Nielsen's Maskarade at Oper Frankfurt". bachtrack.com. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  9. ^ a b Brachmann, Jan (27 February 2024). "Ein Lichtgedicht". FAZ (in German). Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  10. ^ a b Schmule, Stefan (16 March 2024). "Der Traumgörge". Online Musik Magazine (in German). Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  11. ^ Sternburg, Julia von (26 February 2024). ""Der Traumgörge" an der Oper Frankfurt – Die einen und alle anderen". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  12. ^ Aranowicz, Marco (19 May 2022). "Un ballo in maschera. Teatro alla Scala. Erwartungen übertroffen". operagazet.com (in German). Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  13. ^ "Beeindruckende "Matthäus-Passion" von Philharmonikern und Welser-Möst". Der Standard (in German). 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
  14. ^ "18 October 2022". Musée d'Orsay. 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  15. ^ "Audio. Interviu cu baritonul Liviu Holender". romania-muzical.ro (in Romanian). 27 October 2023. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  16. ^ Gründig, Markus (18 April 2024). "Liederabend mit Bariton Liviu Holender im Holzfoyer der Oper Frankfurt". kulturfreak.de (in German). Retrieved 19 April 2024.

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