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Jochen Kupfer, baritone...

b i o g r a p h y.......back to roster....up November 2010 Firmly established in Europe as a singer of unusual depth and deep musicality, German baritone Jochen Kupfer is now also enjoying a growing career in the United States. He is a winner of numerous competitions, including the Mozart Competition in Würzburg, the Bach Competition in Leipzig, the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition and the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin. Engaged fest at Dresden’s Semperoper from 1997-2005, he portrayed such roles as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo in Cosí fan tutte, and Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos. Since 2005 he returns regularly to that house in major roles like Don Giovanni (2007/08, also in 2010), Conte in Le nozze di Figaro and Figaro in Il Barbiere di Seviglia (2009). Since 2005, he has a special resident contract at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, singing Posa in Don Carlos, Don Giovanni, Faninal in Rosenkavalier, Eugene Onegin, Wolfram in Tannhäuser, Conte in Le nozze di Figaro, Musiklehrer in Ariadne auf Naxos, and in 2010/11 Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus and Frank/Fritz in Korngold’s Tote Stadt. In September 2008 he made his Jochanaan-Debut (Salome) at the Bremen Staatstheater. Other recent guest engagements have taken him to the Staatsoper 'Unter den Linden' in Berlin (Capriccio, Olivier), to the Bayrische Staatsoper in Munich (Cosí fan tutte) and to the Graz Opera (Tannhäuser, Wolfram, November 2008). He sings the title role of Don Giovanni at the Berliner Komische Opera in December 2010. Also active as a concert singer, Kupfer has visited many important European cities as well as Japan and the United States. American stops have included San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and New York’s Carnegie Hall, and he has worked with such distinguished conductors as Kurt Masur, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Fabio Luisi, Mark Soustrot, Hartmut Hähnchen, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Helmuth Rilling, Rene Jacobs, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Trevor Pinnock. His orchestra dates during 2009/10 included Bach’s St. John Passion with the Gewandhausorchester under Riccardo Chailly, Messiah with the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid under Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra under Andrew Manze, and a Beethoven Ninth with the Charlotte Symphony. A frequent guest at many international music festivals, he has enjoyed success at the lle de France Paris, Festival International de Musique et d'Art Lyrique Montreux, the Rossini Festival, Ravenna-Festival and the Salzburg Festival. In addition to his work on the opera stage and with orchestras, Mr. Kupfer is an ardent champion of the Lied genre. His discography includes R. Strauss´ Friedenstag (Deutsche Grammophon), the Mozart Requiem (FARAO), Schumann and Schubert Songs as well as the complete songs of Franz Schreker (Channel Classics). Born in Grimma, Germany, he studied voice regularly since the age of ten. He began his conservatory studies with Prof. Helga Forner at the Musikhochschule Leipzig in 1990. Studies with Elio Battaglia, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf completed his training. b i o...o p e r a - r e p e r t o i r e...o r c h e s t r a - r e p e r t o i r e back to roster...up . . . .

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