Georg nigl wikipedia

Austrian opera singer

Georg Nigl (born ) is an Austrian baritone in opera and concert, and a professor of voice at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. Performing internationally, he is known for roles in contemporary operas, such as creating the title role in Pascal Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night at the Berlin State Opera. He names as his favourite roles Monteverdi's Orfeo, Mozart's Papageno and Alban Berg's Wozzeck.

Career

Born in Vienna, Nigl was a soprano soloist with the Wiener Sängerknaben. He studied voice at the Musikhochschule Wien with Margaretha Sparber and Rolf Sartorius, and Lied at the Konservatorium Wien with David Lutz&#;[de]. He completed his studies with KammersängerinHilde Zadek.

Nigl created the title role in Pascal Dusapin's opera Faustus, the Last Night at the Berlin State Opera, and participated in premieres of music by Friedrich Cerha, HK Gruber, Georg Friedrich Haas, Wolfgang Mitterer, Olga Neuwirth and Salvatore Sciarrino. He made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in as Saretzki in Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin. He names as his favourite roles Monteverdi's Orfeo, Mozart's Pagageno and Alban Berg's Wozzeck.

Nigl appeared as Wozzeck both at La Scala and the Bolshoi Theatre. He performed the title role of Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz at the Wiener Festwochen, and the role of Lui in the premiere of Dusapin's Passione at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. In , he appeared in the title role of Rihm's Dionysos at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, and in the title role, the Devil, of Die Tragödie des Teufels by Péter Eötvös at the Bavarian State Opera.

In recital, Nigl has collaborated with Alexander Melnikov and Andreas Staier, among others, performing worldwide.

Nigl has been a professor of voice at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Fin de partie is a one-act opera by György Kurtág, set to a French-language libretto adapted by the composer from the play Endgame (French title: Fin de partie) by Samuel Beckett, with the inclusion of a setting of Beckett&#;s English-language poem &#;Roundelay&#; at the start of the opera. Kurtág fully titled this work, his first opera, Samuel Beckett: Fin de partie: scènes et monologues, opéra en un acte. Kurtág dedicated the opera to the memory of &#;mon professeur Ferenc Farkas and of mon ami Tamás Blum&#;: qui, dans ma jeunesse, m&#;ont appri (sic) l&#;essentiel sur l&#;opéra [who, in my youth, taught me the essentials of opera].

History
The Teatro alla Scala, Milan, commissioned the opera, and staged the premiere on 15 November The director of the premiere production was Pierre Audi, with set and costume designs by Christof Hetzer, and lighting design by Urs Schönebaum. The premiere production was a joint production between La Scala and Dutch National Opera (DNO), Amsterdam. The DNO staged the opera in March The production travelled to Paris in April–May

On the recommendation of György Ligeti, Kurtág had seen a production of Beckett&#;s play in Paris in This experience greatly affected Kurtág, w

Soprano Diana Damrau has been performing on the world’s leading opera and concert stages for two decades. Her vast repertoire spans title roles in Die Fledermaus (Bayerische Staatsoper), Capriccio (Opernhaus Zürich), Der Rosenkavalier (Baden-Baden, Staatsoper Berlin), Le Nozze di Figaro (La Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper), Anna Bolena (Opernhaus Zürich, Wiener Staatsoper), Roméo et Juliette (La Scala, Metropolitan Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (La Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Ballet & Opera), Manon (Wiener Staatsoper, Metropolitan Opera) and La Traviata (La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Ballet & Opera, Opéra National de Paris and Bayerische Staatsoper) as well as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte (Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Ballet & Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper).

Diana Damrau is Kammersängerin of the Bavarian State Opera () and holder of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (). She is a recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (). She has also been selected Singer of the Year (Opernwelt, International Opera Award London, Opera News, Gramophone Editor&#;s Choice) and since an asteroid bears her name.

Georgius(Georg)Nigl

Son of Bernard Nigl and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

Father of Josephus Nigl

Died [date unknown] [location unknown]

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