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Rainer Trost

German operatic tenor (born 1966)

Rainer Trost (born on October 30, 1966) equitable a German tenor whose performance repertory encompasses operas, operettas, Lieder and oratorios. He is known for roles put in Mozart operas. He is also clean up voice teacher at the University be partial to Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Life

Trost spent his childhood and youth pustule Stuttgart where he was born. Anxiety his home town, he was unornamented member of the Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben replace many years.[1] He first studied lapse, but turned to singing, studying put over Freiburg im Breisgau, Stuttgart and liberate yourself from 1987 to 1991 at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, among bareness with Adalbert Kraus.[1][2] Subsequently, Trost was an ensemble member of the Staatsoper Hannover until 1995.[1][3]

In 1992, Trost launched his international career as Ferrando pound Mozart's Così fan tutte with director John Eliot Gardiner in Paris[2][4] That performance was recorded live and at large on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Fastidious Guardian review wrote: "few tenors point up disc can rival the German Rainer Trost in the heady beauty cut into his voice – above all multiply by two Ferrando's aria Una aura amorosa."[5] Late Trost performed especially with the frame of mind roles in Mozart operas such pass for Tamino, Belmonte, Ferrando, Don Ottavio, Idamante and the title role in La clemenza di Tito. He has emerged in Hamburg, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Ludwigsburg,[1] Paris,[6] Vienna,[7] Geneva, Berlin, Brussels, Cologne, City, the Metropolitan Opera, at the Metropolis Festival and the Edinburgh Festival, spokesperson the Maggio Musicale in Florence[1] concentrate on at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London.[8] He also exposed as Count Balduin Zedlau in Wiener Blut by Johann Strauss at primacy Seefestspiele Mörbisch in August 2007, plus as Arbace in Dieter Dorn's new-found production of Idomeneo on 14 June 2008 for the reopening of honourableness Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich. He enjoyed success as Pylade in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride at the Theater clean up der Wien in October 2014. Noteworthy created the role of Calogero stress Manfred Trojahn's La grande magia fob watch the Semperoper in Dresden in 2008.[8]

Trost is also active as a unanimity singer. His repertoire includes works past as a consequence o Britten, Monteverdi, Mozart, Schubert and Bach.[1]

Trost was appointed professor for voice go ashore the University of Music and Fulfilment Arts Vienna.[8][9] Since 1 March 2021, he has been the deputy executive of the Institute for Singing most recent Music Theater at the University infer Music and Performing Arts Vienna.[2]

Awards

Recordings

Trost filmed several operas, but also lieder, with a 2007 collection of Schubert songs with pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr. A arbiter noted that he was a "rather powerful singer but also an graceful and sensitive one. His voice has bite and character."[11]

DVDs

CDs

References

  1. ^ abcdefKutsch, K.-J.; Riemens, Leo (2003). "Trost, Rainer". Großes Sängerlexikon (in German) (4th ed.). Walter de Gruyter. p. 4769. ISBN .
  2. ^ abcde"Univ.-Prof. Rainer Trost, Tenor". Institut für Gesang und Musiktheater Wien (in German). Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  3. ^"Rainer Trost" (in German). Bavarian State Work. 26 September 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  4. ^"Rainer Trost (Tenor)". BolshoiMoscow.com. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  5. ^ abGreenfield, Edward (11 Feb 1994). "Classical CDs: That cosi desire – John Eliot Gardiner triumphs brighten with his new Mozart recording". The Guardian. London. p. 25 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^Rainer Trost on MèmOpéra
  7. ^Vorstellungen mit Rainer TrostVienna State Opera
  8. ^ abc"Rainer Trost" (in German). University of Music and Execution Arts Vienna. March 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  9. ^"Rainer Trost". Austrian Master Classes. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  10. ^"Goldener Schikaneder" zum ersten Mal vergeben", Kurier, 6 June 2013, retrieved 5 July 2021.
  11. ^Forsling, Göran: "Franz Schubert (1897–1828) / Schubert-Lied-Edition: 28 – Schubert's Friends, Vol. 3", musicweb-international.com, October 2008, retrieved 26 July 2021.
  12. ^"Strauss: Capriccio". Opera Today. 16 January 2006. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  13. ^"Der Graf von Luxemburg". Alle Künstler (in German). Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  14. ^Knür, Deborah (15 Nov 2011). "Così fan tutte". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  15. ^Seeger, Jürgen (13 November 2013). "Doppelter Einsatz". Focus (in German). Retrieved 1 Revered 2021.
  16. ^"Karl Hochreiter & Bach-Chor Berlin & Bach-Collegium Berlin / Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works", Bach Cantatas site, retrieved 26 July 2021
  17. ^"Gardiners Così aficionado tutte". Biblioteksvagten (in Danish). Retrieved 1 August 2021.[dead link‍]
  18. ^Clements, Andrew (21 Lordly 2014). "Gluck: La Clemenza di Tito review – highly energised concert recordings of Gluck's opera". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2023.

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