Jochen Kupfer
Baritone
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BIOGRAPHY
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.
Recently Jochen Kupfer made his role debut as Lindorf/Coppélius/Dapertutto/Dr. Miracle at the Vienna Volksoper in Jacques Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann. Another role debut was his appearance as Wozzeck in a new production of Berg’s opera in a return to Staatstheater Nürnberg. Other recent highlights include Peter in Hänsel und Gretel with Staatsoper Hamburg and Staatstheater Nürnberg;, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde with Oper Graz; Gunther in Götterdämmerung with Staatstheater Nürnberg; Orff’s Carmina Buranawith the Indianapolis Symphony under Krysztof Urbanski; Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Staatsheater Nurnberg; Escamillo in Carmen, Gunther in Gotterdammerung and Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde with the Teatro Comunale di Modena and Teatro Comunale di Ferrara; and his debut at the Glynebourne Festival as Beckmesser in Der Meistersinger von Nurnberg. In past seasons with Staatstheater Nurnberg he has sung Germont in La traviata, Marcel in Les Huguenots, Mandryka in Arabella, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde and Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He sang Wolfram in Tannhäuser in new productions in Japan and France, and debuted at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires as the Spirit Messenger in Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten.
In addition to his long association with Staatstheater Nürnberg, Jochen Kupfer appeared for multiple seasons with Semperoper Dresden, where his roles included the Count in Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte. He has also appeared with Komische Oper Berlin in the title role in Don Giovanni, Opernhaus Zürich in the title role in Guillaume Tell, Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin) as Olivier in Capriccio, and the Bayerische Staatsoper München as Guglielmo.
Mr. Kupfer’s concert and recital appearances have taken him to Japan and throughout the United States and Europe, including performances at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Rheingau Musik Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Nuits Romantiques in Aix-les-Bains, lle de France Paris, Festival International de Musique et d’Art Lyrique Montreux, the Rossini Festival and the Salzburg Festival. He has performed in concert with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona, Bach Collegium München, Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Mexico.
Jochen Kupfer has sung under such distinguished conductors as René Jacobs, Krzysztof Penderecki, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Mark Soustrot, Hartmut Hähnchen, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Helmuth Rilling, Masaaki Suzuki, Trevor Pinnock, Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Chailly, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Paavo Järvi, Fabio Luisi, Kurt Masur, and Kent Nagano. His multiple recordings include releases of a recording of Schubert’s Winterreise on the MeisterKlang label, a DVD performance as Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Konstabel in Strauss´ Friedenstag for Deutsche Grammophon, a CD of Robert Schumann songs for Channel Classics, and the complete songs of Franz Schreker.
At the age of nine, Jochen received his first singing lessons in his hometown of Grimma. He subsequently studied with Helga Forner at the Musikhochschule Leipzig, attended master classes with Theo Adam and Elio Battaglia, and later completed his studies with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Harald Stamm, and Dale Fundling.
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DISCOGRAPHY
REPERTOIRE
Orchestral
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Bach, C. P. E.
Magnificat
St. John Passion
St. Matthew Passion
Stabat MaterBach, J. S.
Christmas Oratorio
Magnificat
Mass in B minor
St. John Passion (bass part, Jesus words)
St. Matthew Passion (bass part, Jesus words)Beethoven
Mass C Major, Op. 86
Missa Solemnis
Symphony No. 9
Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, WoO 87Brahms
Ein Deutsches RequiemBritten
War RequiemBräutigam
Markus PassionBruch
MosesDanielpour
ElegiesDvorák
Requiem
Stabat MaterEben
Anno Domini – Passover of the Lord – Baritone partElgar
The Apostles (Jesus)Fauré
RequiemGounod
Messe Solennelle de Sainte-Cécile (Cecilia Fair)Handel
Belshazzar (Gobrias)
Dixit Dominus
Judas Maccabaeus
Messiah
Samson
Theodora – ValensHaydn
Lord Nelson Mass
Mass in Time of War (Paukenmesse)
Missa Sancti Nicolai
Stabat Mater
The Creation
The Seasons
TheresienmesseHeinichen
Mass No. 9
Mass No. 11Liszt
Die Legende von der Heiligen ElizabethMahler
Das klagende Lied
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Kindertotenlieder
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Symphonie No. 8 (Bariton Solo)
Rückert-LiederMartin
Golgotha (Jesus)
Jedermann-MonologeMayr
Il sagrifizio di JefteMendelssohn
Christus
Elijah
Paulus
Die Erste WalpurgisnachtMozart
Coronation Mass
Mass in C minor
Missa Brevis
Requiem
Vesperae Solennes de ConfessoreOosten
Mare LiberumOrff
Carmina Burana
Der MondPuccini
Messa di GloriaReger
The Hermit, op. 144aRossini
Missa di RavennaRutter
Mass of the ChildrenSaint-Saëns
Christmas OratorioSchubert
Verschiedene MessenSchumann
Der Rose Pilgerfahrt
Manfred (bass part)
Scenes from Goethe’s Faust – Faust/Father Seraphicus/ Doctor MarianusSchoenberg
Pulcinella
A Survivor from WarsawSchütz
Die Sieben Worte Jesu am KreuzeSciarrino
Le voci sottovetroStrauss
Deutsche MotetteTelemann
Donner-Ode
Macht hoch die Tür
Moralische KantatenVerdi
RequiemZelenka
Te Deum ZWV 146Zemlinsky
Lyric Symphony**
Opera
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Batistelli
La Prova d´Orchestra (Direttore)Beethoven
Fidelio (Don Pizarro, Don Ferrando)Berg
Wozzeck (Wozzeck)Bizet
Carmen (Escamillo, Morales)Braunfels
Die Vögel (Wiedehopf)Britten
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Demetrius)Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretel (Peter)Korngold
Die Tote Stadt (Fritz, Frank)Léhar
The Merry Widow (Danilo)Leoncavallo
I Pagliacci (Silvio)Mozart
Così Fan Tutte (Guglielmo)
Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni)
Le Nozze di Figaro (Count)
Die Zauberflöte (Papageno)Offenbach
Hoffman’s Tales (Lindorf/Coppélius/Dr. Miracle/ DapertuttoPenderecki
The Devils of Loudun (Prinz Henri de Condé)Puccini
La Bohème (Marcello)
Gianni Schicchi (Marco)
Turandot (Ping)Purcell
Dido and Aeneas (Aeneas)Ries
The Robber’s Bride (Count Viterbo)Rossini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro)
La Cenerentola (Dandini)
Guillaume Tell (Guillaume Tell)Salieri
Prima la Musica e poi le Parole (Maestro)Schreker
Der ferne Klang (Der Graf, Rudolf)Schubert
Der Graf von Gleichen (Graf von Gleichen)Strauss, J.
Die Fledermaus (Eisenstein, Dr. Falke)Strauss, R.
Arabella (Mandryka)
Ariadne auf Naxos (Harlekin, Der Musiklehrer)
Capriccio (Olivier)
Der Rosenkavalier (Faninal)
Elektra (Orest)
Die Frau ohne Schatten (Spirit Messenger)
Friedenstag (Konstabel)
Salome (Jochanaan)Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin (Onegin)Verdi
Don Carlo (Rodrigo)
La Traviata (Germont)Wagner
Gods Dawn (Gunther)
Lohengrin (Heer caller)
The Meistersinger of Nuremberg (Beckmesser, Kothner)
Tannhäuser (Tungsten)
Tristan and Isolde (Kurwenal, Melot)Weber
Der Freischütz (Ottokar)Weill
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Bill)Zimmerman
The Shoeu and the Flying Princess (Shoeu)
Lied
-
Brahms
Die schöne Magelone (together with an actor as a speaker)Robert Schumann and Hugo Wolf
Dichterliebe
Liederkreis op. 24
Kernerlieder op. 35
Selected Songs (E. Möricke)Richard Strauss Evening Songs
Kramerspiegel, op. 66
Three Songs op. 31 (Buses)
Stiller Gang op. 31, 4 (Dehmel)
Six Songs op. 19 (by Schack)Evening Songs: Various Composers
Franz Schubert
Johannes Brahms
Hugo Wolf
Richard StraussSong of Art Nouveau
Arnold Schönberg
Franz Schreker
Alexander Zemlinsky
Gustav Mahler
Richard Strauss
Hans Sommer
Franz Schubert
Winterreise
Die schöne Müllerin
Gustav Mahler Duets (For baritone and mezzo soprano)
Songs of a Wayfarer
Rückert songs
Children’s death
Duets from “The Knaben Wunderhorn”Evening Duets
Robert Schumann
Johannes Brahms
Felix Mendelssohn BartholdyGoethe Liederabend (According to texts by JW Goethe)
Carl Friedrich Zelter
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Schubert
Carl Loewe
Hugo Wolf
Ferruccio Busoni
Orchestral
Bach, C. P. E.
Magnificat
St. John Passion
St. Matthew Passion
Stabat MaterBach, J. S.
Christmas Oratorio
Magnificat
Mass in B minor
St. John Passion (bass part, Jesus words)
St. Matthew Passion (bass part, Jesus words)Beethoven
Mass C Major, Op. 86
Missa Solemnis
Symphony No. 9
Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, WoO 87Brahms
Ein Deutsches RequiemBritten
War RequiemBräutigam
Markus PassionBruch
MosesDanielpour
ElegiesDvorák
Requiem
Stabat MaterEben
Anno Domini – Passover of the Lord – Baritone partElgar
The Apostles (Jesus)Fauré
RequiemGounod
Messe Solennelle de Sainte-Cécile (Cecilia Fair)Handel
Belshazzar (Gobrias)
Dixit Dominus
Judas Maccabaeus
Messiah
Samson
Theodora – ValensHaydn
Lord Nelson Mass
Mass in Time of War (Paukenmesse)
Missa Sancti Nicolai
Stabat Mater
The Creation
The Seasons
TheresienmesseHeinichen
Mass No. 9
Mass No. 11Liszt
Die Legende von der Heiligen ElizabethMahler
Das klagende Lied
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Kindertotenlieder
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Symphonie No. 8 (Bariton Solo)
Rückert-LiederMartin
Golgotha (Jesus)
Jedermann-MonologeMayr
Il sagrifizio di JefteMendelssohn
Christus
Elijah
Paulus
Die Erste WalpurgisnachtMozart
Coronation Mass
Mass in C minor
Missa Brevis
Requiem
Vesperae Solennes de ConfessoreOosten
Mare LiberumOrff
Carmina Burana
Der MondPuccini
Messa di GloriaReger
The Hermit, op. 144aRossini
Missa di RavennaRutter
Mass of the ChildrenSaint-Saëns
Christmas OratorioSchubert
Verschiedene MessenSchumann
Der Rose Pilgerfahrt
Manfred (bass part)
Scenes from Goethe’s Faust – Faust/Father Seraphicus/ Doctor MarianusSchoenberg
Pulcinella
A Survivor from WarsawSchütz
Die Sieben Worte Jesu am KreuzeSciarrino
Le voci sottovetroStrauss
Deutsche MotetteTelemann
Donner-Ode
Macht hoch die Tür
Moralische KantatenVerdi
RequiemZelenka
Te Deum ZWV 146Zemlinsky
Lyric Symphony**
Opera
Batistelli
La Prova d´Orchestra (Direttore)Beethoven
Fidelio (Don Pizarro, Don Ferrando)Berg
Wozzeck (Wozzeck)Bizet
Carmen (Escamillo, Morales)Braunfels
Die Vögel (Wiedehopf)Britten
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Demetrius)Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretel (Peter)Korngold
Die Tote Stadt (Fritz, Frank)Léhar
The Merry Widow (Danilo)Leoncavallo
I Pagliacci (Silvio)Mozart
Così Fan Tutte (Guglielmo)
Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni)
Le Nozze di Figaro (Count)
Die Zauberflöte (Papageno)Offenbach
Hoffman’s Tales (Lindorf/Coppélius/Dr. Miracle/ DapertuttoPenderecki
The Devils of Loudun (Prinz Henri de Condé)Puccini
La Bohème (Marcello)
Gianni Schicchi (Marco)
Turandot (Ping)Purcell
Dido and Aeneas (Aeneas)Ries
The Robber’s Bride (Count Viterbo)Rossini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro)
La Cenerentola (Dandini)
Guillaume Tell (Guillaume Tell)Salieri
Prima la Musica e poi le Parole (Maestro)Schreker
Der ferne Klang (Der Graf, Rudolf)Schubert
Der Graf von Gleichen (Graf von Gleichen)Strauss, J.
Die Fledermaus (Eisenstein, Dr. Falke)Strauss, R.
Arabella (Mandryka)
Ariadne auf Naxos (Harlekin, Der Musiklehrer)
Capriccio (Olivier)
Der Rosenkavalier (Faninal)
Elektra (Orest)
Die Frau ohne Schatten (Spirit Messenger)
Friedenstag (Konstabel)
Salome (Jochanaan)Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin (Onegin)Verdi
Don Carlo (Rodrigo)
La Traviata (Germont)Wagner
Gods Dawn (Gunther)
Lohengrin (Heer caller)
The Meistersinger of Nuremberg (Beckmesser, Kothner)
Tannhäuser (Tungsten)
Tristan and Isolde (Kurwenal, Melot)Weber
Der Freischütz (Ottokar)Weill
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Bill)Zimmerman
The Shoeu and the Flying Princess (Shoeu)
Lied
Brahms
Die schöne Magelone (together with an actor as a speaker)Robert Schumann and Hugo Wolf
Dichterliebe
Liederkreis op. 24
Kernerlieder op. 35
Selected Songs (E. Möricke)Richard Strauss Evening Songs
Kramerspiegel, op. 66
Three Songs op. 31 (Buses)
Stiller Gang op. 31, 4 (Dehmel)
Six Songs op. 19 (by Schack)Evening Songs: Various Composers
Franz Schubert
Johannes Brahms
Hugo Wolf
Richard StraussSong of Art Nouveau
Arnold Schönberg
Franz Schreker
Alexander Zemlinsky
Gustav Mahler
Richard Strauss
Hans Sommer
Franz Schubert
Winterreise
Die schöne Müllerin
Gustav Mahler Duets (For baritone and mezzo soprano)
Songs of a Wayfarer
Rückert songs
Children’s death
Duets from “The Knaben Wunderhorn”Evening Duets
Robert Schumann
Johannes Brahms
Felix Mendelssohn BartholdyGoethe Liederabend (According to texts by JW Goethe)
Carl Friedrich Zelter
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Schubert
Carl Loewe
Hugo Wolf
Ferruccio Busoni
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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. Recently Jochen Kupfer made his role debut as Lindorf/Coppélius/Dapertutto/Dr. Miracle at the Vienna Volksoper in Jacques Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann. Another role debut was his appearance as Wozzeck in a new production of Berg’s opera in a return to Staatstheater Nürnberg. Other recent highlights include Peter in Hänsel und Gretel with Staatsoper Hamburg and Staatstheater Nürnberg;, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde with Oper Graz; Gunther in Götterdämmerung with Staatstheater Nürnberg; Orff’s Carmina Buranawith the Indianapolis Symphony under Krysztof Urbanski; Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Staatsheater Nurnberg; Escamillo in Carmen, Gunther in Gotterdammerung and Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde with the Teatro Comunale di Modena and Teatro Comunale di Ferrara; his debut at the Glynebourne Festival as Beckmesser in Der Meistersinger von Nurnberg. In past seasons with Staatstheater Nurnberg he has sung Germont in La traviata, Marcel in Les Huguenots, Mandryka in Arabella, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde and Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He sang Wolfram in Tannhäuser in new productions in Japan and France, and debuted at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires as the Spirit Messenger in Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten. |
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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.
Recently Jochen Kupfer made his role debut as Lindorf/Coppélius/Dapertutto/Dr. Miracle at the Vienna Volksoper in Jacques Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann. Another role debut was his appearance as Wozzeck in a new production of Berg’s opera in a return to Staatstheater Nürnberg. Other recent highlights include Peter in Hänsel und Gretel with Staatsoper Hamburg and Staatstheater Nürnberg;, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde with Oper Graz; Gunther in Götterdämmerung with Staatstheater Nürnberg; Orff’s Carmina Buranawith the Indianapolis Symphony under Krysztof Urbanski; Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Staatsheater Nurnberg; Escamillo in Carmen, Gunther in Gotterdammerung and Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde with the Teatro Comunale di Modena and Teatro Comunale di Ferrara; and his debut at the Glynebourne Festival as Beckmesser in Der Meistersinger von Nurnberg. In past seasons with Staatstheater Nurnberg he has sung Germont in La traviata, Marcel in Les Huguenots, Mandryka in Arabella, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde and Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He sang Wolfram in Tannhäuser in new productions in Japan and France, and debuted at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires as the Spirit Messenger in Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten.
In addition to his long association with Staatstheater Nürnberg, Jochen Kupfer appeared for multiple seasons with Semperoper Dresden, where his roles included the Count in Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte. He has also appeared with Komische Oper Berlin in the title role in Don Giovanni, Opernhaus Zürich in the title role in Guillaume Tell, Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin) as Olivier in Capriccio, and the Bayerische Staatsoper München as Guglielmo.
Mr. Kupfer’s concert and recital appearances have taken him to Japan and throughout the United States and Europe, including performances at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Rheingau Musik Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Nuits Romantiques in Aix-les-Bains, lle de France Paris, Festival International de Musique et d’Art Lyrique Montreux, the Rossini Festival and the Salzburg Festival. He has performed in concert with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona, Bach Collegium München, Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Mexico.
Jochen Kupfer has sung under such distinguished conductors as René Jacobs, Krzysztof Penderecki, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Mark Soustrot, Hartmut Hähnchen, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Helmuth Rilling, Masaaki Suzuki, Trevor Pinnock, Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Chailly, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Paavo Järvi, Fabio Luisi, Kurt Masur, and Kent Nagano. His multiple recordings include releases of a recording of Schubert’s Winterreise on the MeisterKlang label, a DVD performance as Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Konstabel in Strauss´ Friedenstag for Deutsche Grammophon, a CD of Robert Schumann songs for Channel Classics, and the complete songs of Franz Schreker.
At the age of nine, Jochen received his first singing lessons in his hometown of Grimma. He subsequently studied with Helga Forner at the Musikhochschule Leipzig, attended master classes with Theo Adam and Elio Battaglia, and later completed his studies with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Harald Stamm, and Dale Fundling.
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MODIFIED VERSIONS MUST BE APPROVED BY DISPEKER ARTISTS.
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