Christof Fischesser News
performing artist, musician, singer, opera singer
- baritone;bass-baritone;bass
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2022-08-10 16:00:06
“My dear violin was stolen tonight out of my boot at the Heritage Square ‘secure’ parking,” Petrus De Beer wrote on Facebook. “I’m totally devastated. No words. The damage is incomprehensible. [Please let me know] if anybody hears or sees anything,” he continued. “It’s like a piece of my heart is gone.” De Beer […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-03-20 09:09:45
To stay true to yourself: I chat to soprano Katharina Konradi as she releases a new disc of lieder and makes her debut as Sophie in Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier in Munich
Katharina Konradi Soprano Katharina Konradi has a new recording out next week, Liebende on the CAvi-music label, a programme of songs by Richard Strauss, Mozart and Schubert, with pianist Daniel Heide, and she has a new stage role, appearing as Sophie in the new production of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier which opened this week at the Bavarian State Opera (conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and directed by Barrie Kosky with Marlis Petersen, Christoph Fischesser and Samantha Hankey). Born in Kyrgyzstan and now living in Germany, Katharina's name may well be familiar to UK readers as she became a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist in 2018 (and her new disc is a co-production with BBC Radio 3) and has already made her Wigmore Hall debut. I caught up with Katharina by Zoom from Munich, where she was busy with rehearsals, to find out more. In person, Katharina is lively and […]
2019-12-08 00:04:00
Semyon Bychkov : Detlev Glanert Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch
[…] attention. Bells ring,. Throbbing, rushing figures in the choral line, suggesting the doomed hordes we see in Bosch's paintings. The orchestral lines veer wildly, lit by screaming brass, the chorus screaming to crescendo. Suddenly the forces fragment and, from the silence, a slow, low penitential intonation. An abstract Requiem Aeternam, the choral line flowing ambiguously, in almost microtonal haze. like smoke. In Gluttony the bass (the aptly named Christof Fischesser) sings of food, his lines circular and rotund. The text may be in Latin, but the meaning is clear. The choir responds with the long, thin lines of an Absolve Domine. reinforced by Wrath with tenor (Gerhard Siegel) and a Dies Irae which ends with a vivid orchestral flourish. Another demon, Envy, fights back. Soprano Aga Mikolaj's fluid, curving lines mimic the lines in the "heavenly" chorus - imitation is […]
2019-11-24 22:30:00
Lohengrin, Bavarian State Opera, 21 November 2019
Nationaltheater Ortrud (Karita Mattila)Images: © Wilfried Hösl King Henry the Fowler – Christof Fischesser Lohengrin – Klaus Florian VogtElsa – Anja HarterosFriedrich von Telramund – Wolfgang KochOrtrud – Karita MattilaKing’s Herald – Martin GantnerFour Brabantian Nobles – Caspar Singh, George Virban, Oğulcan Yilmaz, Markus SuihkonenFour Pages – Soloists from the Tölz Boys’ ChoirGottfried – Lukas Engstler Richard Jones (director) Ultz (designs)Mimi Jordan Sherin (lighting)Silke Holzach (video)Lucy Burge (choreographical assistance)Rainer Karlitschek (dramaturgy) Chorus and Extra Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera (chorus director: Stellario Fagone) Bavarian State OrchestraLothar Koenigs (conductor) An exceptional Lohengrin, this. I had better explain. Yes, it was exceptional in the quality of much of the singing, especially the two principal female roles, yet also in luxury casting such as Martin Gantner as the King’s Herald. It was also—and perhaps more surprisingly to me—exceptional in that fine musical performances rescued the evening from one […]
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