Josef Hopferwieser News
Austrian opera singer.
Commemorations 2025 (Death: Josef Hopferwieser)
- Heldentenor
- Austria
- opera singer
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Verdi - Attila - Sinopoli
Giuseppe Verdi (1913-1901)Nicolai Ghiaurov, Piero Cappuccilli, Mara ZampieriPiero visconti, Josef Hopferwieser, Alfred SramekChor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoperdir: Giuseppe SinopoliOrfeo d'Or 2003 C601032I 2 CD stereo D.remastered (Ex. sound)Rer. live at the Wiener Staatsoper, December, 21 1980[cue & flac; cover, inlays, booklet & disc scans] Review "I have not always been complimentary about Orfeo's live recordings from the Vienna State opera. The sound quality varies as does the level of performance.... This Attila, conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli at his premiere appearance there in 1980 is something else again. ...The leading roles are fiendishly difficult but posed no apparent problems for this cast. Nicolai Ghiaurov sings the title role with effortless ease, combining stentorian power with a gentle ease fullness when necessary. Mara Zampieri is an astonishing Odabella. Her opening lines take her up to a high C then through a descending whirligig of coloratura down two […]
2015-09-27 04:00:00
Man Explained - Wagner's Ring
[…] Norma Sharp Staatskapelle Dresden Marek Janowski RCA BMG 82876 55709-2 (1982) - Courtesy of MIMIC Member Cecco Richard Wagner Götterdämmerung René Kollo, Hans Günter Nöcker, Matti Salminen, Siegmund Nimsgern, Jeannine Altmeyer, Norma Sharp, Ortrun Wenkel, Anne Gjevang, Daphne Evangelatos, Ruth Falcon, Lucia Popp, Uta Priew, Hanna Schwarz Staatsopernchor & Staatskapelle Dresden Marek Janowski RCA BMG 82876 55709-2 (1982) - Courtesy of MIMIC Member Cecco Richard Wagner Das Rheingold Robert Hale, Florian Cerny, Josef Hopferwieser, Robert Tear, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Helmut Pampuch, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Kurt Moll, Marjana Lipovšek, Nancy Gustafson, Hanna Schwarz, Julie Kaufmann, Angela Maria Blasi, Birgit Calm Bayerische Staatsorchester Wolfgang Sawallisch EMI 72731 2 (1989) Richard Wagner Die Walküre Robert Schunk, Kurt Moll, Robert Hale, Julia Varady, Hildegard Behrens, Marjana Lipovšek, Andrea Trauboth, Marianne Seibel, Cornelia Wulkopf, Anne Pellekoorne, Nancy Gustafson, Christel Borchers, Birgit Calm, Gudrun Wewezow Bayerische Staatsorchester Wolfgang Sawallisch EMI 72731 2 (1989) Richard Wagner Siegfried […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-07-13 17:05:14
Josef Hopferwieser, a stalwart tenor of the Vienna State Opera, has died at 77. He used to sing while spraying cars. That earned him a voice scholarship in Graz. He joined Vienna as a Heldentenor soloist in 1973 and sang on to his retirement in 1998, giving 472 performances in 35 roles. He appeeared as Tenor/Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos), Matteo and Graf Elemér (Arabella), Herod and Narraboth (Salome), Sänger und Wirt (Der Rosenkavalier) – famously, in the Carlos Kleiber video – Walther von Stolzing (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Stimme des Seemanns (Tristan und Isolde), Laïos (Oedipe), Buryja (Jenufa), Max (Der Freischütz), Erik (Der fliegende Holländer) and Alfred (Die Fledermaus).
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