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Ensemble - Deutsche Oper Berlin

Alfred Kim

Alfred Kim

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Alfred Kim wurde in Seoul geboren und studierte Gesang an der Nationaluniversität und anschließend an den Musikhochschulen in Frankfurt und Karlsruhe. Er ist Preisträger der Gesangswettbewerbe „Belvedere“ – Wien 1997, ARD München 1998 und „Operalia“ Paris 2002.

Als Ensemblemitglied des Staatstheaters Kassel sang er Alfredo / LA TRAVIATA, Werther, Lenskij / EUGEN ONEGIN, Pinkerton / MADAMA BUTTERFLY, Walter / TANNHÄUSER, Duca / RIGOLETTO, Prinz / DIE LIEBE ZU DEN DREI ORANGEN, Don José / CARMEN, Don Carlo, Enzo / LA GIOCONDA.

Zwischen 2005 und 2008 war er Solist des Hessischen Staatstheaters Wiesbaden (RIGOLETTO, LA BOHÈME, TOSCA, LA TRAVIATA, CARMEN, DON CARLO, FAUST, DAS LAND DES LÄCHELNS, etc.). Parallel dazu setzte er seine Zusammenarbeit mit dem Staatstheater Kassel (IL TROVATORE, DON CARLO) fort und war als Enzo / LA GIOCONDA in Kiel zu hören.

Von 2009 bis 2013 war Alfred Kim Solist der Oper Frankfurt, wo er anschließend auch als Gast auftrat (LA BOHÈME, SIMON BOCCANEGRA, TOSCA, DON CARLO, LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN (Neuproduktion), I MASNADIERI (Neuproduktion), LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES, ERNANI, IL TROVATORE, CARMEN, LA FORZA DEL DESTINO, FEDORA, AIDA, etc.)

Zu seinen internationalen Auftritten zählen: Teatro Regio Torino (MADAMA BUTTERFLY, LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, ASSASSINO NELLA CATTEDRALE), Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (TOSCA, CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA, AIDA), Teatro Comunale Firenze (TOSCA), Teatro San Carlo Napoli (IL TROVATORE), Volksoper Wien (LA BOHÈME, LA TRAVIATA), Oper in Seoul (LA DAMNATION DE FAUST, LA TRAVIATA), Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse (IL TROVATORE, TURANDOT, ERNANI), Opéra de Paris Bastille (IL TROVATORE), Théâtre Châtelet Paris (NIXON IN CHINA), Opéra de Nice (TURANDOT), Teatro Municipal Santiago de Chile (IL TROVATORE, CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA, TOSCA, CARMEN, I DUE FOSCARI, AIDA), Deutsche Oper Berlin (TOSCA, TURANDOT, AIDA (Neuproduktion), LA GIOCONDA), Staatsoper Berlin (CARMEN, TURANDOT), Hamburgische Staatsoper (PAGLIACCI), Bayerische Staatsoper München (DON CARLO), Royal Opera House Covent Garden London (DON CARLO, TURANDOT), Wiener Staatsoper (DON CARLO, TOSCA, SIMON BOCCANEGRA, TURANDOT), Teatro Municipal Rio de Janeiro (IL TROVATORE), Metropolitan Opera New York (IL TROVATORE), Teatro Real Madrid (OTELLO, AIDA, TURANDOT, DON CARLO, NIXON IN CHINA), Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona (TOSCA, LA FORZA DEL DESTINO, TURANDOT), Teatro de la Maestranza Sevilla (AIDA, ANDREA CHENIER), Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía Valencia (TOSCA), Oper in Las Palmas (NORMA), Teatro Sao Carlos Lissabon (DON CARLO), Israeli Opera Tel Aviv (IL TROVATORE), Hong Kong Festival (TURANDOT), Vancouver Opera, Budapester Oper sowie zahlreiche Konzerte in Deutschland, Österreich, Italien, Canada, Japan und Korea.

Einige der Dirigent*innen, mit denen der Künstler zusammengearbeitet hat, sind: Placido Domingo, Lorin Maazel, Daniel Oren, Bruno Bartoletti, Donato Renzetti, Myung-Whung Chung, Roberto Paternostro, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Julian Kovatchev, Marc Piollet, Giuliano Carella, Semyon Bychkov, Nicola Luisotti, Renato Palumbo, Pier Giorgio Morandi, etc.

Parallel dazu unterrichtet Alfred Kim Gesang an der Universität Kyung Hee in Seoul.

Zu seinen zukünftigen Auftritten zählen: AIDA und NIXON IN CHINA an der Deutschen Oper Berlin, OTELLO und TURANDOT an der Oper Frankfurt, DIE TOTE STADT an der Korean National Opera Seoul, TURANDOT in Dortmund, etc.

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Fr 28.02.2025 - 18:00 h
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DEC

Advents-Verlosung: Das 15. Fensterchen

For almost two decades, the two creative minds behind our big band – Sebastian ‘Sese’ Krol and Rüdiger ‘Rübe’ Ruppert – have been curating brilliant evenings of jazz: a radiant highlight of this work took place on 19 September 2022, when Charles Mingus' “Epitaph” was performed in the sold-out Philharmonie. This concert was a tribute to Mingus' 100th birthday and was a sensation, which is now available as a CD on the EuroArts label. We are giving away this CD in today's Advent window.

Win one of two CDs of Charles Mingus' “Epitaph”, recorded live at the Philharmonie. If you want to be one of the winners, send an e-mail to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de today with the subject “The 15th little window”.

Charles Mingus caused a sensation in 1959 with his album ‘Ah Um’, which catapulted him into the pantheon of jazz. Immediately afterwards, he devoted himself to an even bolder vision: a suite for orchestra, part improvised, part composed – written for an ensemble of two complete big bands plus additional orchestral instruments. It was to be a work of the ‘third way’, combining jazz with the classical modernism of a Bartók and Stravinsky, but at the same time his personal opus summum. We are talking about ‘Epitaph’. In Berlin in 2022, conductor Titus Engel brought it to the stage: together with Charles Mingus' companion Randy Brecker, with musicians from the BigBand and the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Jazz Institute Berlin.

Charles Mingus himself never heard the full version of ‘Epitaph’. That's because the 1962 premiere was a fiasco, perhaps the biggest in jazz history. It happened at the Town Hall in New York: everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Mingus wrote highly complex music, but had only scheduled three rehearsals. Trombonist Jimmy Knepper became a copyist, transcribing sheet music that Mingus produced every day. There was no end to it, he kept changing, adding to and expanding the music. Knepper couldn't keep up. Mingus became bad-tempered, then angry, then hated the world. The pressure was on: the record company wanted to record live – extremely unusual at the time. Eventually the concert took place, the sheet music wasn't ready, the tension between the musicians was unmistakable, and the audience didn't like the badly played music. The concert ended in a police intervention. The second part was never played. Mingus died in 1979 without ever having heard his major work. The 500 pages of sheet music were discovered years later in an old suitcase belonging to his widow Sue.

‘The music is very varied, very dense, powerful, a unique work between genres,’ says Titus Engel in 2022. The conductor of this CD recording is – like Mingus – equally at home in the worlds of classical, new and jazz music, and he plays double bass like the master. And so the rarely heard work was brought to new life in this concert by the BigBand of the Deutsche Oper Berlin: Not only was there sufficient rehearsal time for the concert in Berlin and the atmosphere between the musicians was enthusiastic, but the sheet music was also newly created based on the critical new edition.

Listen to Charles Mingus' “Epitaph” conducted by Titus Engel with musicians from the BigBand and the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Jazz Institute Berlin, with Jorge Puerta (speaker / tenor) and Randy Brecker (trumpet). The CD was released on the EuroArts label.


Closing date: 15 December 2024. The winners will be informed by email on 16 December 2024. The CDs will be sent by post. The judges' decision is final.