Simon  Wallfisch

Simon Wallfisch

Der deutsch-britische Bariton Simon Wallfisch debütiert 2023 am Royal Opera House Covent Garden als Deputato Fiamminghi in DON CARLO (Verdi). 2022 trat er in der Berliner Philharmonie als Solist mit Choralspace und Sergi Gili Solé in Orffs CARMINA BURANA auf sowie ebenfalls solistisch mit den BBC Singers im Barbican Center London. Als international gefragter Konzertsänger war er mit der Academy of St Martin in the Fields (Lieder von Strauss, Mahler und Korngold) zu erleben, des weiteren u. a. in der legendären Wigmore Hall, im Konzerthaus Berlin und in der Hamburger Laeiszhalle. Auf der Opernbühne gab er den Fieramosca in Berlioz‘ BENVENUTO CELLINI (Staatstheater Nürnberg, 2017), Marcello in LA BOHÈME (Teatro Verdi Casciana Terme, Pisa 2016), Escamillo in LA TRAGÉDIE DE CARMEN von Peter Brook (Nederlandse Reisopera, Niederlande 2013), die Titelrolle in Debussys PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE und Albert in Massenets WERTHER (English Touring Opera, 2015).

Zu seinen z.T. selbst konzipierten CD-Veröffentlichungen mit Pianist Edward Rushton zählen „Songs by Geoffrey Bush“ (Lyrita Records 2015), „Lieder von Caplet, Honegger, Milhaud und Ravel“ (Nimbus Records, 2017), „Gesänge des Orients“ (Nimbus, 2018), „Lieder von Thea Musgrave“ (Lyrita, 2019), „Lieder von Robin Holloway“ (Delphian Records, 2019), „Brahms-Lieder“ (Resonus Classics, 2020), „Schumann-Lieder“ (Resonus, 2019) sowie „Kowalski-Lieder“ (Nimbus, 2023).

Nach seinem Konzertexamen als Cellist und Sänger am Royal College of Music setzte Simon Wallfisch seine Ausbildung ab 2006 an der Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin und ab 2007 an der Leipziger Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ fort. Daran schloss sich 2009 bis 2011 ein Engagement am Internationalen Opernstudio der Oper Zürich an. Seit 2020 lebt er mit seiner Familie in Berlin.

In DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE gibt er als Richter sein Debüt an der Deutschen Oper Berlin.

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10
DEC

Adventsverlosung: Das 10. Fensterchen

Before Tobias Kratzer's third production of INTERMEZZO premieres on our stage in April 2024, you can win his debut production for your home DVD collection in today's Advent calendar: Alexander von Zemlinsky's DER ZWERG.

In today's Advent calendar window, we are giving away two DVDs of the Naxos recording of Alexander von Zemlinsky's opera DER ZWERG, which was nominated for the GRAMMY in the "Best Opera Recording" category and is one of the most successful new DVD productions of recent years. If you would like to take part in the prize draw, please send an e-mail today to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de with the subject line "The 10th window".

A vain, superficial princess - a dwarf artist: the protagonists could hardly be more different, but the story only becomes a tragedy when the dwarf, unaware of his appearance, misinterprets the mockery of court society as a sign of honour and the princess's coquetry as proof of love. When he finally recognises himself in the mirror, he cannot escape the glances of the others - and collapses dead. This fairy tale about an outsider has had biographical parallels in mind since its premiere: Zemlinsky was small and rather slight in stature and suffered from his brief but passionate affair with Alma Schindler for the rest of his life. A quarter of a century of trauma management passed between the liaison in Vienna and the first performance in Cologne, during which the once renowned artist gradually found himself sidelined: too avant-garde for the traditionalists, too traditional for the avant-garde ... Experience David Butt Philip, Mick Morris Mehnert, Elena Tsallagova and Emily Magee in the main roles under the musical direction of Sir Donald Runnicles in a production by Tobias Kratzer.

We would like to thank the Naxos label for the great collaboration of recent years, which - in addition to Zemlinsky's DER ZWERG - has documented recordings of DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE, FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, DER SCHATZGRÄBER and DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG, as well as ARABELLA and ANTIKRIST in the course of 2024.

Closing date: 10 December 2023, the winners will be informed by email on 11 December 2023. The DVDs will then be sent by post. Legal recourse is excluded.