Jan-Hendrik Rootering
Jan- Hendrik Rootering ( born March 18, 1950 in Wedingfeld near Flensburg ) is a German opera, recital and concert singer in the vocal range bass - baritone.
Life and artistic work
He is the son of nierländischen tenor Hendrikus Rootering, who was his teacher and mentor. During his vocal studies at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, he sang minor roles at the Hamburg State Opera and the musical theater in the Revier in Gelsenkirchen.
1982 debuted the artist as a Spirit Messenger in Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. There he could be heard over the years in almost all the major bass roles, as in the great Wagnerian repertoire ( Fasolt, GURNEMANZ, Pogner, Landgraf, Daland, Sachs), as well as a Mozart interpreter ( Commendatore, Sarastro ) and in different parts the Italian repertoire (Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra Fiescom ). In 1990 he sang the role of Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier, in the much-publicized and discussed staging of Brigitte Fassbaender.
Jan- Hendrik Rootering sang / sings at all major opera house stages around the world, including, in addition to the Scala already mentioned, Milan, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille, Paris, Chicago Lyric Opera, Vienna State Opera, Dresden Semper Opera, the Metropolitan Opera New York, German Oper Berlin, Frankfurt Opera, Théâtre de la Monnaire Brussels u.dgl.m. With the Metropolitan Opera, where he made his debut in the season 1986/87 as Landgraf in Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest on the Wartburg, he performs regularly. He is also a guest at the major international festivals, in Munich, Vienna, Salzburg, Oslo, Schubertiade Hohenems, etc.
The artist is in demand as a recital and concert singer. He sings, inter alia, with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, to name just a few of the many. He worked with the most renowned conductors such as with Carlos Kleiber, Riccardo Chailly, Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Wolfgang Sawallisch and James Levine.
Jan- Hendrik Rootering is a recognized voice teacher. He taught at the Musikhochschule in Munich and at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. Since 2007 he is a professor of singing at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. To which he gives master classes at home and abroad.
He was awarded two times with the Grammy Awards for his role of Fasolt in the opera Das Rheingold and Kaspar in Der Freischütz. 1986, the title Bavarian chamber singers, he was awarded.
His extensive repertoire is documented in numerous broadcast, video and Fernsehprodukutionen and CD recordings.
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Discography
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