Kobie van Rensburg
Kobie van Rensburg (* May 23, 1969 in Johannesburg) is a South African tenor and opera director.
Life
Van Rensburg studied singing with Werner Neel at North West University of South Africa, by the way also law and politics at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education. In an interview van Rensburg said: "I was always a better lawyer, a singer, I was Dunces. "
His debut role he sang in 1991 at the age of 21 in a production of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio at the Roodepoort City Opera. He embodied the Belmonte. In 1996 he received an engagement at the Munich Gärtnerplatztheater. Van Rensburg's work is associated since 2000 with the Lautten Compagney Berlin under the direction of Wolfgang Katschner. With them he led Monteverdi's L' Orfeo at Halle an der Saale and released three CDs. Since 2011 van Rensburg is working with the ensemble for old and new music così facciamo, with them he led Handel's Ariodante on.
In Lied van Rensburg been focused on English composers of the Baroque (eg Dowland, Byrd, Purcell ), but also compositions by, among others, Beethoven, Schumann and Schubert part of his repertoire.
In 2006, he debuted at New York's Metropolitan Opera as Mozart's Idomeneo.
Van Rensburg's repertoire focuses primarily on the musical style of the Baroque era.
Directing
At Munich Gärtnerplatztheater Peer Boysen staged the theater after a pastiche of fashion with van Rendsburg, which includes in addition to the music of Handel and other Baroque composers work. In 2006, he was with Monteverdi's L' Orfeo his directorial debut at the Opernhaus Halle ad Saale, in which he also sang the title role. Handel's first oratorio, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno was listed in 2009 in Passau under van Rensburg line. His most recent directorial work dealing with Handel's opera Ariodante, which was performed in February 2011 at Munich Cuvilliés Theatre for the first time, as well as Mozart's opera Le Nozze di Figaro, which celebrated in Mönchengladbach premiere in October 2011. As in its production Il Pianto d' Orfeo joined van Rensburg in Ariodante dance as a means of expression with the music. The dancer acts as the alter ego of the singer and illustrates the feelings of that person.
Roles (selection)
- Pane in La Calisto (Francesco Cavalli )
- Acis in Acis and Galatea ( Handel )
- Grimoaldo in Rodelinda ( Handel )
- Jupiter in Semele ( Handel )
- Orfeo in Orfeo ( Claudio Monteverdi )
- Bastien in Bastien and Bastienne (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni ( Mozart Wolfgang Anmadeus )
- Idomeneo in Idomeneo (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- Tito in La Clemenza di Tito (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- Ubaldo in Armida ( Rossini )
- Nightingale in a theater after the fashion ( Kobie van Rensburg and Peer Boysen )
Discography
- 2009: Rodrigo (Georg Friedrich Händel, Eduardo López Banzo, Al Ayre Español)
- 2009: Bach Cantatas - Vol.4 (Johann Sebastian Bach, John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists )
- 2009: Alcina ( Handel, Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco )
- 2008: Saul, Messiah ( Handel, René Jacobs, Concerto Köln & Freiburg Baroque Orchestra)
- 2007: The Messiah ( Handel, Wolfgang Katschner, Lautten Compagney, Dresden Chamber Choir)
- 2006: Messiah ( Handel, Rene Jacobs, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra)
- 2006: Catone in Utica (Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, Christoph Hammer, New Munich Court Orchestra )
- 2006: Il pianto d' Orfeo (various composers, Kobie van Rensburg, Lautten Compagney )
- 2005: The Flying Dutchman ( Richard Wagner, Bruno Weil, Cappella Coloniensis )
- 2004: Le Nozze di Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, René Jacobs, Concerto Köln )
- 2003: Griselda ( Alessandro Scarlatti, Rene Jacobs, Academy for Ancient Music Berlin)
- 2002: Madrigali Guerrieri ad Amorosi ( Claudio Monteverdi, René Jacobs, Concerto Vocale )
- 2001: Lied Edition Vol.1 & 2 ( Fanny Hensel, Kelvin Groot )
- 2001: Songs of An English Cavalier (various composers, Kobie van Rensburg, Lautten Compagney )
- 2000: Handel's Beard, Arias for Tenor ( Georg Friedrich Händel, Kobie van Rensburg, Lautten Compagney )