Kurt Rydl
Kurt Rydl ( born October 8, 1947 in Vienna) is an Austrian opera singer ( bass).
Career
Kurt Rydl comes from Vienna, studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and at the Moscow Conservatory and was a prize winner of several competitions. He is a guest on all major platforms, as well as at the Festival of Bayreuth, Schwetzingen, Salzburg, Bregenz, Florence, Verona, Munich and Glyndebourne. His repertoire includes over 100 lots of German, French, Italian and Russian times.
At the Vienna State Opera, he made his debut in 1976 as Ferrando ( Il trovatore ) and sang here since Colline (La Bohème ), Pimen ( Boris Godunov ), Grand Inquisitor ( Don Carlos ), Commendatore ( Don Giovanni), Osmin ( The Abduction from the Seraglio), Rocco ( Fidelio ), Daland ( The Flying Dutchman ), Roger ( Jérusalem ), King Henry ( Lohengrin ), Raimondo ( Lucia di Lammermoor ), Geronte (Manon Lescaut ), Talbot ( Maria Stuarda ), Veit Pogner ( The Mastersingers of Nuremberg), Bartolo ( Il barbiere di Siviglia ), Titurel and Gurnemanz ( Parsifal ), Sparafucile ( Rigoletto ), Fasolt ( Das Rheingold ), Hunding ( Die Walküre ), Fafner ( Siegfried ), Hagen ( Götterdämmerung ), Ochs ( Der Rosenkavalier ), Morosus ( The silent Woman ), Landgraf ( Tannhäuser ), Claggart ( Billy Budd ) and Sarastro ( Die Zauberflöte).