Michael Schade
Michael Schade ( born January 23, 1965 in Geneva ) is a Canadian- German opera, concert and lieder singer.
He was considered a leading Mozart tenor of the 1990s. His repertoire also includes works by Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Wagner, Rossini, Donizetti and Beethoven.
Life
Schade's parents are from Gelsenkirchen in Germany. His father Hans worked as an engineer in Geneva, where his three children, Johannes ( Hans), Michael and Isabelle, were born. After Hans Schade had been hired by the Canadian nickel company Inco, the family moved in 1977 to Toronto.
Michael's parents were both musically: They sang in churches and semi- professional choirs. Michael went to the St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto. During a zoology student, he joined the University Choir, where his singing talent noticed and promoted. He got a scholarship to a musical education.
After graduation in 1988, Michael Schade attended the Master 's Program at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia / USA. In the same year he was invited by Pacific Opera Victoria / Canada, the role of Jacquino in Beethoven's " Fidelio" to sing. 1990, still a student at Curtis, he won the New York Oratorio Competition and got the chance in Handel's " Messiah" to sing at Carnegie Hall. That was the start of his great career.
Schade was married to mezzo-soprano Norine Burgess, the two have three children.
Career
The first engagements took Michael Schade to Pesaro, Bologna, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Helmuth Rilling hired him in 1991 for a European tour as Evangelist in Bach's St. John Passion.
1992 Schade was honored by the Canadian government with the doped with $ 27,000 Virginia P. Moore Prize. The prize money enabled training and travel to audition. 1992 Too bad the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera, which still represents the "main house". Moreover pity sings at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, the San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Canadian Opera Company, the Hamburg State Opera and the Paris Opera.
A particularly intimate collaboration combines pity with the Salzburg Festival, where he appears regularly since 1994. Schade sang in Salzburg three major Mozart tenor roles ( Tamino, Don Ottavio, Titus ), but also starred in Cherubini's Medea (2000), Purcell's King Arthur (2004), Haydn's Armida (2007 and 2009), and in Peter Winters labyrinth ( 2012). Pity denied at the Salzburg Festival as well as several recitals and numerous orchestral concerts and oratorios, most recently in 2013 The Creation and The Seasons under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
Michael Schade performs regularly as a concert and lieder singer. He is continually guest at the songs and chamber music festival Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. From December 2011 to October 2013 Michael Schade was a member of the Executive Board of the European musical theater academy. Michael Schade took over in 2013, the artistic director of the International Baroque Festival Melk Abbey, he is responsible for the artistic programming of the festival of Pentecost 2014 to Pentecost 2016.
Discography - selection
- Bach, Johannes - Passion ( Rilling ) Haenssler
- Bach, St Matthew Passion ( Harnoncourt ) Teldec
- Beethoven, Fidelio ( Davis) BMG
- Handel, Messiah ( Harnoncourt ) DHM
- Haydn, The Creation ( Gardiner ) DGG / Archiv
- Haydn, Theresienmesse ( Pinnock ) DGG / Archiv
- Mahler, The Song of the Earth ( Boulez ) DGG
- Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Elias ( Rilling ) Haenssler
- Mozart, The Magic Flute ( Gardiner ) DGG Archive
- Mozart, Requiem ( Abbado ) DGG
- Verdi, Otello (Chung ) DGG
- Wagner, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg ( Sawallisch ) EMI
- Of Ladies and Love, songs by Schubert, Fauré and others, Hyperion
Awards
- 2009 Rolf- Mares Award for his performance in Death in Venice at the Hamburg State Opera