Robert Holl

Robert Holl ( born March 10, 1947 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch opera, concert and lieder singer, composer and voice teacher. He is regarded as one of the greatest bass - baritones of our time.

Life and work

Robert Holl studied in Rotterdam and won at 24 years old the first prize at the International Vocal Competition in 's Hertogenbosch. Then he took classes with Hans Hotter in Munich. In 1972 he ersang the first prize at the ARD Competition in Munich. At the Bavarian State Opera he was engaged from 1973 to 1975, there was but little used in the Schedules. He took the time to retrain in the song singing.

In the following years Holl came mainly as a concert and lieder singer throughout Europe, the USA, Israel and Japan. He worked regularly with conductors such as Eugen Jochum, Karl Richter and Wolfgang Sawallisch. Soon he could also be heard in opera productions and see: as a guest at the Vienna State Opera, the Brussels Opera and since 1991 at the Zurich Opera House with roles such as the Speaker and Sarastro in The Magic Flute or Basilio in The Barber of Seville under the conductor Claudio Abbado, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Franz Welser -Möst.

At the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden Robert Holl sang under Daniel Barenboim the Landgraf Hermann in Tannhäuser, the Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the Daland in The Flying Dutchman and the Commendatore in Don Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera, conducted by Christian Thielemann also Landgrave in Tannhäuser and King Marke in Tristan und Isolde. At the Bayreuth Festival, he was since 1996 the Hans Sachs in the summer of 2004 he played at Bayreuth for the first time the role of GURNEMANZ in a new production of Wagner's Parsifal under the baton of Pierre Boulez. In 2007 he was Pimen in Mussorgsky Modest Boris Godunov at the Vienna State Opera for the first time.

In addition to his involvement in various opera houses, Robert Holl has made a name as a concert singer. His special love belongs to the German and the Russian song. Recitals lead the artist regularly in the international music centers. He is a regular guest of the Schubertiade Vorarlberg.

Robert Holl gives master classes in the Netherlands, Austria and Canada. He is also artistic director of Schubertiaden in Holland and Austria and became involved - including through benefit concerts - mainly for obtaining lock Atzenbrugg as Schubert memorial. Holl's stage presence and high-volume vocal power are also boasted as its flexible, intelligent song interpretation. He also emerged as a composer of songs and piano pieces.

1998 convened the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Robert Holl as Associate Professor of Lied and Oratorio.

Honors

  • In October 1990, the Republic of Austria awarded him the title of chamber singers.
  • 1997 appointed him the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna and the Carinthian Summer Festival honorary member.
  • On 26 April 1997, Robert Holl, was added as an honorary member of the Brotherhood Krems wine at a festive ceremony in the Dominican church in Krems on the Danube.
  • On 31 May 2005 Holl was awarded the "Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class " by the State Secretary for Art and Media Franz Morak in a graceful ceremony at the Federal Chancellery.
  • On 27 October 2007 Holl has received the Order of the Netherlands Lion at the Konzerthaus De Doelen in Rotterdam.

Compositions

  • Nachtgesänge I-III (Text: Georg Trakl; night song, silence, to Novalis )
  • Spring travel ( cycle for baritone and piano, text: Ernst Schulze, Hoffmann von Faller life, Nikolaus Lenau, Joseph von Eichendorff )
  • Cycle for baritone and piano solo ( Waltz for piano solo; Found in the Book of a green leaf, text: Theodor Storm; fall for piano solo; Last stop, text: Theodor Storm )

Discography - selection

Opera

  • Michael Haydn: The Dream ( Salzburg court orchestra, conductor: Wolfgang Brunner ) cpo
  • Mozart: La finta semplice (conducted by Scimone ) Orfeo
  • Mozart: Zaide ( Osmin ) Orfeo
  • Mozart: Thamos, King of Egypt ( Thamos ) German Grammophon
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni ( Commendatore ) Teldec
  • Henry Purcell: The Fairy - Queen Teldec
  • Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov: Mozart and Salieri ( Graz Mozart Ensemble, Conductor: J. Alois Hochstrasser ) Preiser Records
  • Antonio Salieri: Prima la musica e poi le parole Teldec
  • Schubert: The Mirror Knight / The Friends of Salamanca ( Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Theodore Guschlbauer ) DGG
  • Schubert: Fierrabras ( King Charles ) DGG
  • Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg ( Hans Sachs) Teldec
  • Wagner: The Flying Dutchman ( Daland )
  • Wagner: Tristan und Isolde ( King Marke ) DGG

Song

  • Brahms: Selected Songs (piano: Rudolf Jansen ) Vanguard Classics
  • Brahms: Selected Songs (piano: András Schiff ) Decca Records
  • Loewe: Selected Ballads (Piano: David Lutz ) Preiser Records
  • Pfitzner: Selected Songs (Piano: Konrad Richter ) Preiser Records
  • Schubert: Selected Songs Vol 1 - 4 ( piano: Konrad Richter ) Preiser Records
  • Schubert: Selected Songs - Schubert circle of friends (piano: Rudolf Jansen ) Vanguard Classics
  • Schubert: Selected Songs - The minstrel (piano: Rudolf Jansen ) Vanguard Classics
  • Schubert: Night Songs ( Piano: Konrad Richter ) Preiser Records
  • Schubert: Winterreise (piano: Konrad Richter ) Preiser Records
  • Schubert: Winterreise (piano: Naum Grubert ) Vanguard, Brilliant Classics
  • Schubert: The Beautiful Miller (piano: David Lutz ) Preiser Records
  • Schubert: An die Musik (piano: David Lutz ) Preiser Records
  • Schubert: Afterglow / Songs of the harper / Mignon ( with Ellen van Lier, soprano; Piano: David Lutz ) Preiser Records
  • Schumann: Selected Songs (Piano: Jozef de Beenhouwer ) Preiser Records,
  • Schumann: Selected Songs (Piano: Konrad Richter ) Melodia
  • Schumann: Eichendorff song cycle and selected songs (piano: András Schiff ) Decca
  • Wolf: Italian Songbook and Italian Serenade ( with Ellen van Lier, soprano; Piano: David Lutz, Pro Arte Quartet, Salzburg ) Preiser Records
  • Songs by Holl and Mussorgsky (piano: Rudolf Jansen ) Preiser Records

Concert

  • Bach: St. Matthew Passion ( Staatskapelle Dresden, Conductor: Peter Schreier ) Philips
  • Bach: St. John Passion ( Concentus Musicus Wien, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt )
  • Bach: Magnificat ( Concentus Musicus, conducted by Harnoncourt ) Teldec
  • Bach: B Minor Mass ( Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Eugen Jochum ) EMI
  • Bach: Cantatas - God is our refuge & The Contented Aeolus ( Concentus Musicus, conducted by Harnoncourt ) Teldec
  • Bach: Cantatas - BWV 162, 163, 167, 168, 171, 173, 178/3, 178 /5, 179/4, 182/3, 182 /4, 186/2, 186 /3, 186/7, 188 / 3, 208 (hunting cantatas ), 212 ( peasant Cantata ) ( Concentus Musicus, conducted by Harnoncourt ) Teldec
  • Bach: Cantatas - Cross Bar Cantata, I've had enough, Peace be with you (Conductor: Saul Sondeckis ) Melodia
  • Bach: Christmas Oratorio ( Staatskapelle Dresden, Conductor: Schreier ) Philips
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 ( London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jochum ) EMI
  • Beethoven: Missa Solemnis ( Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conducted by Harnoncourt ) Teldec
  • Brahms: A German Requiem ( Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Michel CORBOZ ) Erato
  • Handel: Messiah (Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Conductor: Neville Marriner ) EMI
  • Haydn: Nelson Mass ( Staatskapelle Dresden, Conductor: Marriner ) EMI
  • Haydn: timpani Fair ( Staatskapelle Dresden, Conductor: Marriner ) EMI
  • Haydn: The Seasons ( Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Harnoncourt ) Teldec
  • Haydn: The Creation ( Savaria Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Hochstrasser ) Teldec
  • Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross ( Concentus Musicus, conducted by Harnoncourt ) Teldec
  • Mozart: Mass in C Minor, ( Concentus Musicus, conducted by Harnoncourt ) Teldec
  • Mozart: Requiem ( Concentus Musicus, Vienna State Opera Chorus, conducted by Harnoncourt ) Teldec
  • Pfitzner: From German soul ( Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Martin Sieghart ) Arte Nova
  • Pfitzner: The Dark Empire ( Graz Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Hochstrasser ) Preiser Records
  • Schmidt: The Book with Seven Seals ( Musicians Orchestra of Lower Austria, Conductor: Hochstrasser ) Preiser Records
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 ( Vienna Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Eliahu Inbal ) Denon
  • Schubert: Mass in E flat major (Wiener Philharmoniker, conducted by Abbado ) DGG
Bass-baritone ARD International Music Competition Boris Godunov (opera) Deutsche Grammophon The Fairy-Queen Fierrabras (opera) Vanguard Records Carl Loewe Melodiya Johann Sebastian Bach Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) The Seasons (Haydn) Franz Schmidt Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich) Theaterlexikon der Schweiz Integrated Authority File
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