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Bernd Weikl
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Name
Bernd Weikl
Role
Baritone
Movies
Rigoletto, Karl Bohm: Strauss: Salome, Strauss: Arabella, Tannhauser: Wagner: Metropolitan Opera
Albums
Carmina Burana, Palestrina, Ein Deutsches Requiem
Awards
Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording
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Bernd Weikl (born Vienna, 29 July 1942) is an Austrian operatic baritone, best known for his performances in the operas of Richard Wagner.
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Early career
He studied first in Mainz and then in Hanover, where he made his operatic debut as Ottakar in Der Freischütz in 1968. From 1970 to 1973 he was a member of the company at the Düsseldorf Opera.
Major debuts
Weikl debuted at the Salzburg Festival in 1971 as Melot in Tristan und Isolde, at the Bayreuth Festival in 1972 as Wolfram in Tannhäuser, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1975 as Figaro in The Barber of Seville, at the Metropolitan Opera in 1977 as Wolfram, at La Scala in 1980 as Ford in Falstaff.
Roles
Weikl has sung over 120 roles during his career. Pride of place goes to his Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, which he has sung in all the major opera houses of the world. Other roles include:
The title roles in Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin and The Flying Dutchman
Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro
Amfortas in Parsifal
Belcore in L'elisir d'amore
di Luna in Il trovatore
Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus
Ford in Falstaff
Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande
Guglielmo in Così fan tutte
Jokanaan in Salome
Mandryka in Arabella
Cardinal Morone in Palestrina
Rodrigo in Don Carlos
Tomsky in The Queen of Spades
Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles
Wolfram in Tannhäuser
Selected recordings
Carmina Burana (Orff): James Levine conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with June Anderson and Phillip Creech (1984) (DG)
Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky): title role with Georg Solti conducting the orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with Teresa Kubiak, Stuart Burrows, Julia Hamari, and Nicolai Ghiaurov, also used as the score of Petr Weigl's filming of the opera
Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II): Carlos Kleiber conducting the Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, with Hermann Prey, Julia Varady, Lucia Popp, René Kollo, and Ivan Rebroff (1975) (DG)
The Flying Dutchman (Richard Wagner): Giuseppe Sinopoli conducting the Berlin State Opera Orchestra, with Cheryl Studer, Hans Sotin, Plácido Domingo, Peter Seiffert, and Uta Priew (1991)
Der Freischütz (Carl Maria von Weber): Carlos Kleiber conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden, with Gundula Janowitz, Edith Mathis, Peter Schreier, Theo Adam, Siegfried Vogel, Franz Crass, (1973) (DG)
Götterdämmerung (Richard Wagner): James Levine conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, with Hildegard Behrens, Reiner Goldberg, Matti Salminen, Hanna Schwarz, Cheryl Studer, Bernd Weikl, Ekkehard Wlaschiha (1991) (1992 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording)
Lohengrin (Richard Wagner): Woldemar Nelsson conducting the Bayreuth Festival, with Peter Hofmann, Karan Armstrong (1982) (CBS)
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Richard Wagner): Horst Stein conducting the Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Siegfried Jerusalem, Hermann Prey, Mari Anne Häggander, Graham Clark. Staged by Wolfgang Wagner, Video Director Brian Large, (1984) (Unitel), VHS
Parsifal (Richard Wagner): Rafael Kubelík conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, with James King, Kurt Moll and Yvonne Minton, (1980) (Arts Archives, stereo)
Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi): Lamberto Gardelli, conducting the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, with Giacomo Aragall and Lucia Popp (1984) (RCA)
Il segreto di Susanna (Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari): Lamberto Gardelli, conducting the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, with Maria Chiara and Omar Godknow (1977) (Decca)
Tiefland (Eugen d'Albert): Marek Janowski, conducting the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, with Eva Marton and René Kollo (1983) (ARTS 47501-2)
