Name Jan-Hendrik Rootering | Role Bass | |
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Movies Ode to Freedom: Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Albums Der fliegende Hollander, Requiem, op. 89, Rienzi, Ode to Freedom: Bernstein in Berlin: Beethoven Symphony no. 9 Awards Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording Similar People James Levine, Kurt Moll, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, James Morris, Siegfried Jerusalem | ||
Jan Hendrik Rootering Lohengrin "Königsgebet". des Heinrich
Jan-Hendrik Rootering (born 18 March 1950 in Wedingfeld near Flensburg) is a German-born operatic bass, son of the Dutch tenor Hendrikus Rootering from whom he had his first lessons. After further study at Hamburg's Musikhochschule he began singing minor roles with the Staatsoper Hamburg and made a debut at the Bayerischen Staatsoper Munchen in 1982 as the Spirit Messenger in Die Frau ohne Schatten. In 1987 he received the title of Bayerischer Kammersanger. Mr. Rootering was the bass soloist in the Beethoven Ninth Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein in celebration of the fall of the Berlin wall in the no-longer-divided city of Berlin at Christmastime 1989.
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He can be seen as Fasolt on James Levine's Der Ring des Nibelungen, and heard on two recital discs of Lieder by Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf with pianist Herman Lechler.
Songs
Symphony No 8 in E-flat major: I-iii "Infirma nostri corporis"
Symphony No 8 in E-flat major: I-vi "Gloria sit Patri Domino"
Symphony No 8 in E-flat major: I-v "Veni - creator spiritis"
Symphony No 8 in E-flat major: II-xii "Alles Vergangliche"
Symphony No 8 in E-flat major: II-iii "Wie Felsenabgrund mir zu Fusen"
Symphony No 8 in E-flat major: I-i "Veni - creator spiritus"
Symphony No 8 in E-flat major: I-iv "Accende lumen sensibus"
Symphony No 8 in E-flat major: I-ii "Imple superna gratia"