Wolfgang Ablinger Sperrhacke

Life

Ablinger-Sperrhacke studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna with Gerhard Kahry (voice) and Kurt Equiluz (Lied/oratorio). After first fest-contracts at Landestheater Linz (1993–1995), Theater Basel (fest-contract during season 1995/96, afterwards as guest singer till 1999/2000) and Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich (1996–1998) he has worked as a free-lance artist since 1998.

In 1997 he made his début at the Opéra National de Paris and subsequently was invited to do roles such as Goro in Madama Butterfly, Monostatos as well as First Armed Man in The Magic Flute, Capito in Mathis der Maler, Mime in Der Ring des Nibelungen and also participated in the world premiere of Philippe Manoury's opera K....

At the Glyndebourne Festival Opera he sang in more than 130 performances including roles such as Vašek in The Bartered Bride, Reverend Horace Adams in Peter Grimes, Arnalta in L'incoronazione di Poppea, the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel – the two last also semistaged at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, Tanzmeister in Ariadne auf Naxos and Podestà in La finta giardiniera.

Further important engagements: Valzacchi in Der Rosenkavalier (La Monnaie/Brussels, Festspiel Baden-Baden, Metropolitan Opera), Dr. Cajus in Falstaff (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Teatro Real Madrid), Mime in Das Rheingold (Semperoper Dresden, Teatro alla Scala, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier/Montreal, De Nederlandse Opera, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan), Mime in Siegfried (Capitole de Toulouse, Teatro Real, La Fenice, Bavarian State Opera, Munich Opera Festival, Staatsoper Stuttgart, De Nederlandse Opera, Canadian Opera Company), Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Festival La Coruna, Teatro Real, Teatro di San Carlo/Naples), Trimalchio in Maderna's Satyricon, Josef in Wiener Blut and the world-premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's Divorzio all'italiana (Opéra national de Lorraine), the title-role in Offenbach's Barbe-bleue (Bregenz Festival, Oper Leipzig), Loge in Das Rheingold (Opéra national du Rhin, Lucerne Festival, Opera North), Aegisth in Elektra (Strasbourg), Hauptmann in Wozzeck (La Scala, Bavarian State Opera, Zurich Opera, Southbank Centre), Piet in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (English National Opera, Berliner Philharmonie), Witch (Opéra national de Lyon, Bavarian State Opera), Herod in Salome (Vienna Volksoper, Vienna State Opera, Zurich Opera), Pirzel in Die Soldaten (Salzburg Festival, Scala), Prinz/Kammerdiener/Marquis in Lulu (State Opera Berlin, Bavarian State Opera), Klaus the Fool in scenic world-premiere of Gurre-Lieder at Nederlandse Opera, Pollux in Die Liebe der Danae at Salzburg Festival.

Concerts: at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, at Philharmonie am Gasteig, in São Paulo (Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde), Gurre-Lieder in Melbourne, Bergen, Lille, Hannover and Gothenburg, Rheingold-Loge at Leeds Town Hall, Southbank Centre, The Lowry/Manchester, The Sage/Newcastle, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham and Symphony Hall, Birmingham.

Ablinger-Sperrhacke has worked with conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Daniel Barenboim, Ingo Metzmacher, Franz Welser-Möst, Kent Nagano, Marc Albrecht, Philippe Jordan, Emmanuelle Haïm, James Conlon, Christian Thielemann, Jeffrey Tate, Robin Ticciati, Hartmut Haenchen, Antonio Pappano, Vladimir Jurowski and Fabio Luisi.

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