Biography

History

After his operadebut in the Stadttheater Klagenfurt in 1990 where he sang in Henry Purcell´s “The Fairy Queen”, productions in the Operahouse in Prague (Smetanova divadlo) and  the Operahouse Amsterdam, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Operahouse Zürich, the Operahouses in Rome, Paris, in Bonn, in Warschau (Wielki) and the Hamburger Staatsoper the towntheater of Wiesbaden and Darmstadt, the theatre Basel, the Prinzregententheater Munich the Hebbeltheater Berlin  the Tiroler Landestheater, the Wiener Jugendstiltheater, the Schönbrunner Schlosstheater, the Wiener Kammeroper followed, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO) and others.

He looks back on cooperation with many famous artists like:

Gerd Albrecht,
Nikolaus Harnoncourt,
Hartmut Hänchen,
Ralf Weikert,
Frieder Bernius,
Max Pommer,
Peter Eötvös,
Jürgen Flimm,
John Dew,
Harry Kupfer,
Claus Guth,
Paul Angerer
and others.

And has sung the parts of

Sextus, Idamante and Ascanio (W.A.Mozart);
of Dardanus (J.A.Hasse);
of Apollo (Britten, Cesti);
of Amor and Orfeo (Chr.W.Gluck);
of Orfeo (Cl.Monteverdi);
of Mephostophiles (Alfred Schnittke – first night “Historia of Dr. Johann Faustus”);
of Xerxes, Radamisto, Ruggiero, Cyrus, Heracles, Ariodante and Hamor (G.F.Händel);
of Osmida (N.Jommelli);
of Orlofsky ( “The Bat” Johann Strauß);
of the “Fabelsohn” (Hans Gefors – after Botho Strauss “Der Park”- first night);
of the “Death” (in Jahn Müller-Wielands “Das Märchen der 672. Nacht” after Hugo v. Hofmannsthal);
of Prinz GoGo (in “Le grand macabre” by György Ligeti);
of Creonte (in Midea 2 by Oskar Strasnoy – first night, or “Shakespeare-Sonetti” by Pavel Mykietyn, Alexander Wagendristl “Der Narr” and Sir Harrison Birtwistle – “The last supper”),
of the “Cadence Macbeth” (in C.Macbeth by Norbert Zehm – first night).
He took part in many first nights of Helmut Öhring such as “Dokumentation”, “Polaroids”(with the Ensemble Modern), “Effi Briest”, “Requiem”, “Bernarda Albas Haus”(after F.G. Lorca), “Sieben”, “Der Ort ist nicht der Ort”, “Blaumeer”, and” Unsichtbarland”.

He also appeared in the Berlin Philharmonie, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Hamburg Concerthall (Leisz) and CCH, El Auditorio National de Madrid, Paula de la Musica Catalana de Barcelona, The “Glocke” in Bremen, the Tonhalle Zürich, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Wiener Musikverein and Wiener Konzerthaus.

He has sung with many festivals as:
the Wiener Festwochen and the Wiener Musiksommer,
with Wien Modern,
the Maifestspiele in Dresden and Wiesbaden,
the Händelfestspiele in Halle and Karlsruhe,
the festival in Spoleto,
Flandern Festival,
the Kammermusikfest in Witten,
the festival in Donaueschingen,
the festival in Ludwigsburg,
the festival in Luzern,
the festival in Wroclaw,
in the Rheingaufestival,
the Ruhrtriennale,
the Farinelli-festival Andria
and many others.

Many Solo-CD´s as:
“Mozart – Castraten Arias”,
“Farinelli-Arias”,
“Ave Maria” – 22 of the most famous Ave Maria from Bach – Gounod to Schubert,
“A.R. – Sopranist”,
“Farineli vs Händel”,
“Time Windows”,
“A.R. sings Castrato-Arias” – Händel, Mozart, Hasse, Pleyel,
“The most beautiful Songs” – (Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Grieg, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt and Brahms).
and so on.