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Gerd Grochowski

The German bass-baritone Gerd Grochowski (Orest) studied at the Cologne Conservatory with Edith Kertesz. He has recently sung Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde (Metropolitan Opera, the Scala in Milan, German National Opera in Berlin) and Friedrich von Telramund in Lohengrin (German National Opera in Berlin). His repertoire includes Scarpia in Tosca and Orest (Bavarian National Opera in Munich), Wotan in Der Ring des Nibelungen (Bruckner Festival), Šiškov From the House of the Dead (Aix-en-Provence, Holland Festival, Vienna Festival Weeks), Pizarro in Fidelio (Hamburg, Vienna), Musiklehrer in Ariadne auf Naxos (Welsh National Opera) and Der Sprecher Die Zauberflöte (Glyndebourne Festival). On the concert stage, he has sung in among other things Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder, Verdi’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. Grochowski has worked with such conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Vladimir Jurowski, Lothar Zagrosek, Ingo Metzmacher and Pierre Boulez. For his performance in the title role of Doktor Faust he was nominated by Opernwelt magazine in 2005 as “singer of the year”. Future plans include Friedrich von Telramund (San Francisco), Amfortas in Parsifal (Lyon) and Klingsor in Parsifal (Munich).

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