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Alto Bernhard Landauer
was born in Innsbruck and lives in Salzburg.
Following his first concert and stage experience as soprano soloist
with the Boys' Choir of Wilten Monastery (Innsbruck), he studied
voice at the Vienna Academy of Music under Helene Karusso and
Kurt Equiluz. He received further training from Karl-Heinz Jarius in
Frankfurt.
His wide-ranging repertoire spans the Middle Ages to the Contemporary also
including works unusual for the countertenor-voice by Franz Schubert, Richard
Strauss or Iannis Xenakis.
The much sought-after interpreter of new music has created many roles in
works by Giorgio Battistelli, René Clemencic, Christof Dienz, Richard Dünser,
Alfred Schnittke, Lin Wang, Simon Wills and others.
Stage-productions by Philippe Arlaud, Nicolas Brieger, Nick Broadhurst, Brigitte
Fassbaender, Achim Freyer, Harry Kupfer David Pountney and Nicola Raab have
taken him to Staatsoper Berlin, Bregenz Festival, Essen’s Aalto-Theater,
Frankfurt Opera, Handel Festival Halle, Innsbruck Festival, Opéra National of
Nancy and Schwetzingen Festival as well as Vienna’s Staatsoper and Volksoper.
Favourite roles he has sung are Fyodor in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Oberon
in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tolomeo in Handel’s Giulio Cesare,
the Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and the Devil in Detlev Glanert’s Jest,
Satire, Irony.
Among his musical partners are the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton
Koopman, Howard Arman, René Clemencic, Laurence Cummings, Bertrand de
Billy, Diego Fasolis, the Freiburger Barockorchester, Thomas Hengelbrock, René
Jacobs, The King's Consort, Bernhard Kontarsky, the Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment and Mstislav Rostropovich.
Projects in 2014 include a production of George Benjamin's opera Written on
Skin at the Landestheater Detmold, the pop-opera You Us We All by Shara
Worden at the Holland Festival and the world premiere of a sitcom-opera series
by Austrian composer Bernhard Gander for the Bregenz Festival and wien
modern.
From 1998 until 2004 Bernhard Landauer has been teaching at the Department
of Early Music of Vienna Conservatory, since 2005 he is a lecturer for the
Austrian Masterclasses and teaches workshops for voice and bodywork.
www.bernhard-landauer.at