Markus Werba
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14 November 1973
Markus Werba | |
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 Werba performing at Suntory Hall in 2009 | |
| Born | Markus Paul Werba 14 November 1973 |
| Occupation | Opera singer (baritone) |
Markus Werba (born 14 November 1973) is an Austrian baritone opera singer.[1]
Born in Hermagor Carinthia, Austria, Werba began his vocal training aged 16. He studied at the Conservatory of Klagenfurt and University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna with Ralf Doering, Robert Holl and Walter Berry. He has won numerous competitions for his singing in Austria, Italy, Japan, Slovakia and the UK. He was chosen as Guglielmo in 1997 (Così fan tutte) for the inauguration of the Nuovo Piccolo Teatro in Milan by Giorgio Strehler.
After his debut in Milan he sang in all major opera houses.
Operatic repertoire
Bellini
- Sir Riccardo Forth (I puritani)
Braunfels
- Wiedehopf (Die Vögel)
Britten
- Billy Budd (Billy Budd)
- Demetrius (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Cavalli
- Mercurio (La Calisto)
Debussy
- Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande)
Donizetti
- Don Alfonso (La favorita)
- Malatesta (Don Pasquale)
- Belcore (L'elisir d'amore)
- Lord Enrico Ashton (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Korngold
- Frank-Fritz (Die tote Stadt )
Lehàr
- Danilo (Die lustige Witwe)
Marschner
- Hans Heiling (Hans Heiling)
Massenet
- Athanaël (Thaïs)
Mozart
- Papageno (The Magic Flute)
- Guglielmo / Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte)
- Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni)
- Figaro / Il Conte (Le nozze di Figaro)
- Nardo (La finta giardiniera)
Rossini
- Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
- Dandini (La Cenerentola)
Thomas
- Hamlet (Hamlet)
Tchaikovsky
- Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin)
Paisiello
- Giorgino (Il matrimonio inaspettato)
Puccini
- Marcello (La bohème)
Schubert
- Froila (Alfonso und Estrella)
Schumann
- Faust, Pater Seraphicus, Doctor Marianus (Szenen aus Goethes Faust)
J.Strauss
- Eisenstein, Falke (Die Fledermaus)
R.Strauss
- Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos)
- Olivier (Capriccio)
Verdi
Wagner
- Beckmesser (Die Meistersinger)
- Wolfram (Tannhäuser)
Concert and Lieder repertoire
CONCERT
Brahms
- Requiem
Bach
- Solobasskantaten "ich habe genug", Kreuzstabkantate
- Johannespassion
- Matthäuspassion
Fauré
- Requiem
Haydn
- Schöpfung
Mendelssohn
- Elias
- Paulus
Mozart
- Mass in C minor
- Krönungsmesse
Mahler
- Des Knaben Wunderhorn
- Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Orff
- Carmina Burana
Schubert
- Messe in C-Dur
- Messe in G-Dur
LIEDER
Brahms
Schubert
Schumann
Wolf
