Patrick Vogel
German operatic tenor
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Patrick Vogel (* 1982[citation needed] in Berlin) is a German operatic tenor.
Life and career
Vogel grew up in Berlin, where he lived with his father from the age of 9 after his parents' divorce.[1] He trained as a bicycle mechanic,[2] started classical singing the age of 18,[1] and begann to study singing at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" a year later[1] with Roman Trekel and Snezana Brzakovic.[3]
Opera
Vogel made his debut at Berlin State Opera in 2005 as third Esquire in Wagner's Parsifal.[4] He joined the International Opera Studio Zürich for the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons,[5][6] where he sang Lysander and Snout in Britten's A Midsummer Nights's Dream in German,[7] followed by an engagement as lyric tenor at Stadttheater Klagenfurt in the 2012/13 season.[2] In Summer 2013 he sang Spärlich and Fenton in Otto Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor at Operklosterneuburg,[8][9] the following year Ping Schma Fu in the world premier of Peter Ronnefeld's chamber opera Nachtausgabe in Dresden,[10] and Jonas in Zeisls Hiob at the Bavarian State Opera.[11] In 2015 Vogel was Edward Fairfax Vere in Britten's Billy Budd in a performance at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa,[12] and joined the ensemble of the Leipzig Opera.[13] In 2016 he was a guest at Teatro Carlo Felice as Narraboth in Strauss' Salome,[14] and Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni both with conductor Fabio Luisi.[15] He sang the Lamplighter and the Dance Master in a concert performance of Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the Salzburg Festival,[16] Elemer in Strauss' Arabella[17] and Walther von der Vogelweide in Wagner's Tannhäuser as a guest at Semperoper Dresden in 2018, and the Painter in Alban Berg's Lulu in Leipzig.[18] In 2019 he made his debut at the Salzburg Easter Festival as Eißlinger in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with conductor Christian Thielemann.[19] He attended a master class by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in 2007,[20] and by Brigitte Fassbaender in 2017.[21]
Concerts
As concert soloist Vogel sang the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion under conductor Helmuth Rilling 2013 in Chile,[28] the tenor solos in Niels Wilhelm Gade's Korsfarerne, Op. 50 (The Crusaders) with Sing-Akademie zu Berlin in 2017,[29] and 2018 the Verdi's Requiem at the Konzerthaus Berlin.[30]
Recordings
Audio
- 2009: Frohlocke nun! Berliner Weihnachtsmusiken zwischen Barock und Romantik. Lautten Compagney, tenor soloist Patrick Vogel, conductor Kai-Uwe Jirka. Carus-Verlag (8344200)[31]
- 2015: Antonio Salieri: La scuola de' gelosi. Conductor Werner Ehrhardt, with Emanuele D'Aguanno as Count Bandiera, Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli as Countess Bandiera, Patrick Vogel as the Lieutenant. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (00761)[32]
- 2018: The World of Dido. Works by Morley, Purcell, Byrd. Univocale chamber choir and orchestra, conductor Christoph Dominik Ostendorf.[33]
