Patrick Vogel Explained

Patrick Vogel (* 1982 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. He trained as a bicycle mechanic, started classical singing the age of 18, and begann to study singing at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" a year later with Roman Trekel and Snezana Brzakovic.

Opera

Vogel made his debut at Berlin State Opera in 2005 as third Esquire in Wagner's Parsifal. He joined the International Opera Studio Zürich for the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons, where he sang Lysander and Snout in Britten's A Midsummer Nights's Dream in German, followed by an engagement as lyric tenor at Stadttheater Klagenfurt in the 2012/13 season. In Summer 2013 he sang Spärlich and Fenton in Otto Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor at Operklosterneuburg, the following year Ping Schma Fu in the world premier of Peter Ronnefeld's chamber opera Nachtausgabe in Dresden, and Jonas in Zeisls Hiob at the Bavarian State Opera. In 2015 Vogel was Edward Fairfax Vere in Britten's Billy Budd in a performance at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, and joined the ensemble of the Leipzig Opera. In 2016 he was a guest at Teatro Carlo Felice as Narraboth in Strauss' Salome, and Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni both with conductor Fabio Luisi. He sang the Lamplighter and the Dance Master in a concert performance of Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the Salzburg Festival, Elemer in Strauss' Arabella 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. In 2019 he made his debut at the Salzburg Easter Festival as Eißlinger in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with conductor Christian Thielemann.He attended a master class by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in 2007, and by Brigitte Fassbaender in 2017.

opera composer
TaminoThe Magic Flute Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Lord Arturo BucklawLucia di Lammermoor Gaetano Donizetti
Alfredo La traviata Giuseppe Verdi
Gastone La traviata Giuseppe Verdi
ValzacchiDer Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss
MalcolmMacbeth Giuseppe Verdi
EdwinDie Csárdásfürstin Emmerich Kálmán
Graf ElemerArabella Richard Strauss
Walther von der VogelweideTannhäuser Richard Wagner
Ulrich EißlingerDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg Richard Wagner
Maître de ballet, LampionaioManon Lescaut Giacomo Puccini
HansThe Bartered Bride Bedrich Smetana
HunterRusalka Antonín Dvořák
NickLa fanciulla del West Giacomo Puccini
Der MalerLulu Alban Berg
Don OttavioDon Giovanni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
NarrabothSalome Richard Strauss
Edward Fairfax VereBilly Budd Benjamin Britten
PangTurandot Giacomo Puccini
FlamandCapriccio Richard Strauss
LysanderA Midsummer Night's Dream Benjamin Britten
SnoutA Midsummer Night's Dream Benjamin Britten
KilianDer Freischütz Carl Maria von Weber
Ping Schma FuNachtausgabe Peter Ronnefeld
SpärlichThe Merry Wives of Windsor Otto Nicolai
FentonThe Merry Wives of Windsor Otto Nicolai
JonasZeisls Hiob Erich Zeisl

Concerts

As concert soloist Vogel sang the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion under conductor Helmuth Rilling 2013 in Chile, the tenor solos in Niels Wilhelm Gade's Korsfarerne, Op. 50 (The Crusaders) with Sing-Akademie zu Berlin in 2017, and 2018 the Verdi's Requiem at the Konzerthaus Berlin.

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