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Ain Anger(Bass)

Hailed by The Guardian as “one of the great Wagner basses of our time”, Ain Anger made his Bayreuth Festival debut as Fafner in “Das Rheingold” and “Siegfried” under Christian Thielemann, and his debut at Teatro alla Scala as Daland (“Der fliegende Holländer”) under Hartmut Haenchen. As Hunding, he has appeared in new “Ring Cycles” at Bayerische Staatsoper under Kent Nagano, Wiener Staatsoper under Franz Welser-Möst, Oper Frankfurt under Sebastian Weigle,

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Lyric Opera of Chicago under Sir Andrew Davis, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden under Sir Antonio Pappano. As Pogner (“Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg”), Anger debuted at San Francisco Opera under Sir Mark Elder, and he is a frequent guest of Deutsche Oper Berlin with whom he also appeared at the BBC Proms in “Tannhäuser” under Donald Runnicles. Most recent seasons have brought further expansion of the Wagner repertoire with debuts as Hagen (“Götterdämmerung”) for the Canadian Opera Company conducted by Johannes Debus, and as König Marke (“Tristan und Isolde”) for the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst.

A mainstay at Wiener Staatsoper stage since his house debut as Monterone (“Rigoletto”) in 2004, Ain Anger has sung more than forty roles there ranging from Dosifei in Mussorgsky’s epic Khovanshchina conducted by Semyon Bychkov, König Heinrich (“Lohengrin”) under Christian Thielemann, and Philippe II (“Don Carlos”), to Zaccaria (“Nabucco”) and Fiesco (“Simon Boccanegra”). Estonian-born Anger gave his acclaimed first performances as Boris Godunov in Richard Jones’ production at Deutsche Oper Berlin, the same production that marked his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Pimen. At Opéra National de Paris, he has appeared most recently in new productions of “Boris Godunov” and “Don Giovanni”, and is a regular guest of Bayerische Staatsoper where he recently sang Cardinal Brogni in Halévy’s seldom-performed “La Juive” under Bertrand de Billy.

Ain Anger’s 19/20 season opened with his appearance as Hagen at the Edinburgh International Festival under Sir Andrew Davis, and combines productions at Teatro Real (“Die Walküre”), Wiener Staatsoper (“Lohengrin”, “Der Ring des Nibelungen”) and Bayreuth Festspiele (“Der Ring des Nibelungen”), with concert appearances under Omer Meir Wellber with the Münchner Philharmoniker (Haydn’s “Nelson Mass”), Jaap van Zweden with Radio Filarmonisch Orkest, Simone Young with the San Francisco Symphony, Karina Canellakis with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (all “Die Walküre”), and Mikko Franck and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem”).
PARTICIPATING PERFORMANCES

20200402

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Main Hall

Tokyo-HARUSAI Wagner Series vol.11
"Tristan und Isolde"(Concert Style / With Projected Images and Subtitles)

20200405

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Main Hall

Tokyo-HARUSAI Wagner Series vol.11
"Tristan und Isolde"(Concert Style / With Projected Images and Subtitles)

20200412

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Main Hall

Tokyo-HARUSAI Choral Works Series vol.7
Beethoven "Missa Solemnis"

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