ARTIST

ARTIST

Stephan Rügamer(Tenor)

Stephan Rügamer received his musical education mainly at the Hochschule für Musik in Lübeck and completed his studies with Professor James Wagner and Professor Günter Binge.
1996-1998 engagement at the Lübeck Theatre where he had the opportunity to sing the main roles of the lyric tenor’s repertoire like Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni, Belmonte/Entführung aus dem Serail, Alfredo/La Traviata, Alfred/Die Fledermaus.

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Since 1999 Stephan Rügamer is a regular member of the Berlin State Opera engaged by Daniel Barenboim. Un-
der his musical direction he sang David in the new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and later Froh
in Das Rheingold, Steuermann/Der fliegende Holländer, Chevalier/Der ferne Klang (Peter Mussbach/Michael Gielen). Now the artist interprets roles like Loge/Das Rheingold, Erik/Der fliegende Holländer, Aegisth/Elektra, Maler/Neger/Lulu, Boris/Katja Kabanova, Stewa/Jenufa, Marquis/Der Spieler, Don Jeronimo/Die Verlobung im Kloster (Tcherniakov/Barenboim), Schuiskij/Boris Godunow, Ariel/Szenen aus Goethes Faust (2017, reopening
of the Berlin State Opera, Flimm/Barenboim), Mime/Das Rheingold and Siegfried (Tcherniakov/Thielemann, Guggeis, 2022/2023).

Stephan Rügamer has appeared as a guest artist at the opera houses in Frankfurt and Essen as well as at the Dresden (2018: new production Oedipus Rex/Oedipus), Munich and Stuttgart State Operas, at the Théâtre Châtelet in Paris (Matteo/Arabella), at the Opéra National de Lyon, the Teatro Real Madrid (Boris/Katja Kabanova), the Teatro alla Scala di Milano (Der Spieler/Marquis, Das Rheingold/Loge, Zarskaja newesta/ Jelissej Bomeli), the Hamburg State Opera (Arabella/Matteo), the Israel Philharmonic (Die Fledermaus/Eisen-stein, Zubin Mehta). Opéra National de Paris (Wozzeck/Hauptmann), Grand Théâtre de Genève (Wozzeck/ Hauptmann, 2017 and Das Rheingold/Loge, 2019), Leipzig Opera (Der Sturz des Antichrist/Der Künstler, 2021), Komische Oper Berlin (Katja Kabanova/Tichon, 2021 and 2022), Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
(Der fliegende Holländer/Erik, 2023), Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo (Elektra/Aegisth, 2024).

Bregenz Festival: Umberto Spinola in Johann Strauß’s operetta Der lustige Krieg. Lucerne and Salzburg Festi-vals, St. Petersburg, Festival of the White Nights (Das Rheingold/Loge, Valery Gergiev), Ruhrtriennale 2023: Aus einem Totenhaus/Filka Morosoff.

Concert engagements among others with: Staatskapelle Berlin (Daniel Barenboim and Fabio Luisi) Orchestra
of the Bavarian Radio, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Helmut Rilling/The Seasons), Chicago Symphony Orchester (Pierre Boulez), Radio France (Neeme Järvi), Orquesta Ciudad de Granada (Sebastian Weigle/ Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2, "Lobgesang"), WDR Cologne, Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi Milano, Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Kent Nagano/Gurrelieder), Czech Philharmonic Prague (Beethoven: Symphony No. 9), New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo (Beethoven: Symphony No. 9), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Ingo Metzmacher, Königskinder/concert version). NDR Symphony Orchestra (Dallapiccola: Il Prigioniero).
PARTICIPATING PERFORMANCES

20240418

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Main Hall

"Elektra"(Concert Style/With Subtitles)

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Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Main Hall

"Elektra"(Concert Style/With Subtitles)

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