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Christian Sturm (* January 18, 1978) is a German tenor.
Life
He began his training as a singer at the University of music and dramatic arts in Graz, Austria, before moving to the University of music and performing arts in Munich, studying firstly with Helmut Deutsch, Daphne Evangelatos and Christian Gerhaher.
His operatic début was as Acis in Händels Acis and Galatea on the steps of the Pergamon Altar in Berlin. He has sung in numerous productions at the Prinzregententheater and Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich: Purcell's King Arthur (Production - Claus Guth), Handel's Rodrigo - Giuliano - and Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream - Lysander -, Cavallis La Didone - Aeneas - and Belfiore in Mozart's Gärtnerin aus Liebe (production, Christian Pöppelreiter).
As a freelance artist he has performed at the Nationaltheater Weimar, at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, among others.
His repertoire extends from Agostino Steffani and Johann Simon Mayr to Wagner and Korngold, as well as the world premiere of operas for the ADevantgarde Festival (A•Devantgarde) in Munich.
Recordings include Steffani's Stabat Mater and Le Triomphe de la Paix by Pietro Torri as well as the Richard Strauss adaption of Mozarts Idomeneo.
Roles
- Lysander (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
- Tamino (The Magic Flute)
- Idamante (Idomeneo)
- Arbace (Idomeneo)
- Belfiore (La finta giardiniera)
- Froh (Das Rheingold)
- Alfred (Die Fledermaus)
- Fuchs (The Little Prince)
- Telemaco (Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria)
- Acis (Acis and Galatea)
- Giuliano (Rodrigo)
- Sesto (Giulio Cesare)
- Cocle (Die stumme Serenade)
- Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas)
- Aeneas (La Didone)
- Jamie (The Last Five Years)
- Junger Seemann (Tristan und Isolde)
- Ali (L'incontro improvviso)
- Moore of Moore Hall (The Dragon of Wantley)
- Nerone (L'incoronazione di Poppea)
External links
Categories:- 1978 births
- Living people
- German opera singers
- Operatic tenors
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