Hans Peter Blochwitz

A light-voiced tenor having a sensuous audio and a cut, handsome appearance, Hans Peter Blochwitz produced a somewhat past due debut in opera, but quickly rose to the very best degree of Austro-German lyric tenors. His thoroughness and precision like a musician brought engagements with fastidious conductors and he guaranteed a location among those performers suitable to Bach and Handel, aswell as Mozart. Furthermore to opera and orchestral concert function, Blochwitz soon discovered himself popular like a Lieder vocalist. After research at both Mainz and Frankfort, Blochwitz graduated having a doctorate in pc science. By enough time of his debut as Lenski, he was almost 36, but engagements had been almost instantly proffered from main European homes. When Peter Schreier, among the era’s leading Don Ottavios, carried out his 1st Don Giovanni, he selected Blochwitz for the part in the 1987 Hamburg creation. His suitability for Mozart tenor functions placed him popular with such theaters as Vienna, La Scala, Paris (both Bastille and Châtelet), Züwealthy, Brussels, Covent Backyard, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam, aswell as in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA and NORTH PARK. Through the 1990 – 1991 time of year, Blochwitz produced his debut in the Metropolitan Opera (once again in the part of Don Ottavio). The Salzburg Event also beckoned and his 1st appearance there throughout that same time of year was as Belmonte in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Two other areas with which he became carefully identified were carried out in 1992 – 1993. At Frankfurt, he sang Tito in La clemenza di Tito, as well as for Züwealthy, he launched his Flamand in Strauss’ Capriccio. Despite his successes in music from the eighteenth hundred years, Blochwitz hasn’t neglected functions of his very own period. His repertory provides included functions by Britten, Henze (Der junge Lord), and Martin. He was selected to leading Hans Zender’s version of Schubert’s Die Winterreise and eventually recorded the task. Blochwitz’s tune recitals have already been heard world-wide from London’s Wigmore Hall to Japan. On documenting, he provides collaborated with conductors as different as Levine, Chailly, and Harnoncourt.