Peter Schreier

Peter Schreier was perhaps one of the most highly esteemed tenors from the 20th hundred years, particularly in German lieder, oratorio, and cantata shows in addition to opera. His dad was a cathedral Kantor and provided him his initial musical schooling. At age eight Peter was got into within the preparatory course of the well-known chorus the Dresdner Kreuzchor. He produced his initial operatic appearance among the Three Children in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in 1944, which led him to look at a musical profession. At age 10, he was accepted as a guy soprano and quickly rose to the positioning of initial soloist using the choir. Therefore he sang on a number of the initial German LPs ever released, of Bach cantatas on Deutsche Grammophon’s Das alte Werk imprint. He traveled to France, Scandinavia, and Luxembourg, among various other places, on tour using the Dresden choir. He continued to be using the choir being a tenor after his tone of voice transformed. In 1954, he started taking private tone of voice lessons with Polster, while functioning as an associate from the Leipzig Radio Chorus. In 1956, he got into the Dresden Musikhochschule, where his instructor was Winkler. Schreier examined both performing and performing. He also examined on the Dresden Condition Opera’s training college. In 1957, he made an appearance within the opera studio’s creation of Il matrimonio segreto as Paolino. He graduated from your Musikhochschule in 1959, moving the State Examination, and became a member of the Dresden Condition Opera’s company like a lyric tenor. His 1st professional appearance was there in the tiny role from the First Prisoner in Beethoven’s Fidelio. During those years he produced an interesting concert tour to India as well as the African country of Mali. He sang a visitor appearance in the Berlin Condition Opera and in 1963 obtained a contract with this organization as its leading lyric tenor. He produced numerous guest looks within the Soviet Union along with other countries of that which was then referred to as the Eastern Bloc, and made an appearance frequently in the Western, in Vienna as well as the Salzburg Event in Austria, the Bayreuth Wagner Event House in Western German, in London (debuting in 1966), the Vienna Condition Opera (1967), Milan’s La Scala (1969), as well as the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (also 1969). He quickly earned acclaim specifically for his portrayals of Mozart’s primary tenor roles so when a recitalist. He was also high praised for tasks as varied as Alfred in Die Fledermaus and Loge in Das Rheingold, and made an appearance within the premiere of Dessau’s Einstein because the Physicist. He also sang the part of Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Fenton in Verdi’s Otello, and Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, to mention several. He frequently sang in Bach’s passions, cantatas, along with other choral functions, and became a cherished lieder vocalist. His Schubert was specifically regarded because of its extremely expressive projection and shaping of what. He sang mainly on East German recordings, a lot of that are re-released on Compact disc over the Berlin Classics label, as well as for the Philips label. In 1970, he used the other aspect of his profession, conducting for the very first time in a concert using the Dresden Staatskapelle. Since that time he has surfaced as a respected Bach and Mozart conductor. He received many honors, like the Country wide Award (HIGH GRADE) from the German Democratic Republic, the Salzburg Mozarteum’s Sterling silver Mozart Medal, as well as the name of Kammersänger. In 1986 he was appointed an honorary person in the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, the Anderson-Nexö Award of the town of Dresden, as well as the Ernst con Siemans Award of the town of Munich.