Werner Güra

Werner Güra is a tenor whose rise to popularity began in the 1990s, singing main assignments in Mozart and Rossini operas. He is rolling out a reputation among the finest lieder performers of his period, aswell, having provided critically acclaimed recitals of lieder by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Wolf, both in concert and on recordings. Güra possesses a higher tenor voice that may conveniently adapt, a tone of voice some have weighed against that of the iconic Fritz Wunderlich. Güra in addition has built a status for his function in oratorios and additional choral compositions, especially many by Bach and Mendelssohn. He offers appeared as a normal person in the Semperoper in Dresden since 1995 and offers sung at lots of the world’s main operatic locations and celebrations. Güra has produced a lot more than 40 recordings, even though some date towards the 1990s, a large proportion were manufactured in the new hundred years and also have been released on a number of brands, including Teldec, Harmonia Mundi, Sony, EuroArts, and TDK. Werner Güra was created in Munich, Germany, in 1964. He researched music in the Salzburg Mozarteum. Down the road he researched with an extraordinary roster of educators, including Swiss baritone Kurt Widmer, Dutch soprano Margreet Honig, and German bass-baritone Theo Adam. In the first ’90s Güra freelanced and frequently sang in the opera homes in Frankfurt and Basel. His 1st main recording made an appearance in 1992 when Harmonia Mundi released the René Jacobs-led Compact disc of Schütz’s Tale from the Resurrection. After signing up for the Semperoper in 1995, Güra fascinated greater interest and made an appearance on several main recordings, like the 1997 Richard Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten on Teldec, as well as the 1999 Jacobs-led Così lover tutte on Harmonia Mundi. In the 1998-1999 time of year, Güra toured Japan with conductor Philippe Herreweghe carrying out Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Although Güra constantly attemptedto maintain an equilibrium between opera and lieder, it had been not before new hundred years that he accomplished full reputation for his are a recitalist. His 2005 Compact disc Hugo Wolf: Mörike-Lieder on Harmonia Mundi and his couple of 2007 Schubert lieder discs, Die schöne Müllerin and Schwanengesang, helped him set up his reputation among the most important lieder performers of his era. Another disc through the same yr, of Mendelssohn’s Paulus released over the Carus label, additional bolstered the active Güra’s qualifications in the world from the oratorio.