Andreas Bauer Kanabas
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During the 2026/27 season Andreas Bauer Kanabas, who joined Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in 2013/14, can be heard singing Tschub (role debut) in Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve, Hunding in Die Walküre and repeating his portrayals of Ramfis and Landgraf Hermann in revivals of Aida and Tannhäuser. During the 2025/26 season he sang his first Pimens in a new production of Mussorgsky's Boris Gonunov and repeated his wonderful portrayals of Banco, King Marke and Adahm in Macbeth, Tristan und Isolde and Rudi Stephan's The First People, staged for the first time in 1920, in Frankfurt. These were preceded by new roles including Boris Ismailov, which he then sang at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and Gurnemanz in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and a new Parsifal. Other roles for the company included Sarastro & Veit Pogner in new productions of Die Zauberflöte & Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Orest in a new Elektra, the title role in Bluebeard's Castle, Daland (Der Fliegende Holländer), Heinrich der Vogler (Lohengrin, which he also sang in a new production at the Tirol Festival in Erl), Filippo II (Don Carlo), the Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Marquese von Calatrava / Padre Guardiano (La forza del destino), Oroveso (Norma), King Alinoos (Dallapiccola's Ulisse) and the Waterspite (Rusalka). Recent guest engagements have included Gremin in Eugene Onegin at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse and his first Baron Ochs & Roccos in Der Rosenkavalier & Fidelio at Irish National Opera and the Hamburg State Opera. This former member of the ensemble at the Staatsoper Berlin is a regular guest at theatres around the world including the Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala Milan, the Opéra National, Opéra Comique and Opéra Bastille in Paris, the New National Theatre in Tokyo, Dresden's Semperoper, the Komische and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Edinburgh International and 2023 Tokyo Spring festivals. His first solo album -Love and Despair (OehmsClassics - 2021) was followed by Schubert's Schwanengesang (AVI Music - 2023). The Frankfurt Richard Wagner Verband awarded Andreas Bauer Kanabas the 2025 Rheingold Prize.
Find out more about Andreas Bauer Kanabas on his website