Ain Anger
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Ain Anger, who was born in Estonia, is back in Frankfurt where he sang Hunding, which you can hear him singing in Tobias Krazer's production at the Bayerische Staatsoper later this season, in Die Walküre when it first opened in 2010, and again in 2016, to sing Pimen in this new production of Boris Godunov. He studied at the Music Academy in Tallinn and spent time as a member of the ensembles in Leipzig and the Vienna State Opera. His repertoire includes Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Heinrich der Vogler (Lohengrin), Landgraf Hermann (Tannhäuser), Pogner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Fafner (Das Rheingold & Siegfried), Hagen (Götterdämmerung), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Rocco (Fidelio), Philipp II & the Grand Inquisitor (Don Carlo), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), René (Iolanta), Dosifei (Khowanschina) and Pimen, which he has sung at La Scala, the Met and Covent Garden, and the title role in Boris Godunov. He has appeared at opera houses and concert halls in Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Zürich, Brussels, Paris, London, Barcelona, Valencia, Milan, Toronto, Houston, Cleveland, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Hong-Kong and Beijing and the Savonlinna, Edinburgh, Bayreuth, Salzburg and Lucerne. He was named an Austrian Kammersänger in 2020. He has worked with conductors including Christian Thielemann, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Mark Elder, Riccardo Chailly and Sebastian Weigle. IHis broad and varied concert repertoire includes Mahler 8, Beethoven 9 and Verdi's Requiem.