Zvi Emanuel-Marial
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© Udo Hesse
Zvi Emanuel-Marial is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, in this new production of Reimann's L’invisible. He's a popular guest at the Salzburg and Lucerne festivals and leading houses including the Berlin and Nürnberg state operas, Oper Bonn, the Nationaltheater in Mannheim, Staatsoper in Braunschweig and De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam. Other engagements this season included the world premiere of Lucia Ronchetti's Der Doppelgänger at the SWR and Lucerne festivals. He started his career playing the horn until the famous singing teacher Marianne Fischer-Kupfer encouraged him to take up singing, and taught him. Early engagements included Henze's Das verratene Meer (The Betrayed Sea) at the Salzburg Festival, Daniel in Handel's Belshazzar in Amsterdam and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt. He sang in Emmanuel Nune's La douce at the Staatsoper in Berlin, where he jumped into to sing Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice under Daniel Barenboim. Other important roles in recent seasons included the leading roles of King Tamasse in Johann Christian Bach's Zanaida at the Staatstheater in Mainz and inThe Folly at the Stadttheater inFreiburg. He also enjoys a busy concert career, singing in works including oratorios by Handel and Bach with the legendary organist Matthias Eisenberg. He received much respect and praise for being the first countertenor ever to record Schubert's Winterreise - for THOROFON, who also released his second solo album Kings, Princes & Heroes, with the Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin, of operatic arias by Handel, Gluck and Mozart. Hänssler Classic recently released his two latest solo albums: Revelation (arias by Bach) and Credo - works by Handel, which he divised with the soprano Anna Korondi.