Alfred Reiter
bass
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Alfred Reiter has performed lots of varied roles at Oper Frankfurt since joining the ensemble in 2008/09, including the Doctor (Wozzeck), Graf Waldner (Arabella), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Trulove (The Rake's Progress), Dansker (Billy Budd), Narbal (Les Troyens), Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande), Pope Pius IV / Cardinal Madruscht (Pfitzner's Palestrina - c: Kirill Petrenko - get the CD! OehmsClassics), Peneios (Daphne), Kalervo (Sallinen's Kullervo), Fasolt (Rheingold - get the CD & DVD!), Raimondo (Rienzi - get the CD!) and Seneca (L’incoronazione di Poppea). He sang Herr Zenk, Lucifer & Dr. Muthesius in the world premieres of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter / The Tenant, Lucia Ronchetti's Inferno (Bockenheimer Depot 2021) & Vito Žuraj's Blühen / Blossoming (World Premiere of the Year 2023 - Opernwelt) - which he sings again during the 2025/26 season, during which you can hear hear him as the Doctor in a new production of Birtwistle's Punch and Judy and repeating his roles in the wonderful Weill / Orff The Tsar wants his Photograph Taken / The Clever Woman double bill. Last season he enjoyed great success singing 3rd Officer, Schigolch & Titurel in new productions of Henze's The Prince of Homburg, Berg's Lulu and Wagner's Parsifal, and repeating his hilarious portrayal of Jeronimus in Nielsen's Masquerade. These were preceded by, amongst others, Astradamors & the Pastor in new productions of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre & Zemlinsky's George the Dreamer, 5th Jew (Salome), La Roche (Capriccio), Geronte de Ravoir (Manon Lescaut), Uncle Bonze (Madama Butterfly), the Archbishop (Szymanowski's Król Roger), and Talpa (Il tabarro) & Simone (Gianni Schicchi). This bass, who studied in Munich, has sung many roles in theatres around the world, including Sarastro in Frankfurt, Bregenz, Berlin, Munich, Geneva, Vienna, Salzburg, Paris, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tokyo, Graf Waldner in Arabella at the Nationale Opera Amsterdam and Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, where he also sang Tomaso (Tiefland), the Hermit (Der Freischütz) at the Styriarte Festival in Graz and Grand Théâtre in Geneva, King Marke in Geneva, Gurnemanz (Parsifal) at the Staatstheater in Karlsruhe and Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande) with Welsh National Opera in Hong Kong.