Andreas Bauer Kanabas
Bass
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This season you can hear Andreas Bauer Kanabas singing Gurnemanz and Banco in new productions of Parsifal and Macbeth and Boris Ismailov in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. During the last two seasons he enjoyed great success in recital and with roles including Sarastro, Veit Pogner & Adahm in new productions of Die Zauberflöte, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg & Rudi Stephan's Die ersten Menschen / The First People (performed for the first time in 1920, at Oper Frankfurt), Ramfis & Landgraf Hermann in new productions of Aida & Wagner's Tannhäuser, Filippo II in Don Carlo and Orest in Elektra. Recent guest engagements have included Gremin in Eugene Onegin at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse and his first performances of Baron Ochs and Rocco in Der Rosenkavalier and Fidelio at Irish National Opera and the Hamburg State Opera. Since joining the ensemble in 2013/14 this bass has thrilled audiences with Wagner roles including Daland, Heinrich der Vogler, Landgraf Hermann von Thüringen and King Marke in a new Tristan und Isolde, Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and the Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Jacopo Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Don Pedro (Meyerbeer's L’Africaine), Escamillo (Carmen), the Watersprite (Rusalka), Ibn-Hakia (Iolanta) and the title role in Bluebeard's Castle, Oroveso in Norma, Teiresias in Oedipus Rex, King René (role debut) in Iolanta the Marchese von Calatrava / Padre Guardiano in La forza del destino and King Alinoos in a wonderful new production of Dallapiccola's Ulisse. This former member of the ensemble at the Staatsoper Berlin appears regularly at theatres around the world including the Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden, the Bolschoi in Moscow, 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 and the Edinburgh International Festival. Other recent engagements have included Heinrich der Vogler in a new Lohengrin at the Tirol Festival in Erl, Don Ruy Gomez de Silva in Verdi's Ernani in Antwerp and Ghent, his debut at the 2023 Tokyo Spring Festival as Pogner, a role he jumped in to sing at short notice at the Semperoper in Dresden, and enjoyed a great success with Méphistophélés (Gounod's Faust) at the National Opera in Riga. His first solo CD - Love and Despair (OehmsClassics) - was released in September 2021.
Find out more about Andreas Bauer Kanabas on his website