Alexander Kaimbacher
Tenor
Alexander Kaimbacher has worked, among others, with the conductors Marcello Viotti, Silvain Cambreling, Friedrich Haider, Manfred Honeck, Stefan Soltesz and Christian Thielemann. Alexander Kaimbacher is a specialist in contemporary music. He has created parts in several world premières, such as Georg Friedrich Haas's "Die Schöne Wunde" at the Bregenz Festival and the part of Geppone in HK Gruber's "Der Herr Nordwind" at the Zurich opera house.
His most recent engagements include Kilian in "Der Freischütz" at the Salzburger Festspiele, Andres in Berg’s "Wozzeck" at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and Kunz Vogelgesang in "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" at the Wiener Staatsoper. At the Festival in Reinsberg in Austria he sang Jacquino in "Fidelio" and in April 2009 he performed the same role at the Staatsoper in Vienna. In October 2008 he made his debut at Teatro alla Scala in Lehar’s "Die Lustige Witwe".
The most important parts of his repertoire include Mozart's Tamino, Don Ottavio, Ferrando and Belmonte, Britten's Lysander and Albert Herring, Tschaikovsky's Lensky, Verdi's Fenton, Bernstein's Candide and Henze's "young lord", as well as Johann Strauss's Herzog and Caramello, Lehar's Zarewitch and Camille de Rosillon and Kurt Weill's Juan Santos in "Der Kuhhandel".
In addition to his operatic repertoire, the artist has acquired a large repertoire of concert music, oratorios and lieder, as well as sacred music. Among other things, he has sung all Haydn, Mozart and Schubert Masses, Bach's St. John and St. Matthew Passions, Haydn's "The Creation" and "The Seasons", as well as Schubert's "Die Schoene Muellerin" and "Die Winterreise". He has given concerts and lied recitals in concert halls all over the world, including such prestigious venues as the Vienna Musikverein, the Konzerthaus Vienna, Brucknerhaus Linz, Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, Gasteig in Munich, ACF New York and Washington, Kravi Center in West Palm Beach, the Van Wezel Hall in Sarasota, the Minneapolis Concert Hall, the Vancouver Orpheum Theatre, and the Royal Theatre of Victoria.
Born in Villach, he studied musicology, germanistics and dramatic arts at Vienna University and singing, Waldorf pedagogy and acting at the Goethenistisches Konservatorium. His singing teachers were Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Bernhard Adler and Constantin Zacharia. He has also attended master classes taught by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Nicolai Gedda.
Kaimbacher has been working in Europe and in the USA as an independent opera and concert singer since 1999. His engagements have included performances at the Volksoper in Vienna, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Graz opera house, the Vienna Klangbogen Festival, the Neue Oper Wien, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, the opera houses of Koblenz, Luzern, Meiningen and Potsdam, the Haydntage Eisenstadt, the Festival Carinthischer Sommer and the Festival Israel Tel Aviv.
In December 2007 he became a member of the ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper.
September 2009
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