Güneş Gürle (born July 7, 1975 in

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) is a Turkish

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singer,

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Career

Made his operatic debut at the State Opera

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in the 2002-03 season as

Don Giovanni ''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanis ...

in Mozart's masterpiece. Which led his career to

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roles such as

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, Leporello, Figaro, Bartolo, Don Alfonso and Osmin. He has performed under conductors such as

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, Omar Meir Welber, Daniele Gatti, Paolo Carignani, Alexander Joel and

Hans Wallat Hans Wallat (18 October 1929 – 11 December 2014) was a German conductor, GMD in Bremen, at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Theater Dortmund and Deutsche Oper am Rhein. A specialist for the stage works of Richard Wagner, he appeared at the Bayreu ...

. He has sung at

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, Bavarian State Opera,

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and

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Awards

Donizetti Classical Music Awards, Male Opera Singer of the Year 2013 Leyla Gencer Voice Competition, Jury Mention Award, 1997

DVD

''La bohème'', as Colline,

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as director, Opernfestspiele St. Margarethen

References

External links

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