Markus Werba (born 14 November 1973) is an Austrian

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Biography

Born in

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, Austria, Werba began his vocal training aged 16. He studied at the Conservatory of Klagenfurt and University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna with Ralf Doering, Robert Holl and Walter Berry. He has won numerous competitions for his singing in Austria, Italy, Japan, Slovakia and the UK. He was chosen as Guglielmo in 1997 (''

Così fan tutte (''All Women Do It, or The School for Lovers''), K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte w ...

'') for the inauguration of the Nuovo Piccolo Teatro in Milan by Giorgio Strehler. After his debut in Milan he sang in all major opera houses.

Operatic repertoire

Salzburger Festspiele 2012 - Die Zauberflöte

Bellini *Sir Riccardo Forth ('' I puritani'') Braunfels *Wiedehopf (''

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'') Britten *Billy Budd (''

Billy Budd ''Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)'' is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece when a hastily transcribed version was finally published in 1924, it quick ...

'') *Demetrius (''

A Midsummer Night's Dream ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict amon ...

'') Cavalli *Mercurio ('' La Calisto'') Debussy *Pelléas ('' Pelléas et Mélisande'') Donizetti *Don Alfonso ('' La favorita'') *Malatesta ('' Don Pasquale'') *Belcore (''

L'elisir d'amore ''L'elisir d'amore'' (''The Elixir of Love'', ) is a ' (opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's ' (1831). The opera premiere ...

'') *Lord Enrico Ashton ('' Lucia di Lammermoor'') Korngold *Frank-Fritz ('' Die tote Stadt'' ) Lehàr *Danilo (''

Die lustige Witwe ''The Merry Widow'' (german: Die lustige Witwe, links=no ) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt t ...

'') Marschner *Hans Heiling (''

Hans Heiling ''Hans Heiling'' is a German Romantic opera in 3 acts with prologue by Heinrich Marschner with a libretto by Eduard Devrient, who also sang the title role at the première at the Königliche Hofoper (now Berlin State Opera), Berlin, on 24 May 1 ...

'') Massenet *Athanaël ('' Thaïs'') Mozart *Papageno ('' The Magic Flute'') *Guglielmo / Don Alfonso (''

'') *Don Giovanni (''

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 ...

'') *Figaro / Il Conte ('' Le nozze di Figaro'') *Nardo ('' La finta giardiniera'') Rossini *Figaro ('' Il barbiere di Siviglia'') *Dandini ('' La Cenerentola'') Thomas *Hamlet ( ''Hamlet'') Tchaikovsky *Eugene Onegin ('' Eugene Onegin'') Paisiello *Giorgino (''Il matrimonio inaspettato'') Puccini *Marcello ('' La bohème'') Schubert *Froila ('' Alfonso und Estrella'') Schumann *Faust, Pater Seraphicus, Doctor Marianus ('' Szenen aus Goethes Faust'') J.Strauss *Eisenstein, Falke ('' Die Fledermaus'') R.Strauss *Harlequin ('' Ariadne auf Naxos'') *Olivier ('' Capriccio'') Verdi *Marquis de Posa ('' Don Carlo'') *Ford ('' Falstaff'') Wagner *Beckmesser ('' Die Meistersinger'') *Wolfram ('' Tannhäuser'')

Concert and Lieder repertoire

CONCERT Brahms *Requiem Bach *Solobasskantaten "ich habe genug", Kreuzstabkantate *Johannespassion *Matthäuspassion Fauré *Requiem Haydn *Schöpfung Mendelssohn *Elias *Paulus Mozart *Mass in C minor *Krönungsmesse Mahler *Des Knaben Wunderhorn *Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Orff *Carmina Burana Schubert *Messe in C-Dur *Messe in G-Dur LIEDER Brahms Schubert Schumann Wolf

Discography

;DVDs * Heinrich Marschner, Hans Heiling (M.Werba, A.C.Antonacci, H.Lippert, G.Fontana; regia P.L.Pizzi) aprile 2004 Cagliari, Teatro Lirico. Dynamic 33467/1-2 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, La finta giardiniera (Gens,Kučerová,Reinprecht,Donose,Ainsley, Graham-Hall, Werba, Ivor Bolton) 2006 Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg * Franz Schubert, Alfonso und Estrella (Mei, Trost, Werba) Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Lirico di Cagliari * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Die Zauberflote. Bernard Richter,

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, Mandy Fredrich,

Georg Zeppenfeld Georg Zeppenfeld (born 1970) is a German operatic bass. Life Born in Attendorn, Zeppenfeld studied first music and Germanistik at the , then concert and opera singing at the music academies in Detmold and Köln, and then with Kammersänger H ...

, Markus Werba, Elisabeth Schwarz, Concentus Musicus Wien / Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Sony 2 DVD * Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Actors: Michael Volle, Georg Zeppenfeld, Markus Werba, Monika Bohinec, Roberto Saccà; conductor: Daniele Gatti, Vienna Philharmonic

References

External links

Markus Werba
Hilbert Artists Management (in German)
Markus Werba
Operabase
blog of Markus Werba

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Werba, Markus 1973 births Living people Austrian operatic baritones People from Carinthia (state) University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni 21st-century Austrian male opera singers