You’ve seen him recently as Siegfried, and not long ago singing the titular role in Tannhäuser. We have invited tenor Stefan Vinke to speak with us about his life and career.
This is an online event. A Zoom link to the live interview will be provided to those who have booked. Attendees will also have the opportunity to ask questions to Stefan at the end.
German Heldentenor, Stefan Vinke, graduated as a church musician at the Cologne College of Music before beginning his professional singing career in Karlsruhe and Krefeld / Mönchengladbach. In 1999 he was awarded the position of ‘Young Heroic Tenor’ at the Nationaltheater Mannheim where in 2000 he was voted ‘Male Newcomer of the Year’ by Opernwelt magazine.
Most recent and future plans include Siegmund in Walküre at Greek National Opera, his return to Opera Australia for the new production of the Ring Cycle at Brisbane, Siegfried at Atlanta Opera and Stuttgart Staatsoper, as well as a return to the Müpa in Budapest as Siegfried in the Ring Cycle, the title roles of Tristan und Isolde for Seattle Opera, Tannhäuser for the Royal Opera House and Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, among others. On the concert platform he joins Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic for a performance of Das Lied von der Erde, and sings the title role of Tannhäuser in a concert performance for Opera Australia..
Globally renowned as an interpreter of Wagner’s great tenor roles, he has sung the title roles of Tristan, Siegfried, Tannhäuser, Parsifal, Lohengrin and Rienzi, also Siegmund in Die Walküre, Siegfried in Götterdämmerung, Erik Der Fliegende Holländer, and Walther von Stolzing Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Stefan Vinke was Tristan in two productions, Siegfried (Siegfried and Götterdämmerung) and Walther von Stolzing at the Bayreuth Festival.
His numerous Ring cycle appearances include the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden with Sir Antonio Pappano, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Salzburg- and Bayreuth festival and Bayerische Staatsoper under Kiril Petrenko, Barcelona, Venice, Köln, Bukarest, Budapest, Melbourne…
He has also sung the title role of Idomeneo, Florestan Fidelio, Bacchus Ariadne, Menelas Die Ägytische Helena, Paul Die tote Stadt, Alviano Die Gezeichneten, and Jim Mahony Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in the theatres of Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Munich, Paris, Montpellier, Lisbon, Barcelona, Venice, Madrid, Sydney, Bejing, Geneva, Chicago, Seattle, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and at the Salzburg Festival.
Bookings: https://www.wagnermelb.org.au/book-now/p/conversation-stefan-vinke
Cost: all $10