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Michael SCHADE
tenor
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German-canadian tenor Michael Schade is equally at home in Europe's and America's opera houses. His passion for his artform embraces recitals, operas, concerts and recordings.
Michael Schade's close collaboration with the Vienna Staatsoper continues in the 2007/08 season when he returns to Vienna in a new production of Capriccio in the role of Flamand and performs Matteo (Arabella) and Tamino. He further takes part in guest performances of the Vienna Staatsoper in Luxembourg where he appears in the role of Don Ottavio. Michael Schade has performed a range of roles in Vienna including Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Almaviva, Henry (Die schweigsame Frau), Leukippos (Daphne) as well as the title part of Idomeneo in a production of the Vienna Staatsoper at the Theater an der Wien. With all these parts he regularly appears in many of the world's leading opera houses with great success. Highlights of the past seasons were performances at the Metropolitan Opera, in Los Angeles, in San Francisco and in Toronto. He sang Oedipus rex in Edinburgh, Così fan tutte in Paris, Idomeneo in Dresden and Don Giovanni in London. He gave his highly acclaimed debut in Japan with guest performances of the Vienna Staatsoper in October 2004 where he sang Don Ottavio with great success. The 2007 summer featured Michael Schade's 14th consecutive year at the Salzburg Festival in which he appeared in Haydn's Armida. During the past years he took part in such new productions as of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauebrflöte as well as Purcell's King Arthur. Concerts figure prominently on his calendar with a repertory that ranges from Bach's Passions up to Mahler's Lied von der Erde. He performs with the Vienna, Berlin and New York Philharmonic, Concentus Musicus Wien, San Francisco and Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and works with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Semyon Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, Christoph von Dohnányi, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Fabio Luisi, Sir Charles Mackerras, Riccardo Muti, Trevor Pinnock, Helmuth Rilling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Christian Thielemann, Michael Tilson Thomas and Franz Welser-Möst. Michael Schade has been working many times with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic and the Concentus Musicus Wien. Many of these concerts have been released on CD for Sony BMG. During the current season he sings under his baton a program with arias by Mozart and Haydn at the Vienna Musikverein and in Bruxelles and Bern as well as Bach's St. Matthwe Passion at the Vienna Musikverein and in Lucerne. Further highlights of the 2007/08 season include Haydn's Creation with the Berlin Phihlarmonic under Sir Simon Rattle at the Salzburg Easter Festival, recitals in Amsterdam, at the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Theater an der Wien as well as concerts with Mariss Jansons in Rome, with the Wiener Virtuosen at the Vienna Musikverein and with the Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio under Daniel Harding in Munich and Bad Kissingen among many others. As a recitalist Michael Schade has been singing in the most important concert halls including the Scala di Milano, the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, New York Alice Tully Hall and the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. He further appeared in Bruxelles, Paris, Cologne, London, Barcelona, Lisbon, New York and Toronto. Michael Schade can be heard regularly in duo-recitals together with the German-Canadian baritone Russell Braun. During the current season it is for the first time that he appears in duo-recitals with Thomas Quasthoff in which he appears in Schwarzenberg and Berlin. The 2006 Mozart anniversary season held special meaning for Michael Schade. Not only he performed many of his signature Mozart roles, but he conceived and developed a special programme inspired by Mozart's arias and letters, a programme that he performed and presented together with the actor Tobias Moretti at the Salzburg Festival. A prolific recording artist, in 2005 Michael Schade added to his extensive discography with a recording of Die schöne Müllerin with Malcolm Martineau (CBC Records), Handel's Messiah (SonyBMG) conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and the Verdi Requiem (SonyBMG). His recording of Daphne (Decca) with Renée Fleming was nominated for a Grammy in 2005 and his recording of St. Matthwe Passion (Teldec), conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt won the 2002 Grammy for Best Choral Performance. Other recordings include Mahler's Lied von der Erde with the Vienna Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez, Mozart's Requiem with the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado and several Lied recordings with Russell Braun among many others. In January 2007, Michael Schade was named a Kammersänger by the Austrian government, the first Canadian to be so honoured. www.mschade.com |
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