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David Steffens - bass
David Steffens was born in Bavaria and started his vocal studies during
secondary school with Kjellaug Tesaker at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg.
In 2006, he received a scholarship for the Cusanuswerk Bonn and the Gianna-Szel
scholarship of the Mozarteum where he finished his master studies in July 2011
with distinction. Mr. Steffens did his debut in 2010 at the Landestheater in
Salzburg as Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro, subsequently he started the
Opera Studio at the Zurich Opernhaus. In 2012 he took part at the ‘Young Singers
Project’ at the Salzburg Festival, and From 2012 to 2014 he was member of the
ensemble of the Staatstheater in Klagenfurt. There he added roles to his
repertoire such as the Hermit (Der Freischütz), Nourabad (Bizet’s Les
pêcheurs de perles), Achilla (Händel’s Giulio Cesare) and Tchelio
(Prokofjev’s The Love for Three Oranges). After that he made his
debut at the Salzburg Festspiele singing Rocco in Beethoven’s Fidelio,
recent plans include also engagements at Opéra de Fribourg, the Opéra de
Lausanne, Staatstheater Stuttgart and at the festivals in Schwerin and Baden
Baden. Active also on the concert side he sang in prestigious concert halls such
as: Herkulessaal in Munich, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Mozarteum in Salzburg,
Teatro Manzoni in Bologna. Mr. Steffens regularly collaborates with conductors
as Ivor Bolton, Theodor Guschlbauer, Zubin Mehta, Ingo Metzmacher, Sir Simon
Rattle, Peter Schneider, Christoph von Dohnànyi, Lothar Zagrosek, Enoch zu
Guttenberg.
Besides his engagements at the Stadttheater in Stuttgart he will sing Osmin in
Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Opéra de Lyon.
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Lothar Zagrosek - conductor
Awarded the "Kritikerpreis 2009" by the "German Critics Association", Lothar
Zagrosek, was trained under the guide of Hans Swarovsky, István Kertész, Bruno
Maderna and Herbert von Karajan. Among the theaters and music institutions with
whom he collaborated is worth mentioning: the Bayerische Staatsoper, the
Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Semper Opera in Dresden, the Théâtre de la Monnaie,
and Royal Opera House Covent Garden. M° Zagrosek also conducted the Berliner and
Münchner Philharmoniker, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Orchestra dell'Accademia di
Santa Cecilia in Rome, Orchestre National de France, the London Philharmonic,
the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo. He
also appeared at prestigious festivals such as Wiener Festwochen, Berliner
Festwochen, the London Proms, the Munich Opera Festival and the Salzburg
Festival and he is a regular guest at the festivals for contemporary music in
Donaueschingen, Berlin, Brussels and Paris. Recent engagements include concerts
with the Orquesta Nacional de Espana in Madrid, a new staging of Nono's Intolleranza
1960 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and performances of Gluck's Orfeo
ed Euridice at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten, he then returned to the Teatro
la Fenice in Venice conducting Das Rheingold and Lou Salomé while
in Verona conducted Die Schöpfung and in Seoul Parsifal, he then
conducted Kàt'a Kabanovà in Hamburg and Don Giovanni in
Frankfurt.
M° Zagrosek returns to Bologna where in 2011 opened the Schoenberg Experience
Festival and where he has just conducted Strauss’ Elektra.
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concert program
Johannes Brahms
Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major for piano and orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio, ouverture op.72b
Christus am Ölberg, op.85
Teatro Manzoni
Bologna
November 26th, 2015
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