Matthias Rexroth (b. Nürnberg, Germany, 7 January 1970) is a German

countertenor A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a ...

and voice teacher. Winning 1st prizes at the Francisco-Viñas in Barcelona and the 'Belvedere Competition' in Vienna in 2000, preceded an extensive international performing and teaching career.

Early life and education

Matthias Rexroth was raised in

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and completed studies as an oboist, playing professionally before discovering his countertenor voice. He usually refers to himself as an

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(In English, a "Male alto"). Rexroth studied at the

Musikhochschule Karlsruhe A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger in ...

, the

Schola Cantorum Basiliensis The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, that focuses on early music and historically informed performance. Faculty at the school have organized performing ensembles that hav ...

, and privately with

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. In 1999 he received a stipend award from the cultural foundation of the state of Baden Württemberg.

Voice Teacher

Rexroth was a professor of voice at the Warsaw Opera Academy of the national theater (2014-2020) Teater Wielki and gives masterclasses at such places as the Berlin Hans Eisler Musikhochschule, the Meistersingerakademie in Neumarkt,

Frankfurt Opera The Oper Frankfurt (Frankfurt Opera) is a German opera company based in Frankfurt. Opera in Frankfurt am Main has a long tradition, with many world premieres such as Franz Schreker's '' Der ferne Klang'' in 1912, '' Fennimore und Gerda'' by Fre ...

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, Duszniki Zdroj, Daegu, Novosibirsk, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, Teatro Nacional Santiago (Fundación Ibáñez Atkinson ) the Kaunas Music Academy, Volksoper Wien, as well as masterclasses for ENOA. Among his students are Hannah Fheodoroff, Ewa Tracz, Nils Wanderer, and Jasmin White.

Career

Rexroth was hired by Pamela Rosenberg for his debut at the

Staatsoper Stuttgart The Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Opera) is a German opera company based in Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Staatsorchester Stuttgart serves as its resident orchestra. History Performances of operas, ballet an ...

with

Purcell Henry Purcell (, rare: ; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, ''Dido and Aeneas''; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's ...

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in 1999. A year later, in 2000, followed Apollo in Legrenzi's opera ''

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'' at the

Schwetzingen Festival The Schwetzingen Festival (German: Schwetzinger Festspiele, now Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele) is an early summer festival of opera and other classical music presented each year from May to early June in Schwetzingen, Germany. In 1952, the broadca ...

with

Thomas Hengelbrock Hans Thomas Hengelbrock (born 9 June 1958) is a German violinist, musicologist, stage director and conductor. Biography Hengelbrock was born in Wilhelmshaven, the son of teachers Günther and Dorothea Elisabeth (Schliefert) Hengelbrock. He stud ...

. His first major concert appearance was the internationally televised Bach-year 2000, Bach's Mass in B minor from the Leipzig

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with Thomaskantor

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, the

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and the

Gewandhaus Orchestra The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gewandhausorchester; also previously known in German as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig) is a German symphony orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany. The orchestra is named after the concert hall in which it is bas ...

. Also in 2000, Rexroth won two competitions, both wins as first countertenor ever: the 37th Francisco-Viñas in Barcelona - first prize in the category Male voices, as well as ‘best counter-tenor’ and the 19th 'Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition' in Vienna, winning the first prize and eight additional prizes. In 2001 the Cologne Philharmonie nominated Matthias Rexroth for the "Rising Star" award, with a tour of major European concert houses. In 2003 he represented Germany in the

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. Matthias Rexroth has collaborated frequently with the conductor

Nikolaus Harnoncourt Johann Nikolaus Harnoncourt (6 December 1929 – 5 March 2016) was an Austrian conductor, known for his historically informed performances. He specialized in music of the Baroque period, but later extended his repertoire to include Classical ...

in roles such as Unulfo in

Handel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel ( ; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti. Born in Halle, Germany, H ...

's ''Rodelinda'' at the

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, Hamor in Handel’s ''

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'', Didymus in Handel’s ''

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'' and Purcell’s '' Ode to St. Cecilia'' at the Vienna’s

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and the

Styriarte Styriarte (also written styriarte) is an annual summer festival of classical music in Graz and Styria, Austria, established in 1985. It is focused on Early music, Baroque music and music of the Classical period. Intended to showcase the work of Ni ...

festival in

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. Notable concerts include those with the

Vienna Philharmonic Vienna Philharmonic (VPO; ) is an orchestra that was founded in 1842 and is considered to be one of the finest in the world. The Vienna Philharmonic is based at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. Its members are selected from the orchestra of ...

under

Riccardo Muti Riccardo Muti (; born 28 July 1941) is an Italian conductor. He is current music director of the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini. Muti has previously held posts at the Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the ...

Fabio Luisi Fabio Luisi (born 17 January 1959) is an Italian conductor. He is currently principal conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and chief conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Biog ...

with the

Accademia di Santa Cecilia The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia () is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, founded by the papal bull ''Ratione congruit'', issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Western musical history: Greg ...

Rome, and

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and Donato Renzetti with the Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (born Rafael Frühbeck; 15 September 1933 – 11 June 2014) was a Spanish conductor and composer. Frühbeck was born in Burgos, Spain to a family of German ancestry. He first took up conducting while on military serv ...

with the

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, the ORF Radiosymphonieorchester and

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. Rexroth performs recitals regularly, at the

Berlin Philharmonie The () is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany, and home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall. The Philharmonie is on Herbert-von-Karajan- ...

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in Munich, Bad Kissingen, and with pianists Semion Skigin, Matteo Pais, Mariusz Kłubczuk and Eytan Pessen. Matthias Rexroth has also been a judge for the 10th

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competition. He has conducted the Georgisches Kammerorchester and the "Ensemble del' Arte" in Ingolstadt. In 2010 Rexroth appeared in a book of cooking recipes by famous opera singers ''Die Oper kocht'' by Evelyn Rillé and Johannes Ifkovits. Rexroth Matthias 012 jpg

Opera

Rexroth sang the title roles in

's ''

Giulio Cesare ''Giulio Cesare in Egitto'' (; ; HWV 17), commonly known as , is a dramma per musica (''opera seria'') in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel for the Royal Academy of Music in 1724. The libretto was written by Nicola Francesco Haym ...

'' (directed by Stefan Herheim) at the

Norwegian National Opera and Ballet The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet () is a Norwegian opera company and ballet company. The first fully professional company each for opera and ballet in Norway and the only such professional organisation in the country, it is currently resi ...

in Oslo in 2005,

Gluck Christoph Willibald ( Ritter von) Gluck (; ; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire at ...

's '' Ezio'' with the

Deutsche Oper am Rhein The Deutsche Oper am Rhein (German Opera on the Rhine) is an opera company based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. The opera also has an associated classical ballet company. Axel Kober has been its music director since 2009. The resident orchestra, t ...

in Düsseldorf in 2007, and

's '' Admeto'' at the

Handel Festival, Halle The Handel Festival (in German: Händel-Festspiele) in Halle an der Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, is an international music festival concentrating on the music of George Frideric Handel in the composer's birthplace. It was founded on May 25, 1922 and it ...

. For his performance of Admeto, Rexroth was nominated "Best Singing Actor" for the 2007 German theatre prize '' Der Faust''. He performed the title role of Handel's '' Ottone'' in Halle in 2011. Other

roles include Athamas in ''

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'' in

Essen Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as ...

, Arcane in ''

Teseo ''Teseo'' ("Theseus", HWV 9; ) is an opera seria with music by George Frideric Handel, the only Handel opera that is in five acts. The Italian-language libretto was by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Philippe Quinault's '' Thésée''. It was Ha ...

'' in Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt and

, Armindo in ''

Partenope ''Partenope'' (''Parthenope''), HWV 27, is an opera by George Frideric Handel, first performed at the King's Theatre in London on 24 February 1730. Although following the structure and forms of opera seria, the work is humorous in character ...

'' (under

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) and Tolomeo in ''

'' in Frankfurt (2013-5). Apart from Handel repertoire, Matthias Rexroth performed Corindo in

Antonio Cesti Antonio Cesti (; baptised Pietro Cesti, 5 August 1623; died 14 October 1669), known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, was also a singer (tenor) and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generatio ...

's '' Orontea'' under

Ivor Bolton Ivor Bolton Ivor Bolton (born 17 May 1958) is an English conductor and harpsichordist. Early life and education Bolton was born in Blackrod, Greater Manchester, England. He studied at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn and Clare C ...

(2014) at the Frankfurt opera, Nibbio in Giambattista Martini's ''

L'impresario delle Isole Canarie ' (The impresario from the Canary Islands), also known as ''L'impresario delle Canarie'' or ''Dorina e Nibbio'', is a satirical opera intermezzo libretto attributed to Metastasio (Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi), written in 1724 to be performed ...

'' at the

Semperoper The Semperoper () is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera) and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra). It is also home to the Semperoper Ballett. The building is located on the Th ...

Dresden (2014) (where he also performed various roles in

-2014),

Telemann Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by his contemporaries to be ...

's ''

Der geduldige Socrates ' ( TVWV 21:9, Hamburg 1721) is a comic German-language opera in three acts by Georg Philipp Telemann to a libretto by . The opera was Telemann's first full length purely comic opera, and was performed at the Oper am Gänsemarkt, while Reinhard ...

'' with

René Jacobs René Jacobs (born 30 October 1946) is a Belgian musician. He came to fame as a countertenor, but later in his career he became known as a conductor of baroque and classical opera. Biography Countertenor Born in Ghent, Jacobs began his musi ...

at the Festwochen der Alten Musik in Innsbruck and at the

Staatsoper Berlin The Staatsoper Unter den Linden ( State Opera under the Lime Trees), also known as the Berlin State Opera (), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany. The opera house was built by order of Pr ...

, Ottone in

Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considere ...

's ''

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'' at

Hamburg State Opera The Hamburg State Opera (in German: ) is a German opera company based in Hamburg. Its theatre is near the square of Gänsemarkt. Since 2015, the current ''Intendant'' of the company is Georges Delnon, and the current ''Generalmusikdirektor'' ...

, Oberon in

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's ''

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'' at the

Staatstheater Darmstadt The Staatstheater Darmstadt (Darmstadt State Theatre) is a theatre company and building in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, presenting opera, ballet, plays and concerts. It is funded by the German states, state of Hesse and the city of Darmstadt. Its hi ...

. Ozia in Almeida's ''La Giuditta'' in

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, Musico in

Donizetti Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian Romantic composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the ''bel canto'' opera ...

's ''

Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali ''Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali'' (''Conventions and Inconveniences of the Stage''), also known as ''Viva la mamma'' and ''Viva la Diva'', is a dramma giocoso, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written ...

'' at the

, and

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’ ''

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'' in the

Aalto Theatre The Aalto Theatre () is a performing arts venue in Essen, Germany, and is home to the city's opera company Aalto-Musiktheater and the ballet company Aalto Ballett. The serve as the venue's orchestra. The theatre opened on 25 September 1988 with R ...

in Essen under

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, and Alfonso in

Francesco Cavalli Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio Monteverdi as the dominant and leading op ...

's Veremonda.

Concerts

Concert appearances with the

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gewandhausorchester; also previously known in German as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig) is a German symphony orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany. The orchestra is named after the concert hall in which it is bas ...

, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Radio Televisione Española Madrid, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Santa Cecilia orchestra,

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin A German Akademie is a school or college, trade school or another educational institution. The word Akademie (unlike the words Gymnasium or Universität) is not protected by law, and any school or college may choose to call itself Akademie. A Som ...

, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra,

Concerto Köln Concerto Köln is an ensemble specialising in music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The group formed in 1985, one of many groups associated with the surging interest in period instruments in that decade. Its members consisted mainly ...

Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart is a foundation in Stuttgart, founded by Helmuth Rilling in 1981 to foster international concerts and workshops, namely Musikfest Stuttgart, dedicated especially to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in relati ...

, the Berliner Philharmoniker Scharoun Ensemble Orchestra Montis realis, and the festivals of Schwetzingen, Innsbruck, Ludwigsburg, Rheingau, Baden-Baden and Shanghai. The composer

Wolfgang Rihm Wolfgang Rihm (; 13 March 1952 – 27 July 2024) was a German composer of contemporary classical music and an academic teacher based in Karlsruhe. He was an influential post-war European composer, as "one of the most original and independent mus ...

wrote ''Kolonos'' (“Oedipus auf Kolonos”) for Rexroth, performed and recorded by the SWR and the

Rossini in Wildbad Rossini in Wildbad is a bel canto opera festival in Bad Wildbad, Baden-Württemberg, specialising in the lesser-known operas of Gioachino Rossini and his contemporaries. The festival commemorates a stay by Rossini at the town's spa in 1856, whic ...

opera festival in 2008, and with

Constantin Trinks Constantin Trinks (born 9 April 1975) is a German conductor. Life Born in Karlsruhe, Trinks studied piano with Günter Reinhold at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and conducting with Wolf-Dieter Hauschild. While still a student, Trinks wor ...

in Darmstadt.

Recordings

Recordings with all major broadcasting companies in Germany have taken place. These include:

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Hessischer Rundfunk (; "Hesse Broadcasting"), shortened to HR (; stylized as hr), is the German state of Hesse's public broadcasting corporation. Headquartered in Frankfurt, it is a member of the national consortium of German public broadcasting corporations, A ...

Norddeutscher Rundfunk (; "North German Broadcasting"), commonly shortened to NDR (), is a public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, ...

, SFB,

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and

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Specific recordings

* 2001: J.S. Bach ''Mass in B minor'', Universal Music Classics & Jazz ASIN: B003TXPUN2 * 2004: Rossini ''Tancredi'', Nef ASIN: B0002CPFCE Roman Fryscheisen, "''Tancredi'' mit Counter Matthias Rexroth und beiden Finale Fassunge", ''Opernwelt'' (magazine), August 2004 * 2004: Solo recital: ''Stimme der Könige'', Matthias Rexroth NEF ASIN: B0001TSYZS * 2007: Händel, ''Admeto'', Arthaus ASIN: B000M2EBTC * 2007: Gluck's ''Ezio'' * 2008: CPE Bach ''Magnificat'' / Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, ASIN: B001GHD43G * 2011: Telemann ''Germanicus'', CPO, ASIN: B005UU066S * 2012: Handel ''Teseo'', Carus, 2012, ASIN: B002QEIQVI * 2012: Mozart ''Ascanio in Alba'', K. 111 (Excerpts) Ars Produktion ASIN: B008Y1VLGE

Interviews

* Heinrich Becker, "Matthias Rexroth Temperament für die Bühne", ''Orpheus'', March–April 2003, pp. 10–11 (In German)
Live interview on NDR
(In German)
2008 interview
retrieved June 2013. (In German)

References

Notes Additional sources * Beeks, Graydon, Rexroth's performance in '' Admeto'' in the
"Report from Halle 2006"
in ''Newsletter of The American Handel Society'', Volume XXI, Number 2, Summer 2006 * Kay, Graem
"This evening, the German singer Matthias Rexroth made history by being the first counter-tenor to take part in the competition"
23 June 2003, on bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 27 June 2003 * Rillé, Evelyn and Johannes Ifkovits, ''Die Oper kocht'' ''(The Opera Cooks)'', Opera Rifko (2010)

External links

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