Peter Seiffert (born 4 January 1954) is a German
tenor.
Biography
Born in
Düsseldorf, Seiffert studied at the
Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf and made his debut in 1978 at the
Deutschen Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf/
Duisburg. In 1979, he was awarded a second place in the
Deutscher Musikwettbewerb (German Music Competition), and appeared on the TV show ''
Anneliese Rothenberger
Anneliese Rothenberger (19 June 191924 May 2010) was a German operatic soprano who had an active international performance career which spanned from 1942 to 1983. She specialized in the lyric coloratura soprano repertoire, and was particularly adm ...
gibt sich die Ehre'' (''Anneliese Rothenberger has the honour''
f meeting ....
In 1986, he married the soprano
Lucia Popp, 15 years his senior. She died in 1993, after which he married another soprano,
Petra-Maria Schnitzer.
He established his career at the
Bayreuth Festival
The Bayreuth Festival (german: link=no, Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived ...
, regularly appearing in the title role of ''
Lohengrin'', which he last performed in 2005 with his wife Schnitzer in the role of Elsa. In 2003 he was awarded the
Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, for his performance of
Tannhäuser, under
Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim (; in he, דניאל בארנבוים, born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin. He has been since 1992 General Music Director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeist ...
. Today, he is a sought-after
Heldentenor, singing many of the title roles of
Wagner's best-known operas.
Sources
Most of the information in this article is taken from the
German Wikipedia article.
External links
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Biography at the Bayerischen Staatsoper
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German operatic tenors
1954 births
Living people
Musicians from Düsseldorf
Österreichischer Kammersänger
20th-century German male opera singers
21st-century German male opera singers
Robert Schumann Hochschule alumni