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Oliver Zwarg

Oliver Zwarg’s active operatic repertoire includes such roles as Strauss‘ Barak, Jochanaan and Orest, Wagner’s Amfortas, Dutchman, Kurwenal and Alberich, Berg’s Wozzeck, Mozart‘s Figaro, Leporello and Papageno, Verdi’s Amonasro, Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Scarpia and Debussy’s Golaud, which in 2007 brought him multiple nominations for the German magazine Opernwelt’s Artist of the Year. These will be joined over coming seasons by, among others, Hans Sachs, Wotan (already sung in concert in 2016) and Iago. When he starred in Franz Schreker’s rarely performed Der Schmied von Gent in 2010 at Chemnitz, the Frankfurter Rundschau praised the way “he steered with unstrained precision through the huge title role”, while Opernwelt found that “with his robust, beautiful baritone he is a kind of German Bryn Terfel”. The CD of the production has appeared at cpo in February 2012.

In June 2019 Oliver Zwarg will perform Mahler’s Lieder together with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn. Later, in autumn 2019, the singer will make his appearances in Janáček’s Katja Kabanowa at the Hamburg State Opera, and in Offenbach’s Les Contes d 'Hoffmann at the Semperoper Dresden. In the begining of 2020 he will sing in Wagner’s The Mastersingers of Nuremberg under the baton of Christian Thielemann in Dresden, and year later will make his house debut at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, performing in Strauss’ Salome.

Having trained in Stuttgart, Bremen-born Zwarg enjoys a close relationship with that city’s opera house and, within Germany, is also a regular visitor to the opera houses of Cologne (where he had an outstanding success as Alberich, a role he repeated when the company visited the Shanghai Expo is 2010), Berlin (Staatsoper unter den Linden and Komische Oper), Dresden, Munich, Hamburg, Darmstadt and Chemnitz. Internationally, he has appeared at the opera houses of Barcelona, Madrid, Copenhagen, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Lille and Liège, and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, while his festival dates have included Salzburg (Easter and Summer festivals), Lucerne, Edinburgh, Ludwigsburg and the Wiener Festwochen. Beyond his operatic roles, Zwarg commands a concert repertoire that extends from the Renaissance to the present day.

Oliver Zwarg performs with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Daniele Gatti, Marco Armiliato, Lothar Zagrosek, Ingo Metzmacher, Markus Stenz and Paul McCreesh and works with stage directors such as Calixto Bieito, Stefan Herheim, Peter Konwitschny, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Robert Carsen, Achim Freyer and Jossi Wieler.

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