HEINZ GOHRIG

Heinz Göhrig, whose rôles have included those of the Second Priest in Die Zauberflöte and Goro in Madama Butterfly, was born in Heidelberg, where he studied singing at the Musikhochschule. After a three-year engagement at the Freiburg Theatre, in 1988 he joined the Stuttgart State Opera, where he has appeared in the first performance of Zender’s Don Quijote de la Mancha, as Steersman, David, Cassio, Truffaldino, in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, as the tenor in Le convenienze teatrali,as Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Pietro in Die Gezeichneten und Corrado in Una cosa rara. He also sang Melot in Tristan und Isolde, Hauk-Schendorf in The Makropulos Case and the Governor in Simplicius Simplicissimus,Mime in Siegfried and Beelzebuth/A Student in Doktor Faust. In 1995 he made guest appearances at the Munich State Opera with the title-rôle of Henze’s Der junge Lord, in 1997 at the Bonn Opera as Mime in Das Rheingold and in 2001 as Scaramuccio in Wieler’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Salzburg Festival. In 1998 he was named Kammersänger of the Stuttgart State Opera.

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