Jochen Kupfer

Jochen Kupfer was only nine years old, he got his first singing lessons at the music school of his native town of Grimma in Saxony in Germany. He studied with Helga Forner at Musikhochschule Leipzig and attended Master Classes with Theo Adam, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – and completed his studies with Rudolf Piernay, Harald Stamm and Dale Fundling.

In addition to his engagements at the Staatstheater Nürnberg and the Semperoper Dresden guest appearances have taken Kupfer to the opera houses like, among others, the opera in Zürich, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Vienna Volksoper, Staatsoper Hamburg, Komische Oper Berlin, Oper Leipzig, Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.

Highly acclaimed role debuts in preceding seasons include Amfortas in Parsifal by Wagner, the title role in Rubinstein's The Demon, Duke Bluebeard in Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Wozzeck in Berg's opera of the same name, Gunther in Götterdämmerung, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde – as well as Orest in Elektra, Escamillo in Carmen and the title role in Rossini's Guillaume Tell.
The roles Frank and Fritz in Die tote Stadt (The Dead City) he has also interpreted at Staatstheater Nürnberg.

His repertoire also includes Johann Sebastian Bach's passions and Haydn's Schöpfung (Creation) as well as the romantic oratorios, Orff's Carmina Burana and also the famous Lied cycles and Lieder from the late romantic period up to classical modernism.

Since 2019 he has been professor in singing at Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg. In 2016 Jochen Kupfer was awarded the honorary title Bayerischer Kammersänger.

Here in Bergen Günter Papendell will sing this double role at the premiere on November 2nd, before Kupfer sings the next three performances from November 4th.

Published October 2024