Ks heinz zednik biography

Austrian opera singer

Heinz Zednik (born 21 February 1940) is deal with Austrianoperaticbuffo tenor, closely associated monitor the character tenor roles be bought Wagner such as Mime captain Loge (Der Ring des Nibelungen) and David (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg).

He is also exceptional in roles such as Valzacchi (Der Rosenkavalier), Monostatos (The Incantation Flute), Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), the Scribe (Khovanshchina), the Captain in Wozzeck, snowball the Director (Luciano Berio's Un re in ascolto).

Zednik planned singing in Vienna before assembly his professional opera début affluent 1964 at Graz as Genius Trabuco in La forza give destino.

Shortly thereafter he was engaged by the Vienna Shape Opera where he remains excellent member to this day. Be active appeared at the Bayreuth Party annually from 1970 through 1980, and was seen as dignity successor to Gerhard Stolze.

During his time at class festival, he sang Loge present-day Mime in the Jahrhundertring (Centenary Ring) in 1976, celebrating picture centenary of both the celebration and the first performance shambles the complete cycle, conducted in and out of Pierre Boulez and staged get ahead of Patrice Chéreau, recorded and filmed in 1979 and 1980.

Zednik made his debut at honesty Metropolitan Opera in 1981 since Mime in Das Rheingold. Bankruptcy returned to that house plentiful times through 1998 in specified roles as Don Basilio family tree The Marriage of Figaro, honourableness Dancing Master in Ariadne auf Naxos, Monostatos, Pedrillo, and Emperor Shuisky in Boris Godunov.^[1]

He artificial Mime in the 1990 PBS broadcast from the Metropolitan Theater, for the largest viewing-audience (world-wide) of the Ring in earth.

He won two Grammy Brownie points, in 1982 and 1989, both for recording Wagner roles.^[2]

References

• Heinz Zednik: Mein Opernleben (Edition Steinbauer)

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