Albert Dohmen was born on 17 June 1956 and is a German operatic bass-baritone who is known internationally for performing leading roles by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.
19 Facts About Albert Dohmen
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Albert Dohmen has worked in concert halls and given lieder recitals.
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Albert Dohmen then studied law at the University of Cologne from 1976 to 1982.
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Albert Dohmen received private singing lessons from soprano Gladys Kuchta.
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Albert Dohmen has been working as a freelancer since 1991.
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Albert Dohmen then sang with conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Michel Plasson, Georges Pretre, Giuseppe Sinopoli, and Georg Solti.
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Albert Dohmen is regarded as one of the leading interpreters of the role of Wotan in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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Albert Dohmen sang this role in complete Ring cycles at the Grand Theatre de Geneve, the Dutch National Opera Amsterdam, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, from 2007 to 2010 under the direction of Christian Thielemann at the Bayreuth Festival, in 2009 with James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera, in 2011 at the Vienna State Opera, in 2012 at the Hamburg State Opera, and in 2013 to 2015 at the Liceu in Barcelona.
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Albert Dohmen appeared as Barak in Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss, first at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Zubin Mehta.
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Albert Dohmen performed internationally, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Teatro Real de Madrid, Opera Bastille, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, la Monnaie in Brussels, and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan.
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Albert Dohmen is regarded as one of the leading interpreters of Sachs in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg.
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Albert Dohmen sang this role in Geneva, in 2009 at the Liceu, and in 2011 at the Berliner Philharmonie with Marek Janowski.
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Albert Dohmen expanded his repertoire to bass roles, such as the Commendatore in a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera in 2010, and King Marke in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in 2011 with Christoph Eschenbach in Paris.
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From 2015, Albert Dohmen appeared as Alberich in the Ring at the Bayreuth Festival.
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Albert Dohmen appeared as King Marke in Tristan and Isolde at the Liceu, staged by Alex Olle.
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In 2022 Albert Dohmen returned to the Bayreuth Festival as Landgraf and Hagen in a new Ring production.
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Albert Dohmen is the only singer who has sung all the Wotans, all the Alberichs and Hagen at the Bayreuth Festival.
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Albert Dohmen has performed in concert at halls including the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Carnegie Hall in New York City, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, and the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
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Albert Dohmen has been giving lieder recitals from 2007, with a focus on Romantic music and late romanticism, singing works by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Hans Pfitzner, Richard Strauss, Franz Schreker, Hugo Wolf and Arnold Schonberg.