Michael Volle has performed at major opera houses in Europe and the Metropolitan Opera, in roles including Mandryka in Arabella and Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg.
13 Facts About Michael Volle
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Michael Volle's awards include Singer of the Year by the magazine Opernwelt and Der Faust.
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Michael Volle's brothers are the actor Hartmut Volle and the opera singer Dietrich Volle.
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Michael Volle studied voice at the Musikhochschule Trossingen and Musikhochschule Stuttgart with Josef Sinz and Georg Jelden, and studied with Josef Metternich and Rudolf Piernay.
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Michael Volle was first engaged at the Nationaltheater Mannheim in 1990, where leading roles included Guglielmo in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and Papageno in Die Zauberflote, Wolfram in Wagner's Tannhauser, and Albert in Massenet's Werther.
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Michael Volle belonged to the ensemble of the Bonn Opera from 1994, where he appeared as Mozart's Don Giovanni, Silvio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, and the Count in Lortzing's Der Wildschutz.
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Michael Volle was engaged by the Deutsche Oper am Rhein from 1996, and by the Cologne Opera from 1998, where he appeared as Marcello in Puccini's La Boheme and as Ford in Verdi's Falstaff.
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Michael Volle was a member of the ensemble of the Opernhaus Zurich from 1999 to 2007.
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Michael Volle then moved to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where he appeared as Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte, Amfortas in Wagner's Parsifal, and in the title roles of Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin and Alban Berg's Wozzeck, among others.
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Michael Volle appeared as a guest at major German and European opera houses, as Heerrufer in Wagner's Lohengrin at the Opera National de Paris in 1996, as the Speaker in Mozart's Zauberflote at La Scala in 1998, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and La Monnaie in Brussels, among others.
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Michael Volle appeared at the Salzburg Festival as Tamare in Schreker's Die Gezeichneten, in the double role of Dr Schon and Jack the Ripper in Berg's Lulu, and in 2013 as Hans Sachs in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg.
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Michael Volle was Hans Sachs there in the highly acclaimed production of the work in 2017, directed by Barrie Kosky.
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Michael Volle made his first appearance at the Metropolitan Opera as Mandryka in Arabella by Richard Strauss, followed by performances as Hans Sachs there.