Tilman Michael (on special leave 2024/25)
Gesa Johanna Horn
Gesa.Horn@buehnen-frankfurt.de
Maite Ezpeleta, your contact if applying to join the Extra Chorus
Maite.Ezpeleta@buehnen-frankfurt.de
Oper Frankfurt's Chorus
(Chorus Master Tilman Michael)
There are vacancies from time to time. Being able to speak some German and having trained as a singer is an advantage.
Apply by email: gesa.horn@buehnen-frankfurt.de
(please don't send any recordings, if you send a photo, then a passport one, please)
Extra Chorus
Auditions for our Extra Chorus take place twice a year, so do apply if you'd like to.
Our Extra Chorus reinforce our Chorus for large scale productions. The singers need to be very flexible and live in or near Frankfurt am Main.
Please apply, with information about your musical background to: Maite.Ezpeleta@buehnen-frankfurt.de
Oper Frankfurt's chorus is one of the largest in Germany. The stagione-system was introduced in 1993 and the chorus reduced. A few years later Oper Frankfurt returned to the repertoire system and the chorus was enlarged again. It is now possible to perform large scale operas using the chorus' own forces, with the occasional help of extra chorus members.
Oper Frankfurt's Chorus, under Tilman Michael's leadership since the 2014/2015 season, and regularly praised by public and press alike, were voted »Chorus of the Year« in 2022 & 2023 by Opernwelt magazine. They won second place in this category in 2005.
A chorus' "role" in an opera is often as difficult and demanding as a soloists "leading role" - one only has to think of Verdi's operas or great Russian operas such as Mussorgsky's "Khowanshchina".
Solo roles are regularly entrusted to members of Opera Frankfurt's Chorus. This means that chorus singers' voices are also trained to soloist standards so that their voice can »carry« in the opera house. They must train every day, even on days when there is no performance. They constantly work at furthering their artistic development in lessons, on the operatic stage or in concert.
The international spectrum of the opera's chorus is huge - with members from the USA, Russia, China, Korea, Japan, Chile, the Ukraine, Lithuania, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Serbia, Albania and, of course, Germany. This babylonian mixture of languages ceases when the chorus sing on stage in a common language: in German, Italian, English, French, Russian and Czech. This in itself is impressive enough but they must also sing everything from memory.
CHORUS MEMBERS:
SOPRANOS
Malin Aldener Nardi, Julia Jordan Bell, Christine Brenk, Marta Casas, Jerilyn Rothe, Janice Creswell, Katrin Dieckelt-Kowalczyk, Stefanie Heidinger, Birgit Herget, Ursula Hering, Julia Katharina Heße, Alketa Hoxha, Bock-Sill Kim, Euikyung Kim, Elke Kerstin Nordeck, Anna Oswald, Kalliopi Patrona, Camelia Suzana Peteu, Jadranka Petrovic-Cadez, Chloe Robbins, Bianca Schatte, Michaela Gisela Schaudel, Konstanze Schlaud, Magdalena Tomczuk
ALTOS
Enikö Boros, Emma Char, Grace Eunchoung Choi, Janet Collins, Yvonne Hettegger, Katja Isken-Sturm, Hyowon Jung, Young Sook Kim, Anja Knittel, Tiina Lönnmark, Julia Mattheis, Hiromi Mori, Tatiana Press, Hyemi Rusch-Jung, Rebekka Stolz, Emma Stannard, Anna Suchotzkaja, Elena Tasevska, Svea Verfürth, Christiane Maria Waschk-Gemünd, Jianhua Zhu
TENORS
Roberto Cassani, Hyun Ouk Cho, Alexey Egorov, Hwayoung Noah Eum, Sebastian Franz, Donát Havár, Patrick Henckens, Ricardo Iturra, Sung Ho Kim, Young Shik Kim, Hyung Kwon Lee, Johannes Lehner, Pere Llompart, Constantin Neiconi, Florian Richter, Enzo Salini, Won Woo Shim, Otakar Souček
BASSES
Olivier Brunel, Thomas Charrois, Yan Lei Chen, Jin Soo Choi, Aslan Diasamidze, Dong-Hyub Hong, Garegin Hovsepian, Cheol Kang, Nicolai Klawa, Hyeonjoon Kwon, Rastislav Lalinský, Jin Soo Lee, Yongchul Lim, Lars Rößler, Thomas Schobert, Gerhard Singer, Boris Stenzel
They're aged between 9 and 18 and love singing and being on stage! They meet up to practise every Thursday and then there are rehearsals for those involved in productions, and vocal training.
Musical Director Álvaro Corral Matute
Vocal Coach Anna Ryberg
Project Management Adda Grevesmühl
contact: kinderchor@buehnen-frankfurt.de
