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Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke
Character-tenor

Born in Austria, he studies at the Musikhochschule in Vienna with Prof. Gerhard Kahry (voice) and Kmsg. Kurt Equiluz (Lied/oratorio)

He makes his début at the Opéra National de Paris in 1997 and subsequently is invited to do Goro/Madama Butterfly, Monostatos (with Bob Wilson and Fura del Baus) as well as 1.Geharnischter/Zauberflöte, Capito/Mathis der Maler, Block/Gerichtsdiener at the world premiere of Philippe Manoury’s “K...”, Mime/Ring des Nibelungen and Shabby Peasant/Lady Macbeth of Mszensk.

At the Glyndebourne Festival Opera he sings in more than 130 performances including Vašek/Bartered Bride, Reverend Adams/Peter Grimes, Monostatos, Arnalta/L’Incoronazione di Poppea and the Witch/Hansel und Gretel - the two last also semistaged at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall -, Tanzmeister/Ariadne auf Naxos and Podestà/La finta giardiniera.

Further important engagements: Valzacchi/Rosenkavalier (Monnaie de Bruxelles, Baden-Baden-Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Bayerische Staatsoper), Monostatos (Nederlandse Opera), Dr. Cajus/Falstaff (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Teatro Real Madrid), Rheingold-Mime (Semperoper Dresden, Teatro alla Scala, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier/Montreal, De Nederlandse Opera, Bunka Kaikan/Tokyo, Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich Opera Festival, Opernhaus Zürich), Siegfried-Mime (Capitole de Toulouse, Teatro Real, La Fenice, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich Opera Festival, Staatsoper Stuttgart, De Nederlandse Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Wiener Staatsoper, Odense, Opernhaus Zürich), Pedrillo/Entführung (Festival Mozart La Coruña, Teatro Real, San Carlo di Napoli), Trimalchio in Maderna’s Satyricon, Josef/Wiener Blut and the world-premiere of Battistelli's Divorzio all’italiana (Opéra national de Lorraine), Blue-beard/Offenbach (Bregenz Festival, Oper Leipzig, Komische Oper Berlin), Loge/Rheingold (Opéra national du Rhin, Lucerne Festival, Opera North, Teatro Comunale Bologna), Aegisth/Elektra (Opéra national du Rhin, Verbier Festival, Wiener Staatsoper, Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden, Berliner Philharmonie), Hauptmann/Wozzeck (La Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse), Piet/Grand Macabre (English National Opera, Berliner Philharmonie), Witch (Opéra national de Lyon, Bayerische Staatsoper), Herod/Salome (Wiener Volksoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra national du Rhin, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Bayerische Staatsoper, Scala, International Opera Festival Daegu), Pirzel/Die Soldaten (Salzburg Festival, Scala), Prinz/Kammerdiener/Marquis in Lulu (Staatsoper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Théâtre de la Monnaie), scenic world-premiere of Gurre-Lieder/Klaus Narr at Nederlandse Opera and in concert in Bergen, Lille, Melbourne, Salle Pleyel/Paris, Göteborg, Hannover, Saint-Denis-Festival, Royal Festival Hall, Elbphilharmonie/Hamburg, Semperoper/Dresden, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and at Helsinki Festival, Pollux/Liebe der Danae at Salzburg Festival, Ivan/The Nose for his debut at Covent Garden, Wenzel/Bartered Bride and Franz I./Karl V. (Krenek) at Bayerische Staatsoper and Münchner Opernfestspiele, Monsieur Taupe/Capriccio at Semperoper Dresden, Pluton/Aristée in Orphée aux enfers at Komische Oper Berlin, Baron de Laubardemont in Penderecki's Die Teufel von Loudun at Münchner Opernfestspiele, Dallapiccola's Il prigioniero/Carceriere + Grande Inquisitore at Philharmonie Berlin, WDR-jubilee-concert with Orff's Carmina burana at Kölner Philharmonie, Basilio/Le Nozze di Figaro at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, der Aufrührerische/Jakobsleiter at Philharmonie Berlin.

Recently he has performed Mime in Rheingold and Siegfried at Teatro alla Scala, Schreiber/Chowantschina at Helsinki Festival/Baltic Sea Festival Stockholm and Osterfestspiele Salzburg, Knusperhexe at Bayerische Staatsoper, Rheingold-Loge at Opéra de Monte Carlo, Herodes at Barbican Centre London.

He works with stage directors such as Warlikowski, Michieletto, Flimm, Homoki, McBurney, Stone, Fau, Pelly, Wilson, Audi, Kriegenburg, Tcherniakov, Breth, Hermanis, McVickar, Bösch, Krämer, Pountney, Py, Carsen, Kosky, Livermore or Fura dels Baus and with conductors such as K. Petrenko, Barenboim, Metzmacher, Hussain, Altinoglu, Welser-Möst, Luisi, Nagano, Gardner, M. Albrecht, A. + Ph. Jordan, Haïm, Conlon, Thielemann, Ticciati, Haenchen, Eschenbach, Young, Pappano, Lyniv, Salonen, Capuano or Vladimir Jurowski

Future engagements: Herodes and Aegisth at Staatsoper Hamburg, Ring des Nibelungen/Mime at Teatro alla Scala, Hauptmann/Wozzeck at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Bürgermeister in Einem’s Der Besuch der alten Dame at Gärtnerplatztheater Munich, Schreiber/Chowantschina at Metropolitan Opera House, Herod at Megaron concert hall Athens.

After the performance of Salome on 28.07.2021 at Munich Opera Festival he received the title of Bayerischer Kammersänger, in 2022 he was awarded the title of Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French General Consul in Munich and he received the Austrian Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst in Vienna.

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