Biography
Internationally renowned, Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester has established himself as one of the most distinguished Bass-Baritones of his generation. Following his debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele as Konrad Nachtigall/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in 2001, he was regularly re-invited to perform in roles such as Fritz Kothner/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Amfortas/Parsifal under P. Boulez. In the summer of 2006, he was praised for his debut as Gunter/Götterdämmerung in the new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by C. Thielemann.In addition to his engagements as a Wagner Baritone, he dedicates a good amount of his time to the Italian and French repertoire as well. In recent seasons, he has performed Germont/La traviata, Barbiere/Il barbiere di Siviglia, Conte di Luna/Il trovatore, as well as Posa/Don Carlo, Nabucco/Nabucco and the villains of Les Contes d’Hoffmann. In 2007, he made his debut as Miller/Luisa Miller and as Germont/La traviata in Toronto.
Further engagements led him, among others, to the Theaters in Madrid, Barcelona, Genua, Riga, Bonn, Essen, Dortmund, Mannheim, Saarbrücken and Wiesbaden. He guested as Kurwenal/Tristan und Isolde at the Opéra national de Paris, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Ruhrtriennale, as Gunter/Götterdämmerung in Amsterdam under the baton of Hartmut Haenchen, Tokyo, Cologne, at the Bayreuth Festival under Kirill Petrenko and at Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Klingsor/Parsifal at Opéra de Lyon, Orest/Elektra at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Germont/La traviata in Wiesbaden as well as Rigoletto/Rigoletto at Komische Oper Berlin.
Since the season 2017/18, Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester is a member of the ensemble at Staatstheater Ausgburg, performing the great bass-bariton roles.
In addition to his flourishing operatic career, Marco-Buhrmester is also in great demand as a concert singer. He sang Bach’s oratorios as well as Zemlinsky’s Lyrische Sinfonie, Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 and Mahler’s Symphony No 8. He was invited to the festivals in Bergen and Lucerne and went on tour with Mendelssohn’s Elijah alongside the Windsbacher Knabenchor, the SWR Sinfonieorchester, and Deutsches-Sinfonie Orchester Berlin and was celebrated in New Years concerts under Markus Poschner.
Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester has worked with renowned conductors such as wie Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Valery Gergiev, Kirill Petrenko, Semion Bychkov, Paolo Carignani, Eliahu Inbal, Fabio Luisi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Stefan Soltesz and Pierre Boulez.
Highlights of the past include Peter/Hansel and Gretel at Oper Frankfurt, Escamillo/Carmen at Komische Oper Berlin, König Overall in Ullmann‘s Der Kaiser von Atlantis at Teatro Real Madrid, Kaspar/Der Freischütz at Staatstheater Augsburg, La Forza del Destino in Tampere, Kurwenal at Opéra de Lyon, a tour of Japan with the Semperoper Dresden as Donner/Das Rheingold as well as Haydn’s The Creation with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Pisa and Christus am Ölberge with the Bamberger Symphoniker.Engagements of the 2018/19 season included Wladislaw in the new production of Smetana‘s Dalibor and the title role of David T. Little’s JFK, each at Staatstheater Augsburg, Peter/Hansel and Gretel at Oper Frankfurt as well as Gunther/Götterdämmerung in Seoul.
In the coming 22/23 season he will play the role of Amfortas/ Parsifal at the Goetheanum and feature in The End of Creation at the Augsburg State Theater.
Management
General ManagementArtist Manager
Boris Orlob
Managing Director
boris@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-172-8 51 55 14
Natascha van Randenborgh
Associate Director
natascha@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-173-7 76 88 20
Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
Bach, J.S. | Christmas Oratorio |
Passions | |
Beethoven | Christus am Ölberge |
Symphony no. 9 | |
Brahms | Ein deutsches Requiem |
Dvorak | Requiem |
Stabat Mater | |
Haydn | The Creation |
Liszt | Sonnenhymnus |
Mahler | Orchesterlieder |
Symphony no. 8 | |
Mendelssohn | Die erste Walpurgisnacht |
Elijah | |
Mozart | Requiem |
Zemlinsky | Lyrische Sinfonie |
Repertoire Opera
Bizet | Les pêcheurs de perles | Zurga |
Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande | Golaud |
Pelleas | ||
Febel | Sekunden und Jahre des Caspar Hauser | Caspar |
Grünauer | Die Mutter | Pawel |
Humperdinck | Hansel and Gretel | Peter |
Ibert | Angélique | Charlot |
Janácek | The Cunning Little Vixen | Forester |
Klebe | Die Fastnachtsbeichte | Clemens Bäumler |
Menotti | Telefon | Ben |
Messiaen | Saint François d'Assise | Saint François |
Mozart | Così fan tutte | Guglielmo |
Don Giovanni | Don Giovanni | |
Le nozze di Figaro | Conte Almaviva | |
Offenbach | Les contes d'Hoffmann | Villains |
Palomar | La Cabeza del Bautista | El Jándalo |
Prokofiev | The Love for Three Oranges | Leander |
Puccini | La Bohème | Marcello |
Madama Butterfly | Sharpless | |
Ravel | L'enfant et les sortilèges | Le Chat |
L'Horloge | ||
Rihm | Jakob Lenz | Jakob Lenz |
Rimsky-Korsakov | The Tale of Tsar Saltan | 3rd shipman |
Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Figaro |
La Cenerentola | Dandini | |
Schönberg | Moses und Aron | Mann |
Strauss, J. | Die Fledermaus | Doktor Falke |
Strauss, R. | Ariadne auf Naxos | Harlekin |
Capriccio | The Count | |
Die Liebe der Danae | Jupiter | |
Elektra | Orest | |
Stravinsky | The Nightingale | Emperor |
Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin | Eugene Onegin |
The Queen of Spades | Prince Yeletsky | |
Ullmann | Der Kaiser von Atlantis | Kaiser Overall |
Verdi | Don Carlo | Posa |
I vespri siciliani | Guy de Montfort | |
La forza del destino | Don Carlo di Vagas | |
La traviata | Germont | |
Luisa Miller | Miller | |
Rigoletto | Marullo | |
Rigoletto | ||
Wagner | Das Rheingold | Donner |
Die Meistersinger v. Nürnberg | Fritz Kothner | |
Götterdämmerung | Gunther | |
Parsifal | Amfortas | |
Klingsor | ||
Tannhäuser | Wolfram von Eschenbach | |
Tristan und Isolde | Kurwenal | |
Melot | ||
Weber | Abu Hassan | Abu Hassan |
Media
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Audio
Mendelssohn-Barholdy: Elias, op. 70
Es ist genug
Audio ExcerptWagner: Parsifal
"... wehvolles Erbe"
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Press
Lieder- und Arienabend / Deutsche Oper Berlin / 14.11.18 / klassik-begeistert.de
"für den geschmeidigen und höhensicheren Bass-Bariton [...] ein Paradestück"
Götterdämmerung / Bayerische Staatsoper München / 20.03.15 / bachtrack.com
"klang und sah absolut selbstsicher aus "
La traviata / Staatstheater Wiesbaden / 09.03.15 / nzz.ch
"das helle Timbre dieses vorzüglich geführten Baritons"