Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Ablinger-Sperrhacke studied[1] at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna with Gerhard Kahry (voice) and Kurt Equiluz (Lied/oratorio). After first fest-contracts at Landestheater Linz (1993–1995), Theater Basel (fest-contract during season 1995/96, afterwards as guest singer till 1999/2000) and Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich (1996–1998) he has worked as a free-lance artist since 1998.

In 1997 he made his début at the Opéra National de Paris[2] and subsequently was invited to do roles such as Goro in Madama Butterfly, Monostatos as well as First Armed Man in The Magic Flute, Capito in Mathis der Maler, Shabby Peasant in Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District [3], Mime in Der Ring des Nibelungen and also participated in the world premiere of Philippe Manoury's opera K....

At the Glyndebourne Festival Opera he sang[4] in more than 130 performances including roles such as Vašek in The Bartered Bride, Reverend Horace Adams in Peter Grimes, Arnalta in L'incoronazione di Poppea, the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel – the two last also semistaged at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, Tanzmeister in Ariadne auf Naxos and Podestà in La finta giardiniera.

Further important engagements:[1][3]

• Valzacchi in Der Rosenkavalier (La Monnaie/Brussels, Festspiel Baden-Baden, Royal Opera House, Metropolitan Opera)
• Dr. Cajus in Falstaff (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Teatro Real Madrid)
• Mime in Das Rheingold (Semperoper Dresden, Teatro alla Scala,[5] Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier/Montreal, De Nederlandse Opera, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera)
• Mime in Siegfried (Capitole de Toulouse, Teatro Real, La Fenice, Bavarian State Opera,[6] Munich Opera Festival, Staatsoper Stuttgart, De Nederlandse Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Vienna State Opera)
• Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Festival La Coruna, Teatro Real, Teatro di San Carlo/Naples)
• Trimalchio in Maderna's Satyricon, Josef in Wiener Blut and the world-premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's Divorzio all'italiana (Opéra national de Lorraine)
• the title-role in Offenbach's Barbe-bleue (Bregenz Festival, Oper Leipzig, Komische Oper Berlin)
• Loge in Das Rheingold (Opéra national du Rhin, Lucerne Festival, Opera North)
• Aegisth in Elektra (Opéra national du Rhin, Verbier Festival, Vienna State Opera)
• Hauptmann in Wozzeck (La Scala, Bavarian State Opera, Zurich Opera, Southbank Centre)
• Piet in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (English National Opera, Berliner Philharmonie)
• Witch (Opéra national de Lyon, Bavarian State Opera)
• Herod in Salome (Vienna Volksoper, Vienna State Opera, Zurich Opera, Opéra national du Rhin, Munich Opera Festival)
• Pirzel in Die Soldaten (Salzburg Festival[7], Scala)
• Prinz/Kammerdiener/Marquis in Lulu (State Opera Berlin, Bavarian State Opera)
• Klaus the Fool in scenic world-premiere of Gurre-Lieder at Nederlandse Opera, Pollux in Die Liebe der Danae at Salzburg Festival,[8]
• Ivan in The Nose at Covent Garden[9]
• Franz I. in Krenek's Karl V. at Bavarian State Opera

Concerts: at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, at Philharmonie am Gasteig, in São Paulo (Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde), Gurre-Lieder in Melbourne, Bergen, Lille, Hannover, Gothenburg, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Saint-Denis-Festival, Royal Festival Hall and Helsinki Festival, Das Rheingold (Loge) at Leeds Town Hall, Southbank Centre, The Lowry/Manchester, The Sage/Newcastle, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham and Symphony Hall, Birmingham.[1]

Ablinger-Sperrhacke has worked with conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Simone Young, Daniel Barenboim, Ingo Metzmacher, Franz Welser-Möst, Kent Nagano, Marc Albrecht, Philippe Jordan, Emmanuelle Haïm, James Conlon, Christian Thielemann, Jeffrey Tate, Robin Ticciati, Hartmut Haenchen, Antonio Pappano, Vladimir Jurowski, Fabio Luisi and Susanna Mälkki.[1]

• 2016: Nomination Dora Mavor Moore Award, outstanding performance- male/Opera division for Siegfried-Mime, Canadian Opera Company[10]
• 2017: International Classical Music Awards, best video performance for Wozzeck (DVD, accentus music, 2017)[11]

DVDs:

• Alban Berg: Lulu, Prince/valet, cond.: Daniel Barenboim, dir.: Andrea Breth, Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Deutsche Grammophon, 2015)
• Alban Berg: Lulu, Prince/valet/Marquis, cond.: Kirill Petrenko, dir.: Dmitri Tcherniakov, Bavarian State Opera (Bel Air, 2017)
• Alban Berg: Wozzeck, Captain, cond.: Fabio Luisi, dir.: Andreas Homoki, Opernhaus Zürich (accentus, 2016)
• Engelbert Humperdinck: Hänsel and Gretel, Witch, cond.: Kazushi Ono, dir.: Laurent Pelly, Glyndebourne Festival (Decca, 2009)
• Claudio Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea, Arnalta, cond.: Emmanuelle Haïm, dir.: Robert Carsen, Glyndebourne Festival (Decca, 2009)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute, Monostatos, cond.: Marc Albrecht, dir.: Simon McBurney, De Nationale Opera (Opus arte, 2015)
• Arnold Schönberg: Gurre-Lieder, Klaus Narr, cond.: Marc Albrecht, dir.: Pierre Audi, De Nationale Opera (Opus arte, 2017)
• Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Valzacchi, cond.: Christian Thielemann, dir.: Herbert Wernicke. Baden-Baden Festival (Decca, 2009)
• Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, Dancing Master, cond.: Vladimir Jurowski, dir.: Katharina Thoma, Glyndebourne Festival (Opus arte, 2014)
• Richard Strauss: Die Liebe der Danae, Pollux, cond.: Franz Welser-Möst, dir.: Alvis Hermanis, Salzburg Festival (Euroarts, 2017)
• Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff, Dr. Cajus, cond.: Enrique Mazzola, dir.: Herbert Wernicke, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (arthaus musik, 2001)
• Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold, Mime, cond.: Daniel Barenboim, dir.: Guy Cassiers, Teatro alla Scala (arthaus musik, 2013)
• Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Die Soldaten, Pirzel, cond.: Ingo Metzmacher, dir.: Alvis Hermanis, Salzburg Festival (Euroarts, 2013)

CDs:

• Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes, Reverend Horace Adams, cond.: Mark Wigglesworth, Glyndebourne Festival (Glyndebourne Label, 2010)
• Arnold Schönberg: Gurre-Lieder, Klaus Narr, cond.: Edward Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (Chandos Records, 2016)
• Engelbert Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel, Witch, cond.: Robin Ticciati, London Philharmonic Orchestra (Glyndebourne Label, 2012)

• Official website
• Profile at Operissimo
• Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke on IMDb
• Schedule at Operabase