Michael Schopper

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Michael Schopper
Born (1942-05-28) 28 May 1942 (age 79)
Germany
Education Regensburger Domspatzen
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Awards ARD International Music Competition

Michael Schopper (born 28 May 1942) is a German bass-baritone in opera and concert, and an academic teacher.

Michael Schopper was educated with the Regensburger Domspatzen and studied on a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes church music and voice at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. [1] He won a first prize of the ARD International Music Competition in 1968, [2] which resulted in an international career. His operatic parts have included Osmin in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail , Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, and the Wagner parts Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , Daland in Der fliegende Holländer, and Wotan in Der Ring des Nibelungen. [1]

He turned more to Lied and oratorio, with a focus on historically informed performances conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, Ton Koopman and Gustav Leonhardt, among others. [1]

On 23 June 1990 he was a soloist in the premiere of Wilfried Hiller's oratorio Schulamit at the festival Landshuter Hofmusiktage. [3] In 2002 Schopper performed the part of Haman in a concert version of Handel's Esther at the Halle Handel Festival, with the Collegium Vocale Gent and La Stagione Frankfurt conducted by Michael Schneider. [4]

Schopper was a bass soloist in the first recording with period instruments of Bach's St Matthew Passion , conducted in 1970 by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, singing the chorus II parts. [5] [6] [ failed verification ] He recorded with the Salzburger Hofmusik Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's oratorio Die Israeliten in der Wüste . [7] He recorded the part of Seneca in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea with René Jacobs in 1990. [8]

Schopper is a professor of voice at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main. [1]

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