Rainer Trost

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Rainer Trost
Born1966 (age 56–57)
Stuttgart, West Germany
Education
OccupationOperatic tenor
Organizations University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Website rainertrost.eu

Rainer Trost (born 1966) is a German tenor whose performance repertoire encompasses operas, operettas, Lieder and oratorios. He is known for roles in Mozart operas. He is also a voice teacher at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

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Life

Trost spent his childhood and youth in Stuttgart where he was born. In his home town, he was a member of the Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben for many years. [1] He first studied law, but turned to singing, studying in Freiburg im Breisgau, Stuttgart and from 1987 to 1991 at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, among others with Adalbert Kraus. [1] [2] Subsequently, Trost was an ensemble member of the Staatsoper Hannover until 1995. [1] [3]

In 1992, Trost launched his international career as Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte with conductor John Eliot Gardiner in Paris [2] [4] This performance was recorded live and released on the Deutsche Grammophon label. A Guardian review wrote: "few tenors on disc can rival the German Rainer Trost in the heady beauty of his voice – above all in Ferrando's aria Una aura amorosa." [5] Later Trost performed especially with the tenor roles in Mozart operas such as Tamino, Belmonte, Ferrando, Don Ottavio, Idamante and the title role in La clemenza di Tito . He has appeared in Hamburg, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Ludwigsburg, [1] Paris, [6] Vienna, [7] Geneva, Berlin, Brussels, Cologne, Barcelona, the Metropolitan Opera, at the Salzburg Festival and the Edinburgh Festival, at the Maggio Musicale in Florence [1] and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. [8] He also appeared as Count Balduin Zedlau in Wiener Blut by Johann Strauss at the Seefestspiele Mörbisch in August 2007, and as Arbace in Dieter Dorn's new production of Idomeneo on 14 June 2008 for the reopening of the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich. He enjoyed success as Pylade in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride at the Theater an der Wien in October 2014. He created the role of Calogero in Manfred Trojahn's La grande magia at the Semperoper in Dresden in 2008. [8]

Trost is also active as a concert singer. His repertoire includes works by Britten, Monteverdi, Mozart, Schubert and Bach. [1]

Trost was appointed professor for voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. [8] [9] Since 1 March 2021, he has been the deputy director of the Institute for Singing and Music Theater at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. [2]

Awards

Recordings

Trost recorded several operas, but also lieder, including a 2007 collection of Schubert songs with pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr. A reviewer noted that he was a "rather powerful singer but also an elegant and sensitive one. His voice has bite and character." [11]

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References

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  4. ↑ "Rainer Trost (Tenor)". BolshoiMoscow.com. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  5. 1 2 Greenfield, Edward (11 February 1994). "Classical CDs: That cosi feeling – John Eliot Gardiner triumphs again with his new Mozart recording". The Guardian . London. p. 25 – via Newspapers.com. ..., but few tenors on disc can rival the German, Rainer Trost, in the heady beauty of his voice – above all in Ferrando's aria, Una aura amorosa
  6. ↑ Rainer Trost on MèmOpéra
  7. ↑ Vorstellungen mit Rainer Trost Vienna State Opera
  8. 1 2 3 "Rainer Trost" (in German). University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. March 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  9. ↑ "Rainer Trost". Austrian Master Classes. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  10. ↑ "Goldener Schikaneder" zum ersten Mal vergeben", Kurier , 6 June 2013, retrieved 5 July 2021.
  11. ↑ Forsling, Göran: "Franz Schubert (1897–1828) / Schubert-Lied-Edition: 28 – Schubert's Friends, Vol. 3", musicweb-international.com, October 2008, retrieved 26 July 2021.
  12. ↑ "Strauss: Capriccio". Opera Today. 16 January 2006. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  13. ↑ "Der Graf von Luxemburg". Alle Künstler (in German). Retrieved 1 August 2021.
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  15. ↑ Seeger, Jürgen (13 November 2013). "Doppelter Einsatz". Focus (in German). Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  16. ↑ "Karl Hochreiter & Bach-Chor Berlin & Bach-Collegium Berlin / Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works", Bach Cantatas website, retrieved 26 July 2021
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