Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (born 1967 in Zell am See, Salzburg) is an Austrian operatic tenor.
Life.
Ablinger-Sperrhacke studied 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 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", 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 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:
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.
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.
Recordings.
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