The German lyric tenor HANS PETER BLOCHWITZ is among the
most sought-after and recorded singers on the international scene. With a repertoire that extends from the baroque to the
contemporary, he regularly appears with the world’s foremost conductors and orchestras, including the Chicago and NHK
(Japan) Symphonies; Royal Concertgebouw, Dresden Staatskapelle and Leipzig Gewandaus Orchestras. His voluminous discography
includes collaborations with such conductors as John Eliot Gardiner (Mozart Requiem and Bach Weihnachtsoratorium),
Kurt Masur (Mendelssohn’s Paulus), Claudio Abbado (Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang Symphony and Mozart’s
C Minor Mass), Sir Neville Marriner (Hadyn’s Die Schöpfung, Mozart’s Davidde Penitente and Schuldigkeit
des ersten Gebots), James Levine (Mozart’s Così fan tutte), Riccardo Chailly (Liszt’s Faust
Symphony), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Mozart’s Don Giovanni), Bernard Haitink (Beethoven’s Fidelio),
Sir Georg Solti (Bach’s B Minor Mass), and Kent Nagano (Mahler’s Das klagende Lied). In summer
1999 he made his debut at Lincoln Center’s “Mostly Mozart” Festival, performing both Stravinsky’s
Pulcinella and the Mozart Requiem under the direction of Gerard Schwarz. He also gave concerts with Mto.
Schwarz and “Mostly Mozart” in Japan andsubsequently made his Seattle Symphony debut with the same conductor in
Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri.
Well-represented on the world’s opera stages, Mr. Blochwitz’ roles
include the major Mozart lyric tenor roles in La clemenza di Tito, Idomeneo, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Die Entführung
aus dem Serail and Die Zauberflöte, many of which he has also recorded. In addition he has been highly praised
for his portrayals of Lenski in Tchaikovsky’s Eugen Onegin, Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione
di Poppea, and Flamand in Richard Strauss’ Capriccio; appearing with the Metropolitan, Frankfurt, San
Francisco and San Diego Operas; Hamburg, Munich and Vienna State Operas; as well as at the Grand Théâtre de Génève, Opernhaus
Zürich, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, La Scala, Brussels’ Théâtre de la Monnaie, Paris’ Opéra de la Bastille
and Théâtre Châtelet, and the Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence Festivals. Recent operatic appearances include new productions
of Henze’s Der junge Lord in Munich, Capriccio in Dresden, Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse
in Patria in Athens and La clemenza di Tito at Glyndebourne.
An especially esteemed lieder interpreter, Hans Peter Blochwitz’ invitations
include the major recital series of Amsterdam, London, Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Frankfurt, Vienna, Lisbon, Brussels, New York,
Pasadena, Cincinnati, San Francisco, La Jolla, Washington, D.C. and Miami. His lieder recordings to date include Schumann’s
Dichterliebe and Liederkreis (EMI), Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin and Zemlinsky Lieder (both
on Deutsche Grammophon), Brahms’ Die schöne Magelone (Berlin Classics) and an all Schubert disc on the Philips
label. In Frankfurt he enjoyed a tremendous success performing the world premiere of Hans Zender’s controversial arrangement
of Schubert’s Winterreise, which he has subsequently sung at several major European festivals and on a bestselling
recording.
