Great news from one of the great performers of Wagner operas. Dramatic tenor Gianluca Zampieri will return in 2023 as TANNHÄUSER in NDM Ostrava!
Stage director Jiří Nekvasil
Drawing inspiration from several literary sources, Wagner wrote a libretto combining elements of German romantic opera and French grand opera in 1843. This gave birth to a romantic opera “par excellence” which stepped ahead to the “musical drama”. The character of the mythical minnesinger Tannhäuser—one of the most demanding tenor roles in the operatic repertoire—personifies the conflict between sensual and spiritual love, and the journey towards redemption is the unifying theme of most of the composer’s works.
Despite repeated revisions during his lifetime, Wagner told his wife Cosima shortly before his death, “I remain indebted to the world for my Tannhäuser,” by which he meant the definitive version.
The work first appeared in Ostrava in 1924 and returns to the stage of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre as the fifth production after more than fifty years.
Performed in German with Czech and English subtitles.
As a winner of the Mattia Battistini Opera Contest Gianluca Zampieri started his international career performing in major opera houses in Italy (e.g. Bologna, Venezia, Genova, Roma, Palermo, Catania, Torino) and in foreign countries (e.g. Zürich, Frankfurt, Bonn, Karlsruhe, Budapest, Prag, Lima, Monte-Carlo, Shangai, Taipei).
His versatility he demonstrated in debuting more than 60 main roles of italian, german, czech, russian, english and french repertoire:
OTELLO he performed lastly 2013 in Cordoba (Argentina), in 2018 in Astrakhan (Russia) and in NDM Ostrava. In the same year he was invited by K. Penderecki to sing Verdi’s Requiem at the Beethoven Festival in Warszaw.
Also CANIO (I Pagliacci) he sang several times and recently at the Leoncavallo Festival, furthermore ERNANI in Vilnius or RADAMES (Aida) and MANRICO (Il Trovatore) at the State Opera Prague (to both houses he returned in 2016 and 2017).
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As Heldentenor he debuted 2014 Wagner’s SIEGFRIED (Siegfried) in Osaka, performed the same role 2015 in Shangai and again in 2016 at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl.
Wagner’s TRISTAN he sang 2015 at the Poly Theatre Peking and again in Erl, where he will perform SIEGFRIED and TANNHÄUSER in 2018.
In 2016-17 he was guest of NDM Ostrava for the role of Jìra in Smetana’s BRANDENBURGERS IN BOHEMIA.
With the role of STEVA (Jenufa) he performed at the Tokyo National Opera in 2016.
In 2018 he debouted the role of Herman In Tchaikovsky’s “PIQUE DAME” in ND Brno and has been guest of Paris National Opera for the new production of PARSIFAL.
In 2019 he debouted as Dr.Mandelbrot in the world premiere of Hector Parra’s “Les Bienveillantes” in Antwerpen directed by Calixto Bieito; in 2021 he performed “Un ballo in Maschera” in NDM Ostrava. In 2022 he will be Luka in the new production of Janacek’s “From a house of dead” in Janacek Festival Brno.
Mr. Zampieri received various awards:
He won the „Libusek Prize of the Tzchech Press Association“ for his interpretation of LACA in Janacek’s Jenufa at the National Opera Prague.
In 2007 for his performance of Alfanos CYRANO DE BERGERAC (coproduced by Baden State Opera Karlsruhe and NDM Ostrava) he won the „Thalia Award“ in Prague – the major czech artistic award.
In 2010 he was nominated for the „Opera Oscar“ by the german opera magazine Opernwelt for his interpretation of Boito’s NERONE in a successful production of the Antik Festival Trier, where he was back in 2011 singing the title role in the new production of PETER GRIMES.
