Fritsche, Johannes
No. 14
Voice type: Baritone
Country: Germany
Date of birth: 30 May, 1993
Johannes Fritsche studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart with Prof. Ulrike Sonntag and completed his master’s degree in singing at the opera school there. At the Goodmesh Concours 2021 he won second prize and the special prize for the best interdisciplinary project.
He made his debut in 2019 as Guglielmo at the Wilhelma Theater (Stuttgart) in “Così fan tutte” and in 2020 as Herr Fluth in Otto Nicolai’s “Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor”. He has already taken part in several world premieres, including Victoria Bond’s opera “Clara” at the Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden and Markus Höring’s opera “Im Thurm” at the Landestheater Tübingen. In 2021 he sang the role of Bogumil in the operetta “Der Liebe Augustin” (Leo Fall) at the Theater Görlitz. At the Theater Plauen-Zwickau he was heard as Leporello in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and in the chamber operas “Radames” and “Harakiri” by Péter Eötvös. As a concert soloist, Johannes Fritsche sang the “St Matthew Passion” by Bach at the Teatro Olimpico Vicenza (Italy) and has already sung in Bach’s “St John Passion” and “Christmas Oratorio”, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Händel’s Messiah. He has performed with the Freiburger Barockorchester, the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Philharmonie Baden-Baden. He received further impulses from master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender, Michael Volle, Bo Skovhus, Margreet Honig, Willy Decker, Claus Guth and Hartmut Höll.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Es muss ein Wunderbares sein
Donizetti: Bella siccome un angelo – Malatesta’s aria from Don Pasquale
Puccini: Questo amor, vergogna mia – Frank’s aria from the Edgar
Semi-final
Tchaikovsky: Vy mne pisali… Kogda by zhizn domashnim krugom – Onegin’s recitative and aria from Eugene Onegin
Thomas: Comme une pâle fleur – Hamlet’s aria from Hamlet
Final
Bizet: Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre – Escamillo’s Toreador Song from Carmen
Wagner: Wie Todesahnung... O du, mein holder Abendstern – Wolfram’s recitative and Song to the Evening Star from the Tannhäuser
Rossini: Come un’ape ne’ giorni d’aprile – Dandini’s aria from La Cenerentola