Markus Werba

Introduction

Markus Werba is widely regarded as a leading lyric baritone of his generation.

Despite his relative youth Markus has already established a remarkable career and has a wide range of repertoire from the complete Mozart/Da Ponte operas to Mahler and Schumann which he recites at prestigious venues all over the globe including Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, Zurich Opera, Sao Carlos Lisbon, Opéra Bastille Paris, Theatre des Champs Elysees Paris, Opera di Roma, Teatro Comunale Bologna, Salzburg Festival Baden-Baden, La Fenice Venice, Bayerische Staatsoper, La Scala, Milan, LA Opera, Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera and the Salzburg and Baden-Baden Festivals.He has worked with eminent conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, James Levine, Daniel Harding and James Conlon.

This season includes concerts with the Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and for the Opera Comique. His upcoming opera performances include appearances with the Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zurich, La Fenice and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and he will sing his first Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg for the Salzburg Festival. 


Please contact Jonathan Turnbull for a current biography & photos.

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Repertoire

OPERA

Bellini
II Puritani Sir Riccardo Forth

Braunfels
Die Vögel Wiedehopf

Britten
Billy Budd title role
A Midsummer Night's Dream Demetrius

Cavalli
La Calisto Mercurio

Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande Pelléas

Donizetti
La Favorita Don Alfonso
Don Pasquale Malatesta
L'elisir d'amore Belcore
Lucia di Lammermoor Lord Enrico Ashton

Korngold
Die tote Stadt Frank-Fritz

Lehàr
Die lustige Witwe Danilo

Marschner
Hans Heiling title role

Mozart
Die Zauberflöte Papageno
Don Giovanni title role
Cosi fan tutte Guglielmo
Le Nozze di Figaro title role + Il Conte
La Finta Giardiniera Nardo

Paisiello
Il matrimonio inaspettato Giorgino

Puccini
La Boheme Marcello

Rossini

Il Barbiere di Siviglia Figaro
La Cenerentola Dandini

Schubert

Alsonso und Estrella Froila

Schumann
Szenen aus Goethes Faust

Strauss    
Die Fledermaus Eisenstein, Falke
Ariadne auf Naxos Harlequin
Capriccio Olivier

Verdi
Don Carlo Marquis de Posa
Falstaff Ford

Thomas
Hamlet title role

Tchaikovsky
Onegin title role 

Wagner
Die Meistersinger Beckmesser
Tannhauser Wolfram

 


CONCERT

Brahms
Requiem

Bach
Solobasskantaten "ich habe genug", Kreuzstabkantate
Johannespassion
Matthäuspassion

Fauré
Requiem

Haydn
Schöpfung

Mendelssohn
Elias
Paulus

Mozart
Mass in C minor
Krönungsmesse

Mahler
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Orff
Carmina Burana

Schubert
Messe in C-Dur
Messe in G-Dur


LIEDER
Brahms
Schubert
Schumann
Wolf

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Schedule

Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg

Programme

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg


Daniele Gatti, Conductor

Michael Volle, Hans Sachs
Roberto Saccà, Walther von Stolzing
Anna Gabler, Eva
Markus Werba, Sixtus Beckmesser
Georg Zeppenfeld, Veit Pogner
Peter Sonn, David
Monika Bohinec, Madgalene
Oliver Zwarg, Fritz Kothner
"Akademie Meistersinger" of the YSP, Apprentices
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus 
Vienna Philharmonic

Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg

Programme

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg


Daniele Gatti, Conductor

Michael Volle, Hans Sachs
Roberto Saccà, Walther von Stolzing
Anna Gabler, Eva
Markus Werba, Sixtus Beckmesser
Georg Zeppenfeld, Veit Pogner
Peter Sonn, David
Monika Bohinec, Madgalene
Oliver Zwarg, Fritz Kothner
"Akademie Meistersinger" of the YSP, Apprentices
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus 
Vienna Philharmonic

Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg

Programme

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg


Daniele Gatti, Conductor

Michael Volle, Hans Sachs
Roberto Saccà, Walther von Stolzing
Anna Gabler, Eva
Markus Werba, Sixtus Beckmesser
Georg Zeppenfeld, Veit Pogner
Peter Sonn, David
Monika Bohinec, Madgalene
Oliver Zwarg, Fritz Kothner
"Akademie Meistersinger" of the YSP, Apprentices
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus 
Vienna Philharmonic

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NEW RECORDING

BBC RADIO 3 LIVE - 25 February 2013

Recital featuring Markus Werba (baritone) and Gary Matthewman (piano). 

Schubert: Gesange des Harfners, Op 12 Nos 1, 2 and 3
Wolf: Michelangelo Lieder
Schumann: Dichterliebe.

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Press

St. John Passion, November 2011

Montreal Symphony Orchestra,

"Markus Werba’s Jesus was as complex and nuanced as the character himself. The text often portrays Jesus, after experiencing the worst betrayal, rejection and agony, in a state of total calm and forgiveness. Werba’s voice reflected this characterization with a rich, comfortable and flexible tone, never strident, and always confident and musical"

Andrew Crust for bachtrack, November 2011
"Jesus in baritone Markus Werba was just right."

Wah Keung Chan for Montreal Gazette, November 2011

Don Giovanni, September 2011

Teatro La Fenice

"Sexy e tenebroso come Johnny Depp nei Pirati dei Caraibi. Il Don Giovanni interpretato da Markus Werba ha sempre una marcia in più, come si è visto ieri sera sul palco del teatro La Fenice. Tra applausi scroscianti"

Orsala Bollettini for Corriere del Veneto, September 2011

Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, July 2011

Aspen Music Festival

"For openers, Austrian baritone Markus Werba took an appropriately delicate approach to Mahler's Leider eines fahrenden Gesellen, his youthful tone and exuberance investing the first two songs with hope, and a sense of unease adding depth to the final two."

Stewart Oksenhorn for The Aspen Times, July 2011

Die Fledermaus, January 2011

Vienna State Opera

„Markus Werba ist ein ausgezeichneter Eistenstein, färbt selbst seinen Bariton in der finalen Verkleidungsszene tenoral, singt perfekt und agiert gemeinsam mit adrian Eröd (Falke) in kultivierter Lustigkeit.“

Österreich, January 2011
„Aber da begeistert auch das Team: der sehr junge, quicklebendige, ein bisschen auf Tenorcharmeur singende „Eisenstein“ Markus Werba.“ 

Krone, January 2011
„Markus Werba, er debütierte als eisenstein, konnte zudem sein brilliantes Schauspielerisches Talent entfalten“
  
Kurier, January 2011
„Markus Werba, er debütierte als eisenstein, konnte zudem sein brilliantes Schauspielerisches Talent entfalten“
  
Kurier, January 2011
„Rollendebüts gab es in den beiden Hauptpartien. Markus Werba wirkte als eisenstein zwar allzu jung, setzte aber seien frischen Bariton wirkungsvoll ein.“

Wiener Zeitung, January 2011

Recordings

Alfonso und Estrella (DVD)

Music by Franz Schubert 

from Teatro Lirico di Cagliari

Mei, Trost, Werba

Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Lirico di Cagliari
Luca Ronconi (conductor)

Dynamic

The Jakobin

Music by Antonin Dvorak

Werba, Grato, Monogarova,Palazzi, Panova, Lehotsky, Elliott

Wexford Festival Opera Chorus
National Philharmonic Orchestra of Belarus 
Alexandre Voloschuk (conductor)
Fone Records