PATRICK SIMPER
Patrick
Simper's
guest appearences include the following Opera houses, concert halls
and and festivals:
Festival
de México at Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City,
Abu Dhabi Classical Music Festival,
Salle Pleyel in Paris,
Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse
Opéra
du Rhin in Strasbourg, Opéra de Rennes,
Théâtre des Arts in Rouen (France),
Rachmaninov Concert Hall Moscow,
Bayreuther Festspiele, Aalto Theater
Essen, Oper
Frankfurt, Großes Festspielhaus Baden-Baden,
Rokkokotheater Schwetzingen
Oper Dortmund, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Oper Chemnitz, Staatstheater Mainz, Theater Münster, Theater
Trier, Stadttheater Bremerhaven, Theater Hagen, Städtebundtheater Hof,
Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Theater Heidelberg (Germany),
Solothurn Festival (Switzerland)
He received
his musical education at the Conservatory for Music Performance (Staatliche
Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst) in Frankfurt/Main,Germany.
In addition to his
music studies, he also holds a degree in Pharmacology and worked as a
pharmacist for several years.
From 1994 to 2000 Patrick was a soloist with the Würzburg Stadttheater (Germany). Since the 2001/ 2002 season, Mr. Simper is a member of the ensemble of the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken in Germany.
The
most important opera roles Patrick has performed are:
MEPHISTO (Faust),
OSMIN (Entführung aus dem Serail),
KING PHILIPP and GRANDE INQUISITORE
(Don Carlo),
KÖNIG HEINRICH (Lohengrin),
SARASTRO (Zauberflöte),
FIGARO (Le nozze di Figaro)
KÖNIG
MARKE (Tristan),
RAMFIS
(Aida),
DALAND (Der fliegende Holländer),
FERRANDO (Trovatore),
COMMENDATORE (Don Giovanni),
OREST (Elektra)
and KASPAR (Freischütz).
He has a large concert and oratotio repertoire, e.g. MESSA DA REQUIEM by Verdi, STABAT MATER by Rossini and THE CREATION by Haydn, in addition to various early music works.
Patrick Simper also recorded ”Der Freischütz“ for television with the ”Süddeutscher Rundfunk“, Baden-Baden.
Mr. Simper speaks several languages fluently, e.g. English, French and Italian
