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Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

The tenor Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke studied singing at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. Following engagements in Linz, Basel and at Munich’s Gärtnerplatztheater, he made his debut in 1997 at the Opéra national de Paris and has since sung at venues including the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the opera houses in Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich and Amsterdam, as well as at the festivals in Salzburg, Bregenz, Glyndebourne, Baden-Baden and Aix-en-Provence, in roles such as Mime/Loge (»Der Ring des Nibelungen«), the Captain (»Wozzeck«), Herod (»Salome«), Aegisthus (»Elektra«), Arnalta (»L’incoronazione di Poppea«) and the Gingerbread Witch (»Hänsel and Gretel’). In 2021, he was awarded the title of »Bavarian Kammersänger« and in 2022 that of »Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres«.