Thomas Gazheli
Thomas Gazheli is a well known bass-baritone on the international
opera and concert stages. Recent operatic highlights include: Klingsor
and Wanderer at Teatro Massimo Palermo, Wotan at Teatro Petruzzelli
Bari, Alberich in Ring der Nibelungen at the New National Theatre
Tokyo, Nationatheatre Prag and Staatstheater Kassel, Don Pizarro at
Teatro Maestranza Sevilla, Flying Dutchman at Semperoper Dresden, at
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, at Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen, at the
Nationalopera Budapest, at the Opera de Montreal, at Staatstheater
Wiesbaden, at Greek National Opera Athens, at Michigan Opera
Theatre and at NCPA Beijing, Barnaba and Kurwenal at NCPA Beijing,
Telramund at Opera de Marseille, Don Estoban (Der Zwerg) at Teatro
San Carlo Napoli, Il Prigioniero at Beethoven Festival Bonn and
Jochanaan at Oper Graz. Further invitation led him as Don Pizarro at
Opera Royal de Wallonie Liege, Prometheus (Die Vögel) in Erl, Orest in
Detroit, Alberich at Opera de Oviedo, Alberich, Amfortas, Telramund,
Wanderer and Nabucco at Tyrolean Festival Erl, Rigoletto at
Saarlaendisches Staatstheater Saarbruecken, Gusmano (Alzira by
Verdi) at South Tyrol Festival, Alberich (Das Rheingold) at Oper Leipzig
and at the international Festival of Santander, as well at Aalto Theatre
Essen, as Don Pizarro at Teatro Regio di Torino, as Telramund at
Teatro Massimo Palermo, as Wanderer, Alberich, and Gunther at Teatro
Petruzzelli Bari, as Jochanaan at Teatro Verdi Trieste, as Ebn-Chakia at
Theater an der Wien, as the 4 Villians (Les Contes d'Hoffman) at Oper
Essen and Volksoper Wien, as Gunther at Oper Essen, as Amfortas,
Wanderer and all three Alberichs with Mo Gustav Kuhn in Erl, as
Papageno at Teatro alla Scala and in Rom, as Guntram at Teatro
Massimo Bellini Catania, as Don Giovanni, Guglielmo Tell, Kunrad
(Feuersnot by R.Strauss) and Friedrich (Liebesverbot by R.Wagner) at
Prinzregententheater Munich, as Lescaut at Oper Frankfurt, as Ford at
Oper Bonn, as Monterone at Bavarian State Opera Munich and Oper
Frankfurt, as Gianni Schicchi, Peter Besenbinder (Father) in Hänsel und
Gretel, Kaspar, Michele, Don Alfonso at Gaertnerplatz Theater Munich,
as
Amfortas in Breslau, Jochanaan and Amfortas at Oper Wuppertal,
Escamillo at Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, Barbiere di Siviglia,
Papageno and Lescaut (Boulevard Solitude by Henze) at Oper Basel,
Wozzeck at Lucerne Festival, as Orest at Teatro Politeama Palermo, as
Dr.Panglos/Martin (Candide by L.Bernstein) at Philharmonie Berlin.
Thomas Gazheli was born in Karlsruhe , where he began his musical
education as trumpet- and violinplayer. He studied singing at the
Hochschule Frankfurt am Main with Prof. Maclane-Lanier and completed
his studies with Prof.Josef Metternich in Munich. During his studies in
Frankfurt Donald Runnicles engaged him as a soloist at the Städtische
Bühnen Freiburg, followed by engagements at Theater Basel and
Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich,where he sang a wide and varied
repertoire as a principal baritone.
A live recording as Flying Dutchman at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
under the baton of Fabio Luisi was released with great succes in 2020.
In Summer 2020 he took part as Beckmesser in a Selcuk Cara Arthouse
Film Production of The Meistersinger by Richard Wagner, which is
officialy selected for the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 2021.
Thomas Gazheli is also known as concert singer with a broad concert
repertoire - he sang at the Philharmonie Berlin, Musikvereinssaal
Vienna, Philharmonie Köln, Musikhalle Hamburg, Brucknerhaus Linz,
Liederhalle Stuttgart, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Philharmonie Munich,
Herkulessaal and was invited for several seasons to performe with
Haydn Orchestra Bolzano.
In the course of his career, he has worked with such notable conductors
as Paolo Arrivabeni, Constantinos Carydis, Paolo Carignani, Daniel
Harding, Gustav Kuhn, Fabio Luisi Oksana Lyniv, Riccardo Muti, Günter
Neuhold, Gianandrea Noseda, Stefan Anton Reck, Donald Runnicles,
Ulf Schirmer, Stefan Soltesz, Marcello Viotti, Omer Meir Wellber, KeriLynn Wilson, and colabourated with stage directors as Peer Boysen, Luc
Bondy, Robert Carsen, Paul Curran, Hugo de Ana, Giancarlo del
Monaco, Claus Guth, Christoph Loy ,Vera Nemirova,Graham Vick and
Herbert Wernicke.