{"id":783,"date":"2017-07-07T14:12:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T14:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renepape.wpengine.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2017-07-23T20:59:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T20:59:02","slug":"rene-pape-honored-as-a-kammersanger-in-munich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/2017\/07\/07\/rene-pape-honored-as-a-kammersanger-in-munich\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9 Pape honored as a Kammers\u00e4nger in Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9 Pape was honored as a Kammers\u00e4nger of the Bayerische Staatsoper on July 6, following a performance of <em>Die Zauberfl\u00f6te<\/em> in which he sang Sarastro. He joins an artistic roster including Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Fritz Wunderlich, Edda Moser, and others in receiving this honor, given to distinguished opera singers. This is the second time Mr. Pape has been made Kammers\u00e4nger of a theater, having already received the honor from the Staatsoper Berlin. Other awards include an ECHO Klassik Award for his solo recording <em>Gods, Kings and Demons<\/em> and \u201cArtist of the Year\u201d from the German Critics Association in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Pape has been met with international success since his stage debut in 1988, and has sung at the world&#8217;s leading opera houses to great critical acclaim. Opera News commented, \u201cRen\u00e9 Pape is an artist who thrills his audiences with charisma, intelligence, and a one-in-a-million voice: the luxurious timbre of Pape\u2019s supple, expressive bass is unmistakable; its velvety, dark-brown texture shot with ear-catching flashes of brightness.\u201d He is especially well-known for his portrayals of Sarastro in <em>Die Zauberfl\u00f6te<\/em>, King Marke in <em>Tristan und Isolde<\/em>, and King Heinrich in <em>Lohengrin<\/em>. Other roles include M\u00e9phistoph\u00e9l\u00e8s (<em>Faust)<\/em>, Banquo (<em>Macbeth<\/em>), Philipp II, King of Spain (<em>Don Carlo<\/em>) and the title roles in <em>Don Giovanni, Mefistofele and Boris Godunov,<\/em> among others. His recent portrayal of Mefistofele, the title role in Boito&#8217;s opera, was captured on film at the Bayerische Staatsoper and is now available for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Arrigo-Boito-Mefistofele-Ren%C3%A9-Pape\/dp\/B01M62K8T6\">purchase<\/a><\/strong>. Later this month, Mr. Pape returns to the Bayreuth Festival to sing King Marke in Wagner&#8217;s<em> Tristan und Isolde<\/em>, under the baton of Christian Thielemann.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9 Pape was honored as a Kammers\u00e4nger of the Bayerische Staatsoper on July 6, following a performance of Die Zauberfl\u00f6te in which he sang Sarastro. He joins an artistic roster including Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Fritz Wunderlich, Edda Moser, and others in receiving this honor, given to distinguished opera singers. This is the second time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}