Biographies & programs
5/28/24
15:50
Klara Brockhaus
Germany
Finalists
Rodolfo Focarelli
Italy
Sonderpreis Belle Voci
Special Prize of the "Belle Voci" Foundation
Program
Franz Schubert
Verklärung D 59 (Alexander Pope / Johann G. Herder) - 1R
Sonett II D 629 (Petrarca)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Vier Arietten und ein Duett, Op. 82
3. Arietta buffa „L ́amante impaziente" (Pietro Metastasio) - 1R
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch
4. Die ihr schwebet um diese Palmen (Lope de Vega/Geibel)
39. Weint nicht, ihr Äuglein (Lope de Vega/Heyse)
Eichendorff Lieder
24. Nachruf
Henri Duparc
Mélodies
4. Extase (Jean Lahor)
5. Phidelé (Leconte de Lisle) - 1R
12. La vie antérieure (Charles Baudelaire)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Four Shakespeare Songs, Op. 31
1. Desdemona's song - 1R
Ivor Gurney
Five Elisabethan songs
1. Orpheus with his Lute (William Shakespeare)
2. Tears (Anonymous)
3. Under the Greenwood Tree (William Shakespeare)
4. Sleep (John Fletcher)
5. Spring (Thomas Nashe)
Media
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Klara Brockhaus
Mezzo-soprano
Year of birth:
1995
Mezzo-soprano Klara Brockhaus was born in Hanover and completed her master's degree in opera singing at the August Everding Theater Academy in Munich with Prof. Daniela Sindram in July 2023 and is currently studying to become a concert master at the HMT Munich.
She has appeared on stage as Cherubino and Zerlina, as Polinesso in Ariodante, and recently as Deidamia in the contemporary opera Achilles among the girls by W.-A. Schultz with the Munich Radio Orchestra.
In concert, she was heard in Bach's B minor Mass and Magnificat, Mozart's Requiem, Vivaldi's Gloria and Handel's Messiah, among others.
Klara Brockhaus is a scholarship holder of the Johann Adolph Hasse Gesellschaft München e.V., the Sir Elton John Global Exchange Program, the Deutschlandstipendium and the Bayreuth Scholarship 2024.
Rodolfo Focarelli
Pianist
Italian pianist Rodolfo Focarelli studied piano and accompaniment at the Lübeck University of Music. He then moved to Munich, where he is currently studying art song interpretation in the class of Gerold Huber and Christian Gerhaher. In 2013, he won a first prize in the national Jugend Musiziert competition, among various awards at national and international competitions. In 2015 he made his debut as a soloist with orchestra with Tchaikovsky's Concerto op.23, accompanied by the National Radio and Television of Ukraine Orchestra. In 2019 he was an orchestral pianist in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and a participant in the Mahler Academy in Bolzano. He is very active educationally and currently teaches at the Ismaning music school.