Michael Leibundgut has established himself as a specialist in contemporary music, especially with the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen: In 2011 he made his debut in "Sunday from Light" at Oper Köln (La Fura dels Baus), in 2012 in "Wednesday" at Birmingham Opera (Graham Vick) and in 2013 in "Saturday" under Ingo Metzmacher in Munich. Michael Leibundgut's season 2013-14 begins with his US debut in the world premiere of Enjott Schneider's Robert Schumanns Traumreise at Symphony Space in New York. Later he will return to the Festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for the revival of La Metamorfosi by Silvia Colasanti and to Teatro La Fenice as Father Trulove in The Rake's Progress. In previous seasons Michael Leibundgut made important debuts at the Lucerne Festival in Georg Friedrich Haas' opera Nacht, at the Festival Musica Strasbourg in Benedict Mason's ChaplinOperas and at the Festival Maggio Musicale. He appeared at Teatro La Fenice in Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960 under the baton of Lothar Zagrosek, and premiered operas by Gregory Vajda (Zauberberg - Davos Festival), Luca Mosca (Signor Goldoni - Teatro La Fenice), Aureliano Cattaneo (La philosophie dans le labyrinthe - with the Klangforum Wien at the Biennale München) and Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini (Wut - Theater Erfurt). Furthermore he performed at Teatro lirico Cagliari, the Festival Aix-en-Provence, the Opéra National de Bordeaux and the Opéra de Monte Carlo. |
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