Biography

Tilmann Rönnebeck

Current as of July 2020

German bass Tilmann Rönnebeck was born in Magdeburg and initially took courses in composition before studying singing with Reiner Goldberg at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. He later received advice and encouragement from Franz Crass and Kurt Moll.

Tilmann Rönnebeck was still a student when he took part in the Berlin premiere of The Comedian Harmonists at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm and received a B.Z. Culture Prize for his performances, which were followed by numerous concert tours both at home and abroad and by CDs and television appearances.

Tilmann Rönnebeck’s first full-time professional engagement was at the Cottbus State Theatre, where he sang many leading bass roles and won the Max Grünebaum Prize as Young Singer of the Year. He enjoyed great personal success as Pimen (Boris Godunov), Wotan (Das Rheingold) and Philip II (Don Carlo), among other roles. His next permanent contract was with the Komische Oper in Berlin, where he was heard as Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Rocco (Fidelio) and the title role in Don Pasquale. Since 2010/11 Tilmann Rönnebeck has been a member of the ensemble of the Dresden State Opera, where his roles have included Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Seneca (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Landgrave Hermann (Tannhäuser) and Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande).

Tilmann Rönnebeck made his Salzburg Festival debut in 2017 singing the King of France in Aribert Reimann’s Lear under Franz Welser-Möst.

Current as of July 2018

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