Born: Germany

The German lyric tenor, Robert Wörle, studied with Lenore Kirschstein at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in Augsburg from 1980 to 1983 and with Hanno Blaschke at the Munich College of music from 1983 to 1987. In 1980 he received the Young Performer’s Award at the City of Augsburg.

In the autumn of 1991 Robert Wörle was permanently engaged by the Stuttgart State Opera, having appeared there under a guest contract from 1986. The tenor’s roles in Mozart’s operas are central to Wörle repertory, which also includes heavier parts such as Dimitri (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov), Hans Schwab (Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler) as well as numerous contemporary roles. He has also sung Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Walther von der Volgeweide (Tannhäuser) and Andreas (Wozzeck) in Stuttgart, Pedrillo (Entführung aus dem Serail) at the Hamburg State Opera and Jaquino (Fidelio) at the Bregenz Festival. In 1993 he made his debut at the Bastille Opera in Paris as Tichon (Katja Kabanova). Robert Wörle’s concert repertory is very extensive, ranging from Monteverdi’s Vespero della Beata Vergine, through oratorios by Händel, Bach and Haydn, to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem.

Source: Liner notes to the CD ‘Bach: Concertos & Cantata’ conducted by Ludwig Güttler (Dresden Classics, 2000)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (May 2001)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

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Works

Ludwig Güttler

Tenor

BWV 208

Ralf Otto

Tenor

BWV 244

Hanns-Martin Schneidt

Tenor

BWV 232

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