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The Israel counter-tenor, Zvi Emanuel-Marial, began his musical career as a horn player at the art schools "Omanuiot" and "Thelma Yellin" in Tel Aviv, before continuing to study horn with Peter Damm at the Musikhochschule Dresden and Marie-Luise Neunecker at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt. The renowned singing teacher Marianne Kupfer, wife of opera director Harry Kupfer, encouraged him to train his voice as Altus (counter-tenor) and took over his vocal training. He held a scholarship of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Bayreuth Festival.
Zvi Emanuel-Marial made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in the opera The Betrayed Sea (Gogo No Eiko) by H.W. Henze under the direction of Gerd Albrecht. He sang at the Amsterdam Opera in Harry Kupfer's production of George Frideric Handel's Belshazzar the Role of Daniel, the Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Oberon in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He interpreted Pjotr at the Nationaltheater Mannheim in the world premiere of Böse Geister, an opera by the renowned composer Adriana Hölsyky. This production was awarded the premiere of the year by the magazine Opernwelt. There, he also sang Mitridate in the production of W.A. Mozart. At the Berlin State Opera in the season he sang the lead role of the opera La Douce by Emmanuel Nunes and jumped in at short notice as Orfeo in Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. As the only singer he interpreted with the dance company casting the UA Titus Andronicus at the Municipal Theater Giessen. Currently he is Opera Singer at Staatstheater Braunschweig (since July 7 2019) and Oper Bonn (since July 2021)
Zvi Emanuel-Marial regularly performs in concert with the legendary organist Matthias Eisenberg (solo programs and oratorios such as G.F. Handel's Messias, J.S. Bach's solo cantatas, as well as the Motets, the Passions and the Christmas Oratorio).
Zvi Emanuel-Marial interpreted in the season 2018-2019 the role of Arsamene in G.F. Handel's Xerxes at the Staatstheater Nürnberg and the Bonn Opera, as well as the counter-tenor No.1 in Aribert Reimann’s latest opera L’invisible at the Staatstheater Braunschweig.
Zvi Emanuel-Marial exclusively recorded Schubert's Winterreise on CD for the label Thorofon (worldwide distribution by Naxos) and caused a great international sensation. This is the world’s first recording of a counter-tenor of this masterpiece. His second solo album "Kings, Princes & Heroes" together with the Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin (Dramatic opera arias by George Frideric Handel, Gluck and W.A. Mozart) has been released on the same label. |
