Biography
Philipp Himmelmann studied singing and music-theatre direction at Hamburg University of Music and Drama, graduating with distinction, and singing at the Guildhall School of Music in London.The season 2024/25 will take him to Opéra de Rouen with Aida (co-production with Opera Festival Savonlinna) and to Theater Lübeck with a new production of Carmen.
Philipp Himmelmann’s most recent engagements include Godard’s Dante (Staatstheater Braunschweig), Aida (Opera Festival in Savonlinna), Simon Boccanegra (Opéra de Rouen, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Opéra de Dijon), Pique Dame (Aalto Theater Essen), Die tote Stadt (Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse), Le Nozze di Figaro (Perm Tchaikovsky Opera), Káťa Kabanová (Opéra national de Lorraine) as well as Tosca, Don Giovanni and Boito’s Mefistofele, all at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.
Elswhere Philipp Himmelmann has staged L‘elisir d’amore (Opernfestspiele St. Margarethen), Die Fledermaus (Theater an der Wien, Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy), Don Giovanni ( Festspielhaus Baden-Baden), La Bohème (Perm Tchaikovsky Opera, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden), Der Zwerg and Die tote Stadt (L’Opéra national de Lorraine, Nantes Angers Opera), Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (Staatstheater Hannover), Aida and Giulio Cesare (Deutsche Oper am Rhein), Don Carlos (Staatsoper Berlin), Cardillac and Macbeth (Semperoper Dresden), Manon Lescaut (Staatsoper Hamburg), Dido and Aeneas (Palau de les Arts Valencia) and Tosca (Bregenzer Festspiele).
He had the pleasure to work with conductors and ensembles such as Sir Simon Rattle, Marco Armiliato, Teodor Currentzis, Thomas Hengelbrock, Michael Boder, Adam Fischer, Marcello Viotti, Fabio Luisi, Daniele Gatti, Christian Thielemann, Ulf Schirmer, Massimo Zanetti, Reinhard Goebel, Iván Fischer. Berliner Philharmoniker, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Staatskapelle Berlin, Ensemble musica aeterna, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensembles, Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin.
Productions by Philipp Himmelmann which have been released on DVD include Tosca, Don Giovanni, Mefistofele und Elisir d’amore.
From 2014 – 2019 he was professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.
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