Peter Seiffert
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Biography
The son of singer Helmut Sieffert, German tenor Peter Seiffert was born in Düsseldorf on January 4, 1954, and joined a choir in his youth, before studying opera singing. After making his debut at the Rhine Opera in 1978, he joined the Berlin Opera Company, where he performed from 1980 to 2019. He has taken on a wide variety of roles, from Mozart to Richard Strauss, not forgetting Wagner, whose Ring tetralogy, recorded by Daniel Barenboim, is his specialty, among other productions over four decades. In 2003, his production of Tannhäuser, again conducted by Borenboim, won a Grammy Award. It was in this role of the minnersänger, performed many times, that the operatic tenor bade farewell after more than three hundred performances in Berlin. Peter Seiffert has also collaborated with other companies, including the Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and the Bayreuth Festival, where he appeared regularly between 1996 and 2005. Married to Lucia Popp in 1986, then to Petra Maria Schnitzer in 1993, Peter Seiffert died after a long illness on April 14, 2025, at the age of 71.
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- Das Lied von der Erde: I. Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde (ten) featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Das Lied von der Erde: II. Der Einsame im Herbst (bar) featuring Thomas Hampson
- Caro mio ben by Peter Seiffert
- Das Lied von der Erde: V. Der Trunkene im Frühling (ten) featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Flotow: Alessandro Stradella, Act 3: "Wie freundlich strahlt der Tag ... Jungfrau Maria" (Stradella)
- Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125 - "Choral": 4. Finale (Presto - Allegro assai) featuring René Pape
- Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), Act 3: "Willst jenes Tag's" (Erik) featuring Peter Seiffert
- Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), Act 3: "Was musst' ich hören!" (Erik, Senta) featuring Jane Eaglen
- Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), Act 3: "Verloren! Ach! verloren!" (Dutchman, Erik, Senta, Daland, Mary, Chorus) featuring Jane Eaglen
- Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), Act 2: "Bleib' Senta! Bleib'" (Erik, Senta) featuring Jane Eaglen
- Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op.125 'Choral', IV.: Andante maestoso: "Seid umschlungen, Millionen!" featuring Marjana Lipovsek
- Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op.125 'Choral', IV.: Allegro ma non tanto: "Freude, Tochter aus Elysium! featuring Marjana Lipovsek
- Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op.125 'Choral', IV.: Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato:"Seid umschlun featuring Marjana Lipovsek
- Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op.125 'Choral', IV.: Allegro assai: "Freude, Freude!" featuring Marjana Lipovsek
- Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op.125 'Choral', IV.: Allegro assai vivace alla Marcia: "Froh, froh, wie featuring Marjana Lipovsek
- Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op.125 'Choral': I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso featuring Marjana Lipovsek
- Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op.125 'Choral': III. Adagio molto e cantabile featuring Marjana Lipovsek
- Elias op.70, Zweiter Tell: Chor- Alsdann wird euer Licht hervorbrechen (Chor) featuring James Conlon
- Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op.125 'Choral', IV.: Recitativo: "O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!" featuring Marjana Lipovsek
- Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op.125 'Choral', II.: Presto featuring Marjana Lipovsek
- Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op.125 'Choral', II.: Molto vivace featuring Marjana Lipovsek
