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KS Michael Schade

Celebrated as one of the leading tenors of our time, the German-Canadian Michael Schade can be heard regularly at the most important opera houses and concert halls. He has made guest appearances at the Verbier, Lucerne, Grafenegg and Glyndebourne Festivals, the Salzburg Festival, the Berlin and Hamburg State Operas, La Scala in Milan and the Metropolitan Opera. He has a close working relationship with the Vienna State Opera, where he has sung all the Mozart and Strauss roles in his repertoire. He is also a regular guest at the Canadian Opera Company, where he enjoyed great success as Herod in a new production of Strauss' Salome in spring 2023. Michael Schade also devotes himself intensively to concert literature and lieder.

He works with the most renowned orchestras such as the Vienna, Berlin and New York Philharmonics, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra and the symphony orchestras of Toronto, Montreal and Boston under conductors such as Ivor Bolton, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Fabien Gabel, Daniel Harding, Pablo Heras-Casado, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Sir Simon Rattle, Christian Thielemann, Robin Ticciati, Franz Welser-Möst and Simone Young. His musical activity was strongly influenced by a large number of performances with Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Lieder recitals have taken him to the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, London's Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, La Scala in Milan, Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York, among others. In the 2017/18 season, Michael Schade was "Artist in Residence" at the Wiener Konzerthaus.

Recent highlights include Orff's Carmina Burana at the Teatro La Fenice, Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the Orchestre National de Lille and the Orchestre National d'Auvergne, Bach's St. John Passion with the Concentus Musicus and Stefan Gottfried at the Musikverein, as well as Bach's Christmas Oratorio and Elgar's Dream of Gerontius at the Vienna Konzerthaus. Lieder recitals have taken him to the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires for the first time, as well as several times to the Vienna Musikverein, Montreux, the Upper Austrian Stiftskonzerte and Kultur.Sommer.Semmering.

Michael Schade has released a large number of CDs, with his broad repertoire ranging from Bach's Passions to Mahler's Lied von der Erde.

Michael Schade teaches singing at the Institute for Early Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and was Creative Director of the Young Singers Project he initiated at the Salzburg Festival from 2008 to 2010. He was also artistic director of the Stella Maris International Vocal Competition for 10 years. In 2007, the artist was awarded the title of Austrian Kammersänger. Since 2014, he has been the artistic director of the International Baroque Festival at Melk Abbey, which takes place every year at Whitsun. In 2017, Michael Schade was awarded the title "Officer to the Order of Canada (OC)".

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