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Soprano
Mezzo-Soprano
Tenor
Niklas Björling Rygert
Johan Christensson
Richard Decker
Misha Didyk
Jonas Durán
Gunnar Gudbjörnsson
Tuomas Katajala
Nikola Matišić
Martin Vanberg
Michael Weinius
Baritone
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Richard Decker /Tenor
Richard Decker, a native of Pennsylvania, made his professional operatic debut in the role of
Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with the Bronx Opera while attending the Manhattan
School of Music in New York.
The acclaimed American tenor first came to international attention in 1984 as a finalist in the
first Rosa Ponselle International Vocal Competition held in New York, as well as in the third
'Concorso Enrico Caruso' for tenors in Milan, Italy. In the same year he attended the
International Opera Studio at Zürich Opera in Switzerland where he made his European debut
in the 1984 Eurovision broadcast of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg celebrating the
re-opening of the newly renovated Zürich Opera house.
During a four-year spell at the State Theater in Saarbrücken Richard Decker was also a
frequent guest at such international festivals as Aix-en-Provence and Macerata, appearing as
Ferrando in Così fan tutte in 1990. In the same year he completed the transition to the
dramatic repertoire with his Vienna State Opera debut in the role of Desportes in Harry
Kupfer's production of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten. Since then he has been
engaged by many international opera houses including Metropolitan Opera in New York,
Opéra National de Paris, Teatro La Fenice, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Royal Opera
Stockholm, San Francisco Opera, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Theatre du Capitole in
Toulouse, Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Zürich Opera, De
Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, Flanders Opera in Antwerp, Cologne Opera, Deutsche
Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and the Frankfurt Opera.
He has taken on a wide range of roles including Florestan (Fidelio); the title roles of Parsifal,
Tristan, and Otello; Erik (Der fliegende Holländer), Walther von Stolzing (Die Meistersinger
von Nürnberg); the roles of Prince in Rusalka, Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos), Paul (Die tote
Stadt), Alfonso (Violanta), the Drum Major (Wozzeck), Boris (Katja Kabanowa).
Mr. Decker has sung concert performances of Tristan und Isolde with the Hallé Orchestra of
Manchester, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma and the Korean National Symphony Orchestra.
In October 2002 Mr. Decker sang his 40th performance of the role of Otello and thereby
creating a debut sensation at the San Francisco Opera.
Mr. Decker can be heard on recordings of Cosí fan tutte, Der Sturz des Antichrist and Parsifal.
Among future engagements to be mentioned are Parsifal and Tristan at Tiroler Festspiele,
Tristan in Montpellier, Rome and Cologne (stage director David Pountney) and Samson in
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