The South-African tenor, Kobie van Rensburg, started his vocal training under Prof. Werner Nel while studying for graduate and post-graduate degress in Law and International Politics, obtaining both cum laude, at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education.
Kobie van Rensburg South-African tenor
The South-African tenor, Kobie van Rensburg, started his vocal training under Prof. Werner Nel while studying for graduate and post-graduate degress in Law and International Politics, obtaining both cum laude, at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education.
Kobie van Rensburg made his professional debut at the early age of twenty, singing Belmonte in Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail for the Roodepoort City Opera in 1991. It was soon followed by operatic engagements together with concert appearances in all the mayor South-African cities. After winning several South-African Competitions as well as the Concert-section of the 1994 Pretoria International Singing competition, he left for Munich to further his vocal studies under Prof. Hanno Blaschke.
After an engagement in the Studio of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Kobie van Rensburg became a full-time member of the ensemble of Munich’s Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz. He is also a regular guest at several other European opera houses including the Berlin State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Montpellier, Basel, Luzern, Teatro Sao Carlos in Lissabon and the Opérá National du Rhin in Strasbourg. His expanding operatic repertoire already covers awide spectrum of leading roles, inclouding the early operas of Peri (Arcetro in Euridice) and Monteverdi (Orfeo in L’Orfeo and Nerone in L’Incoronazione di Popea),
the Baroque operas by George Frideric Handel (Jupiter in Semele, Massimo in Ezio, Massimo in Ezio, Vitaliano in Giustino etc.), the famous Mozartian tenor roles (Idomeneo & Arbace in Idomeneo, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Belfiore in La finta giardiniera, Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte etc.), Fenton in Verdi’s Falstaff, Der junge Seemann in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and several comic operas and operettas (Chateauneuf in Lortzing’s Zar und Zimmermann and Alfred in Die Fledermaus by Strauss ets.).
Although his concert repertoire ranges from music of the Renaissance to World Premieres of modern pieces, he specializes in music of the Baroque era.
Having already gained a considerable reputation as an interpreter of G.F. Handel, J.S. Bach and Monteverdi, Kobie van Rensburg has sung in such renowned festivals as the Salzburg Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Karlsruhe Händel Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Halle Händel Festival, the Insbruck Early Music Festival as well as the Luzern International Music Festival and as far a field as Cairo and Buenos Aires (Teatro Colon).
Kobie van Rensburg has also made several live television and radio broadcasts of opera and concerts in Europe and the USA under such famous conductors as Ivor Bolton, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Thomas Hengelbrock, Christopher Hogwood, René Jakobs, Lorin Maazel, Peter Schneider and Helmuth Rilling.
Metropolitan Opera
[Met Performance] CID:351094  Metropolitan Opera Premiere Rodelinda {1} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/02/2004 Debuts: Kobie van Rensburg, Zachary Vail Elkind, Harry Bicket, Stephen Wadsworth, Thomas Lynch, Peter Kaczorowski Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:351098 Rodelinda {2} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/06/2004 |
| [Met Performance] CID:351102 Rodelinda {3} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/11/2004 |
| [Met Performance] CID:351107 Rodelinda {4} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/15/2004 |
| [Met Performance] CID:351111 Rodelinda {5} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/18/2004 Debut: David Walker |
| [Met Performance] CID:351114 Rodelinda {6} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/22/2004 |
| [Met Performance] CID:351118 Rodelinda {7} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/27/2004 |
[Met Performance] CID:351121  Opera News 1 Opera News 2Rodelinda {8} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/01/2005 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:351128 Rodelinda {9} Metropolitan Opera House; 01/06/2005 |
[Met Performance] CID:351513   Rodelinda {10} Metropolitan Opera House; 05/02/2006 Debuts: Andreas Scholl, Christophe Dumaux |
| [Met Performance] CID:351517 Opera News 1 Opera News 2 Rodelinda {11} Metropolitan Opera House; 05/06/2006 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:351521 Rodelinda {12} Metropolitan Opera House; 05/10/2006 |
| [Met Performance] CID:351525 Rodelinda {13} Metropolitan Opera House; 05/13/2006 |
| [Met Performance] CID:351531 Rodelinda {14} Metropolitan Opera House; 05/19/2006 |
| [Met Performance] CID:351690 Opera News Idomeneo {64} Metropolitan Opera House; 11/29/2006 Debut: Jennifer Black Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:351691 Idomeneo {65} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/02/2006 |
| [Met Performance] CID:351700 Idomeneo {66} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/06/2006 |
| [Met Performance] CID:351706 Opera News Idomeneo {67} Metropolitan Opera House; 12/09/2006 Broadcast |
[Met Performance] CID:353483  Metropolitan Opera Premiere Armida {1} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/12/2010 Debut: Graciela Daniele, Yeghishe Manucharyan, Teele Ude Broadcast/Streamed Review |
| [Met Performance] CID:353494 Armida {2} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/16/2010 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:353497 Armida {3} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/19/2010 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:353506 Armida {4} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/22/2010 |
| [Met Performance] CID:353516 Armida {5} Metropolitan Opera House; 04/27/2010 Broadcast/Streamed |
| [Met Performance] CID:353525 Armida {6} Metropolitan Opera House; 05/01/2010 HD Simulcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:353532 Armida {7} Metropolitan Opera House; 05/04/2010 Debut: Jesse Marks |
| [Met Performance] CID:353538 Armida {8} Metropolitan Opera House; 05/07/2010 |
| [Met Performance] CID:353546 Armida {9} Metropolitan Opera House; 05/11/2010 Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:353552 Armida {10} Metropolitan Opera House; 05/15/2010 |
[Met Performance] CID:353824  Armida {11} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/18/2011 Debut: Jamie Verazin Broadcast |
| [Met Performance] CID:353833 Armida {12} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/23/2011 |
| [Met Performance] CID:353838 Armida {13} Metropolitan Opera House; 02/26/2011 |
| [Met Performance] CID:353845 Armida {14} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/01/2011 Broadcast/Streamed |
| [Met Performance] CID:353853 Armida {15} Metropolitan Opera House; 03/05/2011 Broadcast |
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