Michael Schade
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Michael Schade is a Canadian operatic tenor who was born in Geneva and raised in Germany and Canada. He married mezzo-soprano Norine Burgess. Mr. Schade and his children, daughter, Sophie and twins Lisbet and Nikolaus, live in Oakville, Ontario near Toronto.
Schade is considered to be one of the leading Mozart tenors on the stage today. He regularly performs at the Canadian Opera Company,Vienna Staatsoper, Salzburg Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Washington Opera, Opéra National de Paris, San Francisco Opera, Hamburg State Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Los Angeles Opera. At the Vienna Staatsoper, Mr. Schade has appeared in Daphne, Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail,Die Zauberflöte, Arabella, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, L'elisir d'amore , Die schweigsame Frau and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He belongs to the regular guests of the world-famous lied-festival Schubertiade Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg/Austria.
Mr. Schade has an extensive discography with a recording of Die Schöne Müllerin with Malcolm Martineau (CBC Records), Mozart's Mass in C Major (BMG) conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Daphne (Decca). His first solo recording - Of Ladies and Love -Songs of Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Ravel, Fauré, Strauss recorded for Hyperion received enthusiastic accolades.
"He sings Strauss's 'Cäcilie', and a wonderfully hushed 'Zueignung' as though he and Martineau were the first to discover their ecstasy." says BBC Music Magazine in a 5 star review.
Schade's recording of St. Matthew Passion (Teldec), conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance.
[edit] Selected discography
- The Creation (DGG)
- Die Zauberflöte (DGG Archiv)
- Leonore with John Eliot Gardiner
- St. John Passion
- St. Matthew Passion
- The Creation
- Elijah
- Paulus
- Christus by Anton Rubinstein with Helmuth Rilling (Hännsler)
- Fidelio under Sir Colin Davis (BMG)
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Wolgang Sawallisch (EMI)
- Otello with Myung-Whun Chung (DGG)
- Joseph Haydn's Theresien-messe
- Missa Sancti Nicolai with Trevor Pinnock (DGG Archiv)
- Soirée Française with baritone Russell Braun (1997,CBC Records)-a Juno Awardwinner and the Gabriel Fauré Award in France
- Serata Italiana, featuring Italian opera arias and duets with Russell Braun (CBC Records)
- Das Lied von der Erde (DGG).
