髙田智宏

Ks. Tomohiro Takada

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国立音楽大学音楽学部声楽科卒業、二期会オペラ研修所を経て、国立音楽大学大学院音楽研究科声楽専攻（ドイツ歌曲）を首席で修了。2005年第4回静岡国際オペラコンクール「三浦環特別賞」を受賞。2006年第４回長久手国際オペラ声楽コンクール優勝。2003年～2005年にかけて、小澤征爾音楽塾オペラ・プロジェクトIV~VIにも参加。2007年9月よりドイツ・キール歌劇場の専属歌手として、バロック作品から現代作品まで数々の主役を務め、またレパートリーは60演目を超す。2020年よりカールスルーエ・バーデン州立歌劇場にて専属歌手となり、主に海外を拠点に活躍中。近年、国内でも佐渡裕プロデュース・オペラに主役で多数出演、2015年の『椿姫』ジェルモン役で絶賛を博す。また新国立劇場では、2019年に世界初演された新国立劇場創作委嘱作品の西村朗『紫苑物語』の宗頼役で鮮烈な主演デビューを果たし、さらに2021年の《ドン・カルロ》ロドリーゴ役でも圧巻の歌唱で聴衆を魅了し、絶賛を博した。2017年12月、ドイツ・シュレースヴィヒ＝ホルシュタイン州キール市から宮廷歌手(KS / Kammersänger)の称号を授与。ドイツ在住。

Tomohiro Takada graduated from Kunitachi College of Music in 1999. After Studying at Niki-Kai Opera Studio, he graduated with top honor with the Docomo Award from Kunitachi College of Music’s graduate school, where he majored in German Lied. Since then, Takada has won numerous awards including second prize at Yuai German Lied Competition in 2003, the Tamaki Miura Special Award from the 4^th Shizuoka International Opera Competition in 2005 as well as first prize at the 4^th International Nagakute Opera Competition in 2006.

From 2003 to 2005, Takada participated in Seiji Ozawa Ongaku Juku Opera Project as Eisenstein in J. Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, Marcello in Puccini’s La Boheme, and Figaro in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. He also sang the same roles at the project’s special concerts in Joetsu, Utsunomiya, Kobe, Tenshin, and Shanghai. In addition, Takada took the role of Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro and Figaro in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at Saito Kinen Orchestra Opera Concert for Young People in both 2005 and 2006.

Other opera credits include Guglielmo in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte as well as Bernard in Kuhlau’s Die Raeberburg at the 4^th subscription concert of the International Friedrich Kuhlau Society, which was his first opera appearance in his native Japan. As a soloist, he has performed Beethoven’s Symphony No.9, Faure’s Requiem, and Brahms’s Ein Deutches Requiem.

Takada’s debut in Germany was marked by the role as Bello in Puccini’s La fanciulla del West at the Staatstheater Stuttgart in 2007. He was consequently signed by Theater Kiel and had his first performance there in Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss II as Dr. Falke, which won him spectacular press reviews. He also had a guest appearance at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven.

Recent highlights include singing Don Giovanni in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Sixtus Beckmesser in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Theater Kiel, which were highly praised by critics in Germany. In Japan, Takada performed the role of Figaro in Hyogo Performing Arts Center’s opera project of The Barber of Seville produced by Yutaka Sado in 2013.

Tomohiro Takada has studied under Uwe Heilmann, Kyoko Akiba, Yasutomo Nozaki, Susumu Matsumoto and Tom Krause. He currently lives in Germany and is on the roster of Theater Kiel.