Curriculum
Born in Stuttgart, baritone Thomas Laske gained his first musical experience as a member of the Stuttgart Hymnus choirboys. After graduating in sound and visual engineering and singing with Brigitte Dürrler in Düsseldorf, he was first engaged by the opera studio of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and then by the Wuppertal theatre. In 1997 he won the Richard Strauss Competition in Munich.
Extensive radio and CD recordings document his work. His CD recordings include Bach's "St John Passion", "St Matthew Passion", "Christmas Oratorio", Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" and "Kindertotenlieder" and Schubert's "Winterreise".
His operatic repertoire includes the great baritone roles of Mozart, Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva and Figaro, as well as roles from Italian, French and Russian operas such as Escamillo (Bizet's Carmen), Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Puccini's Marcello (La Bohème) and Verdi's Giorgio Germont (La Traviata) and Ford (Falstaff), as well as Count Danilo (Lehàr's Merry Widow) and Dr. Falke and Gabriel von Eisenstein (The Merry Widow) in the operetta repertoire. Falke and Gabriel von Eisenstein (Strauss' Fledermaus). Guest appearances have taken him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Bavarian State Opera, the Cologne Opera, the Frankfurt Opera, the Lower Saxony State Theatre in Hanover and the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, among others.
Above all, however, Thomas Laske is a much sought-after lieder and concert singer who has performed with conductors and ensembles such as Karl-Friedrich Beringer, Georg Christoph Biller, Riccardo Chailly, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Mariss Jansons, Ton Koopman, Hans-Christoph-Rademann, Helmut Rilling, and Wolfgang Sawallisch, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Milan Guiseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, the Dresden Kreuzchor, the Thomanerchor Leipzig and the Windsbach Knabener Choir. St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Milan Guiseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, the Dresden Kreuzchor, the Thomanerchor Leipzig and the Windsbacher Knabenchor.
The Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf awarded him the title of Honorary Professor for his teaching activities.
