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The German tenor, Richard Glöckner, began his musical training at an early age. After graduating from the Sächsischen Landesgymnasium für Musik in Dresden (2012-2015) and taking lessons with Claudia Schmidt-Krahmer, he studied with Elisabeth Wilke at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg (2015-2020). In 2014 he was awarded 1st Federal Prize at Jugend musiziert and in 2018 he was able to win the Lys Symonette Award at the Lotte Lenya Competition of the Kurt Weill Foundation in New York. He received important impulses for Lieder performance in master-classes and in lessons with Pauliina Tukiainen in Salzburg and Olaf Bär in Dresden.
In June 2019 Richard Glöckner made his debut at the 23rd Schönebecker Operettensommer with the role of Leonetto in Suppés' Boccaccio (2019). At the Universität Mozarteum he last appeared on the opera stage in Benjamin Britten's Owen Wingrave (2020) and A Midsummer Night's Dream. (2018). From the 2021-2022 season he will be a permanent member of the ensemble at the Eduard-von-Winterstein-Theater in Annaberg-Buchholz. There he first took on the role of Leonce in Leonce und Lena by Erich Zeisel, which will be premiered in Germany. This will be followed by leading roles in Benatzky's operetta Der reichste Mann der Welt and Dorian Gray by L'ubica Čekovská, which will also be premiered in Annaberg-Buchholz.
In addition to the classical repertoire, Richard Glöckner regularly devotes himself to operettas, musicals and chansons. Lessons from Noelle Turner shape his singing in these genres. In 2017 he took part in a reading for the musical Sherlock Holmes - Next Generation in Bad Hersfeld. Even during his school days he took on leading roles in projects he initiated himself and appeared on stage in musicals such as Mozart!, Evita and Cabaret. He regularly appears in various settings with his own programs and concert evenings. |
