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The Austrian male soprano and counter-temor singer, Arno Argos Raunig, started his career with the Wiener Sängerknaben. He became soloist and had contact to famous conductors like Herbert von Karajan, Josef Krips or Karl Böhm early in his life. After the “Abitur” he started studying with various famous teachers such as KS Ruthilde Boesch, Erika Mechera, KS Kurt Equiluz (song and oratory), KS Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Hans Peter Blochwitz.
After Arno Raunig's opera debut in the Stadttheater Klagenfurt in 1990 where he sang in Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen, followed participation in many productions, including at the Operahouse in Prague (Smetanova divadlo) and Operahouse Amsterdam, Semperoper in Dresden, Operahouse Zürich, Opera Houses in Rome, Paris, in Bonn, in Warschau (Wielki), Hamburger Staatsoper, Town Theater of Wiesbaden and Darmstadt, Theatre Basel, Prinzregententheater Munich, Hebbeltheater Berlin, Tiroler Landestheater, Wiener Jugendstiltheater, Schönbrunner Schlosstheater, Wiener Kammeroper, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO) and others.
Arno Raunig looks back on cooperation with many famous artists like: Gerd Albrecht, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Hartmut Haenchen, Ralf Weikert, Frieder Bernius, Max Pommer, Péter Eötvös, Jürgen Flimm, John Dew, Harry Kupfer, Claus Guth, Paul Angerer and others.
Arno Raunig has sung the parts of Sextus, Idamante and Ascanio (W.A. Mozart); of Dardanus (Johann Adolf Hasse); of Apollo (Benjamin Britten, Cesti); of Amor and Orfeo (Chr.W. Gluck); of Orfeo (Cl. Monteverdi); of Mephostophiles (Alfred Schnittke – premiere Historia of Dr. Johann Faustus); of Xerxes, Radamisto, Ruggiero, Cyrus, Heracles, Ariodante and Hamor (George Frideric Handel); of Osmida (N. Jommelli); of Orlofsky (The Bat by Johann Strauß); of the Fabelsohn (Hans Gefors – after Botho Strauss Der Park - premiere); of the Death (in Jahn Müller-Wielands' Das Märchen der 672. Nacht after Hugo v. Hofmannsthal); of Prinz GoGo (in Le grand macabre by György Ligeti); of Creonte (in Midea 2 by Oskar Strasnoy - premiere, or Shakespeare-Sonetti by Pavel Mykietyn, Alexander Wagendristl in Der Narr and Sir Harrison Birtwistle – The last supper), of the Cadence Macbeth (in C. Macbeth by Norbert Zehm – premiere). He took part in many premieres of Helmut Öhring such as Dokumentation, Polaroids (with the Ensemble Modern), Effi Briest, Requiem, Bernarda Albas Haus(after F.G. Lorca), Sieben, Der Ort ist nicht der Ort, Blaumeer, and Unsichtbarland.
Arno Raunig has also appeared in the Berlin Philharmonie, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Hamburg Concerthall (Leisz) and CCH, El Auditorio National de Madrid, Paula de la Musica Catalana de Barcelona, The “Glocke” in Bremen, Tonhalle Zürich, Herkulessaal in Munich, Brucknerhaus Linz, Wiener Musikverein and Wiener Konzerthaus. He has sung at many festivals as: the Wiener Festwochen and Wiener Musiksommer, at Wien Modern, Maifestspiele in Dresden and Wiesbaden, Händelfestspiele in Halle and Karlsruhe, Spoleto Festival, Flandern Festival, Kammermusikfest in Witten, Donaueschingen Festival, Ludwigsburg Festival, Luzern Festival, Wroclaw Festival, Rheingaufestival, Ruhrtriennale, Farinelli-Festival Andria and many others.
Many Solo-CD´s as: “Mozart – Castraten Arias”, “Farinelli-Arias”, “Ave Maria” – 22 of the most famous Ave Maria from Bach – Gounod to Schubert, “A.R. – Sopranist”, “Farineli vs Händel”, “Time Windows”, “A.R. sings Castrato-Arias” – Händel, Mozart, Hasse, Pleyel, “The most beautiful Songs” – (Schubert, Robert Schumann, Strauss, Grieg, W.A. Mozart, L.v. Beethoven, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms). and so on. |
