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The German baritone, Christian Martin Benjamin Wagner, studied the cello, modern languages, philosophy, pedagogy and others, before he came to find out he had a good singing voice. Training at the conservatory/university ("Hochschule") of Mainz city with Professor Claudia Eder, he came to Berlin, where he is currently living and working.
Having won the international singing competition at the chamber opera castle Rheinsberg Wagner is till trying to master his skills as a lyrical operatic baritone (with roles like Wagner's Wolfram, Charles Gounod's Valentin, W.A. Mozart's Conte Almaviva or Papageno, Strauss' Harlekin, Korngold's Fritz/Pierrot, Donizetti's Belcore and others.
But mainly he cares about Baroque music in general, and church music in particular (but not limited to the Baroque and renaissance eras), including Heinrich Schütz, Johann Hermann Schein, Monteverdi, Jan Dismas Zelenka, J.S. Bach, George Frideric Handel, Georg Philipp Telemann, Graun, but also Louis Spohr, Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms and Benjamin Britten.
Further, having studied German, English and French literature and linguistics, he specialise in the Lieder (songs) of these languages, such as the great cycles of Schubert, Robert Schumann and Gustav Mahler, songs from Haydn to Ralph Vaughan Williams and Henri Duparc and Francis Poulenc. |
