Valer Barna-Sabadus
Valer Barna-Săbăduș (born 15 January 1986), also Valer Sabadus, is a Romanian-German countertenor. He sings in both the alto and soprano range.
Life[edit]
Barna-Sabadus was born in Arad (Romania), near the Hungarian border. He is the child of a pianist and a cellist. His father died in 1990 when Valer was four years old. In 1991, after the end of the Ceaușescu regime, his family emigrated to Germany and he grew up in Landau an der Isar, Lower Bavaria.[1]
Barna-Sabadus received his first musical education in violin and piano. At the age of 17, he began his studies as a countertenor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Gabriele Fuchs.[1] In 2009, he became a member of the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding, where he completed his postgraduate studies with distinction in 2013.[2] Already before that, he sang important roles in his field under various conductors such as Orpheus in Orfeo ed Euridice[3] by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the title role in Rinaldo by Georg Friedrich Händel, Endimione in La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli[4][5] and Sesto in La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.[6] After many years in Munich he settled in Cologne in 2018.
Barna-Sabadus has collaborated with other countertenors in Leonardo Vinci's Artaserse tour. He debuted in the title role of Handel's Serse at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.[7] In 2013, he made his debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Menelao in Cavalli's opera Elena. [1] Since 2014, he has been under contract with the major label Sony Classical.[8] At the Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe and at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe he sang the title role of Handel's Teseo.[9]
Rinaldo in by G. F. Handel
Rinaldo
Endimione in Diana amante by
Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei
Puck in by Henry Purcell
The Fairy-Queen
Totes Gretchen Aventure Faust (2008) 3 scenes after Goethe, Heine and Birgit Müller-Wieland by (premiere)
Jan Müller-Wieland
Enea in by Niccolò Jommelli
Didone abbandonata
Ruggiero in by Antonio Vivaldi
Orlando furioso
Sesto in by Mozart
La clemenza di Tito
Iarba in by Johann Adolph Hasse
Didone abbandonata
Orfeo in by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice
Endimione in by Francesco Cavalli
La Calisto
Semira in by Leonardo Vinci
Artaserse
A young man, the young Syrian, Herodias in Last Desire by Lucia Ronchetti
Liscione in La Dirindina by
Giovanni Battista Martini
Armindo in by Georg Friedrich Händel
Partenope
Xerxes in by Georg Friedrich Händel
Serse
Menelao in Elena by Francesco Cavalli
Leucippo in Leucippo by Johann Adolph Hasse October
Teseo in by Georg Friedrich Händel
Teseo
Nerone in by Claudio Monteverdi
L’incoronazione di Poppea
Nicola Porpora, Antonio Caldara among others: Caro Gemello – Farinelli and Metastasio. Concerto Köln. Sony Classical, 2018.
Nicola Conforto
: Händel Goes Wild. L’Arpeggiata, dir. Christina Pluhar. Erato Records, 2017.
Georg Friedrich Händel
Sacred Duets. Duette und Arien aus Oratorien von , Bernardo Pasquini, Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Domenico Gabrielli, Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Antonio Lotti, Antonio Caldara, Nicola Antonio Porpora (plus Violinkonzert op.8,8 byt Giuseppe Torelli). With Nuria Rial, Kammerorchester Basel, dir. Julia Schröder. Sony Classical, 2017.
Alessandro Scarlatti
: Caldara. Nouvo Aspetto, dir. Michael Dücker. Sony Classical, 2015.
Antonio Caldara
Rachmaninoff: , Vocalise. Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, dir. Dmitrij Kitajenko. Oehms Classics, 2015.
Symphony Nr. 2
: Mozart Castrato Arias. recreation – Großes Orchester Graz, dir. Michael Hofstetter. Oehms Classics, 2015.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Antonio Sacchini: Le belle immagini. Hofkapelle München, dir. Allessandro De Marchi. Sony Classical, 2014.
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Francesco Cavalli: .Cappella Mediteranea, dir. Leonardo García Alarcón. DVD. Ricercar/Outhere Music, 2014.
Elena
Gluck: . l’arte del mondo, dir. Werner Erhardt. Harmonia mundi, 2014.
La clemenza di Tito
Trialog – Music for the One God. Pera-Ensemble. Berlin Classics (Edel), 2013.
: Hohe Messe h-Moll. Martin Steidler, Madrigalchor der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, Studio für historische Aufführungspraxis und Studierende der Bläser- und Streicherklassen, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. 2013.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Henry Purcell: To touch, to kiss, to die – English Songs. Olga Watts, Axel Wolf, Pavel Serbin. Oehms Classics, 2013.
John Dowland
Café – Orient meets Occident. Pera-Ensemble. Berlin Classics (Edel), 2012.
: Stabat Mater – Laudate Pueri. Valer Barna-Sabadus, Terry Wey, Neumeyer Consort, Barock Vokal aus Mainz, Dir. Michael Hofstetter. Oehms Classics, 2012.
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
: Hasse reloaded. Hofkapelle München, dir. Michael Hofstetter. Oehms Classics, 2012.
Johann Adolph Hasse
Ali Ufki, Giulio Caccini, among others: Baroque Oriental. Pera-Ensemble, Mehmet C. Yeșilçay. Berlin Classics (Edel), 2011.
Claudio Monteverdi
Kaffee für den König. Pera-Ensemble. T-Lounge (Edel), 2011.
400 Jahre Marianische Männerkongregation – Festmusik in der Bürgersaalkirche München. Michael Hartmann. Oehms Classics, 2010.
Musical America, New artist of the month, Juli 2009
[12]
ICMA Award, "Young Artist of the Year Vocal", 2013
[15]
2015 – Solistische Einspielung des Jahres (Gesang / Opernarien): Valer Sabadus / Hofkapelle München / Alessandro De Marchi – C.W. Gluck: Le belle immagini.[16]
Echo Klassik
2020