Highlights from Opera & Operetta - with Sebastian Holecek & Jimmy CB Chiang

What's it about?

Sebastian Holecek, a sought-after opera star and concert singer, already performed in Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria during his studies at the University of Music. In 1990/1991, he was engaged at the Gärtnerplatztheater Munich, where he sang roles such as Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Harlequin. Since this engagement, he has sung at opera houses all over the world, including the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, in Paris, Munich, Beijing, New York, Capetown, Monte-Carlo, Madrid, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Turin, Naples, London, Tel Aviv, Prague, and Stuttgart. In 2006, he became a member of the ensemble of the Wiener Volksoper. Sebastian Holecek has a wide-ranging repertoire: Jochanaan (Salome), the title role in Gesualdo, Heerrufer (Lohengrin), Schaunard (La Bohème), as well as the title role in Il Prigioniero, Masetto (Don Giovanni), Escamillo (Carmen), Caspar (Freischütz), Giorgio Germont (La traviata), Scarpia. He debuted at the Wiener Staatsoper in 1994 and sang roles such as Fléville (Andrea Chénier), Peter Besenbinder (Hänsel und Gretel), Harlequin, Papageno, Christian (Ballo in maschera), Graf Dominik (Arabella), Marullo (Rigoletto), Don Fernando (Fidelio), Geisterbote (Frau ohne Schatten). Bass-baritone Sebastian Holecek will be accompanied at Schloss Halbturn by the internationally acclaimed conductor and concert pianist Jimmy CB Chiang. The exclusive concert evening takes the Halbturn audience on a journey from Italy to Vienna – with highlights from opera and operetta – from "Te Deum" from "Tosca" to "Brüderlein Fein" from the operetta "Die Fledermaus".