Link to Gerhard le Roux's official web site:  http://www.operaclassica.de/html/gerhard-le-roux.html

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GERHARD LE ROUX, tenor

The spinto tenor Gerhard le Roux was born in South Africa on 14 August 1960.  He started as soloist in the Drakensberg Boys Choir where he recorded The Messiah (Händel) as a boy soprano at the age of eleven.  After completion of his school career he studied at the opera school in Pretoria.  During this time he also became a member of the opera ensemble at the Pretoria State Theatre where he sang over forty different compramario roles in his first five years.  He made his debut as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly in 1987 and was awarded the Special Nederburg Award for Opera.

During his nine years at the State Theatre Gerhard le Roux sang such roles as Alfredo (La Traviata), Il Duca di Matova (Rigoletto), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Italian Tenor (Der Rosenkavalier), Werther, Roméo (Gounod), Turiddu (Cavalleria Rusticana), Male Chorus in Britten’s Rape of Lucretia, and Rodolfo (La Boheme).

As an oratorio tenor, Gerhard le Roux sang in Beethoven‘s Ninth, Mozart‘s Requiem, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Verdi's Requiem, and Händel‘s Messiah.

Presently, Gerhard le Roux lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.  In 2002 he changed fach to spinto/jugendlich-dramatisch and made his debut as Erik in Wagner’s Fliegende Holländer.  Further debuts in Germany include Idomeneo, Don Carlo, Canio in I Pagliacci, Werther and Der Komponist Max in Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf.  Performances include theatres such as Mannheim, Weimar, Wiesbaden, Chemnitz, Schloßfestspiele Schwerin and Stockholm.

Recently, Gerhard le Roux has made his debut in Italy (Cagliari) as Konrad in Heinrich Marschner’s opera, Hans Heilin under the baton of Maestro Palumbo from La Scala.  In 2006 and 2007 Gerhard le Roux will be singing his first Otello as well as his first Tristan.

Gerhard is married to the well-known pianist Erika le Roux.

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Gerhard le Roux's Repertoire

Madama Butterfly – Pinkerton

•  State Theatre Pretoria 1990 – awarded with the Special Nederburg Award for Opera

•  NAPAC (State Theatre Durban)

•  Grahamstown Arts Festival

•  Hessisches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden 1995

La Boheme – Rodolfo

•  State Theatre Pretoria 1987

Rigoletto – Il Duca di Mantova

•  State Theatre Pretoria 1989

Werther – Werther

•  State Theatre Cape Town 1987

•  State Theatre Pretoria 1988

The Rape of Lucretia – The Male Chorus

•  Roodepoort City Opera 1988

•  CAPAB (State Theatre Cape Town) 1990

La Traviata – Alfredo

•  CAPAB (State Theatre Cape Town) 1989

•  PACOFS (State Theatre Bloemfontein)

•  SABC Television 1993

Roméo et Juliette – Roméo

•  Roodepoort City Opera 1989 & 1994

Don Giovanni – Don Ottavio

•  Roodepoort City Opera 1991

•  CAPAB (State Theatre Cape Town)

•  SABC Television 1991

Die Zauberflöte – Tamino

•  Roodepoort City Opera 1991

Der Fliegende Holländer – Erik

•  PACT (State Theatre Pretoria) 1991

Die Fledermaus – Alfredo

•  PACT (State Theatre Pretoria ) 1989

•  CAPAB (State Theatre Cape Town) 1993

•  Pfalztheater, Kaiserslautern 1996

Peter Grimes – Peter Grimes

•  PACT (State Theatre Pretoria) – awarded with the Special Nederburg Award for Opera

•  CAPAB (State Theatre Cape Town)

Czarevich – Czarevich

•  PACT (State Theatre Pretoria)

Carmen – Don José

•  SABC Television 1990

•  L’Opera Piccola Sommerfestspiele – 2005

Martha – Lyonel

•  Roodepoort City Opera

Il Turco in Italia – Narciso

•  CAPAB (State Theatre Cape Town)

Der Vogelhändler – Stanislaus

•  Pfalztheater, Kaiserslautern 1996

Der Rosenkavalier – Italian Tenor

•  State Theatre Pretoria 1992

Un Giorno di Regno – Eduardo

•  Pfalztheater, Kaiserslautern 1996

Don Carlo – Don Carlo

•  Opernbühne Kiel 1997

•  Nationaltheater Mannheim 1998

•  International Schloßfestspiele, Schwerin – 2003

•  National Theatre Weimar

I Pagliacci – Canio

•  Opernbühne Kiel

•  Opernbühne Lübeck

•  Opera House Chemnitz

•  Pretoria State Theatre – 2005

Oedipus Rex – Creonte

•  Opernbühne Kiel

La Navarraise – Araquil

•  State Theatre Pretoria

Idomeneo – Idomeneo

•  Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater, Schwerin – 2000/2001

Nabucco - Ismael

•  Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater, Schwerin – 2001

Jonny Spielt Auf – Komponist Max

•  Schillertheater, Wuppertal – 2002

Cavalaria Rusticana – Turiddu

•  State Theatre Pretoria

Der Fliegende Holländer – Erik

•  Opera House Gera – 2002/2003/2004

•  Opera House Halle – 2004

Idomeneo – Idomeneo

•  National Theatre  Mannheim – 2002/2003

•  State Theatre Schwerin

•  State Theatre Würzburg – 2004

Hans Heiling – Konrad

•  Cagliari (Italy) – 2004

Simon Boccanegra – Gabriele Adorno

•  Johannesburg Civic Theatre – 2005

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