The German baritone and bass-baritone, Hinrich Horn, had his first singing lessons with Eike Tiedemann and Max Ciolek. He then studied at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover with Peter-Anton Ling and Jacques Schwarz (2004-2010). He attended master-classes with Håkan Hagegård, Ingrif Kremling, Ulf Bästlein, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Irwin Gage, Charles Spencer and Anne Le Bozec. Intensive work has connected him with Hans-Joachim Beyer for several years. He was a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Live Music Now Hannover, the Richard Wagner Association Chemnitz, as well as the IVTA and the EVTA.
Even while he was still a student, small guest contracts led Hinrich Horn to the Hanover State Opera and the Mannheim National Theater. Under the direction of Sebastian Ukena he sang Papageno in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. A role he also impersonated at the Braunschweig Classix Festival, where he was re-engaged as Kuno in Weber's Freischütz.
Hinrich Horn was engaged at the Theater Plauen-Zwickau. Here he attracted particular attention as Wolfram von Eschenbach in Wagner's Tannhäuser and was honored with the Zwickau Audience Prize for his outstanding performance. In Plauen/Zwickau he was successful in numerous roles, including Enrico Ashton, Frank in Die Fledermaus, Figaro in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo in W.A. Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Leporello in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Bartolo in Barbiere di Siviglia or the title role in Benatzky's D'Artagnan embodied. In addition to other smaller roles such as Feri in Die Czárdásfürstin, Kilian in Der Freischütz, Silvano in Verdi's Gustave III., Célestine Formant in Ball im Savoy or Moralès and Dancaïro in Georges Bizet's Carmen, he also embodied Rabbiner Magus in Detlev Glanert's Jud Süss.
Most recently, Hinrich Horn was engaged at the Leipzig Opera and embodied roles such as Obolski in Feuerwerk, Danilo in The Merry Widow, Heger in Rusalka, Papageno / Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte, Peter den Erste in Zar und Zimmermann, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, etc. In 2019 he also sang a New Year's Gala at the Staatstheater Braunschweig and the Verdi Requiem in Göttingen.
Hinrich Horn could be seen for the first time in Péter Eötvös' opera The Golden Dragon in January 2020 at the Mainfranken Theater in Würzburg. At the Carl Orff Festival in Andechs he sang the baritone part in Carmina Burana, at the Schwetzingen Mozart Festival he sang Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte. |