Age: 27
Valentin Ruckebier is a member of the Ensemble at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where his roles have included Sagrestano in Tosca, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Zaretskij in Eugene Onegin, and Alessio in La Sonnambula, among others. Recent performances also include Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte for Egyptian National Opera in Cairo, and the role of Jesus in Bach’s St. John Passion in Berlin and Leipzig. Active as a lieder singer, he has performed Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise for the Liedforum Köln.
An award-winning composer, Valentin’s opera The Flight to Egypt has been performed at the Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, Italy, at the Landestheater Linz, Austria, and at the Serbian National Theater in Novi Sad. Valentin earned a master’s degree at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf.
Principal Teachers
- Konrad Jarnot
- Ludwig Grabmeier
Major Competitions
- 1st prize, SWR Junge Opernstars, 2024
- 1st prize, Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin, 2022
PROGRAMME
FIRST ROUND: ARIA
GIUSEPPE VERDI Il lacerato spirito
(Simon Boccanegra)
JULIEN BILODEAU La colombe
(La beauté du monde)
CHARLES GOUNOD Vous qui faites l’endormie
(Faust)
FIRST ROUND: ART SONG
GABRIEL FAURÉ Le papillon et la fleur
(Deux mélodies, op. 1)
HUGO WOLF Im Frühling
(Mörike-Lieder)
FRANZ SCHUBERT Die Forelle
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG Hain in diesen Paradiesen
(Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, op. 15)
JOHANNES BRAHMS Denn es gehet dem Menschen
(Vier ernste Gesänge)
ART SONG PRIZE FINAL
GLADYS DAVENPORT Cool and Silent is the Lake
HENRI DUPARC Phidylé
FRANZ SCHUBERT Gruppe aus dem Tartarus
RICHARD STRAUSS Lob des Leidens
(Fünf Lieder, op. 15)
VALENTIN RUCKEBIER 61 of 64
SEMIFINAL
JOSEPH HAYDN Nun scheint in vollem Glanze der Himmel
(Die Schöpgung)
GIUSEPPE VERDI Come dal ciel precipita
(Macbeth)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Madamina, il catalogo è questo
(Don Giovanni)
FINAL
GIUSEPPE VERDI O tu Palermo
(I Vespri Siciliani)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Aprite un po’ quegli occhi
(Le nozze di Figaro)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Lyubvi vse vozrasty pokorny
(Evgeny Onegin)
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