Heiko Börner

(tenor)

EDUCATION AND WORK
After university studies of economics at Geißen and Hagen, he received private voice training at the Nordharzer Städtebundtheater and was subsequently employed by the Mainfranken Theater in Würzburg (2004–2008). Here he sang a wide range of repertoire in Italian, French and German. Since 2008, he is a freelance artist. He has pursued a career of heroic tenor roles that has taken him to Mecklenburg State Theatre, Landestheater Linz, Hanover State Opera, Cologne Opera, Stadttheater Bern, Halle Opera and Saarland State Theatre, Staatstheater Darmstadt among others.

REPERTOIRE
Tristan (Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde”)
Tannhäuser (Wagner’s “Tannhäuser”)
Lohengrin (Wagner’s “Lohengrin”)
Parsifal (Wagner’s “Parsifal”)
Walther von Stolzing (Wagner’s “Meistersinger von Nürnberg”)
Erik (Wagner’s “Der fliegende Holländer”)
Peter Grimes (Britten’s “Peter Grimes”)
Aschenbach (Britten’s “Death in Venice”)
Otello (Verdi’s “Otello”)
Max (Weber’s “Der Freischütz”)
Florestan (Beethoven’s “Fidelio”)
Emperor (Strauss’ “Die Frau ohne Schatten”)
Cavaradossi (Puccini’s “Tosca”)
Laca (Janáček’s “Jenufa”)
Albert Gregor (Janáček’s “The Makropulos Case”)
Der Zwerg (Zemlinsky’s “Der Zwerg”)
Graf Heinrich (Schreker’s “Irrelohe”)

Concert repertoire:
Beethoven’s “Christus am Ölberg”
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9
Mahler’s “Lied von der Erde”, “Das klagende Lied”
Mendelssohn’s “Elias und Walpurgisnacht”
Mozart’s Requiem
Verdi’s Requiem