Voice: | Baritone |
Nationality: | German |
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Thomas Mohr (born 17 October 1961) is a German operatic tenor and academic voice teacher. He began his career as a baritone, but moved on to heldentenor and has performed roles in all tenor parts of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at Der Ring in Minden. He has appeared at major international opera houses and concert halls, and made recordings. Mohr is a professor of voice at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. He also runs an agricultural estate where he founded a music festival.
Born in Neumünster, Mohr studied voice at the Musikhochschule Lübeck from 1980 with Karl Heinz Pinhammer, and graduated in 1985 with distinction in the Konzertexamen (concert exam). He won prizes at international competitions already during his studies, such as the International Vocal Competition ´s-Hertogenbosch, the VDMK competition in Berlin and the Walther Gruner Competition in London. He further studied with Anna Reynolds.
Mohr made his operatic debut at the Lübeck Opera in 1984 as Silvio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. He was engaged as a baritone at the Theater Bremen (1985 to 1997) and Nationaltheater Mannheim, and then moved to the Oper Bonn in 1990, where he collaborated with notable directors such as Giancarlo del Monaco, Jürgen Rose, Werner Schroeter, András Fricsay and Andreas Homoki . His roles there included Luna in Verdi's Il trovatore, Germont in Verdi's La traviata, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, Peter in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. He took part in the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn's Enrico at the 1991 Schwetzingen Festival with the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera. He appeared as a guest at the Opernhaus Zürich, the Semperoper in Dresden, and the Liceu in Barcelona, among others.