Johannes Chum
The Austrian tenor Johannes Chum began his musical career already very early as soloist of the Wiener Sängerknaben. He studied song and oratorio in Vienna and completed a vocal training with Arthur Korn. In 1994 he made his opera debut in St.Pölten as Lysander in Britten' s Sommernachtstraum. In the same year he took part in the debut performance of B. Furrer' s opera Narzissus in Graz. He was seen in Weil' s Sieben Todsünden with the Vienna Musikverein and in the Klagenfurt Stadttheater as Caramello (Eine Nacht in Venedig) as well as Jaquino in Beethoven's Fidelio. The appearance as Pastore in Orfeo and Spirito took the tenor to the Brussels Opera as well as to Paris and New York.
Guest contracts took Johannes Chum until now amongst others to the Dresden Musikfestspiele, to the Dresden Semperoper, the Cologne Philharmonic and to the Seville Teatro Lope de Vega. He worked with conductors, such as Silvain Cambreling, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Richard Hickox and Ingo Metzmacher. The repertory of the young tenor includes already numerous Mozart parts: So he sang Arbace in Idomeneo at the Salzburg Festspielhaus and Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festspiele. In 1999 he was seen as Titus in the Klagenfurt Stadttheater. In the same house he took part in the staging of The Abduction from the Seraglio by Olivier Tambosi as Belmonte, at the Salzburg Landestheater he was seen in the part of Tamino in The Magic Flute. His activity as song- and oratorio singer took Johannes Chum amongst others to Sao Paulo (Christmas Oratorio), to the Vienna Musikverein (Paulus) and to the Salzburg Mozarteum (c-moll-Messe/Mozart).
An the Komische Oper Berlin Johannes Chum sang Jonathan in Saul, Tamino in The Magic Flute as well as the title part in the staging of Titus. In the 2001/02 season he was seen as Romeo in Harry Kupfer' s Gounod-Opera Romeo and Juliet. From the year 2005 till 2007 he sang Ferrando in »Così fan tutte« at this house.
In this season 2009/10 he will sing the role of Piquillo in »La Périchole«.