Draft:Michael Pflumm

Michael Pflumm (born 1977 in Hechingen) is a German tenor in opera and concert.

Education and carreer
Michael Pflumm first studied music education as well as Jazz and popular music at the University of Music Trossingen. Supported by his singing teacher at the time, Prof. Monika Moldenhauer, and private lessons with Bernhard Gärtner, he then studied singing at the Musikhochschule Freiburg and graduated in 2007.

Opera and festivals
From the 2007/08 season, he was a member of the opera studio at the Theater Basel and from 2008/09 a member of the soloist ensemble at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. There he sang, among others, Aljeja in From the House of the Dead, Junger Mann/Jüngling in Arnold Schönberg's Moses und Aron and Telemaco in Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria. In 2011/12, he moved to Bielefeld Opera for one and a half seasons (Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Witch in Hänsel und Gretel, Bob Boles in Peter Grimes, Jonathan in Saul, Beppe in Pagliacci) and was first a guest (including Fatty in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) and later an soloist ensemble member of Komische Oper Berlin (Tony in West Side Story, Junger Mann/Jüngling in Moses und Aron, Chester in Arizona Lady ).

Since the 2015/16 season, Michael Pflumm has been working as a freelancer with a focus on 20th and 21st century music. He has made guest appearances at at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Junger Diener in Elektra), at the Opéra National de Paris/Bastille (Jüngling in Moses und Aron), in Madrid at the Teatro Real (Jorge in La Ciudad de las Mentiras - world premiere, Jüngling in Moses und Aron), at the Palau de les Arts Reína Sofía in Valencia (Junger Diener in Elektra), at the Nationale Opera Amsterdam (Besenbinder in Königskinder), Hanover State Opera (Tony in West Side Story, Pietro in Die Gezeichneten), Semperoper Dresden (including Student Arkenholz in Die Gespenstersonate ), Cologne Opera (Pietro in Die Gezeichneten) and Leipzig Opera (Lobgesang), at the Staatstheater in Wiesbaden (Bardolfo in Falstaff), Braunschweig (Romeo in Riccardo Zandonai's Giulietta e Romeo , Henry Crawford in Jonathan Dove's Mansfield Park, Lewin in Jenö Hubay's Anna Karenina, etc.), Kassel and Saarbrücken (Tony in West Side Story), the opera houses in Chemnitz (Hauptmann in Wozzeck), Freiburg (a. o. Tschekalinsky in The Queen of Spades), Bremen (Arbace in Idomeneo, Jupiter in Orpheus in the Underworld), Bonn (Junger Diener in Elektra), with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in the City Halls Glasgow (Andres in Wozzeck ) at the Wiener Festwochen (Das Lied von der Erde), at the George Enescu Festival Bucharest (Apparition of a Youth in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Junger Mann in Moses and Aron), the Berlin Music Festival with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Apparition of a Youth in Die Frau ohne Schatten ) or the Kissinger Sommer.

Concert
He has also performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the Berliner Philharmonie (including Luciano Berio's Sinfonia), with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (Die Jakobsleiter ), Klangforum Wien at the BOZAR Brussels, Konzerthausorchester at the Konzerthaus Berlin (including Lottery Agent in Der Silbersee), Collegium Novum Zurich at the Tonhalle Zürich (Mauricio Kagel's In der Matratzengruft ), with the Munich Symphony Orchestra at the Philharmonie im Gasteig and the Isarphilharmonie (Carmina Burana), Sinfonieorchester Basel (Stimmen-Festival) or with the HERMESensemble at deSingel Antwerp (Lied von der Erde) and has worked with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, Lothar Zagrosek, Philippe Jordan, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Marc Albrecht, Donald Runnicles and Iván Fischer.

Since 2005, he has also been a regular guest of the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and has sung at the Salzburg Festival, Casa da Musica Porto, MÜPA Budapest, Festival Nous Sons Barcelona, Printemps des Arts Monte Carlo and Tongyeong International Music Festival South Korea.

Trivia
At the opening ceremony of the 2014/15 Bundesliga soccer season, Michael Pflumm sang the German national anthem in front of 70,000 spectators in Munich's Allianz Arena.

Since 2018, Michael Pflumm has performed regularly with the Baden-Württemberg State Police Orchestra under the baton of Stefan Halder with crossover programs.

Recordings

 * Oscar Strasnoy - Luther - An Oratorio (DVD) with the Staatskapelle Halle (world premiere)
 * Engelbert Humperdinck - Königskinder (DVD) at the Nationale Opera en Ballet Amsterdam
 * Arnold Schönberg - Moses and Aron (DVD) at the Opéra National de Paris
 * Luciano Berio - Sinfonia (Digital Concert Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) at the Berlin Philharmonie
 * Grenzenlos - Digital Christmas Concert with the Baden-Württemberg State Police Orchestra on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.

Teaching
From 2017 to 2023 Michael Pflumm lectured at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.

Weblinks

 * Personal website
 * Michael Pflumm at Operabase