Biography
 

 

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National Opera of Paris (France)
Since 1987, Swiss tenor Andreas Jaeggi has participated in numerous productions of the National Opera of Paris (Garnier / Bastille): "The Master and Margarita" by York Hoeller after Boulgakov's novel (world creation), "Les Noces" by Stravinsky, "tantz-schul" by Mauricio Kagel, "The Seven Deadly Sins" by Brecht / Weill, all at Palais Garnier, the so-called "Old Opera House"; "Fiery Angel" by Prokofiev, "Les Brigands" and "The Tales of Hoffmann" (Spalanzani) by Offenbach, "Mahagonny" (Jack O'Brien) by Brecht / Weill, "Wozzeck" (The Fool) by Alban Berg, "Fledermaus" (Dr. Blind) by Johann Strauss, "Juliette ou La Clef des Songes" by Martinu and "Salome" (Fourth Jew) by Richard Strauss, all at the Bastille.

Andreas Jaeggi will be heard and seen at the Bastille in Robert Wilson's stage production of "Madama Butterfly" (Goro) by Puccini in January / February / March 2009. Other upcoming productions are "Salome" (Fourth Jew) by Richard Strauss (November / December 2009) and "Billy Budd" (Red Whiskers) by Benjamin Britten (March / April / May 2010).
 

National Opera of Lyon (France)
Andreas Jaeggi has performed in the National Opera of Lyon's "The Seven Deadly Sins" by Brecht / Weill. This piece has also been the official opening production for the Edinburgh International Festival (Scotland) in 2006.

This was followed in 2007 by the production in Lyon of "Luci mie traditrici" by contemporary Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino.
 

Amsterdam Opera House (The Netherlands)
After his participation in the productions of Prokoviev's "L'ange de feu" (staging by Andrej Serban) and Offenbach's "Les brigand" (staging by Jerome Deschamps and Macha Makaieff) at the Amsterdam Opera House, Andreas Jaeggi will be back in Amsterdam for the 2008/2009 season as Doktor Blind in Johann Strauss' "Fledermaus" (staging by Johannes Schaaf), a part he has already performed at the National Opera of Paris / Bastille, France (staging by Coline Serrau).
 

Opera Ireland, Dublin
For Opera Ireland (Dieter Kaegi, artistic director), Andreas Jaeggi has appeared in the operatic version of "The Silver Tassie", music by Mark-Anthony Turnage, after the famous Irish play by Sean O'Casey. Further productions with this opera company were: "Rheingold" (Mime) by Wagner with the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, "Jenufa" (Steva) by Janacek and "Magic Flute" (Monostatos) by Mozart.

Andreas Jaeggi’s latest collaboration with Opera Ireland was in Andre Previn's operatic version of "A Streetcar Named Desire" (Steve Hubbell), after the play by Tennessee Williams.
 

Compagnie Alain Germain, Paris (France)
Since 1976, Andreas Jaeggi is a member of Compagnie Alain Germain. Over the past 30 years, he has participated in most of the creations of this Paris-based contemporary musical theater company, including the productions of Moliere's "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" (with original music by Lully) and "The Imaginary Invalid" (with original music by Charpentier) at Chateaux Blois and Chambord, at the Grand Theatre of Reims (France), at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Linbury Studio Theatre) and at the Banqueting House of Whitehall, both in London (England). The recent productions "Champagne Notes" and "Chasse-Croise" have been performed in the baroque French garden as well as in the newly restored vaulted cellar halls of the Museum of Hunting and Nature (Hotel de Guenegaud and Hotel de Mongelas) in the Marais quarter of Paris as well as in the Champagne region. Andreas Jaeggi has participated in the world creation of Adrienne Clostre's "The Triumph of Virtue" at the Medieval Museum / Thermes and Hotel de Cluny in Paris.

To celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the Hospital Saint-Louis of Paris, Andreas Jaeggi participated in Compagnie Alain Germain's production of "The 400 Beats of Saint-Louis". The 30 performances took place in the Musee des moulages in October 2007.
 

English Bach Festival
Andreas Jaeggi has also been a regular guest with the English Bach Festival, for which he has sung the title roles in "Mitridate" by Mozart (Monte Carlo Opera House, Monaco) and "Orphee" by C. W. Gluck (Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London). He has sung the part of Pylades in "Iphigenie en Tauride" by Gluck (Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London) and the lead roles in both "Pygmalion" and "Nais" by Rameau (Queen Elizabeth Hall in London). See also International Music Festivals.
 

International Guest Appearances
Andreas Jaeggi has been invited to perform at numerous international opera houses such as the Grand Theatre de Geneva ("The Seven Deadly Sins" and "Mahagonny" by Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill, "Fiery Angel" by Prokofiev), the Cologne Opera House ("The Bartered Bride" by Smetana, the world creation of "Gauklermaerchen" by Konzelmann / Ende), the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Duesseldorf / Duisburg ("The Flying Dutchman" by Wagner, "The Bartered Bride" by Smetana), the Opera du Rhin of Strasbourg and the Lisbon Opera ("The Excursions of Mister Broucek" and "The Makropoulos Affair" by Janacek, as Narraboth in "Salome" by Richard Strauss).

Further productions in the past seasons: Carlisle Floyd's operatic version of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" (Lenny) and "Wozzeck" (The Captain) by Alban Berg at the Nantes Opera House (France), "The Merry Widow" (Camille de Coutancon) by Lehar at the Saint-Etienne and Vichy Opera Houses (France), "Powder Her Face" by Thomas Ades in Nantes and Metz (France), Antwerp and Gent (Belgium), "Falstaff" (Bardolfo) by Verdi for Theater Basel (Switzerland).

He has sung the lead tenor part in the world creation of Georg Kreisler's "Der Aufstand der Schmetterlinge / The Revolution of the Butterflies" at the Sofiensaal in Vienna (Austria).
 

International Music Festivals
Andreas Jaeggi has sung for the English Bach Festival the title role in "Orphee" by C. W. Gluck (Herodes Atticus Theater / Athens Festival in Greece, Theater of Charles V at the Alhambra / Festival of Granada in Spain). He has also sung the part of Pylades in "Iphigenie en Tauride" by Gluck (Herodes Atticus Theater / Athens Festival in Greece)

He has performed the part of the Innocent in "Boris Godunov" by Mussorgsky at the Festival of Orange and Monsieur Triquet in Tchaikovsky’s "Eugene Onegin" for the Festival Aix-en-Provence, both in France.

Andreas Jaeggi has performed in the National Opera of Lyon's "The Seven Deadly Sins" by Brecht / Weill which has been the official opening production for the Edinburgh International Festival (Scotland) in 2006.
 

Concerts
Andreas Jaeggi's concert appearances include: "Theodora" by Haendel at the Opera Comique in Paris, "Johnny spielt auf" by Ernst Krenek for Radio France, "The Masonic Cantatas" by Mozart at the TMP Chatelet (Paris), the world creation of "Brot und Spiele" by Guenther Wiesemann with the Symphony Orchestra of Bochum (Germany), "Sprache" by Denis Cohen for the Festival Musica in Strasbourg (France) as well as numerous performances of Mozart's "Requiem" and various Cantatas by J. S. Bach, "Dichterliebe" by Schumann / Heine, "The Diary of One Who Disappeared" by Janacek, Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Requiem", Charles Villiers Stanford's "Stabat Mater" and "The Saviour" (Evangelist) by William Lloyd Webber. He has also recorded the "Faust Cantata" by Alfred Schnittke for the Dutch Radio AVRO. He has sung "Des Engels Anrede" by Klaus Huber with the Ensemble Alternance for the Caen Festival (France).

In 2007, Andreas Jaeggi has participated in two concert series in Switzerland with arsmusica (Patrick Oetterli, artistic director) with music by the rarely heard post romantic Swiss composers Hans Huber, Emil Munzinger and Alban Roetschi.
 


Visual Art
Besides his professional career as a classical opera and concert singer, Andreas Jaeggi has uninterruptedly pursued his art work. His interest was first oriented towards photorealism (his fascination for Barbra Streisand resulted in hundreds of drawings and paintings of the iconographic performer) and he was influenced by PopArt. There followed a long period of illustrative realism. Extensive travelling and long stays in Paris, New York and other cities have led Andreas Jaeggi quite naturally towards the theme of cityscapes ("City Impressions"). Later, he was passing through a "Blue Period" which included still lifes, urban architectural views and nudes. Besides continuing the urban impressionist theme, his newest sculptural / installation work also expresses Andreas Jaeggi's artistic views in three dimensions.
 

Exhibitions
His first solo exhibition took place in May 2001 at the Hilt Art Gallery in Basel (Switzerland). Since then, Andreas Jaeggi has participated in many group exhibitions, one artist shows and art fair events at/with: Kunst Raum Riehen (Basel, Switzerland), Hilt Art Gallery (Basel, Switzerland), Gallery Brignoni (Zollikofen / Bern, Switzerland), Cultural Forum Spruetzehuesli (Oberwil Basel-Land, Switzerland), "The Grand and Young of Today" (Paris, France / Luxemburg), arte contemporanea Antonio Battaglia (Milan, Italy), Berliner Kunstprojekt (Berlin, Germany), Gallery Boehner (Mannheim, Germany), Gallery Bertrand Kass (Innsbruck, Salzburg and Vienna, Austria / Luxemburg), Art Larson (Salzburg, Austria), Gallery 473 Broadway (New York) and Agora Gallery SoHo and Chelsea (New York).

"I have uninterruptedly pursued my art work parallel to the opera and concert singing. Because of my constant professional traveling, it was only in 2001 that I decided to dedicate some of my energy to actual exhibition activities, with the active help of my partner Ron Rubey. Suddenly it became important to me to pull my art work out of my studio and the security of its four walls and thus expose it and my endeavors in this artistic field, also, to the public eye. Ron and I felt we needed to collect some experience and threw ourselves into a six year whirlwind of exhibition activities. Then, towards the end of 2007, we decided to stop all exhibition activities for a time in order to reflect on the past as well as to set aside an "island of time" which would allow me to renew my creative energies and spend more time in the studio."
 


Upbringing and Visual Education
Andreas Jaeggi was born in Basel, Switzerland on March 30, 1952. He grew up in a culturally active environment. His father has been the publisher of the Swiss Theater Review and a seasoned theatre critic. His mother was a painter and politician. Later in their life, Andreas Jaeggi's parents became the owners of a chain of distinguished bookstores in Switzerland and Southern Germany. After passing the final Gymnasium exams (the US equivalent would be the end of the first university year), he studied Graphic Design and Visual Arts at the then internationally acclaimed Basel Art School. He then worked for some time as a freelance graphic designer while continuing his personal art work.


Musical Education and First Engagements
After his studies in visual arts, Andreas Jaeggi began to study singing with Prof. Maria Stader. He graduated from the International Opera Studio in Zurich (Switzerland) and appeared in the German TV Special "Anneliese Rothenberger Presents Young Talent". He then went on to perform as an artist-in-residence in various German opera houses (Osnabrueck, Kiel, Dortmund), where he interpreted Ferrando in "Cosi fan tutte" and Pedrillo in "Abduction from Seraglio" by Mozart, David in "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" by Wagner, Tanzmeister / Brighella in "Ariadne auf Naxos" by Richard Strauss, Sou-Chong in Lehar's operetta "Das Land des Laechelns" as well as Cornelius Hackl in "Hello Dolly!" ... among many, many others.
 


For the singer-performer and visual artist Andreas Jaeggi, to be able to execute two artistic activities side by side fully and professionally is only possible thanks to the collaboration with and the full support of his life partner Ron Rubey.