Thomas Laske

Thomas Laske was born in Stuttgart and received his initial training as a singer during his ten years as a member of the Stuttgart Hymnus Boys Choir. After his graduation in soundand- vision engineering he commenced singing studies with Brigitte Dürrler and Lied Interpretation with Ria Goetze in Dusseldorf. He also studied with Andreas Schmidt and Otto Edelmann. In 1997 he won First Prizes in the Richard Strauss Competition in Munich. In the concert field the young artist has performed with many well known conductors including Karl-Friedrich Beringer, Georg Christoph Biller, Mariss Jansons, Peter Neumann, Krysztof Penderecki, Hellmuth Rilling and Wolfgang Sawallisch. There are many radio and CD recordings which document his development. He began his opera career a member of the Opera Studio of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Dusseldorf-Duisburg. From 1999 to 2001 he was engaged at the Schiller Theater North Rhine-Westphalia Gelsenkirchen/Wuppertal and is currently a member of the Wuppertal Opera. During this time he has appeared as a guest with the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt/Main, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Dusseldorf and Staatstheater Kassel. His repertoire includes Barbiere, Dandini, Guglielmo, Eugene Onegin, Sharpless and Valentin. In 2003 the newspaper “Theater pur” chose him as the best young singer of the season.