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Jan-Hendrik Rootering

Jan-Hendrik Rootering is credited on 235 releases across 50 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1983–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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235

Pressings credited

50

Albums

5

Decades active

2

In collections

Biography

Jan-Hendrik Rootering (born 18 March 1950 in Wedingfeld near Flensburg) is a German-born operatic bass, son of the Dutch tenor Hendrikus Rootering from whom he had his first lessons. After further study at Hamburg's Musikhochschule he began singing minor roles with the Staatsoper Hamburg and made a debut at the Bayerischen Staatsoper München in 1982 as the Spirit Messenger in Die Frau ohne Schatten. In 1987 he received the title of Bayerischer Kammersänger. Rootering was the bass soloist in the Beethoven Ninth Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein in celebration of the fall of the Berlin wall—in the no-longer-divided city of Berlin—at Christmastime 1989. He can be seen as Fasolt on James Levine's The Ring of the Nibelung, and as the Speaker of the Temple on Wolfgang Sawallisch's The Magic Flute, and heard on two recital discs of Lieder by Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf with pianist Herman Lechler.

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Credited work

235 releases · 50 albums · active 1983–2024

  • Performance · 267
  • Other credits · 8

Studios: Berliner Philharmonie · Schauspielhaus Berlin · Concertgebouw, Amsterdam · Herkulessaal, München

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Wagner
  • Mozart
  • Verdi
  • Mahler
  • Richard Strauss
  • Robert Schumann
  • Gustav Mahler
  • Puccini

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