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HANS SCHELLEVIS Cv HANS SCHELLEVIS CONDUCTOR SCORE EDITOR Papelaan West 206 2254 AK Voorschoten The Netherlands tel. +31-71-5613576 mob. +31-650-875679 e-mail [email protected] https://hansschellevis.com/ GENERAL EDUCATION 1979 – 1984 Hoger Algemeen Voortgezet Onderwijs (HAVO) MUSICAL EDUCATION 1985 – 1990 principal subject Piano 1990 – 1992 specialization Chamber Music and Opera coaching Royal Conservatory The Hague Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam 2013 – conducting (with Denise Ham, Bournemouth and Arjan Tien, Hilversum) KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES (in no particular order) Dutch English Italian French German ACTIVITIES Conductor Symphonic repertoire Brahms Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale, opus 56 (Sherborne Festival orchestra) Symphony 4, opus 98 (Orchestra Maastricht Conservatory, assisting Arjan Tien) Debussy Prélude è l’après-midi d’un faune (Orchestra Fontys Conservatory) Mozart Haffner symphony, KV 385 (Sherborne Festival orchestra) Stravinsky Symphony of Winds (Sherborne Festival orchestra) v. Weber Konzertstück, opus 89 (Orchestra Maastricht Conservatory, assisting Arjan Tien) Operatic repertoire Broers (a musical theatre performance to commemorate 200 years of Netherlands constitutional law; various vocal works by Purcell and Händel. Koninklijke Schouwburg Den Haag) Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande (scenes) (Opera Studio Netherlands, Amsterdam) Green (A.) Alex in transition (Tel Aviv, Felicia Blumenthal center) Menotti The old maid and the thief (Peter de Grote Festival, Groningen) Mozart Bastien & Bastienne (opera SKON) Così fan tutte (Opera Studio Netherlands, Amsterdam) Le nozze di Figaro (Nederlands Zang College, Amsterdam) Die Zauberflöte (Canadian Operatic Arts Academy, Italy) Pacini Malvina di Scozia (Vertical Player Repertory, New York) Puccini La Bohème (Nederlandse Reisopera, tours in Netherlands and UK) Wolf-Ferrari Il segreto di Susanna (Nederlandse Reisopera, tours in NL) Upcoming engagements v. Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice (Nederlands Zang College, Amsterdam) Purcell Dido and Aeneas Score Editor Recent publications (relevant choice) Cherubini Missa pro defunctis (Requiem) critical edition Bärenreiter (BA 8961) Mayr Ginevra di Scozia critical edition Ricordi (Sy. 8013) Mercadante Virginia (Opera Rara) (ORC39) Donizetti Parisina (Opera Rara) (ORC40) Caterina Cornaro (ZaterdagMatinee) Pacini Malvina di Scozia performance edition VPR (2016) Future publications (relevant choice) Debussy Images pour orchestre critical edition Bärenreiter (BA 7888) (2017) Donizetti La fille du régiment critical edition Bärenreiter Caterina Cornaro critical edition Bärenreiter Gounod Messe solennelle Sainte Cécile critical edition Bärenreiter (BA 8966) (2018) Puccini Messa di Gloria critical edition Bärenreiter (2017) (BA 8965) Rossini Maometto secondo critical edition Bärenreiter (BA10517) (2018) Verdi Aroldo critical edition Ricordi (2020) For a full list of recent and upcoming publications visit my website https://hansschellevis.com/ repetitor, accompanist, vocal coach ZaterdagMatinee (= VARA Matinee/Matinee op de Vrije Zaterdag) National Opera, Amsterdam Dutch National Opera Academy Opera Studio Netherlands (1st repertoire and vocal coach) A selective choice of important productions: Adès The Tempest (Keenlyside, Sieden, Markus Stenz) Barber Vanessa (Vaness, Jaap van Zweden) Bellini Il Pirata (Miricioiu, Giuliano Carella) Bizet Pêcheurs de Perles (Massis, Castronovo, Michel Plasson) Berlioz La Damnation de Faust (Kunde, White, Charles Dutoit) Catalani La Wally (Westbroek, Giuliano Carella) Cilèa Adriana Lecouvreur (Miricioiu, Paolo Olmi) Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande (Serge Baudo) Donizetti Poliuto (Cullagh, Alaimo, Giuliano Carella) Lucie de Lammermoor (Massis, Kenneth Montgomery) Caterina Cornaro (Miricioiu, Alaimo, David Parry) Dukas Ariane et Barbe-bleue (Karnéus, Lemieux, Lothar Zagrosek) Giordani Andrea Chénier (Westbroek, Gavanelli, Giuliano Carella) v. Gluck Alceste (1769) (Kenneth Montgomery) Gounod Roméo et Juliette (Giuliano Carella) Henze The Bassarids (Silja, Markus Stenz) Mascagni Iris (Miricioiu, Ghiaurov, Jean-Yves Ossonce) Massenet Don Quichotte (Scandiuzzi, Jaap van Zweden) Montemezzi L’Amore dei tre Re (Giuliano Carella) Mozart Le nozze di Figaro (Kennethn Montgomery) Die Zauberflöte (Kenneth Montgomery, Jan Willem de Vriend) Der Schauspieldirektor (Ivor Bolton) Ponchielli La Gioconda (Westbroek, Bruno Bartoletti) Puccini Tosca (Urmana, Pinchas Steinberg) Prokovjev The Fiery Angel (Leif Segerstam) Ravel L’heure espagnole (Kenneth Montgomery) L’enfant et les Sortilèges (Hans Graf) Shéhérazade (von Otter, Myung-Whun Chung) Rossini Maometto secondo (Ford, Pertusi, Roberto Rizzo Brignoli) Le Comte Ory (Kunde, Massis, Kenneth Montgomery) Guillaume Tell (Pertusi, Osborne, Paolo Olmi) Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila (Giuliano Carella) Schat Symposion (Hans Vonk) Schreker Der Ferne Klang (Schwanewilms, Julien Salemkour) Schulhoff Flammen (Edo de Waart) R. Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos (David Levi) Daphne (Edo de Waart) Die Frau ohne Schatten (Schwanewilms, Henschel, Reuter, Vladimir Jurowksi) Die Liebe der Danae (Schwanewilms, Edo de Waart Salome (Bullock, Edo de Waart) Tsjaikovski Orleanskaja Deva (Nikolai Alexejev) Verdi Jérusalem (Miriciou, Paolo Olmi) Falstaff (Pertusi, Paolo Olmi) Macbeth (1847) (Neves, Gallo, Giuliano Carella) La Traviata (Jan Willem de Vriend) Attila (Jaap van Zweden) Otello (Jaap van Zweden) R. Wagner Lohengrin (Schwanewilms, Vogt, Schulte, Jaap van Zweden) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Fritz, Holl, Jaap van Zweden Parsifal (Vogt, Holl, Jaap van Zweden) v. Weber Der Freischütz (Michael Schønwandt) Zemlinksy Der Zwerg (Edo de Waart) .
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