Mario Brell

Mario Brell (born 1936)[1] Santiago-Verlag Goch 2006 is a German operatic tenor.

Portrait of Mario Brell (2019)

Life

Brell was born in Hamburg and grew up in the district of Barmbek. First, he started an apprenticeship as a painter and varnisher. With his brothers he joined a male choir, the "Mozart Quartet" in Hamburg-Wandsbek, which still exists today.[2] There, he was discovered and promoted by the choirmaster Ernst Haddorp, who eventually introduced him to Carl Gotthard, with whom Brell began his vocal training.[3]

In addition to his singing training, Brell took acting and dance lessons, at first continuing to work in his teaching profession in the construction industry.[4]

After only two years of training, Brell was engaged at the Theater Hof. Another year later, he successfully passed his final examination as an opera singer at the Hamburgische Staatsoper.[5]

Brell serves a highly extensive repertoire of over 30 operetta and over 80 opera roles [6] and over the years has worked in all genres from operetta to Wagner, from lyrical tenor to heroic tenor.[7]

After a serious heart operation in 1997, he had to leave the stage and could not sing for a long time. With the support of his family and his autobiography "Drum sei bedankbar", which he wrote during this time, he fought his way back into life - and onto the stages.[8]

References
  1. Mario Brell:Drum sei bedankt on WorldCat
  2. "Home". Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  3. Mario Brell in Großes Sängerlexikon (page 581)
  4. Mario Brell on Operabase
  5. vgl. Brell, p. 7 ff.
  6. see Brell, p.97 ff.
  7. Mario Brell on Persondata
  8. vgl. Brell, p. 94 f.
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