Werner Güra [SEP] voice type
Werner Güra
Werner Güra (born 1964) is a German classical tenor in opera, concert and Lied, also an academic teacher in Zurich.
Career.
Güra was born in Munich. He studied at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg. He continued his studies with Kurt Widmer at the Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel and with Margreet Honig in Amsterdam. He took courses in acting with Ruth Berghaus and Theo Adam.
On the opera stage he performed as a guest artist at the Frankfurt Opera and the Theater Basel
also attended numerous masterclasses with such as Ileana Cotrubaş, Werner Güra, Jill Feldmann, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Susanna Eken, Håkan Hagegård, Anne-Lise Berntsen and was a student of the class Lied pianist Hartmut Höll.
Tvinnereims repertoire ranges widely from lieder to church music and opera. Especially in sacred music, his lyrical voice has been used as the Evangelist and arias for the performances of Bach's "St John Passion", "St Matthew Passion", "St Mark Passion", "Christmas Oratorio",