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| birth_place = Geneva, Switzerland| nationality = Canadian| occupation = Operatic tenor| title = Kammersänger| yearsactive = 1991–presentwww.michael-schade.pro}}}}Michael Schade {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC}} (born 23 January 1965) is a Canadian operatic tenor, who was born in Geneva and raised in Germany and Canada. He and his wife Dee McKee, and their youngest child live in Vienna, Austria; the rest of the family lives in Canada.

Life and career

Schade attended St. Michael’s Choir School in Toronto, then the Faculty of Music in the University of Western Ontario and on to the Curtis Institute of Music for his master’s degree.WEB, Michael Schade, Rubies 2020--“I did work very hard with that luck!” » Opera Canada, Opera Canada, 22 October 2020,operacanada.ca/opera-canada-rubies-2020-michael-schade/, 17 March 2022, Schade has performed at the Canadian Opera Company, Vienna State Opera, Salzburg Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Washington Opera, Opéra National de Paris, San Francisco Opera, Hamburg State Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Los Angeles Opera. At the Vienna State Opera, Schade has appeared in Daphne, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Die Zauberflöte, Arabella, Il barbiere di Siviglia, L’elisir d’amore, Die schweigsame Frau and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He is a regular guest of the world-famous Lied-festival Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, Austria.WEB, Schubertiade – Ãœber uns > Geschichte > Verzeichnis aller Mitwirkenden > Michael Schade, Schubertiade – Home,www.schubertiade.at/de/personen/michael-schade.html, de, 17 March 2022, In 2005, he performed in Carl Nielsen’s Maskarade in the Royal Opera, London’s premiere of David Pountney’s production.NEWS, Maskarade, Royal Opera House, London,www.theguardian.com/music/2005/sep/21/classicalmusicandopera2, 21 September 2005, The Guardian, Tom, Service, Schade’s discography includes a recording of “Die schöne Müllerin” with pianist Malcolm Martineau (CBC Records) which funds and supports leukaemia research, a performance of the role of Ralph Rackstraw in Sir Charles Mackerras’s CD of H.M.S. Pinafore, and Daphne (Decca). He made his first solo recording – Of Ladies and Love – Songs of Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Ravel, Fauré, and Richard Strauss—for Hyperion; BBC Music Magazine gave it a 5-star review, saying, “He sings Strauss’s ‘Cäcilie’, and a wonderfully hushed ‘Zueignung’ as though he and Martineau were the first to discover their ecstasy.“Hyperion RecordsFrom December 2011 until October 2013 Michael Schade was a member of the board of the European Academy of Music Theatre.WEB, New Board elected: Meyer (P), Holten (VP); Deathridge, Schade new Members, Europäische Musiktheater-Akademie, 2 December 2011,musiktheater-akademie.eu/new-board-elected-meyer-p-holten-vp-deathridge-schade-new-members/, 17 March 2022, Since Pentecost 2014, Michael Schade has been the artistic director of The Internationale Barocktage Stift MelkWEB,www.wachaukulturmelk.at/en/internationale-barocktage-stift-melk, Barocktage Melk, www.wachaukulturmelk.at, Schade holds professorship in historical performance practice in the faculty of Early Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.WEB,mdw.ac.at/altemusik/en/faculty/michael-schade/, Michael SCHADE – Early Music Department, mdw.ac.at, 2021-03-28,

Awards and honours

Schade’s recording of the St Matthew Passion (Teldec), conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance.WEB, Grammy Award 2002 – Best Choral Performance, Nikolaus Harnoncourt,www.harnoncourt.info/grammy-award-2002-best-choral-performance/, de, 17 March 2022, In March 2007, Schade has been awarded the Austrian title of .WEB, Michael Schade – Tenor, Machreich Artists Management GmbH, 18 September 2019,www.machreich-artists.com/de/kuenstler_in/michael-schade, de, 17 March 2022, In 2016, Schade was appointed as an officer in the Order of Canada.WEB, Governor General Announces 100 New Appointments to the Order of Canada as Canada Turns 150,www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=16670&lan=eng, The Governor General of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, 31 December 2016, In 2017, he was awarded the Great Golden Decoration of Honour for Service to the State of Lower Austria (Große Goldene Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Bundesland Niederösterreich).NEWS,www.noe.gv.at/noe/_Grosses_Goldenes_Ehrenzeichen__des_Landes_NOe_fuer_Micha.html, “Großes Goldenes Ehrenzeichen” des Landes NÖ für Michael Schade, 14 November 2017, Land Niederösterreich,

Selected discography

• The Creation (DGG)
• Die Zauberflöte (DGG Archiv)
• Leonore with John Eliot Gardiner
• St John Passion
• St Matthew Passion
• Elijah
• Paulus
• Christus by Anton Rubinstein with Helmuth Rilling (Hännsler)
• Fidelio under Sir Colin Davis (BMG)
• Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI)
• Otello with Myung-Whun Chung (DGG)
• Joseph Haydn’s Theresien-messe
• Missa Sancti Nicolai with Trevor Pinnock (DGG Archiv)
• Soirée Française with baritone Russell Braun (1997, CBC Records) – winner of the Juno Award and the Gabriel Fauré Award in France
• Serata Italiana, featuring Italian opera arias and duets with Russell Braun (CBC Records)
• Das Lied von der Erde (DGG)
• H.M.S. Pinafore with Sir Charles Mackerras (Telarc)

References

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External links

• {{officialwww.michael-schade.pro/en/}}
• {{IMDb name|id=0769564|name=Michael Schade}}
• Board of the European Academy of Music Theatre
• Interview with Michael Schade, 25 February 1999

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