Ralph Jaarsma
Baritone
Puccini, Il Tabarro
Duet Giorgetta & Michele
Frühlingstraum, Schubert
Il Trovatore, Verdi
Il balen del suo sorriso
Dutch Baritone Ralph Jaarsma feels himself at home in different musical styles. He has sung main roles in modern opera’s, like Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis in a.o. der Hamburgische Staatsoper, Turnage’s Greek in Vilnius, Stravinsky’s The Rake Progress (Nick Shadow) in Gent, Ayodhya (world premier) in Bangkok, Janacek’s The Cunning little Vixen in Kaiserslautern and Weill’s Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in Amsterdam.
Ralph has also sung main roles in the classical repertoire, like Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Conte) in München, Puccini’s Il Tabarro (Michele) and Gianni Schicchi (Gianni Schicchi) in Bayreuth and Kaiserslautern, Verdi’s Rigoletto (Rigoletto and Ceprano) in Kaiserslautern and Lehar’s Lustige Witwe in Amsterdam. But Ralph has also sung different main roles in historical opera’s, like Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen, both in Utrecht, Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Utrecht and Caccini’s Euridice in Gent. Not only in opera, but also in Songrecitals and Oratoriumconcerts can Ralph be heard....
Die Bächlein von den Bergen springen,
Die Lerchen schwirren hoch vor Lust,
Was sollt ich nicht mit ihnen singen
Aus voller Kehl' und frischer Brust?
Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
Joseph von Eichendorff
© Ralph Jaarsma