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The first performance of Biber’s remarkable Reqiuem
in Wiesbaden, alongside other works by baroque masters such as Schütz, Weckmann and Hildebrand.
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Jean-Max is thrilled to be singing his debut as Prinz Orlofsky in July!
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Another opportunity to experience Buxtehude’s masterpieceas Jean-Max returns to Dresden on Good Friday.
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Jean-Max is excited to return to his beloved Heidelberg to perform this wonderful masterpiece
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Händel: Israel in Egypt
25th June 2023, 6pm
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Jean-Max gives his debut at the Maifestspiele in Johann Georg Conradi’s rediscovered baroque opera “Die schöne und getreue Ariadne”
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Dietrich Buxtehude’s fascinating and moving masterpiece, composed for Passion in 1680.
Sunday,
19th March, 5pm
Bergkirche Wiesbaden
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First ever performance of this baroque masterpiece in Wiesbaden!
11th March 2023,7.30pm
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“The ‘Agnus Dei’, the pinnacle of the performance, which Jean-Max Lattemann sang enchantingly beautiful and atmospherically close-knit, giving a voice to the suffering human being.”
Read the full review in German here.
A wonderful Christmas concert with Bach’s ultimate masterpiece
Tickets are available here.
Jean-Max is excited to give his debut as Nerillo in Cavalli’s opera L’Ormindo at the Théâtre National Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco!
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Jean-Max returns to Tête-À-Tête Opera Festival
as Young Philip in Robert Ely’s new chamber opera!
Further information and tickets now on sale here!
Sunday,
24 July 2022, 5pm
Jean-Max is delighted to return to Heidelberg to perform Bach’s wonderful cantata BWV42
A wonderful chance to hear a powerful, yet rarely performed masterpiece which in the current worldwide situation seems more up-to-date than ever.
Telemann’s Der Tag des Gerichts (The Day of Judgement),
Saturday 30th April 2022 at 7pm in Darmstadt,
Tickets can be purchased here.
Easter Concert with Bach Cantatas in Heidelberg
Jean-Max is jumping in to perform Bach Cantatas BWV 4 & BWV 66 with the marvellous baroque orchestra l’arpa festante, conducted by Christoph Schäfer.
Easter Sunday, 17 April 2022 at 5pm, Heiliggeistkirche Heidelberg. Further information and tickets can be found here.
Alessandro Scarlatti’s St John Passion in Wiesbaden
Two years after the concert was cancelled due to the pandemic, Jean-Max is finally returning to Wiesbaden to perform the part of Testo (Evangelist) in Alessandro Scarlatti’s marvellous St John Passion on Saturday, 2nd April 2022 at 7.30pm. Further information and tickets can be found here.
2021/22 season
Jean-Max has started this season with the first performance of his new recital programme A New Beginning in London, together with pianist Dylan Perez, which will see further performances across the UK the following season. December will mark his Austrian debut at the Tanzquartier Wien in the world premiere of a new chamber opera by Czech composer Robert Jíša, called Durst. He will conclude the year with Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio) in Heidelberg before embarking on further concerts in Germany in the new year with Telemann’s Der Tag des Gerichts in Darmstadt and Alessandro Scarlatti’s St John Passion in Wiesbaden.
A New Season -
A New Beginning
Lunchtime Recital
7th October 2021, 1pm
St. James’s Church, Susssex Gardens, Paddington
Meet the artist!
An i
nterview by pianist, writer, music and arts reviewer Frances Wilson (‘The Cross-Eyed Pianist’)
Due to coronavirus restrictions the performance of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater on 20th March 2021 couldn’t go ahead as a live concert and had to be pre-recorded.
You can now watch the concert here!
Due to current coronavirus restrictions the concert performance of Keiser/Bach/Handel’s St Mark Passion on Saturday, 13th March 2021 will be live streamed at 19:30 CET from Wiesbaden’s magnificent Marktkirche, without chorus and live audience.
You can now watch the concert in full length here.
Update on 2020/21 season
Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic the World Premiere and performances of Robert Jíša’s new chamber opera Durst in Vienna have been cancelled and will be rescheduled for autumn 2021.
November’s concert performance of Telemann’s Der Tag des Gerichts in Darmstadt has been cancelled and will be rescheduled to spring 2022.
On 20 March 2021 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater will be performed instead of Alessandro Scarlatti’s St John Passion at the Bergkirche Wiesbaden. For further information, please click here.
New Season 2020/21
This season will see Jean-Max’s Austrian debut at the Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna) in the World Premiere of a new chamber opera by Czech composer Robert Jíša, called Durst. Concert performances will take him to Germany, with Alessandro Scarlatti’s St John Passion in Wiesbaden and Telemann’s Der Tag des Gerichts in Darmstadt, as well as song recitals to the UK. For further information, please click here.
Due to the current coronavirus pandemic the performance of Alessandro Scarlatti’s St John Passion on 14 March 2020 in Wiesbaden has been cancelled. The concert has been rescheduled for 20 March 2021.
Jean-Max debuts in Scarlatti’s St John Passion in Wiesbaden
Around 1680, aged 20 years old, Alessandro Scarlatti wrote his “Passio secundum Joannem”, a dramatically well thought-out, stirring and moving oratorio, which to this day remains a rather rarely performed musical treat. Jean-Max will be performing the part of Testo (Evangelist) at the Bergkirche Wiesbaden on 14th March 2020. For further information and tickets, please click here.
“Aurora” comes to Grimeborn Opera Festival in London
Noah Mosley’s new opera Aurora, which was premiered at Bury Court Opera to great critical acclaim in February 2019, now comes to London as part of Grimeborn Opera Festival. For further information, please click here.
Jean-Max debuts as Nerone in Handel’s Agrippina
Jean-Max will be returning to Dartington International Festival to perform the role of Nerone in Handel’s opera Agrippina in August 2019, thus renewing his collaboration with director Richard Williams and conductor Robert Howarth. For further information, please click here.
Great reviews of “Aurora” with Bury Court Opera!
“The music reaches new and insistent levels of exuberance, with the countertenor Mountain Witch (the fearless Jean-Max Lattemann) punching away at lines that could have been written for a dramatic mezzo.”
Yehuda Shapiro, Opera Magazine, May 2019
“The countertenor (…) Jean-Max Lattemann excels as the Mountain Witch, with one of the entrances (…) sending the same chill down the spine as the final appearance of the Commendatore is capable of doing.”
Sam Smith, musicomh.com, 27 February 2019
Read the full review here.
“A second counter-tenor, Jean-Max Lattemann, played the Mountain Witch, a character somewhat the opposite of Deus Ex Machina, as she brought pain and punishment on Aurora. Lattemann made the most of the theatricality of his scene, using the breaks in his voice to striking dramatic effect.”
Robert Hugill, planethugill.com, 24 February 2019
Read the full review here.