Kobie van Rensburg

Kobie van Rensburg (born 23 May 1969 in Johannesburg) is a South African tenor and opera director.

Life Van Rensburg studied singing with Werner Nel at the Northwest University of South Africa, and law and international politics at Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education. He made his debut in 1991 at the age of 20 as Belmonte in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail for the Roodepoort City Opera. He sang his first name part in Mozart's Idomeneo in 2006 for the New York Metropolitan Opera. Van Rensburg's repertoire focuses on Baroque music. Just like in his former own production Il pianto d'Orfeo van Rensburg links the expressiveness of dancing with the music of the composition. The dancer serves as an Alter ego to the singer and thereby illustrates the emotions of the character he or she impersonates.

Repertoire (roles) Pane in La Calisto (Francesco Cavalli) Acis in Acis and Galatea (Georg Friedrich Händel) Grimoaldo in Rodelinda (Georg Friedrich Händel) Jupiter in Semele (Georg Friedrich Händel) Jupiter in La divisione del mondo (Giovanni Legrenzi) Orfeo in L'Orfeo (Claudio Monteverdi) Bastien in Bastien und Bastienne (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Idomeneo in Idomeneo (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Tito in La Clemenza di Tito (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Ubaldo in Armida (Gioachino Rossini) Nightingale in Ein Theater nach der Mode (Kobie van Rensburg & Peer Boysen)

Discography CDs 2009: Rodrigo (Georg Friedrich Händel, Eduardo Lopéz Banzo, Al Ayre Español) 2009: Bach Cantatas – Vol.4 (Johann Sebastian Bach, John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists) 2009: Alcina (Georg Friedrich Händel, Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco) 2008: Saul, Messiah (Georg Friedrich Händel, René Jacobs, Concerto Köln & Freiburger Barockorchester) 2007: Der Messias (Georg Friedrich Händel, Wolfgang Katschner, Lautten Compagney, Dresdner Kammerchor) 2006: Messiah (Georg Friedrich Händel, René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester) 2006: Catone in Utica (Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, Christoph Hammer, Neue ) 2006: Il pianto d'Orfeo (various composers, Kobie van Rensburg, Lautten Compagney) 2005: Der Fliegende Holländer (Richard Wagner, Bruno Weil, Cappella Coloniensis) 2004: Le Nozze di Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, René Jacobs, Concerto Köln) 2003: Griselda (Alessandro Scarlatti, René Jacobs, Akademie für alte Musik Berlin) 2002: Madrigali Guerrieri ad Amorosi (Claudio Monteverdi, René Jacobs, Concerto Vocale) 2001: Liededition Vol.1 & 2 (Fanny Hensel, Kelvin Groot) 2001: Songs of An English Cavalier (various composers, Kobie van Rensburg, Lautten Compagney) 2000: Handel's Beard, Airs for Tenor (Georg Friedrich Händel, Kobie van Rensburg, Lautten Compagney)

DVDs 2008: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, live at Teatro Real Madrid (Claudio Monteverdi, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Les Arts Florissants) 2005: L'Orfeo (Claudio Monteverdi, Kobie van Rensburg, Lautten Compagney Berlin)