Creator

Heinrich Schütz, 1627 · libretto by Martin Opitz

Director and artistic director of the festival, and Cupido and Ovid

Dafne is widely held to be the first opera in the German language. Its music is lost but for fragments, and the performing version was reconstructed by Roland Wilson. Forum neue Kunst Oldenburg gave two performances in the Schlosssaal of Schloss Oldenburg with eighteen artists and a baroque orchestra of fourteen players on historical instruments. It is the only production in which Tamagna has directed and sung.

• Forum neue Kunst Oldenburg e. V. · Münstermann Festival · Schlosssaal, Schloss Oldenburg · Oldenburg, Germany
• 11 and 12 October 2025
• Musical direction: Veronika Skuplik
• Reconstruction of the music: Roland Wilson
• Set: Katrin Schöß
• Costumes: Kerstin Druivenga-Kreitsmann

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Gioachino Rossini

Stage director

• Opera Theatre of Montclair · Montclair, New Jersey
• September 13, 14, 15 and 16, 2017

George Frideric Handel

Stage director

• Opera Theatre of Montclair · Montclair, New Jersey

Raphael Fusco · cantata

Commissioned by Tamagna, premiered by him, and recorded

Tamagna commissioned the cantata from Raphael Fusco and gave its first performance with I Porporini at the Schlosstheater Celle, in a programme titled Verliebt und verrückt. The work was recorded with the same ensemble eighteen months later and released by PentaTone. Commission, premiere and recording are all his.

• Celler Kammermusikring · Ensemble I Porporini · Schlosstheater Celle · Celle, Germany
• World premiere 20 June 2022
• Recording: PentaTone PTC 5187083, Berlin, January 2024
• Conductor on the recording: Gerd Amelung

Raphael Fusco · original crime opera in Plattdeutsch

Created the role of Jesko Holm

A new crime opera written in Low German, commissioned by Forum neue Kunst Oldenburg as the association's founding production. Tamagna was a member of the association at the time, not yet on its board, and came to this one as the singer: the part of Jesko Holm was written for him and he gave its first performance.

• Forum neue Kunst Oldenburg e. V. · Kulturetage Oldenburg · Oldenburg, Germany

Liisa Hõbepappel · chamber opera

Created the countertenor role

A chamber opera drawn from the old Estonian forest tale of the Seven Brothers, in which the figures on stage are not the brothers and maidens of the story but the states of mind they stand for. It was built the other way round from a conventional opera: instead of setting a finished libretto, the company started from improvisation and shaped text and music together across a winter and spring of open Residentuu:r sessions at the Estonian Center for Contemporary Music. The team is looking for a house for a fully staged version.

• Estonian Music Days · Ensemble U: · Tallinn, Estonia
• World premiere of the concert version, 10 May 2025
• Libretto and music: Liisa Hõbepappel
• Libretto and stage direction: Eva Koldits
• With: Salomėja Petronytė, soprano · Ryan Adams, tenor
• Lighting: Kristiina Tang
• Video: Lucy Gohm

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Sebastian Kloborg · music by Vivaldi, Caroline Shaw and Meredi

Countertenor in the world premiere, and wrote an additional verse to Feste's epilogue

One continuous piece of dance theatre rather than a set of arias with dancing around them. It is set in the old Radiohuset, the building it was performed in, and a tape recorder runs through the whole of it. The countertenor stands between two worlds: the orchestra's living, sounding one, and the dancers' fragmented one, which is reaching for him. He sings Vivaldi's "Cum dederit" and "Sovvente il sole", and Feste's epilogue from Twelfth Night, the song Alfred Deller recorded two generations earlier and from which the modern countertenor begins.

• Kammerballetten · Concerto Copenhagen · one of three works in the programme Kaleidoscope · Konservatoriets Koncertsal, Det Kgl. Danske Musikkonservatorium · Frederiksberg, Copenhagen
• 14, 15 and 16 August 2026 · Musikhuset Aarhus, 18 April 2027
• Direction and choreography: Sebastian Kloborg
• Musical direction and harpsichord: Emmanuel Frankenberg
• With: Maria Kochetkova · Alban Lendorf · Simon Kongsted · Alexander McKenzie

Baroque music and Mongolian traditional instruments

Countertenor, by invitation

An invitation to Ulaanbaatar to sing Baroque repertoire alongside the morin khuur, the Mongolian horsehead fiddle, on subjects drawn from ancient Mongolia. He was received by dignitaries, and he sang without a fee. He flew there straight from a performance in Karlsruhe.

• Morin Khuur Orchestra · Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
• May 2026