Stephan Rügamer received his musical education mainly at the Hochschule für Musik in Lübeck and com-pleted his studies with Professor James Wagner and Professor Günter Binge.

In the early stages of his career he was engaged at the Lübeck Theatre where he had the opportunity to sing the main roles of the lyric tenor's repertoire such as Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni, Belmonte/Entführung aus dem Serail, Alfredo/La Traviata, Alfred/Die Fledermaus.

Since his 1999 debut at the Berlin State Opera as David/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg under Daniel Barenboim, Stephan Rügamer is a regular member this house. Here he sang parts like Steuermann in Der Fliegende Holländer (Barenboim/ Kupfer), Raimbeaut in Robert le Diable (Minkowski/Quander), Chateauneuf in Zar und Zimmermann, Narraboth in Salome (Weigle/Kupfer),Cassio in Otello (Barenboim/Flimm), Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Salemkour/Everding),Chevalier in Der Ferne Klang (Gielen/Mußbach), Sänger in Der Rosenkavalier (Rattle/Brieger), Boris in Katja Kabanowa (Salemkour/ Thalheimer), Schuiskij in Boris Godunow (Barenboim/ Tcherniakov), Macduff in Macbeth (Weigle/Mußbach), Marquis in Der Spieler (Barenboim/Tcherniakov).

Also under the baton of Daniel Barenboim he sang his first Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer during a visit of the Berlin State Opera at the Teatro Real in Madrid 2003, in Berlin 2006 and under Daniel Harding in 2013. Other guest performances brought him to all important German opera houses, to Théâtre Châtelet in Paris as Matteo in Arabella, to Teatro Real Madrid as Schuiskij (Boris Godunow) and as Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser), to Teatro alla Scala di Milano, singing Marquis in Prokoffiew's Der Spieler and Loge in Das Rheingold and furthermore to the festivals of Lucerne, Chicago Ravignia, Salzburg, Bregenz and St. Petersburg.

In concert he has sang with the major broadcast and symphony orchestras in Germany and abroad. Conductors with whom he has worked include Pierre Boulez, Christoph v. Dohnanyi, Martin Haselböck, Pablo Heras-Casado, Ruppert Huber, Phillippe Jordan, Fabio Luisi, Ingo Metzmacher, Kent Nagano, Helmut Rilling, Sebastian Weigle and Zubin Metha.

Recent operatic and concert highlights include Tom Rakewell in Rakes Progress at the Berlin State Opera (Coleman/ Warlikowski), Loge (Rheingold) at the 2013 BBC- Proms in London, New Years Concert 2014 with Berlin Staatskapelle under Pablo Heras- Casado, St. Matthew Passion with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under Jaap van Zweden, Tichon in a new production of Katja Kabanov (Rattle/Bredt) at the Berlin State Opera.

New Recordings include Mahlers Song Of The Earth (Schoenberg/ Riehn) at Dabringhaus & Grimm, Loge in Das Rheingold with Valery Gergiev at Mariinsky Label, a DVD of Lulu (Barenboim /Bredt) and a DVD of his Loge at Teatro alla Scala di Milano 2012 (Barenboim/ Cassiers).

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