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Phillip Ens sang Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra for the Canadian Opera,
the Commendatore in Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera and the Bavarian State Opera,
Claggart in Billy Budd in Houston and at Glyndebourne, Arkel in Pelleas
for the Vienna State Opera, Tiresias in Oedipus Rex for the Cologne WDR Radio, Joerg in
Stiffelio for the Metropoloitan Opera, Fafner in Siegfried
at Covent Garden and the Deutsche Oper and The Verdi Requiem for the Winnipeg Symphony.
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Ursula Hesse von den Steinen sang Orlovsky in
Glyndebourne after singing it at the Vienna Staatsoper. Orlovsky, 3rd Lady in Flute
and starred in The Seven Deadly Sins at the Paris Opera. Eboli in Don Carlo in Nurnberg.
Beethoven's 9th
conducted by Riccardo Chailly in Milan. Title roles in
Carmen in Bonn, and Cenerentola and L'Italiana at the Dresden State
Opera. Fricka in Rheingold in Karlsruhe, Elvira in Don Giovanni in
Nuremberg, the gymnast in Lulu in Amsterdam, Clairon in Cappriccio
in Brussels, Giulietta in Tales of Hoffman in Nantes, world premiere of
Heliogabal at Gerard Mortier's Ruhrtriennale, Caligula in Cologne.
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Christian Elsner sings Siegmund in Die Walkuere in Weimar. He sang Mendelssohn's
Lobgesang with Riccardo Chailly at La Scala, Mozart’s Requiem
at Carnegie Hall (cond. by M.Jansons) and in Salzburg (cond. by M.Honeck), Beethoven’s
Missa Solemnis in Stockholm (cond. by C.M.Giulini) and Rotterdam (cond. by R.Norrington),
Mendelssohn’s Paulus in Vienna (cond. by F.Luisi) and Barcelona (cond. by J.Lopez-Coboz) and
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Leipzig (cond. by H.Blomstedt) and Berlin (cond. by M.Janowski).
He recorded Mahler’s Lied von der Erde, Beethovens Missa Solemnis and 9th Symphony,
Liszts Faust Symphony, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Schubert’s Winterreise and
Schoene Muellerin, Schumann's
Dichterliebe, Mahlers Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen and the titlerole in
Mozart’s Idomeneo.
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Allyson McHardy sang the title role in L'Italiana in Algieri in Lille, France.
She sang Rosina in Barbiere at the San Francisco Opera after she sang Olga in Eugene
Onegin there. She made her New York City Opera debut as Marquise Melibea
in Viaggio a Reims
in fall 2005. Dalilah in Samson and Dalilah at Opera Hamilton.
Suzuki at Canadian Opera Company and Edmonton. Covered Rosina, Hansel,
Suzuki and Bradamante Alcina at San Francsico Opera. Meg Page in Falstaff and Concepcion in
L'Heure Espagnole with Seiji Ozawa at Tanglewood, La Vida Breve with
the Boston Symphony, Orlofsky with Merola. Zerlina and Hansel with
Arizona Opera, Fenena in Nabucco with Vancouver Opera. Lola in Cavalleria
in Edmonton. Malika in Lakme in Calgary.
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Eva Kirchner sang Micaela in
Carmen, Helena in Midsummer Nights Dream, Haydn's Creation
conducted by Peter Schreier, Musetta in
Boheme, Ilia in Clemenza di Tito,
Nanetta in Falstaff, Pamina in Zauberflote,
Susanna in Nozze, Marzelline in Fidelio, Echo in Ariadne,
Servilia in Titus and Aennchen in Freischutz, all at the Dresden
State Opera, Germany. Mimi in Boheme in Rostock.
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Eugene Brancoveanu sings Belcore at the San Francisco Opera. He sang the role of Scapin in L'Ile de Merlin
at the Spoleto Festival and
made his New York City Opera debut in fall 2007 as Pandolphe in Massenet's
Cendrillon. He sings Escamillo in Carmen at the Walnut Creek Festival,
covered Tomsky in Pique Dame in Tokyo, conducted by Seiji Ozawa and plays the Pilot
in The Little Prince for the San Francisco Opera, conducted by Donald Runnicles . He
won a Tony Award for his Marcello in Baz Luhrman's Boheme
on Broadway. Opera News said "Eugene Brancoveanu, a convincingly robust
Marcello, was the strongest of the four principals." He received rave reviews for his Tarqinius
in Rape of Lucretia for San Francisco Opera's Merola Program.
For the San Francisco Opera mainstage he sang Morales in Carmen, Marullo in
Rigoletto Fiorello in Barbiere, the 1st Prisoner in Fidelio, and covered
Tomsky in Pique Dame and Taddeo in
L'Italiana in Algieri. With
Michael Tilson Thomas he often sings and portrays Yiddish Theatre legend, Boris Thomashevsky with the
San Francisco Symphony, and other fine orchestras and sang the
lead role in Shostakovich's Moscow Chereomuski in Stuttgart in June, 2006.
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Christa Mayer sang at the Bayreuth Festival the roles of Erda and Waltraute in The Ring in summer
2008 conducted by Thieleman. She will reprise it in summer 2009. She sings Brigitta in Die Tote Stadt
at La Fenice in Venice January 2009.
She sang Leda in Liebe der Danae, Maddalena in
Der Meistersinger, Fenena in Nabucco,
Begbick in Mahagonny, Henrietta in I Puritani, Quickly in
Falstaff, Suzuki in Butterfly and
Baba in Rake's Progress at the Dresden State Opera. Cieca in La Gioconda
in Kiel.
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Lothar Odinius 2009 engagements include the St. Matthew Passion in Milan,
The Creation conducted by Peter Schreier in Hamburg, Elijah with Thomas Quasthoff
in Berlin and his debut with the Canadian Opera Company in Stravinsky's Rossignol.
In 2010 he debut's at Covent Garden in Niobe and sings the title role in La Clemenza di Tito
in Mannheim/Schwetzingen. In 2011 he makes his Bayreuth debut as Walther von der Vogelweide in
Tannhaueser. He sang Tamino in Zauberfloete for Glyndebourne's touring production,
the title role in La Clemenza di Tito and Don Ottavio in Giovanni
in Potsdam and Ferrando in Cosi Fan Tutte in Wiesbaden and Händel's Israel in Egypt
in Amsterdam conducted by Emanuelle Haïm.
Numerous concerts worldwide with Helmut Rilling include Mendelsohn's
Elijah and Bach's B Minor Mass, St. John Passion and Haydn's Creation. Haydns
L´isola Disabitata conducted by Adam Fischer in Budapest.
Recording of Schubert's Schiller Lieder, Volumes 3 and 4 on the Naxos label. Don Quixote de la Mancha
at Berlin's Komische Oper.
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Rayanne Dupuis sang the title role in The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant in Basel.
In the world premiere concert and recording of the opera
in Dublin, London's newspaper, The Guardian,
said "Rayanne Dupuis was magnificent in the title role.
She sang a piece by Ginastera in the Musiktriennale in Cologne for the Westdeutschen
Rundfunk, sang Lulu in Lulu and Blanche in Dialogues of the
Carmelites at Metz, France and concerts with the Orchestre
National des Pays de la Loire. She was a Met Auditions district winner for Toronto,
and received a Canadian Council Grant. She sang Le Voix Humaine
for L'Opera de Montpelier and Massy, Marguerite in Honnegger's Jean d'Arc au
Bucher in Clermont-Ferrand, title role in the Canadian
premiere of Jackie O at Banff, Canada and French premier at Metz, France.
Giacinta in La Finta Semplice, Frau Fluth in Lustige Weiber,
Die Soldaten and Miss Jessel in Turn of the Screw in Nantes.
Lavinia in Mourning Becomes Electra and Erwartung in Seattle. Cherubino at Austin Lyric.
Tatyana in Onegin in Scotland, 1st Lady in Edmonton.
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Maria Soulis is singing the title role of Carmen at the Longborough Festival in England
and will sing 3rd Lady in
Zauberflote at the Chatelet in Paris. She toured Europe as Mdme. de la Haltiere in Cendrillon, and
sang in La Gazzetta at the Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad, Germany.
She sang Adalgisa in
Norma, Mrs. Grose in Turn of the Screw and Antonia's mother in Hoffman
in Nantes, France. Niklausse in Hoffman and Neris in Medea in Metz, France.
She won the Liederkranz Competition in NYC, the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques Competition in
Montreal and received a Chalmers Grant and Canada Council grant. She sang
Cherubino, Dorabella, Hansel, Orlofsky, Charlotte and the Composer in Regensburg, Germany,
Rosina at Ireland's Wexford Festival and Dryade in Ariadne in Monaco in 2006.
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Lucja Zarzycka sings Abigaille in Nabucco and Aida in Aida in Warsaw,
and the title role in Tosca
in Cracow, as well as in and Gera, Altenburg and Radebeul, Germany. She sings Leonore in Fidelio
in Radebeul in 2009. She sang Leonora in Forza in Cottbus and Frankfurt an der Oder and Abigaille in
Nabucco in Braunschweig, Weimar and Gera, Germany. Verdi Requiem in Hamburg and
Zurich.
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Barbara Hannigan sang the Paris premiere of Dutilleux's Correspondances conducted by
Kurt Masur as well as at the Salzburg Festival with the Berlin Philharmonic with Simon Rattle conducting.
She sang it at the London Proms, in Helsinki with Esa
Pekka Salonen, in Miami and with the Toronto Symphony, after which the Globe and Mail wrote
"The TSO's luminous performance of this piece, with music director
Peter Oundjian and the angelic, intelligent soprano Barbara Hannigan,
may be the most important event of the orchestra's season." The National Post wrote:
"Hannigan, who gave the Paris and Dutch premieres of the piece, was
magnificent, singing the piece as if she's written both the text and
music herself - and as if nothing coud be more natural to her,
musically and technically, than such complex scores. The stillness and
pure love with which she floated Van Gogh's exclamation "Ah" in his
letter was a moment of pure transcendence."
She sang Stravinski's Les Noces with the Berlin Philharmonic
under Simon Rattle, and Ligeti's Requiem with that orchestra as well.
She played Saskia de Vries in Netherlands
Opera's Writing To Vermeer
at the New York's Lincoln Center, Brussels and London, and sang Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre
with orchestra's in Toronto, Amsterdam, Cologne, Vienna, Utrecht
and Gutersloh, Germany and with the Berlin Philharmonic.
Despina with Edmonton Opera. Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant at the English
National Opera in 2005. Ligeti Requiem at the Salzburg Festival.
Tour with the Schoenberg Ensemble to St. Petersburg and Moscow. Anne Truelove in Winterthur,
Switzerland.
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Steven Ebel made his Covent Garden debut as Victorin in Die Tote Stadt in January 2009.
He will be a Covent Garden Young Artist for the 2009-2010 season. He will sing
Peter Quint in Turn of the Screw at the Castleton Festival in Virginia conducted by Lorin Maazel
in summer '09. He was cast by James Levine as Jimmy Mahoney in
Mahagonny at Tanglewood in the summer of '08 and toured with the same role in Italy in '09.
He returns to Tanglewood in summer '09 to sing Eislinger in Meistersinger conducted by James Levine,
is Tenor 1 in Stravinsky's Renard and sings in other concerts as well.
A finalist in the Lotte Lenya Competition, Opera at Florham Competition and
David Adam's Art Song Competition,
he sang Tamino in Zauberfloete at the Cleveland Institute of Music in February '08. He won 3rd place
from the Gerda Lissner Foundation,
a three year Schuyler Foundation for Career Bridge Grants, 2nd Prize at the 2007
Concours Musical International de Montréal and was a semi-finalist at the Wigmore Hall Competition in London.
He sang Peter Quint in Turn of the Screw
at Opera Cleveland, the Postiglione in New York
City Opera's Fanciulla del West and won 2nd Prize in both the 2005 Oratorio Society Competition
in New York City and the Five Towns Competition. He won the Long Island Masterworks
Paul Straney Scholarship Award Competition for 2006 and sang Fredric in Pirates of Penzance
at Opera Delaware.
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Andreas Macco sings Fasolt in Das Rheingold in Essen. He sang the Water Gnome in Rusalka at the
Rome Opera. He'll sing his first Walkuere Wotan in Koblenz
in 2009. He sang the Gymnast in Lulu
in Athens and Don Fernando in Fidelio in Naples. He sang the title role in Don Giovanni,
Sarastro, Fiesco in
Simon Boccanegra, the title role in Handel's Saul and the four villains in
Hoffman in Bonn. Pogner in
Meistersinger in Munster. Crespel in Hoffman at La Scala. Berlioz'
Romeo and Juliet at the Leipzig Gewandhaus.
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Anne Sommerfeld was nominated for Opernwelt's Artistic Newcomer of 2006 Award. She sings Sieglinde
in Die Walkuere, Fiordiligi in Cosi, Leonora in Trovatore
Mimi in Boheme, Freia in Das Rheingold, Laura in Bettelstudent
Donna Anna in Giovanni, Pamina and 1st Lady in Flute and Hannah in Merry Widow
in Cottbus, Germany. She also sang Rosalinda in Giessen and
the soprano leads in
Il Burgomaestro Saardan and Donizetti's Zar Peter at the Allee Theatre
in Hamburg.
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Meik Schwalm sings Marcello in Boheme and Malatesta in Don Pasquale in Bielefeld, Germany.
He sang the Count in Nozze, Prospero in Der Sturm, Doristo in L'Arbore di
Diana, Frederick in Lakme, Zemlinsky's Der Kreidekreis and Enesco's Oedipe
at the same theatre. Hel Helson in Paul Bunyan at Bregenz Festival, summer 2007.
He sang the title role in the
world premier of Chief Joseph, Angelotti in Tosca, Montano
in Otello and
Morales in Carmen at the Berlin Staatsoper and Seven Attempted Escapes From
Silence at the Berlin Staatsoper Magazine.
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Holger Falk sings Oresteia by Iannis Xenakis in Warsaw. He sang Haydn's The Four Seasons with Christopher Hogwood, Danilo in
Merry Widow
and Sharpless in Butterfly in Pforzheim, Germany, Donizetti's Il Campanello
in Limoges, France, Kaiser von Atlantis in Furth, Germany,
the role of Moritz Stiefel in the world premiere of Bernoit Mernier's
Fruehlings Erwachen at La Monnaie in Brussels and the title role in Monteverdi's Orfeo
in Bangkok, Segovia, Spain and in Sarrebourg und Kloster Eberbach bei Frankfurt . He sang Eight Songs for a Mad King
in Giessen and
Jenseits der Schatten by Vladimir Tarnopolski in Bonn. At the Frankfurt Opera he sang
the role of Death in Savitri by Gustav Holst and sang Jesus in the oratorio Golgatha
by Frank Martin in Passau.
Other engagemnts include Schattenspiele
by Hans Gefors in Lubeck, Petrucci in Lucrezia
Borgia in Gießen, the world premiere of Die Irre Oder Nächtlicher
Fischfang by Jan Müller-Wieland, Tobias II in the world premiere of Kokain by Steffen
Schleiermacher in Bonn,
King Zephalus in Die drei Rätsel von Detlef Glanert, Figaro in Barbiere and
Antonio in Viaggio a Reims at the Frankfurt Opera.
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Carter Scott covered the Dyer's Wife in Die Frau Ohne Schatten at the Chicago Lyric Opera and sang Santuzza in Cavalleria
At the San Diego Opera. She will sing the 3rd Norn and cover Gutrune in Wagner's Ring Cycle at the
Washington Opera in Fall 2009. She covered Lady Macbeth at the Washington Opera after her critical success in the same role at Opera Roanoke
and The Immolation Scene in Knoxville. She sang Abigaille in Nabucco
in Dortmund, Germany. Lady Macbeth, Aida, and Donna Anna in Syracuse and Tosca in Fort Worth.
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Jean Stilwell sang the world premiere of Transit of Venus with the Manitoba Opera and her
critically acclaimed cabaret Carmen Unzipped throughout Canada. She sings in War and Peace
at the Candian Opera Company. She sang in Eric Idle's
Not The Messiah with the Toronto Symphony and at the Caramoor Festival in New York.
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Ralf Simon sings Tamino in Zauberflote, Cervantes in Das Spitzentuch der Konigin,
Alfred in Fledermaus, and Candide in Candide at the Dresden Staatsoperette.
He sang in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse In Patria in Frankfurt, Grimaldo in
Rodelinda in Darmstadt, Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein in Nuremberg and
Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore at Opera Faber in Portugal.
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Juanita Lascarro sang Violetta in Traviata
and Corinna in Viaggio a Reims in Frankfurt.
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Hanna Sturladottir sang the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos in Reyjkavic, Iceland. She
sang in Seven Attepted Escapes From
Silence at the Berlin Staatsoper Magazine, 1st Lady in
Magdeburg and Kassel, Germany and Miss Jessel in Turn of the Screw in Iceland.
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Alexey Kosarev sang the title role in Tales of Hoffman in Flensburg, Germany.
In 2008-9 he sings Alfredo, Werther, Pinkerton and Alexei in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
in Oldenburg, Germany.
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Luca Martin sings Don Jose in Carmen in Ruti and Le Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, Lucio Silla
in Bielefeld, and the Verdi Requiem, the Messiah and the Four Seasons throughout Germany.
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Elisa Doughty made her Parisian debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute
with Olivier Holt at the Cirque National Alexis Gruss. She has performed Mozart’s Bastien and Bastienne (Bastienne),
Offenbach’s La Vie Parisienne (Pauline), Cupidon in Orphée aux Enfers, and The Magic Flute (First Lady)
with the Orchestre National d’Ile de France and Carmen (Frasquita) at the Stade de France
with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
She won first prize in operetta in both the Concours International de Chant de Marmande and
the Concours International d'Opérettes de Marseille,
sang Adele in Die Fledermaus in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Offenbach’s Pomme d’Api,
Monsieur Choufleuri at the Théâtre de Pau, a premiere and tour of the opera Jerusalem Follies by Edouard Lacamp
in the Middle East, concerts in France and Germany with the Baroque ensemble Précipitations, and Orphée aux Enfers in Chateauroux.
Planned for the Opera de Rennes is Omphale in Les Travaux d'Hercule for 2006.
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Gerald Hupach sings Monostatos in The Magic Flute,
Malcolm in Macbeth, Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos, the Herald in Don Carlo,
the fourth Jew in Salome, Pang in Turandot, Jack in Mahagonny, Basilio in Nozze,
a boy in Frau Ohne Schatten, Eisslinger in Meistersinger, an Edler in Lohengrin and
the tenor solos in Haydn's Schoepfung at the Dresden State Opera.
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Anna Ryberg was Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore for Opera North in England. She sang Zerlina in
Don Giovanni, Susanna in Nozze,
Contessa di Folleville in Viaggio a Reims, Jano in Jenufa,
Oskar in Ballo in Maschera, Sophie in Werther and in Aggripina
in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Eric Rieger sings the title role in Rameau's Dardanus, the four character roles in Hoffman,
Mottel in Fiddler and Jan in Der Bettelstudent in Trier, Germany.
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Christin Mollnar sings Mimi in La Boheme and Annio in La Clemenza di Tito in Bielefeld, Germany.
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Dshamilja Kaiser sings Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito in Bielefeld, Germany.
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Lucy Taylor sang in Handel's Belshazzar with Rene Jacobs in Berlin, Aix and Innsbruck.
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Diane Schoff sang Orlovsky
in Fledermaus for the Merola Program. She won the district level of the Metropolitan Opera
Competition two years in a row and was a national semi-finalist in 2003.
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Guy Booth has been touring Australia in Magic Flute with Opera Queensland, and will tour Germany singing Papageno.
He is in the semi-finals of the German Australian Opera grant competition, and won the South East
Queensland Aria and Concerto competition in Australia. He will be a soloist with the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra
next year and has been a Developing Artist Programe at Opera Queensland since March 2008
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Matthew Morris will sing Apollo in Gluck's Alceste and covers a role in the world premiere of Paul Moravec's
The Letter at Santa Fe Opera in summer 2009.
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Giles Davies recorded
Schumann’s Dichterliebe at the
Wigmore Hall for the BBC. He has appeared with conductors including
Richard Hickox (A Sea Symphony/Dido and Aeneas) Philip Pickett
(Monteverdi’s Vespers) Trevor Pinnock (Handel’s Apollo and Dafne);
Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder (Ballet Rambert) and London Mozart Players.
His operatic roles have included Figaro in Barber of Seville,
Dr Kolenaty in Janàcek’s Makropoulos Case and Schaunard
in Boheme for Scottish Opera. He sang the Church Parables of Britten for Opera du Rhin,
Strasbourg, and Pish Tush in Mikado and Strephon in Iolanthe for the Carl Rosa Opera.
In 2004 he received critical acclaim for creating the title role in The Piano Tuner,
for Music Theatre Wales. Engagements for 2005 include Papageno in Magic Flute
in the West End of London, (Epoc) and Love's Labyrinth for Opera
Restor'd at the Wigmore Hall.
In 2006 Giles will appear as John Goss, in Anthony Britten’s new film on the
life of English songwriter Peter Warlock.
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Sybille Keller sings Jemmy in Guillaume Tell in 2009 and sang Valencienne in Merry Widow, Marzelline in Fidelio
and Gianetta in L'Elisir d'Amore
in Meiningen, Germany and was in the chorus of the Bayreuth Festival in 2008.
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Christine Groeneveld sang Ludmila in The Bartered Bride in Dortmund, Germany.
She sings Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana and sang the title role in Turandot
for the Dorset Opera in England.
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David Okerlund sang the
title role in Don Giovanni for San Francisco Opera. The San Francisco Chronicle
said "baritone David Okerlund, also rose to new heights on Saturday
night, singing the painter Marcello with unprecedented power and tonal
warmth" after his Boheme at the SFO. Also at SFO-Stanley in Streetcar
Named Desire (at San Diego and Strasbourg, also), Sharpless and Peter in
Hansel and Gretel. Marcello with Pittsburg Opera.
Germont at Vancouver and Connecticut, Sharpless at Hawaii, Figaro in
Nozze in Tulsa, Yeletsky in Pique Dame in Grand Rapids,
Jokanaan in Elektra in Hawaii.
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Pascale Schultze sang
Servilia in Clemenza di Tito, Papagena and Naiad in Ariadne auf Naxos
at the Dresden State Opera.
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Ausrine Stundyte sang Nedda, Adina and Blanche
in Carmelites and Ilia in Idomeneo in Cologne. For 2005- Micaela, Eurydice in
Orpheus in the Underworld
and Woglinde and Gerhilde in Cologne's Ring Cycle. Violetta and Adina in Wernigerode, Tebaldo in
Don Carlo in Leipzig, Michaela in Carmen in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Lisa Tjalve won the First Renate Holm Operetta Prize and the Emmerich Kalman Operetta Prize at the
International Operetta Competition at the Elblandfestspielen at Wittenberg, Germany. She
sang in Pinnochio at Berlin's Komische Oper
and performed the role of
Calisto in Händels Giove in Argo at the Markgräfische Oper in Bayreuth.
She's a semi-finalist in the Strasbourg Festival International Opera Competition
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Andrea Rieche sings the mother in Hansel and Gretel in Dortmund, Germany.
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Andrew Young sings Kuno in Der Freischutz, Bogomil in Bettelstudent
and Lodovico in Otello in Radebeul, Germany.
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Rachel Rose Farber was a grand finalist in the International Grand Concours de Chant.
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Susan Miller covered the Widow and Valencienne in
the Opera Comique's production of Merry Widow in Paris.
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Jeffrey Black sang Danilo in the Welsh National
Opera's Merry Widow.
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Julianne Borg covered Micaela in Carmen
at the New York City Opera. She also covered the title role in Patience
and sang Ygraine in Ariane et Barbe Bleu there. Flaminia in Haydn's Il Mondo della Luna
at the Opera de Nice, France.
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Mike McGowan played Danilo in Di Capo Opera's Merry Widow.
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Eike Riga sang Rosemarie in Herzogin von Chicago
in Bonn, Madrigal Comedy
touring Germany and Blume von Hawaii at the Berlin Stadtsoper.
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Heiko Boerner sang the Duke, Rodolfo, Faust, Symon in
Bettelstudent and Belmonte in Wurzburg, Germany.
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Waltraud Mucher sings Begbick in
Mahagonny in Dessau in 2006. She sang Flosshilde in Rheingold and
the Hexe in Humperdinck's Konigskinder at Cottbus, Germany.
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Shirley Kean sang Fortuna and Valetto in The
Coronation of Poppea with Opera Theatre Company in Belfast, Galway, Derry and Dublin, Ireland.
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Janna Baty sang Despina and
Berta (Barbiere) with Boston Lyric Opera, Powder On Her Face
at the Hamburg State Opera and the Mother in Amahl with the Tallahassee Symphony.
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Elizabeth Honer will sing Queen of the Night in
Zauberflote for Summer Opera Theatre Company in Washington, DC.
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Paul Koelbloed tours the U.K. and France
as Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore with Diva Opera.
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Kirsten Borchard sings in
Der Spiegel des Gruen Kaisers in Muenster, Germany.
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Paul Kirby sang in Postcards From Morocco
in Colmar. Peter Quint and Prologue in Turn of the Screw and
Mozart Requiem in Metz, France.
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Katryn Strocka sang Blondchen,
Susanna, Anne (Nabucco) and Lauretta in Gera, Germany.
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Mark Coles sang Sarastro for Opera North
in Leeds, England. The Guardian wrote "Mark Coles has the magnificent, honeyed tones
of an evangelical preacher".
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Of Jim Ruff's performance
in Scarlatti's Giuditta, the Chicago Sun Times said "Ruff's
tenor, pleasing and secure across a wide range, made a splendid showpiece
of 'Mi combatti', every ornament in place". Daniel in Play of Daniel at
the Spoleto Festival, Mozart Requiem in Boston
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Fides Krucker starred as
The Girl With No Door On Her Mouth in Toronto.
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Rebecca Hass sang Berta in Barbiere in Ottowa,
Katisha in Mikado in Edmonton and Marcellina in Nozze di Figaro in
Vancouver. Messiah and Verdi Requiem with the Hamilton Philharmonic.
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Roberta Cunningham sang
Saffi in Zigeunerbaron in Muenster, Rosalinda in Fledermaus
in Luzerne, Landshut and Giessen, Nedda in Pagliacci at Osnabruck,
Pamina in Zauberflote at Hildesheim, Germany and Mimi in Boheme
in Cairo.
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Susan
Hellauer and Jacqueline Horner tour internationally with their a cappella female quartet,
Anonymous 4. Their many recordings with Harmonia Mundi have been
on the top of the classical charts and sold over 1 million copies.
•Hilary Fisher
sang Mrs. Peachum in The Beggars Opera with Central Festival Opera in London. Alto
soloist in B Minor Mass and Petite Messe Sollenelle among many other oratorios.
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Andrew Mayor sang in
Midsummer's Night Dream at Covent Garden. He toured as Danilo
in The Merry Widow, and with Opera Italiano di Milano as Sharpless. Covered
Amonasro at the Scottish Opera. Soloist
in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy with the Berlin Philharmonic at Salzburg's
Easter Festival conducted by Claudio Abbado.
•Karen
Baumgartel sang Valencienne (Merry Widow), Oskar (Ballo), Despina,
Laura (Bettelstudent) and Naiad (Ariadne) in Hildesheim, Germany.
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Heidi Klann
won a grant from Anne Burrows foundation for Young Musicians.
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Sung
Chung was a finalist in the Jeune Ambassador Competition in Montreal and sang in La Straniera
in Toronto's Opera in Concert.
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Antoine Godor
sang the Sacristan in Tosca in Neustrelitz and Basilio in Barbiere in Weimar.
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Tina Hackeloer was 3rd Lady,
Michael Scheel was Tamino and Thomas Guenzler was Papageno in Dortmund's Zauberflote
for children.
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Alexander
Nikolic was Apollo in Haydn's Philemon et Baucis at Berlin's Stadtsoper, and sang
the tenor lead of Halevy's Der Blitz and Marcello in Leoncavallo's
La Boheme in Hamburg.
•Max Wagner
sings Cecco in Haydn's Il Mondon della Luna in Munich.
•Diane
Schmid won the Gottlob-Frick Competition in Germany, and sang Lisetta in Haydn's
Il Mondo Della Luna at the Wiesbaden Opera Studio.
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Darynn Zimmer debuts at Carnegie Hall
singing the soprano solos of Haydn's Theresienmesse and Mozart's
Mass in C Minor.
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Dagmar Hesse sang Madama Butterfly,
Elsa in Lohengrin, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Fiordiligi in Cosi,
Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, and the Marschallin in Rosenkavalier
in Hagen, Germany.
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Arnd Gothe sang
Zaccaria in Nabucco, Don Alfonso in Cosi and Don Quixote in
Man of La Mancha in Hagen, Germany.
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Soja Smoljaninova sang
Amalia in Ballo and Giorgetta in Tabarro at the Semper Oper
(Dresden).
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Susan Russell sang Susa's
Transformations at the Cleveland Opera. Opera News said "Susan
Russell, whose soprano is cutting and flexible, had a triumph in the
taxing role of Sexton."
