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Phillip Ens sang Jorg in Stiffelio and
the Commendatore in Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera,
Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra and Ramfis in Aida for the
Canadian Opera, the Commendatore at 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, Fafner in Siegfried at
Covent Garden and the Deutsche Oper, The Verdi Requiem for the
Winnipeg Symphony and Sarastro in Manitoba. 2012 includes L'Orfeo and
Claudius in Hamlet at Theatre an der Wien in Vienna, Rheingold
and Siegfried in Munich, and The Inventor with the
Vancouver Symphony .
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Christa Mayer sang at the
Bayreuth Festival the roles of Erda and Waltraute in The Ring
in the summers of 2008-2010 conducted by Thieleman. She sang
Braengaene in Tristan in Dresden and will sing it in Bayreuth
in 2014. She sang Brigitta in Die Tote Stadt at La Fenice in
Venice. At the Dresden State Opera she sings Geschwitz in Lulu,
and 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.
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Lothar Odinius sang Tamino in
Zauberfloete at Covent Garden after his debut there in
Niobe. In the summer of 2011 he made his Bayreuth debut as Walther von
der Vogelweide in Tannhaueser. He sang Arbace in
Idomeneo at the Paris Opera, and the Fisherman in Stravinsky's
Rossignol at the Canadian Opera. He has sung
the St. Matthew Passion in Milan, The Creation conducted
by Peter Schreier in Hamburg and Elijah with Thomas Quasthoff
in Berlin. He sang the title role in La Clemenza di Tito in Cologne and
Mannheim/Schwetzingen, Clemenza and Don Ottavio in
Giovanni in Potsdam, 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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Barbara Hannigan sings Gepopo and Venus in Ligeti's Danse Maccabre at Barcelona's Liceu Theatre.
She just toured throughout Europe with Pierre Boulez and his Ensemble
Contemporain to sing his Pli Sans Pli. She sang the title
role in Le Rossignol with the Berlin Philharmonic, 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. 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 the
New York Philharmonic and 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. 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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Ursula Hesse von den Steinen sang Orlovsky in
Glyndebourne after singing it at the Vienna Staatsoper. She sang
Orlovsky, 3rd Lady in Flute, starred in The Seven Deadly
Sins and sang Margaret in Wozzeck at the Paris Opera, Eboli
in Don Carlo in Cologne and Nurnberg, Beethoven's 9th conducted
by Riccardo Chailly in Milan, the 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, and the world premiere of Heliogabal at
Gerard Mortier's Ruhrtriennale, Caligula in Cologne.
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Christian Elsner sang the title role in
Parsifal under Marek Janowski at the Berlin Philharmonie in
2011. He sang Siegmund in Die Walkuere at the Dresden State
Opera, Darmstadt and Weimar. Future Wagner performances include
Parsifal in Kassel, Siegmund with Simon Rattle in Berlin, and
Rheingold with Janowski in Berlin. 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, Beethoven's Missa
Solemnis and 9th Symphony, Liszts Faust Symphony,
Bruckner's Te Deum, Schubert's Winterreise and
Schoene Muellerin, Schumann's Dichterliebe, Mahler's
Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen and the title role in Mozart's
Idomeneo.
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Allyson McHardy sang Annio in La Clemenza di Tito at the Paris Opera.
She has sung the title role in
Cenerentola in Glyndebourne, Adalgisa in Norma
in Warsaw and Jo in Little Women in Calgary. She sang the title
role in L'Italiana in Algieri in Lille, France, Rosina in
Barbiere and Olga in Eugene Onegin at the San Francisco
Opera, Marquise Melibea in Viaggio a Reims at the New York City
Opera, 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 and 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 sang Yeletsky
in Pique Dame in Israel. He sang Belcore at the San Francisco
Opera, the role of Scapin in L'Ile de Merlin at the Spoleto
Festival, Pandolphe in Massenet's Cendrillon at the New York
City Opera, Escamillo in Carmen at the Walnut Creek Festival,
covered Tomsky in Pique Dame in Tokyo, conducted by Seiji
Ozawa, the Pilot in The Little Prince for the San Francisco
Opera, conducted by Donald Runnicles and 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, 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, the NY Philharmonic and other fine
orchestras and sang the lead role in Shostakovich's Moscow
Chereomuski in Stuttgart.
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Steven Ebel made his Covent
Garden debut as Victorin in Die Tote Stadt in January 2009. He
was a Covent Garden Young Artist for the 2009-2011 seasons, and sang
Jaquino in Fidelio, the Messenger in Aida, Heinrich in
Tannhaueser, and Malcolm in Macbeth there. He will begin an
engagement in Karlsruhe in the coming months. A composer as well, his chamber
opera Mogens was
premiered at Covent Garden's Exposure Series in April 2010. He sang
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
returned to Tanglewood in summer '09 to sing Eislinger in
Meistersinger conducted by James Levine, and Tenor 1 in
Stravinsky's Renard. 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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Rayanne Dupuis covers the lead in
the world premiere of Mantovani's Akhmatova at the Paris Opera.
She sang the British premiere of Rihm's Die Gehege with the BBC
Symphony in London after her success in the same role last year in
Basel (when it was call Drei Frauen). She sings and records it
with Kent Nagano and the Deutsche Symphonie Orchester in Berlin and
sang it with the Helsinki Philharmonic. She sings Sieglinde in a
European tour of Dove Graham Vick's version of Wagner's Ring.
In Basel she sang the title role in The Bitter Tears of Petra Van
Kant. 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 sang the title role of
Carmen at the Longborough Festival in England and 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
Aida in Cottbus, Germany. She sang Abigaille in Nabucco
and Aida in Aida in Warsaw, and the title role in Tosca
in Cracow, Poland and Gera, Altenburg and Radebeul, Germany. She sang
Leonore in Fidelio in Radebeul, Leonora in Forza in
Cottbus and Frankfurt an der Oder, Abigaille in Nabucco in
Braunschweig, Weimar and Gera, Germany and the Verdi Requiem in
Hamburg and Zurich.
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Andreas Macco sang the title role
in Fliegende Hollaender in Dortmund and Kaiserslautern. He sang the
title role in Boito's Mephistofele, Wotan in Rheingold
and Shostakowitsch's 14th Symphony in Gelsenkirchen. He sang Fasolt in Das Rheingold
in Essen and the Water Gnome in Rusalka at the Rome Opera. He
sang his first Walkuere Wotan in Koblenz in 2009, 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
and Berlioz' Romeo and Juliet at the Leipzig
Gewandhaus.
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Anne Sommerfeld sings
Rosalinde in Fledermaus Sieglinde, in Die Walkuere,
Agathe in Freischutz, Fiordiligi in Cosi, Leonora in
Trovatore Mimi in Boheme, Juliette in Romeo et
Juliette, 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 was nominated for Opernwelt's Artistic Newcomer of
2006 Award. She also sang Rosalinda in Giessen.
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Meik Schwalm sang Don Jose in Carmen at
the Allee Theatre in Hamburg following his fach change to dramatic
tenor. He sings now in Pariser Leben in Berlin.
He sang Marcello in Boheme, Malatesta in Don
Pasquale 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 Bielfeld, Germany. He sang Hel Helson in Paul
Bunyan at Bregenz Festival, summer 2007 and 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 will sing the lead role in the
premiere of Miroslav Srnka's Make No Noise at the Munich State
Opera Summer Festival in 2011. He sang Rihm's Jakob Lenz in
Warsaw after his success in Oresteia by Iannis Xenakis there.
He has released CD's of Poulenc songs with texts by Apollinaire and
songs by Josef Matthias Hauer. 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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Douglas Williams was the bass
soloist in L'Avisso al Terbo Giuno, Aeneas in Dido and
Aeneas and Polyphemus in Acis and Galatea, all with the
Boston Early Music Festival. About his performance in Acis and
Galatea the New York Times raved "But the most powerful singer
here was Douglas Williams, a bass-baritone with a superb sense of
drama". He sings the role of Laurence in Gretry's Le Magnifique
for Opera Lafayette and at the Kennedy Center, Plutone in Monteverdi's
Ballo delle Ingrate with Seattle Baroque, Bach's B minor
Mass at Southern Oregon University, Christmas Cantata's
with the NY Clarion Society and the Saint John Passion with Les
Talens Lyrique in Frankfurt, Germany. He'll sing the The
Messiah with the Detroit Symphony in fall 2011.
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Carter Scott covered the
title role in Tosca and 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 sang the 3rd Norn and
covered 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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Thomas Laske sings Marcello in
Boheme in Cologne and Wuppertal and Escamillo in Carmen
in Cologne. He sings concerts in fine venues throughout Europe
including Bach Cantatas with Ton Koopman. He'll sing Danilo in
Merry Widow in Solingen in 2011.
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Izabela Matula sang Liu in
Turandot in Saarbrucken and won 3rd Prize in the Wilhem
Stenhammar Competition in Sweden .
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Alexander Lewis is in the
Lindemann Young Artist Program at the Metropolitan Opera after singing
Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore in San Francisco Opera's Merola
Program.
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Jean Stilwell sang Berio's
Folk Songs with the Houston Symphony. She played Madame D'Urfe
in Minnesota Opera's Casanova's Homecoming, sang in the world
premiere of Transit of Venus with the Manitoba Opera and
performs her critically acclaimed cabaret Carmen Unzipped
throughout Canada. She sang in War and Peace at the Candian
Opera Company and in Eric Idle's Not The Messiah with the
Toronto Symphony and at the Caramoor Festival in New York.
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Christian Von Oldenburg sings
in Calandro in the Potsdam/Sans Souci Music Festival after
singing the baritone solos in Haydn's Creation at the Berliner
Dom. He sang the title role in Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert
sponsored by the Hamburg State Opera and Germont in Traviata at
the Choriner Klosterfestspielen. He was in a production of the
Staatsoper Hamburg und Theater Lüneburg singing Hans Scholl in Die
Weisse Rose by Udo Zimmermann and sing a chamber version of
Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin
Konzerthaus und the Leipzig Gewandhaus.
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Nadine Lehner sings Pamina in Zauberfloete and the Governess in Turn
of the Screw in Bremen, Germany, toured China with the Four Last Songs
of Strauss and sings Micaela in Carmen in Antwerp .
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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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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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Hanna Dora Sturladottir sings in Pariser Leben in Berlin after singing
the lead in The Seven Deadly Sins and in Closer Than
Ever in Gelsenkirchen. She sang Miss Donnithorne´s Maggot
for the Berlin Staatsoper, the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos
in Iceland, 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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Daniel Pohnert sings the title role in Der Vampyr and sang Zuniga and
Morales in the Hamburg Allee Theater's production of Carmen
.
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Jake Armstrong will be a
resident artist at Saratoga Opera and Wolftrap Opera in
2011.
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Dagmar Hesse sings Amalia in
Ballo in Maschera and the title role in Turandot in
Hagen, Germany where she has also sung Mrs. Maurrant in Street
Scene, Giorgetta in Il Tabarro, Madama Butterfly,
Elsa in Lohengrin, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Fiordiligi
in Cosi, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, and the
Marschallin in Rosenkavalier.
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Birger Radde sings concerts throughout Europe,
Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos in Winterthur, Switzerland and
sings in Orff's Die Kluge at the Orff Festspiele in
Munich.
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Elisa Doughty sings Zerlina
in Don Giovanni throughout France. She 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. Opera de
Rennes is Omphale in Les Travaux d'Hercule.
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Juanita Lascarro sang Violetta in
Traviata and Corinna in Viaggio a Reims in
Frankfurt.
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Monika Staszak sings Valencienne in Merry
Widow, Gretel, Sandman and Dew Fairy in Hansel And Gretel,
the title role in Evita and Jane in Witches of Eastwick
in Regensburg, Germany.
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Luca Martin sings Sergei
in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Kassel, Germany. He sang 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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Keith Boldt is in the ensemble of the Oper Leipzig. Roles there in 2011-12 include
Jack O'Brien in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Ulrich Eisslinger in
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Erster Gralsritter in Parsifal, tenor
soloist in Orff's Catulli Carmina for the Ballet as well as roles in La
Boheme, Das schlaue Füchslein, Der Rosenkavalier and Die Zauberflöte.
In Augsburg he sings Der Maler/Ein Neger in Lulu. He sang and recorded the lead in
Braunfels'Ulenspiegel in Gera and Altenburg, Germany.
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Mojca Vedernjak sings Marcellina
in Nozze di Figaro in Augsburg and concerts and song recitals
throughout Europe.
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Martin Weidmann sings Herr
Reich in Lustigen Weiber von Windsor in Bern,
Switzerland.
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Monika Eder is the soprano soloist for the St. John Passion in June 2013 with
the Münchner Philharmonikern conducted by Ton Koopman.
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Christa Fleischmann sings
Adele in Fledermaus and Lisa in Countess Maritza in
Rheinfelden, Biel, Solothurn and Winterthur, Switzerland.
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Erik Foerster sings in Die
Dreigroschenoper, Walton in I Puritani and Lord Syndham in
Zar und Zimmerman in Biel, Switzerland.
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Anne Harley sings the role of
Margaret Mead in Evan Zyporin's A House In Bali in Boston and
at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival.
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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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Harriett Marshall is a Young
Artist for Western Australian Opera in 2011.
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Carola Glaser sang in
Rienzi at the Leipzig Opera.
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Vladimir Maric sings the
tenor solos in Handel's Chandos Anthem's at the Cologne Philharmonic.
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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 sang 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 sang Mimi in
La Boheme and Annio in La Clemenza di Tito in Bielefeld,
Germany.
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Dshamilja Kaiser sang 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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Rebecca Hass will sing Mary in Dutchman in Victoria, Canada and
Beethovens 9th and La Fille du Regiment with Manitoba Opera.
She sang Azucena in Trovatore at
the Astoria Music Festival in Oregon, the Baroness in
Vanessa and the Verdi Requiem in Victoria,
Berta in Barbiere in Ottowa, Katisha in Mikado in
Edmonton and Marcellina in Nozze di Figaro in Vancouver.
Also, Messiah and Verdi Requiem with the Hamilton
Philharmonic.
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Guy Booth toured Australia
and Germany as Papageno in Magic Flute with Opera Queensland.
He was 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 sang 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.
•
Sybille Keller sang Jemmy in
Guillaume Tell, 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.
•
Andrea Rieche sings Mary in
Fliegende Hollaender and sang Dame Quickly in Falstaff
and the mother in Hansel and Gretel in Dortmund,
Germany.
•
Maria Milolidaki sang the
Queen of the Night in Zauberfloete and the title role of The Merry
Widow in Athens.
•
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.
•
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.
• Elizabeth King is in the chorus of Oper Dortmund,
Germany.
•
Pascale Schultze sang
Servilia in Clemenza di Tito, Papagena and Naiad in Ariadne
auf Naxos at the Dresden State Opera.
•
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.
•
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
•
Andrew Young sings Kuno in
Der Freischutz, Bogomil in Bettelstudent and Lodovico in
Otello in Radebeul, Germany.
•
Rachel Rose Farber was a
grand finalist in the International Grand Concours de
Chant.
•
Susan Miller covered the
Widow and Valencienne in the Opera Comique's production of Merry
Widow in Paris.
•
Jeffrey Black sang Danilo in
the Welsh National Opera's Merry Widow.
•
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.
•
Mike McGowan played Danilo in
Di Capo Opera's Merry Widow.
•
Eike
Riga sang Rosemarie in Herzogin von Chicago in Bonn,
Madrigal Comedy touring Germany and Blume von Hawaii at
the Berlin Stadtsoper.
•
Heiko Boerner sang the Duke,
Rodolfo, Faust, Symon in Bettelstudent and Belmonte in
Wurzburg, Germany.
•
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.
•
Shirley Kean sang Fortuna and
Valetto in The Coronation of Poppea with Opera Theatre Company
in Belfast, Galway, Derry and Dublin, Ireland.
•
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.
•
Kirsten Borchard sings in
Der Spiegel des Gruen Kaisers in Muenster, Germany.
•
Paul Kirby sang in
Postcards From Morocco in Colmar. Peter Quint and Prologue in
Turn of the Screw and Mozart Requiem in Metz,
France.
•
Katryn Strocka sang
Blondchen, Susanna, Anne (Nabucco) and Lauretta in Gera,
Germany.
•
Mark Coles sang Sarastro for
Opera North in Leeds, England. The Guardian wrote "Mark Coles has the
magnificent, honeyed tones of an evangelical preacher".
•
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
•
Fides Krucker starred as
The Girl With No Door On Her Mouth in Toronto.
•
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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Heidi Klann won a grant from Anne Burrows
foundation for Young Musicians.
• Sung Chung was a finalist in the Jeune Ambassador
Competition in Montreal and sang in La Straniera in Toronto's
Opera in Concert.
• Antoine Godor sang the Sacristan in Tosca
in Neustrelitz and Basilio in Barbiere in Weimar.
• Tina Hackeloer was 3rd Lady, Michael Scheel was
Tamino and Thomas Guenzler was Papageno in Dortmund's
Zauberflote for children.
• 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.
•
Darynn Zimmer debuts at
Carnegie Hall singing the soprano solos of Haydn's
Theresienmesse and Mozart's Mass in C Minor.
•
Arnd Gothe sang Zaccaria in
Nabucco, Don Alfonso in Cosi and Don Quixote in Man
of La Mancha in Hagen, Germany.
•
Soja Smoljaninova sang Amalia
in Ballo and Giorgetta in Tabarro at the Semper Oper
(Dresden).
•
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."
