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| He was a pupil of Wellington Wolff in Reading, followed by training at the Manhattan School of Music and the Studio of the Metropolitan Opera on a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation. He made his debut in 1965 at the Santa Fe Opera as one of the alchemists in Henze's König Hirsch. In 1968 he caused a sensation at the Peabody Hall in Philadelphia in a concert performance of Mozart's Lucio Silla. His career began to develop at leading American opera theaters; he sang in Cincinnati, Houston, Seattle and San Francisco, and in 1969-74 at the New York City Opera (debut as Gonzalve in Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole. In October of 1973 he was Iopas in the Metropolitan Opera's first performance of Berlioz' Les Troyens. In subsequent years he performed there as Tamino, Tito in La Clemenza di Tito, Hoffmann, David in Meistersinger, Alwa in Lulu and in 1996 as Herodes in Salome. He specialized in lyric roles, such as Ferrando in Così fan Tutte, Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Belmonte in Entfürung aus dem Serail, Tamino, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Nemorino in L'Elisir d'amore, Des Grieux in Manon, Rodolfo in Bohème, Hoffman in Contes d'Hoffmann, Almaviva in Barbiere di Siviglia, Alfredo in Traviata, and Fenton in Falstaff. He was also successful in operas by Britten, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Orff and Henze. In 1975 he appeared at the Salzburg Festival as a soloist in Mahler's Eighth Symphony. He sang at concert performances of Berlioz' La damnation de Faust (1970), Schreker's Der Gezeichneten (1984) and Messiaen's St. François d'Assise (1985). In 1996 he performed there as Ägisth. On February 24, 1979 he sang Alwa in the revised edition of the opera fragment Lulu by Cerha at the Grand Opéra of Paris. He was heard in Europe at the Spoleto Festival, and in Amsterdam and Munich as well. In 1983 he was successful at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in Berlioz' Damnation de Faust. He was particularly fond of, and for three years a member of, the Grand Opéra of Paris (debut in1978 as Hoffmann). At this theater he also sang in the world premiere of Messiaen's St. François d'Assise. He appeared in London in 1985 in Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg, in 1988 as Albert Gregor in Janácek's Vec Makropulos at Munich's Staatsoper in 1990 as Robespierre in Einem's Dantons Tod, in 1991 as Shuiski in the original version of Boris Godunov. In 1991 he sang Loge at Covent Garden and in 1992 Herodes at the Salzburg Festival. In 1994 he again sang Shuiski at the opera in Tel Aviv, Malatestino in Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini at the Bregenz Festival and the Inquisitor in Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero (concert performance) at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. He also had a great international career as a concert, oratorio and lieder singer. Recordings: DGG (Lulu), CBS, Decca (Damnation de Faust, Salome), Schwann (Der Geburtstag der Infantin, Florentinische Tragödie), Philips, Vox-Turnabout, Denon, Cybelia-IMS (François d'Assise), Koch Records (Die Bassariden), Teldec, Pioneer-Video (Salome). |
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