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| | George Donald | | tenore |    
| Donald George is an established lyric tenor in the opera houses and concert halls of Europe. He has made a name for himself in opera, concert, TV, radio and in solo recital work. Donald George's concert repertoire is many faceted and includes well known and less well known compositions such as Mozart's Requiem with Sir. Y. Menuhin at the Mozartfest in Bath, England. Weil's Seven Deadly Sins with C. von Dohnanyi at the Salzburg Festival, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Beethoven's "Missa Solennis" with K. Masur and the Israel Philharmonic, Mendelssohn's "St Paul" with E. Tchakarov and Radio France, Tippet's "Child of Our Time" with R. Koch and the North German Radio, Britten's "Les Illuminations" with Plasson and the Orchestra Capitole in Toulouse and not least Bernstein's" Candide" with Bernstein conducting the London Philharmonic. Donald George is a regular guest at the famous Komische Oper in Berlin where he sings the leading tenor parts in seven operas including the renowned stage director Harry Kupfer's highly regarded Mozart cycle with "Magic Flute", "Don Giovanni" and "Abduction from the Seraglio". Besides these parts he sings Rimsky-Korsakov's "Czar Saltan", Lehar's "Merry Widow", Puccini's "La Boheme" and he has sung the Prince in the premiere of Prokofieff's "Love for Three Oranges" in June 1997 in a new production by A. Homoki and conducted by M. Jurowski. Donald George is not only one of the few tenors to have sung in all three of the Berlin opera houses (Deutsche Oper and Staatsoper) but he has also sung in other leading opera houses of the world such as the Liceu in Barcelona, the Chatelet in Paris, the State Opera in Hamburg, the Volksoper and State Opera in Vienna, the Opera of Turin, and Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Colon in Buenos Aires, the City Opera in Cologne (singing "Magic Flute" and "Abduction" in the Michael Hampe Mozart cycle) among other pieces), the National Opera in Madrid, the Capitole in Toulouse, the Opera in Montpellier and Toulon, the Monnaie in Brussels, the Flemish Opera in Antwerp, the Opera Royal in Liege, Belgium or the Minicipal in Lausanne in Switzerland. Donald George had also sung in a number of internationally renowned festivals such as the Flanders Festival in the 20th Century piece by the Belgian composer Andre Laporte "La Morte Chitarre" for solo tenor and orchestra which was broadcast, the Salzburg Festival and the Blossem Festival with the Cleveland Orchestra and von Donhnanyi and the London Proms with the Mecklenburgh Opera, or the Bregence Festival. In the Festival of European Song in Wilhelmshafen he sang a critically acclaimed recital based on the texts of Heinrich Heine to the music of Schubert, Schumann, Franz, and the Mendelsohns, Fanny and Felix. At the Jerusalem Festival 3000 Donald George sang the world premiere of Noam Sheriff's " Psalms of Jerusalem" which was also broadcast. In the Perth Festival 1997 (Australia) he sang Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with the Solisti di Praga, with the Taorrmina Arte Festival (Sicily) with G. Sinopoli he sang Narraboth in Salome. Donald George was invited to sing Mendelssohn's "Elijah" for Spanish television and radio in a concert conducted by Sir Y. Menuhin in the presence of the Queen. He has also sung in other broadcast performances such as Beethoven "Ninth Symphony" with Fruebeck de Burgos conducting, or Mercandante's "Seven Last Words" with the Berlin Festival, or "Don Giovanni" with the Lausanne Opera in Meziere, or Rossini's "Cenerentola" for TV 5 of France which was broadcast throughout Europe. Donald George has an extensive CD recording list, the latest being a critically acclaimed recording of the rare Rossini opera " Aureliano in Palmira" in which he sings the title role with the Solisti di Praga, or the Verdi "Requiem" with the Slovak Radio Philharmonic conducted by A. Rahbari, "La Finta Giardinera" with the Festival Radio France, Mendelssohn's "Elias" with Masur and the Israel Philharmonic, or Schubert's song cycle "Schoene Muellerin" with Jan Vermeulen playing the Hammerfluegel. A new CD of another rarity appeared this summer: Rossini's cantata "Le Nozze di Teti e di Pelleo". On July 13th 1998 Donald George sang the premiere of "Love for Three Oranges" in the A. Homoki production for the Komische Oper Berlin in which his performance was described as "wonderful," "touching," "impressive" or the "artistically most successful in the Berlin Opera Houses." This summer Donald George also sang his first Max in the "Freischuetz" at Chiemgau Music Festival. This season Donald George will be singing the leading tenor in "Cenerentola" and "Cosi" in Toulon. In addition he will be performing "Cosi" in the Naples opera singing with Frittoli, Corbelli, De Carolis etc. and conducted by R. Barshai. Concert performances of Bersteins "Candide" follow (in the concert version, which Donald George has already performed with Bernstein conducting) in Munich's Prinzregenten Theater, Frankfurt's Alte Oper, and Duesseldorf. In 1999 and 2000 Donald George will be making his debut at the Paris Opera Bastille in the role of Andres in "Wozzek" and the La Scala Milano in the role of Bob Boles in "Peter Grimes." |
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