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| Ward David | | basso
[ 1922 - 1983 ]
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| Initially an elementary school teacher in Sheffield, he began voice studies at the Royal College of Music in London under Clive Carey, followed by further training under Hans Hotter in Munich. In 1952, he joined the chorus of the Sadler's Wells Opera and by 1953 was the leading bass in the ensemble. His debut was as the Old in Boughton's The Immortal Hour. His first principal role was as Count Walter in Luisa Miller. He remained there until 1959 singing, among other roles, Gounod's Mephisto, Daland and the Landgraf in Tannhäuser and in the world premiere of Lennox Berkley's Nelson. In the 1954 Aldeburgh Festival, he undertook the bass part in Bach's Johannespassion, becoming known as a great interpreter of Bach and Handel. In 1958, he sang at Glyndebourne in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, in 1960 as Lord Walton in I Puritani, and at the Edinburgh Festival in Luisa Miller. From his first Wagnerian role in 1958 in Der fliegende Holländer in London, he quickly developed into a Wagner specialist. In 1960, he made guest apperances at the Frankfurt and Hamburg operas as Hunding, at the Bayreuth Festival in 1960 as Titurel, in 1961 as Fasolt, the Night Watchman and as one of the knights in Parsifal. From 1960 he appeared at Covent Garden (debut: Pogner), where he most frequently sang Wagner and Verdi roles, although he also undertook Morosus in the 1961 English premiere of Richard Strauss' Die schweigsame Frau", Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande and Ivan Khovansky in Khovanshchina. In 1963, he answered a call to the Metropolitan Opera in New York. (debut: Sarastro). He made appeared as a guest at the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, the Teatro San Carlos in Lisbon (1967), in Chicago, Mexico City, New Orleans and San Francisco. At the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires he was heard as Wotan. In 1956 alone, he worked in five different complete stagings of the Ring. He was valued for the fullness of his voice as well as the aristocratic dignity of his bearing, especially in the role of Wotan. Recordings: Decca (Messiah, Walküre), CBS (Pelléas et Mélisande). |
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