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| Donald Kaasch's international career has developed rapidly in a short time, bringing him to important theatres all over the world, such as the Opéra Bastille in Paris, the Metropolitan, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Salzburg Festival and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. |
| In 1998/9 season Donald Kaasch performed in Boris Godunov at the Teatro dell?Opera di Roma, in The Turn of the Screw at the Teatro Nacional de la Zarzuela in Madrid, followed by Wozzeck at the Aspen Festival under the baton of James Conlon. |
| In current season he sang Gluck's Alceste at the Nederlandse Oper in Amsterdam, Das Paradis und die Peri with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Faust and Carmina Burana at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Mitridate, re di Ponto at the Théâtre du Chatelet de Paris. |
| Donald Kaasch's vaste repertoire includes La clemenza di Tito (with James Levine at the Metropolitan, in Buenos Aires and in Athens), The voyage of Edgar Allan Poe by Dominc Argento (world première at the Lyric Opera in Chicago), Mitridate, re di Ponto (Théâtre du Châtelet de Paris, Opernhaus in Zurich, Grand Théâtre de Geneve), Béatrice et Bénédict (Welsh National Opera), Anna Bolena (Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels), Tamino in Il flauto magico (Opéra Bastille de Paris), Idamante in Idomeneo (Opéra Bastille de Paris conducted by Myung-Whun Chung), Iopas in Les Troyens (Opéra Bastille de Paris with Myung-Whun Chung and Metropolitan), Beppe in Rita (Messina), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Royal Opera House-Covent Garden), as well as his performances of La Damnation de Faust (Teatro La Fenice di Venezia under the baton of Georges Prêtre), Ermione (Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires), Tancredi (Salzburg Festival), Iphigénie en Tauride (Paris and Athens), Wozzeck (Lyric Opera in Chicago, Metropolitan Opera), Il gallo d?oro (Nice and Covent Garden), Lucia di Lammermoor (Australian Opera), Faust (Faust; Teatro alla Scala), The Turn of the Screw (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and Teatro Lirico in Cagliari), Daphne (Vlamse Opera in Anvers). |
| Donald Kaasch maintains a busy concert and recital schedule. He has performed in concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Beethovenhalle Orchestra di Bonn, and he has worked with such conductors as Roberto Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Semyon Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, James Levine, Georges Prêtre, Simon Rattle e Jeffrey Tate. His repertoire includes Die Schöpfung (Orchestra de Lille), Stravinskij's Perséphone (with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London and in Brussels, and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome), Haydn?s Die Jahreszeiten (Melbourne International Festival), Carmina Burana (Columbus Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris), Schubert's Messa in si bem. maggiore (Radio France), Schumann's Faustszenen (Orchestre de Paris) and Rossini's Stabat Mater (at the Opéra Bastille with Myung-Whun Chung, in Genoa, in Eindhoven with Het Brabants Orkest and in Lyon). |
| Born in Denver, Colorado, after he finished his musical studies he was admitted to a special programme for young singers at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. |
| His discography includes Rossini's Armida under the baton of Daniele Gatti for Sony and Oedipus Rex conducted by James Levine for Deutsche Grammophon. |
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