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Biographical Information:
OPERA HOUSES: Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco, Bolshoi Moscow, La Scala Milano, Vienna State Opera, London Royal Opera, Munich State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburg State Opera, Chatelet Paris, Champs Elysées Paris, Barcelona Liceu, Teatro Madrid, Lisbon, Colon Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Sydney, Zurich , Geneva, Bologna, Dresden, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Monaco, Nice, Stuttgart, Cologne, Taipei.
FESTIVALS: Salzburg, Savonlinna, Ravenna, Orange, Munich, Lausanne, Ravello, London Proms, Bregenz, Neuschwanstein, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Wolftrap, Tiroler Festspiele, Austria.
CONDUCTORS: Levine, Giulini, Muti, Sinopoli, Chailly, Sawallisch, Thielemann, Dohnanyi, Sir Loren Maazel, Aaron Copland, Conlon, Bonynge, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir John Elliot Gardiner, Pappano, Nagano.
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS: Berlin, Vienna, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, New York Philharmonic, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Montreal, Toronto, Sydney.
ROLES: Wotan/Wanderer, Der Ring des Nibelungen; The Flying Dutchman, Der fliegende Hollaender; Jochanaan, Salome; Barak, Die Frau ohne Schatten; Orest, Elektra; Méphistophélès, Faust; Scarpia, Tosca; Four Villians, Tales of Hoffmann; Bluebeard, Bluebeard’s Castle; Phillip, Don Carlo; Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni; Figaro and Count, Le Nozze di Figaro; Pizarro, Fidelio; Henry VIII, Anna Bolena; Amonasro, Aida; Saul, Saul and David; Julius Caesar, Giulio Cesare; Mefisto, Mefistofele; Golaud, Pelleas et Melisande; Escamillo, Carmen; Basilio, Barber of Seville.
RECORDINGS: The Flying Dutchman, (Dohnanyi) Decca; Wotan in Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, (Dohnanyi) Decca; The Messiah (Gardiner) Philips; Wotan/Wanderer in Das Rheingold, Die Walküre and Siegfried (Wolfgang Sawallisch) EMI; Verdi Requiem, BMG Classics; Das Paradies und die Peri (Sinopoli) Deutsche Grammophon; "Song of Love": Broadway Musicals with Inga Nielsen, EMI; Salome, (Schoenwandt) Chandos; Die Gezeichneten, Salzburg (Nagano); Messiah, “The Dream Cast” Decca.
VIDEOS:Die Frau ohne Schatten (Solti); The Flying Dutchman, Der Ring des Nibelungen (Sawallisch), EMI; Manon and Carmen, Live from Lincoln Center; Die Gezeichneten, Salzburg (Nagano).
AWARDS: National Singer of the Year- National Association of Teachers of Singing; Outstanding Alumnus - New England Conservatory of Music; Outstanding Alumnus - Oklahoma University; Honorary Doctorate degree and Life Time Achievement Award, SNU; Phi Beta Kappa; Rose Award of Munich; Golden Mask Award of Russia for Der fliegende Hollaender at the Moscow Bolshoi Theater, 2005. |
