Brandon Jovanovich

Brandon Jovanovich

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Brandon Jovanovich in Senso

http://shirtlessopera.blogspot.com/2011/11/brandon-jovanovich-in-senso.html

Give me my robe...

La Cieca has just heard that the 2007 Richard Tucker Award winner is tenor Brandon Jovanovich, pictured here at a concert given recently in honor of long-time Tucker colleague Eleanor Steber.

Career Grant winners for 2007 are Meredith Arwady, contralto; Jason Collins, tenor; and Stephen Costello, tenor. La Cieca regrets to inform you that she does not have any photos of Mr. Costello in a towel at the moment, but, after all, summer is just around the corner.

Carmen at the Met

http://shirtlessopera.blogspot.com/2010/02/carmen-at-met.html

Calixto Bieito‘s controversial production of Carmen

http://parterre.com/2010/09/29/bobby-come-on-over-for-regie/comment-page-2/

 Roberto Alagna dips his toe into the avant-garde, participating in Calixto Bieito‘s controversial production of Carmen at Teatro del Liceo de Barcelona. [El País]

Calixto Bieito abre la temporada del Liceo con una 'Carmen' sin tópicos

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2010/09/27/actualidad/1285538409_850215.html  

Opera is one of the most demanding and complex art forms around

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Biography

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Finding His Voice, the Slow, Steady Way

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/arts/music/31brandon.html?_r=0

IF we have heard it once, we have heard it a hundred times: The opera singer who hopes to last must learn to say no. The American tenor Brandon Jovanovich, at 40, has not always had that luxury.

“Brandon is great,” Ms. Garanca said, “devoted, accommodating, attentive, funny, strong. He literally carries me on his hands, but at the same time he’s a very sensitive artist. I’m looking forward very much to singing with him.”

Brandon Jovanovich - Carmen - La fleur que tu m'avais jete

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJjRrmmwkyg

 Arena di Verona 24.08.2012

Nadia Krasteva / Brandon Jovanovich - Carmen - C'est toi? C'est moi!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XTORyt5EBU

Arena di Verona 24.08.2012

Olga Borodina, Brandon Jovanovich - C'est toi? C'est Moi

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Olga Borodina and Brandon Jovanovich sing the final duet from Bizet's Carmen

Met 2010

Born and bred in Billings, Mont., Mr. Jovanovich is descended from Serbs who emigrated generations ago to work the mines, where many also died. His father, who died 13 years ago, led a roustabout life that might have been scripted by Annie Proulx. His mother, divorced when Brandon was in his teens, still lives in Billings and sells Elizabeth Arden cosmetics at Dillard’s department store.

Growing up, Mr. Jovanovich, now 6 foot 3, dreamed of a career as a linebacker, and with a football scholarship at the University of Mary in Bismarck, N.D., he might have been on his way. But the cold there the winter of his freshman year was something else, even after Billings, so when a friend transferred to Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, he decided to do the same, this time on a music scholarship. “They wouldn’t give me a football scholarship without having seen me,” he said.

Starting as a bass-baritone in the chorus of “Carousel,” he soon advanced to his first full solo role: the fatherly high priest Sarastro in Mozart’s “Magic Flute.” (The discovery of his natural upper register was yet to come.) But, 10 o’clock scholar that he was, he missed harmony and theory classes so regularly as to jeopardize his scholarship. The theater department came to the rescue for his senior year, and he graduated with performance credits ranging from Shakespeare (Petruchio in “The Taming of the Shrew”) to Sondheim (Anthony in “Sweeney Todd”). It was after a brief stint of auditions in Los Angeles that he rejoined his college girlfriend, Cara Welch, a vocal-performance major, in New York. The two are now married.

TDO Subscription Sales Begin Today!

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The 2013-2014 “By Love Transformed” Season officially opens on the evening of Friday, October 25th at 8:00 PM—The Linda and Mitch Hart Season Opening Night Performance—with our first CARMEN in the critically acclaimed acoustic of the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House.

 She’s the woman no man can resist and, as performed by renowned French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine in her American debut, who would want to say “non”? Hailed as “Best Newcomer” in the 2011 French Classical Music Awards, Margaine will have her hands full with two head-turning, heart-melting Don Josés: tenors Brandon Jovanovich, who last captivated us as Pinkerton, and Bruno Ribeiro (making his company debut).

 This truly phenomenal cast, from Mary Dunleavy in the role of Micaëla to Dwayne Croft as Escamillo the Toreador, will bring on the sizzle—as well as the steak! Featuring classic Jean-Pierre Ponnelle scenery from the San Francisco Opera, this production conducted by Maestro Emmanuel Villaume will make all the other good/bad girls of opera seem tame, if not lame, in comparison.

Georges Bizet’s colorful, sensual and passionate nineteenth-century masterpiece will be staged by veteran American director Bliss Hebert, who last directed our critically acclaimed 2012 production of La traviata, the notable U.S. debut of Greek soprano Myrtò Paptanasiu, our “Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year.”

American tenor Brandon Jovanovich will sing the role of Don José on Oct. 25, 27, and 30, while TDO newcomer, Portuguese tenor Bruno Ribeiro will portray the obsessed lover on Nov. 2, 8 and 10, 2013.

 This outstanding international cast includes soprano Danielle Pastin in her company debut as Frasquita; mezzo Audrey Babcock in her Dallas Opera debut as Mercédès; bass Kyle Albertson (another company debut) as Zuniga; baritone Stephen LaBrie as the smuggler, La Dancaire; tenor Victor Ryan Robertson as Remendado and baritone John David Boehr in his TDO debut as Moralès.

Mr. Jovanovich, who enthralled Dallas audiences in our 2010 production of Madame Butterfly (described by Huffington Post’s Rodney Punt as the definitive Pinkerton of our time), has been dazzling critics recently in the title role of Wagner’s Lohengrin. San Francisco Chronicle Classical Music Critic Joshua Kosman wrote:

“Jovanovich combined sweet-toned lyricism and ardent heroism in just the proportions required for this tricky role. His singing was thrillingly pure and tireless, his stage presence simultaneously tender and aloof.”

Madame Butterfly, LA Opera

http://www.operatoday.com/content/2012/11/madame_butterfl.php

…Brandon Jovanovich, just returned from singing Lohengrin in San Francisco, was as usual a lithe, handsome Pinkerton, and sang with bright clear sound.