The Sydney Opera singers
Photos Alexia Voulgaridou
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Faust_Alexia Voulgaridou_Act3; Jewel song
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Kaufmann, Daza, Voulgaridou - Marcello, Finalmente...Mimi e
tanto m
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Australia's
Cheryl Barker will replace Voulgaridou as Tosca on August 4 and Diego Torre
will succeed Lee on the same date.
Cheryl Barker
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Madama Butterfly trailer - Un bel di - Cheryl Barker 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-VzaOfdwEc
2012 production at the Sydney Opera House: 20 Sep - 1 Nov
2012
And at Arts Centre Melbourne:
14 Nov - 14 Dec 2012
You know they will fall in love. You know they will part.
You know Butterfly will wait, faithfully, until the one fine day he returns.
You know these things. But even if you have experienced the rich colours, the
gravious choreography and the poetic elegance of this production, even if you
have already lived the heart-breaking story, Puccini's desperately romantic
music will still move you, will still make you fall in love with opera all over
again.
Yonghoon Lee a powerful tenor in Sydney Opera House's Tosca
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YONGHOON LEE
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Since his debut as Don Carlo in Santiago, Chile
in June of 2007, Korean born Yonghoon Lee has established himself
internationally as a leading lirico-spinto tenor. In the 2010/2011 season he
made four international debuts, at the Metropolitan Opera in the title role of
the new production of Don Carlos, at the Teatro alla Scala as Turridu in
Cavalleria rusticana, and at both the Vienna State Opera and the Semper Oper in
Dresden as
Cavaradossi in Tosca. He had already made his debuts in Munich
in Don Carlo, in Berlin as Don José in Carmen, Hamburg
in Tosca and at the Glyndebourne festival as Macduff in Macbeth the season
prior. In May 2011 Lee returned to the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma as Arrigo in
Verdi’s rarely performed La Battaglia di Legnano. He also sang Don Carlos on
the Metropolitan Opera’s tour of Japan in June of 2011, as well as
returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin for Carmen. Lee returned to the
Metropolitan Opera in the fall of 2011 as Ismaele in Nabucco. In January of 2012 he made his debut at the
Teatro Comunale in Bologna
in his first appearances as Calaf in Turandot.
In April of 2012 Lee sang the original 1867 French version of Don Carlos
at the Vienna State Opera. He subsequently made his French stage debut at the
Opera de Lyon in Olivier Py’s new production of Carmen.
Yonghoon Lee began the 2012/2013 season with Carmen at the
Metropolitan Opera after which he returned to Munich as Calaf. His debuts this season
included his first appearance at the Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden in Tosca, at the Zurich Opera in Carmen, and he will also
debut at the Australian Opera in Tosca. Lee was also heard at the Hamburg State
Opera in the French Version of Don Carlos, which he will perform again at the
Vienna State Opera. He will sing his first Manrico in Il Trovatore in a new
production in the Wiener Festwochen at the Theater an der Wien. Future projects
include his debut as Andrea Chénier in Zurich, Il Trovatore at the Chicago Lyric Opera, a new production
of La Battaglia di Legnano in Hamburg,
as well as several productions at the Metropolitan Opera.
Following the production of Don Carlo in Santiago, Yonghoon Lee made his German debut
at the Frankfurt Opera in September of 2007 in a new production of the same
work. This was followed in December of
2007 by his Spanish debut, also in Don Carlo, at the Palau
de las Artes in Valencia
under Lorin Maazel. He made his Italian debut in January 2008 at the Rome Opera
as Cavaradossi in a new production of Tosca directed by Franco Zeffirelli and
conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti, and subsequently made his debut in Athens in Tosca as well.
He also appeared with the Opera de la Wallonie in Liege
in Don Carlos and Tosca and made his debut in the United Kingdom as Don José with the
Glyndebourne Touring Company. In November 2008, Yonghoon Lee made his debut at
the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa
as Rodolfo in La bohème under Daniel Oren. He subsequently returned to Frankfurt for a revival of Don Carlo and as Rodolfo in La
bohème, and made his Deutsche Oper Berlin in Tosca opposite Violeta
Urmana. In June of 2009 Lee made his
highly acclaimed Netherlands Opera debut as Don Jose in a new production of
Carmen directed by Robert Carsen and conducted by Marc Albrecht.
A native of South
Korea,Yonghoon Lee began his musical studies
there where he sang several roles such as Alfredo in La Traviata, Luigi in Il
tabarro, Rodolfo in La bohème, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Ruggero in La rondine, and
Don José in Carmen. He has won numerous
vocal competitions and is a first prize winner of the 34th annual Loren L.
Zachary Society National vocal Competition 2006, first prize winner of the
Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Vocal Competition 2005 and many
others. Yonghoon Lee received a full
scholarship to both the Seoul National University
in Korea and to the Mannes
College of Music in New York
where he continued his vocal and musical studies with Professor Arthur Levy.
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Nessun dorma - (Puccini - Turandot) - Yonghoon Lee at his
debut as
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2tcVUU-Hxg
January 19th, 2012 - Prèmiere (Opening of 2012 Opera Season)
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tenor: Yonghoon Lee, at his debut as Calaf
Diego Torre
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Born in Mexico City,
tenor Diego Torre recently finished his second year as a Domingo - Thornton
Young Artist at Los Angeles Opera, where he made his company debut as Don José
in performances of Carmen. In his debut
season with Wolf Trap Opera Company, Diego sang Conte Ivrea in Verdi's Un
giorno di regno, Captain in Candide, and Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos. He was
invited to return to Wolf Trap in the summer of 2009 to play Rodolfo in La
bohème, where The Washington Times said of his performance, "His passion
was real, his heartbreak was immense, and his commanding, gloriously sculpted
instrument makes him an up-and-coming talent to be watched."
He was then engaged for the 2009/2010 season at The
Metropolitan Opera to play the Messenger in Aida and Federico in Stiffelio,
followed by Masaniello in La muette de Portici for Dessau Opera. That was followed by Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor
for Savonlinna Opera Festival; covering for Plácido Domingo in the title role
of Il Postino at Los Angeles Opera; Cavaradossi in Tosca at Boston Lyric Opera
and at Savonlinna; a concert at the Santo Domingo Music Festival; Rodolfo in La
bohème and Don José in Carmen at Staatstheater Darmstadt.
Most recently, he has sung Don José in Carmen at Eugene
Opera; Cavaradossi in Tosca in concert in Karlsruhe,
Germany; Forresto in Attila
at San Francisco Opera; and Rodolfo in La bohème at Opera Australia and Den
Norske Opera, Oslo.
Diego began his studies at 20 years old, when he attended Mexico’s
National School of Music; there he studied under the supervision of Maestro
Rufino Montero. He also belonged to
S.I.V.A.M. - Mexico’s
most prestigious Young Artist Development Program.
He is the recipient of many awards, including 3rd Place in Neue
Stimmen 2007, 2nd Prize in the 2003 First National Singing Contest
"Nicolás Urcelay”, third place in the XXIII National Singing Contest
"Carlo Morelli", and first place in the Singing Contest
"Francisco Araiza" in Mexico
City.
In 2013, Diego Torre will make many appearances with Opera
Australia – as Gustavus in a new production of Un ballo in maschera, as Rodolfo
in La bohème and as Cavaradossi in Tosca.
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Diego Torre Tenor
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Forse la soglia attinse-Un ballo in Maschera by Verdi
JOHN WEGNER
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Born in West Germany,
John Wegner is a graduate of the Victorian
College of the Arts.
From 1981-1992 he was a resident principal artist with Opera
Australia, where he performed many leading roles including Escamillo (Carmen),
Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier) and Boris Godunov.
In 1992 he took up a resident artist's contract in Karlsruhe making his
debut as Jokanaan (Salome) also addingroles including Wotan/Wanderer (Ring
Cycle) Prince Igor and Iago (Otello) to his repertoire. He returns regularly to Australia as a
guest artist with Opera Australia and the state companies. Roles include Scarpia (Tosca), Escamillo, Der
fliegende Holländer (Green Room Awards 1997/2005), Falstaff and Telramund
(Lohengrin). In 1998 he performed
Wotan/Wanderer for State Opera of South Australia winning the 1999 'Opera
Performer of the Year' MO Award and in SOSA’s 2004 Ring cycle his performances
of Alberich won him a Helpmann Award.
Much in demand throughout Europe his impressive credits
include six seasons at Bayreuth
- debuting under the baton of James Levine and most recently as Klingsor
(Parsifal). He performs regularly in
houses including Bern, Royal Danish Opera, La
Monnaie, Prague, Leipzig,
Komische Oper, La Scala Milan, Stuttgart,
English National Opera, Vienna Staatsoper and London’s Royal Opera House. He has been a member of Deutsche Oper am
Rhein since 2000 performing many major roles with this company including
Wotan/Wanderer, Prus (The Makropulos Affair), Jochanaan, Escamillo, Scarpia,
Boris Godunov and Der fliegende Holländer.
He has also guested in Munich, Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Barcelona and Tokyo.
Concert engagements include the Sigulada Opera Festival,
Samson and Dalilah in Sao Paolo, Wotan (Die Walküre) with the Sydney Symphony
Orchestra under Edo de Waart, Jonah (Jonah’s Mission) in Cologne and Melbourne,
Der fliegende Holländer with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony at the Beethoven Halle in Bonn, with Köln Philharmonie and with
the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
Awards include a Churchill Fellowship, the Bayreuth
Scholarship, four Helpmann Awards, two Green Room Awards and Komercni Banka
award for Best Performance of the 2007 Season at the National Theatre, Prague.
John Wegner’s recordings include Wotan/Wanderer/Ring Cycle
(Bella Musica), Alberich/The Ring (Melba Recordings), Villains (ABC Classics),
Prus and Jochanaan (Chandos).
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John Wegner - Helden Baritone
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DOUGLAS MCNICOL
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Douglas McNicol studied music and drama at Flinders University
in South Australia, voice at the Elder
Conservatorium and spent a year as a member of Opera Queensland’s Young Artist
Program before undertaking extensive vocal study in Europe.
He began his professional singing career at the State Opera of South Australia,
making his debut with The Australian Opera, now Opera Australia, in 1991. A
Churchill Fellow, Douglas has also won the Australian Singing Competition, and
the National Opera Festival Award.
During his career he has worked for all the major opera
companies and orchestras in Australia
and New Zealand.
Regarded as one of Australia’s most versatile and experienced baritones,
notable engagements include the world premiere seasons of Richard Mills’ opera,
The Love of the Nightingale presented by the Perth International Arts Festival
and the West Australian Opera in Perth, with seasons following in Brisbane and
Melbourne, Sharpless for Opera Australia (available on DVD) and The Four
Villains in the Tales of Hoffmann (SOSA).
Roles which he has performed to high acclaim include Verdi’s
Amonasro (Aida), Don Carlo (La forza del destino), Rigoletto, Ford (Falstaff),
Giorgio Germont (La Traviata), Puccini’s Scarpia (Tosca), Jack Rance (La
fanciulla del West), Marcello (La bohème), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly),
Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Leporello (Don Giovanni), Papageno (Magic Flute),
Figaro and Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte) as
well as Don Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Escamillo (Carmen), Dr Falke
(Die Fledermaus), Zurga (The Pearlfishers) and Pooh Bah (The Mikado).
His engagement to sing the role of Scarpia in Tosca at
Canterbury Opera, New Zealand,
which was an outstanding success, represented the beginning of a move towards
more dramatic repertoire including such roles as Don Carlo (La forza del destino) and
Amonasro. He has also gained a
reputation for excellence in contemporary opera, performing such roles as the
Lieutenant in John Haddock’s opera, Madeline Lee for Opera Australia and Owen
Hart in the Australian premiere of Dead Man Walking for SOSA.
As a concert artist Douglas
has a wide repertoire of oratorio and concert works. He has appeared with the
Melbourne, Adelaide, Queensland, and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, and
the Australian Chamber Orchestra as well as performing concerts in Italy and
the UK, as a guest artist at ‘Opera Under The Stars’ in Broome, and with
numerous choral societies and chamber music ensembles.
His concert repertoire includes Bach’s Magnificat, Christmas
Oratorio, Mass in B Minor and Christus in St John and Matthew Passions; Acis
and Galatea; The Tempest; The Childhood of Christ; Beethoven’s Symphony No.9,
and the Fauré, Brahms and Mozart Requiems, Handel’s Messiah and The Bells by Rachmaninov.
Douglas’ recent engagements include Scarpia (Tosca),his role
debut as Jack Rance (La fanciulla del West) for Opera Queensland, Faure’s
Requiem with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Captain Gardner (Moby Dick), Peter
(Hansel and Gretel), The Four Villains in The Tales of Hoffmann, Pizzaro
(Fidelio) and Jupiter (Orpheus in the Underworld) SOSA, the Count (The Marriage
of Figaro) for the Brisbane Festival, Speaker (The Magic Flute) for Opera
Australia, and St. John Passion with the Adelaide Chamber Singers, for SOSA.
2013 engagements will include Giorgio Germont (La Traviata)
for West Australian Opera, Jokanaan (Salome), and Sharpless (Madama Butterfly)
for State Opera of South Australia and Iago (Otello) for Opera Queensland.
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