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Panikkar began 2019 with a four-night run of the reunited AGT finalist lineup of FORTE at the Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center in The Villages, Florida. He then visited his family's homeland of Sri Lanka for the first time to present song recitals with soprano Tharanga Goonatilleke and pianist Rohan De Silva.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190224/plus/the-music-brought-him-home-337290.html|title=The music brought him home|work=The Sunday Times Sri Lanka}}</ref> Panikkar began May with the performance of Nadir in Bizet’s ''[[The Pearl Fishers]]'' at Kansas City Lyric Opera.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/kansas-city/article/BWW-Review-THE-PEARL-FISHERS-at-KC-Lyric-Opera-20190428|title=BWW Review: THE PEARL FISHERS at KC Lyric Opera|work=Broadway World}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kshb.com/entertainment/kcl/the-stunning-the-pearl-fishers-opera-at-kauffman-center|title=The stunning “The Pearl Fishers” opera at Kauffman Center|work=Kansas City Live}}</ref>
Panikkar began 2019 with a four-night run of the reunited AGT finalist lineup of FORTE at the Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center in The Villages, Florida. He then visited his family's homeland of Sri Lanka for the first time to present song recitals with soprano Tharanga Goonatilleke and pianist Rohan De Silva.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190224/plus/the-music-brought-him-home-337290.html|title=The music brought him home|work=The Sunday Times Sri Lanka}}</ref> Panikkar began May with the performance of Nadir in Bizet’s ''[[The Pearl Fishers]]'' at Kansas City Lyric Opera.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/kansas-city/article/BWW-Review-THE-PEARL-FISHERS-at-KC-Lyric-Opera-20190428|title=BWW Review: THE PEARL FISHERS at KC Lyric Opera|work=Broadway World}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kshb.com/entertainment/kcl/the-stunning-the-pearl-fishers-opera-at-kauffman-center|title=The stunning “The Pearl Fishers” opera at Kauffman Center|work=Kansas City Live}}</ref>


In summer 2019, Panikkar starred in ''[[The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny'' at the Festival d’Aix-En-Provence.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://operawire.com/10-must-see-operas-for-the-summer-season-2019international-edition/|title=10 Must See Operas For The Summer Season 2019|work=OperaWire}}</ref> In the fall at the [[Komische Oper Berlin]] he sang the role of Dionysus in Hans Werner Henze’s ''The Bassarids''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://operawire.com/sean-panikkar-anne-sofie-von-otter-leonardo-capalbo-lead-komische-oper-berlins-2019-20-season/|title=Sean Panikkar, Anne Sofie von Otter & Leonardo Capalbo Lead Komische Oper Berlin’s 2019-20 Season|work=OperaWire}}</ref> In November 2019 headlined Bizet’s ''Carmen'' at the [[English National Opera]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://operawire.com/corinne-winters-sarah-connolly-sean-pannikar-headline-english-national-operas-2019-20-season/|title=Corinne Winters, Sarah Connolly & Sean Panikkar Headline English National Opera’s 2019-20 Season|work=OperaWire}}</ref>
In summer 2019, Panikkar starred in ''[[The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny]]'' at the Festival d’Aix-En-Provence.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://operawire.com/10-must-see-operas-for-the-summer-season-2019international-edition/|title=10 Must See Operas For The Summer Season 2019|work=OperaWire}}</ref> In the fall at the [[Komische Oper Berlin]] he sang the role of Dionysus in Hans Werner Henze’s ''The Bassarids''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://operawire.com/sean-panikkar-anne-sofie-von-otter-leonardo-capalbo-lead-komische-oper-berlins-2019-20-season/|title=Sean Panikkar, Anne Sofie von Otter & Leonardo Capalbo Lead Komische Oper Berlin’s 2019-20 Season|work=OperaWire}}</ref> In November 2019 headlined Bizet’s ''Carmen'' at the [[English National Opera]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://operawire.com/corinne-winters-sarah-connolly-sean-pannikar-headline-english-national-operas-2019-20-season/|title=Corinne Winters, Sarah Connolly & Sean Panikkar Headline English National Opera’s 2019-20 Season|work=OperaWire}}</ref>

Although the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] forced the cancellation of many of his engagements, in October 2020 at [[Michigan Opera Theater]] in Detroit he took on a much abbreviated version of Wagner's ''[[Götterdämmerung]]'' Siegfried in a radical reinterpretation of that opera set in a parking garage and viewed by audience members driving through in cars.<ref>{{cite news | work = The New Yorker | first = Alex | last = Ross | access-date = October 30, 2020 | quote = Sean Panikkar, a onetime lyric tenor whose voice has lately taken on commanding power and weight, proved thrilling in his brief appearance as Siegfried: I only wish that the abridgment had given him more to do. | title = Wagner's Götterdämmerung in a Detroit Parking Garage | date= October 26, 2020 | url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/02/wagners-gotterdammerung-in-a-detroit-parking-garage }}</ref>


Panikkar has been honored by the George London Foundation with the 2007 Robert Jacobson Memorial Award and a 2009 George London Award; he was a First Prize winner of the 2010 Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, and second-place winner in the 2009 International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition.<ref>{{cite news|author=Staff|url=http://asiantribune.com/sites/asiantribune.com/files/asian_tribune_epaper_page7.pdf|title=Sean Panikkar a young tenor of Sri Lankan heritage emerges in U.S. opera scene|work=[[Asian Tribune]]|format=PDF|date=September 20, 2009|accessdate=May 8, 2016}}{{indent|3}}{{cite news|last=Daniel|first=Smriti|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/130818/plus/being-asian-is-an-asset-in-opera-58259.html|title=Being Asian is an asset in opera|work=[[The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)]]|date=August 18, 2013|accessdate=March 18, 2014}}</ref>
Panikkar has been honored by the George London Foundation with the 2007 Robert Jacobson Memorial Award and a 2009 George London Award; he was a First Prize winner of the 2010 Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, and second-place winner in the 2009 International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition.<ref>{{cite news|author=Staff|url=http://asiantribune.com/sites/asiantribune.com/files/asian_tribune_epaper_page7.pdf|title=Sean Panikkar a young tenor of Sri Lankan heritage emerges in U.S. opera scene|work=[[Asian Tribune]]|format=PDF|date=September 20, 2009|accessdate=May 8, 2016}}{{indent|3}}{{cite news|last=Daniel|first=Smriti|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/130818/plus/being-asian-is-an-asset-in-opera-58259.html|title=Being Asian is an asset in opera|work=[[The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)]]|date=August 18, 2013|accessdate=March 18, 2014}}</ref>

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Sean Panikkar (born September 17, 1981) is an American operatic tenor. He has performed in many leading opera houses both nationally and internationally, including the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Fort Worth Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, and Carnegie Hall.

Early years

Sean Panikkar was born and raised in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, the second son of Sri Lankan immigrants—a father of Sinhalese and Indian ancestry and a Tamil mother.[1] Panikkar first began studying voice as a high schooler with Juilliard-trained soprano Li Ping Liu. At the University of Michigan he double majored in civil engineering and vocal performance for three years before committing himself entirely to music. At the School of Music, Theatre & Dance there he studied with Daniel Washington and Luretta Bybee and received his bachelor's degree in vocal performance.[2] He pursued his master's degree there as well. He went participated in the Merola training program of the San Francisco Opera and became an Adler Fellow with that company.[3]

Career

Panikkar has performed several roles with Metropolitan Opera, including Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette under the baton of Plácido Domingo, Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor conducted by Marco Armiliato, Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos led by Kirill Petrenko, and Prunier in La rondine. Further credits include roles in The Queen of Spades, Le pauvre matelot, The Maid of Orleans, Manon Lescaut, Tristan und Isolde, Fidelio, Norma, and Die Zauberflöte with the San Francisco Opera, as well as Nabucco at Washington National Opera, the title role of Béatrice et Bénédict with Opera Boston, Weill's Lost in the Stars at the Glimmerglass Festival, Salome at Washington National Opera and the Saito Kinen Festival, and Lensky in Eugene Onegin and Count Almaviva in The Ghosts of Versailles with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.

During the 2013/14 season, Panikkar sang Rodolfo in La bohème at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Macduff in Macbeth at Palm Beach Opera,[4] and return engagements with Pittsburgh Opera as Tamino in The Magic Flute and with Fort Worth Opera as Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles.[5] In the 2014/15 season, he sang in The Death of Klinghoffer at the Metropolitan Opera.,[6][7] and in the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's CO2 at Teatro alla Scala.[8]

In 2013, Panikkar was recruited to join the classical crossover group FORTE during season eight of America's Got Talent; he replaced Hana Ryu, who did not qualify to participate under the show's rules.[3][a] Panikkar has released two albums as a member of FORTE: their self-titled debut in 2013, and The Future Classics in 2016.[10]

In 2018 Panikkar joined the Salzburg Festival in performances of The Bassarids,[11] and in the lead role of Gandhi in Philip Glass’s opera Satyagraha.[12][13] Panikkar was also named "Artist of the Week" by Opernwelt.[14]

Panikkar began 2019 with a four-night run of the reunited AGT finalist lineup of FORTE at the Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center in The Villages, Florida. He then visited his family's homeland of Sri Lanka for the first time to present song recitals with soprano Tharanga Goonatilleke and pianist Rohan De Silva.[15] Panikkar began May with the performance of Nadir in Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers at Kansas City Lyric Opera.[16][17]

In summer 2019, Panikkar starred in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Festival d’Aix-En-Provence.[18] In the fall at the Komische Oper Berlin he sang the role of Dionysus in Hans Werner Henze’s The Bassarids.[19] In November 2019 headlined Bizet’s Carmen at the English National Opera.[20]

Although the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of many of his engagements, in October 2020 at Michigan Opera Theater in Detroit he took on a much abbreviated version of Wagner's Götterdämmerung Siegfried in a radical reinterpretation of that opera set in a parking garage and viewed by audience members driving through in cars.[21]

Panikkar has been honored by the George London Foundation with the 2007 Robert Jacobson Memorial Award and a 2009 George London Award; he was a First Prize winner of the 2010 Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, and second-place winner in the 2009 International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition.[22]

Discography

As a member of FORTE
  • FORTE (2013)
  • The Future Classics (2016)

Notes

  1. ^ Ryu re-joined FORTE in 2015 after Fernando Varela chose to pursue a solo career.[9]

References

  1. ^ Daniel, Smriti (May 8, 2016). "Hitting a personal note in JFK". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). Retrieved May 8, 2016.
  2. ^ "Ten Questions with Sean Panikkar". Madison Opera (Interview). October 31, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Burnett, William (December 17, 2015). "Singing Opera and Unexpectedly Famous: A Conversation with Sean Panikkar". Opera Warhorses. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
  4. ^ Erstein, Hap (January 23, 2014). "Pop-opera star appears in Macbeth at Palm Beach Opera". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
  5. ^ Weuste, David (April 20, 2014). "Sean Panikkar Wows at Fort Worth Opera – The Pearl Fishers". OperaPulse. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
  6. ^ "Die Zauberflöte". Opera News. Retrieved March 18, 2014.; George Hall. "La Bohème review – 'Jessica Rose Cambio's Mimì offers a grandly expressive soprano'". The Guardian. Retrieved June 3, 2014.; "Rising Stars: An Interview with Sean Panikkar, Part 1". Operawarhorses.com. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
  7. ^ Biography, seanpanikkar.com
  8. ^ "Nihilistic Pessimism: CO2 at the Teatro alla Scala". OperaTraveller. May 25, 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  9. ^ ForteTenors [@ForteTenors] (January 18, 2015). "Major Announcement: We are thrilled ..." (Tweet). Retrieved May 9, 2015 – via Twitter.
       Violante, Tony (July 12, 2014). "Fernando Varela reflects on whirlwind year, ready to be back in Villages". Villages-News.com. The Villages, Florida. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
       Gallardo, Margaret (July 31, 2014). "The Vibe: America's Got Talent finalist Fernando Varela stops in El Paso". El Paso Times. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
  10. ^ Weatherford, Mike (December 25, 2013). "Internet helps singers find harmony, TV exposure and their own Vegas show". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
       FORTE. "Forte Tenors from America's Got Talent: Updates". PledgeMusic. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  11. ^ Katerina Bezgachina. "Salzburg Festival 2018 Review: The Bassarids Sean Panikkar & Russell Braun Bring Krzysztof Warlikowsky's Strong Vision To Life". Opera Wire.
  12. ^ Joshua Barone. "Two Ways of Looking at Philip Glass's 'Satyagraha'". The New York Times.
  13. ^ Gordon Williams. "Los Angeles Opera 2018-19 Review: Satyagraha Philip Glass' Opera Is a Transcendent Experience About Opera's Effect On Our Social Conscience". Opera Wire.
  14. ^ "Artist Of The Week: Sean Panikkar Rising Star Tenor Makes His Anticipated Debut At the Salzburg Festival". Opera Wire.
  15. ^ "The music brought him home". The Sunday Times Sri Lanka.
  16. ^ "BWW Review: THE PEARL FISHERS at KC Lyric Opera". Broadway World.
  17. ^ "The stunning "The Pearl Fishers" opera at Kauffman Center". Kansas City Live.
  18. ^ "10 Must See Operas For The Summer Season 2019". OperaWire.
  19. ^ "Sean Panikkar, Anne Sofie von Otter & Leonardo Capalbo Lead Komische Oper Berlin's 2019-20 Season". OperaWire.
  20. ^ "Corinne Winters, Sarah Connolly & Sean Panikkar Headline English National Opera's 2019-20 Season". OperaWire.
  21. ^ Ross, Alex (October 26, 2020). "Wagner's Götterdämmerung in a Detroit Parking Garage". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 30, 2020. Sean Panikkar, a onetime lyric tenor whose voice has lately taken on commanding power and weight, proved thrilling in his brief appearance as Siegfried: I only wish that the abridgment had given him more to do.
  22. ^ Staff (September 20, 2009). "Sean Panikkar a young tenor of Sri Lankan heritage emerges in U.S. opera scene" (PDF). Asian Tribune. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
       Daniel, Smriti (August 18, 2013). "Being Asian is an asset in opera". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka). Retrieved March 18, 2014.
  23. ^ Sean Panikkar at IMDb

External links

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