Alan Opie
Alan Opie OBE (born March 22, 1945 in Redruth ) is an opera and concert singer from Cornwall in the United Kingdom with a baritone voice .
Life
Youth and education
Opie went to Truro School in Cornwall and in 1963 the choir student at Gonville and Caius College of Cambridge University . He then studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and at the London Opera Center .
Career
Already during his studies Alan Opie became a permanent member of the Sadler's Wells Opera in London (now: English National Opera , ENO). Opie has also sung at the other major UK opera houses such as Scottish Opera , Opera North and Royal Opera House and the UK opera festivals such as Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Edinburgh Festival . In 1994 he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City . From 1996 Opie was no longer a permanent member of the ENO Opera House, which enabled him to make his debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan . There he gave the role of Outis in the world premiere of the opera of the same name by Luciano Berio .
Internationally he is now in the opera houses of Paris ( Opéra Bastille and Théâtre du Châtelet ), Strasbourg , Florence , Cagliari , Spoleto , Oslo , Amsterdam , Vienna , Brussels , Berlin ( State Opera Unter den Linden and Deutsche Oper ), Chicago , Los Angeles , Performed in San Diego , Santa Fe, and Sydney . He is a regular guest at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich , where he has appeared as Paolo Albiani in Simon Boccanegra by Giuseppe Verdi , as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini and as Sixtus Beckmesser in Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg . He has also sung Sixtus Beckmesser at the Bayreuth Festival , in Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna and Turin . He also gave Sharpless at the Royal Opera House and the Welsh National Opera . He has appeared in Candide by Leonard Bernstein at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, in Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi at Opera North and the Opera in Philadelphia and as Scarpia in Tosca by Giacomo Puccini in Toronto with the Canadian Opera Company . He returned to the Royal Opera House in London with La fille du regiment by Gaetano Donizetti and sang the lead role in the world premiere of Michael Berkeley's opera For You at the Linbury Theater in London. The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár introduced him to the Metropolitan Opera, the Dr. Kolenatý in The Makropulos Case by Leoš Janáček he gave to La Scala in Milan. In a concert performance with the New York Philharmonic , he was heard as the forester in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen . Other roles he has sung are the captain Balstrode in Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten , Fieramosca in Benvenuto Cellini by Hector Berlioz and Falstaff in the opera of the same name by Giuseppe Verdi . He has also appeared as Chairman Mao in the world premiere of Madam Mao by Bright Sheng and in a production of the Opera Holland Park by Puccini's Gianni Schicchi .
From 2013 to 2018 he was Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia (with the English National Opera), as Leon Klinghoffer in The Death of Klinghoffer (at the Metropolitan Opera), prison director Frank in Die Fledermaus (Metropolitan Opera and Welsh National Opera), as Arbace in Idomeneo (Metropolitan Opera), as Baron Mirko Zeta in The Merry Widow (Metropolitan Opera), as Captain Balstrode in Peter Grimes (in the Symphony Hall in Birmingham and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome ), as Herr von Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier ( Tanglewood ), as Hajný in Rusalka (Metropolitan Opera) and as Giorgio Germont in La traviata (at the Welsh National Opera, the English National Opera and at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon ).
The orchestras with which Opie has worked include the symphony orchestras of Boston , Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco , the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra , the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra , the Sydney Symphony Orchestra , the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra , and Royal Scottish National Orchestra , BBC Symphony Orchestra , London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic .
Alan Opie is also represented on the concert stage. For example, he has performed in San Francisco and Dallas in performances of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Elias , Belshazzar's Feast by William Walton in Dallas, Denver and New York City, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem in Washington , Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony in Los Angeles and Edgar Elgars The Kingdom (with the Halle Orchestra), The Apostles (as a contribution to the BBC Proms 2007) , The Dream of Gerontius (with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra) and Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf (with the Bergen Symphony Orchestra).
Alan Opie has recorded for CBS , EMI , Hyperion , Chandos and Decca and received Grammy Awards in 1996 and 1998 for recordings of Britten's Peter Grimes and Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg .
Personal
Opie and his wife Kathleen have been married since 1970 and have a son and a daughter.
Repertoire (selection)
Operas
| composer | Opera / operetta | role |
|---|---|---|
| John Adams | The Death of Klinghoffer | Klinghoffer |
| Michael Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton | For you | |
| Luciano Berio | Outis | Outis |
| Hector Berlioz | Benvenuto Cellini | Fieramosca |
| Leonard Bernstein | Candide | |
| Harrison Birtwistle | The Mask of Orpheus | Aristæus I |
| Benjamin Britten | Death in Venice | |
| Benjamin Britten | Peter Grimes | Balstrode |
| Benjamin Britten | Albert Herring | Sid |
| Ferruccio Busoni | Doctor Faust | fist |
| Luigi Dallapiccola | Ulisse | Ulisse |
| Gaetano Donizetti | Don Pasquale | Malatesta |
| Gaetano Donizetti | La fille du regiment | |
| Gaetano Donizetti | Lucia di Lammermoor | Enrico |
| Charles Gounod | fist | Valentine |
| Iain Hamilton | Anna Karenina | Stiva |
| Engelbert Humperdinck | Royal children | The minstrel |
| Leoš Janáček | The clever little fox | Forester |
| Leoš Janáček | The Makropulos affair | Dr. Kolenatý |
| Leoš Janáček | Rusalka | |
| Franz Lehár | The Merry Widow | |
| Ruggero Leoncavallo | Pagliacci | Tonio |
| Jules Massenet | Don Quixote | Sancho Panza |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | So fan tutte | Don Alfonso |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | The Magic Flute | Papageno |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Idomeneo | Arbace |
| Francis Poulenc | Dialogues des Carmélites | Marquis de la Force |
| Giacomo Puccini | Madama Butterfly | Sharpless |
| Giacomo Puccini | La bohème | Marcello |
| Giacomo Puccini | Tosca | Baron Scarpia |
| Giacomo Puccini | Gianni Schicchi | |
| Gioachino Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Figaro, Dr. Bartolo |
| Gioachino Rossini | L'italiana in Algeri | Taddeo |
| Gioachino Rossini | Mosè in Egitto | Faraone |
| Bright Sheng | Madam Mao | Chairman Mao |
| Johann Strauss (son) | The bat | Prison Director Frank, Dr. Falcon |
| Richard Strauss | The Rosenkavalier | Faninal |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Ernani | Don Carlo |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Falstaff | Falstaff, Ford |
| Giuseppe Verdi | La forza del destino | Melitone |
| Giuseppe Verdi | La traviata | Germont |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Luisa Miller | Miller |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Nabucco | Nabucco |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Otello | Montano |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Rigoletto | Rigoletto |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Simon Boccanegra | Paolo |
| Richard Wagner | The Mastersingers of Nuremberg | Beckmesser |
| William Walton | The Bear | Smirnov |
| William Walton | Troilus and Cressida | Diomede |
Vocal works
| composer | plant |
|---|---|
| Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy | Elias |
| Johannes Brahms | A German Requiem |
| Benjamin Britten | Was a requiem |
| Edgar Elgar | The Dream of Gerontius |
| Edgar Elgar | The Kingdom |
| Edgar Elgar | The Apostles |
| Edgar Elgar | Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf |
| Gabriel Fauré | requiem |
| georg Friedrich Handel | Ezio |
| Gustav Mahler | The plaintive song |
| Igor Stravinsky | Oedipus Rex |
| Gerard Victory | Ultima rerum |
| William Walton | Belshazzar's Feast |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Hugh the Drover |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | A Sea Symphony |
Awards
- 1998: Laurence Olivier Award “Outstanding Achievement in Opera” for the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff at the English National Opera
- 1996: Grammy Award for Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten with the City of London Sinfonia, conducted by Richard Hickox
- 1997: Grammy Award for Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Sir Georg Solti
- 2013: Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honors for Service to Music
Recordings (selection)
| composer | plant | Contributing artist | year | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giuseppe Verdi | Otello | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and others conducted by Sir Georg Solti |
1991 | Decca |
| Rutland Boughton | Bethlehem | City of London Sinfonia and others
conducted by Alan Melville |
1993 | Hyperion |
| Vaughan Williams | Hugh the Drover | Corydon Orchestra and Singers and others
conducted by Matthew Best |
1994 | Hyperion |
| Benjamin Britten | Peter Grimes | City of London Sinfonia et al.
conducted by Richard Hickox |
1996 | Chandos |
| Richard Wagner | The Mastersingers of Nuremberg | Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by Sir Georg Solti |
1997 | Decca |
| Ruggero Leoncavallo | Pagliacci |
London Philharmonic Orchestra and others
conducted by David Parry |
1998 | Chandos |
| Gioachino Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | ENO Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by Gabriele Bellini |
2000 | Chandos |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Rigoletto | ENO Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by Mark Elder |
Chandos | |
| Benjamin Britten | Death in Venice |
London Sinfonietta
conducted by Graeme Jenkins |
2002 | Culture DVD |
| Benjamin Britten | Peter Grimes | ENO Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by David Atherton |
2003 | Culture DVD |
| Dave Brubeck | Classical Brubeck | Dave Brubeck Quartet and others | Telarc | |
| Alan Opie sings Bel Canto Arias | Various | 2004 | Chandos |
literature
- Stanley Sadie (Editor): The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Oxford University Press 2004, ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2
- Nicky Adams (Ed.): Who's Who in British Opera. Solar Press, Ashgate 1993, ISBN 0-85967-894-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicky Adams (Ed.): Who's Who in British Opera . Scolar Press, Ashgate 1993, ISBN 0-85967-894-6 , pp. 339 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Alan Opie Baritone. In: rayfieldallied.com. Retrieved April 26, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Thoroughly Impressed. Accessed April 27, 2018 (English).
- ↑ a b Alan Opie. In: staatsoper.de. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Alan Opie, baritone. In: operabase.com. Retrieved April 28, 2018 .
- ^ Ambassador Theater Group co-founder Howard Panter awarded knighthood. In: bbc.com. Accessed April 27, 2018 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Opie, Alan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British opera singer and concert singer with a baritone voice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Redruth |