Bruce Ford (singer)

Bruce Ford (born August 15, 1956 in Lubbock , Texas ) is an American opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

After starting out at the Houston Opera in Texas, he went to Germany in 1983 on the advice of Marilyn Horne . Here he was engaged at the opera houses in Wuppertal, Mannheim and Düsseldorf-Duisburg. He became known when he stepped in for Ricciardo e Zoraide at the Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro in 1990 . Since then, he has made a name for himself as a specialist in rarely performed bel canto operas. He sang u. a. at the Vienna State Opera (1990–1992), the Covent Garden Oper London (1991), at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (1995), as well as at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (1985), at the Salzburg Festival (1993) , Glyndebourne Festival (1995) and Edinburgh Festival (1997).

repertoire

His repertoire includes roles such as Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia , the title role in Otello and Lindoro in L'italiana in Algeri by Rossini , the title role in Mitridate and Ferrando in Così fan tutte by Mozart and Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti .

Recordings

• Auber : Le domino noir (Decca)
• Berlioz : Benvenuto Cellini (Hänssler)
• Donizetti : Francesca di Foix ( Opera Rara )
• Donizetti: Pia de 'Tolomei (Opera Rara)
• Donizetti: Elvida (Opera Rara)
• Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (Sony)
• Donizetti: Maria de Rudenz (Opera Rara)
• Donizetti: La romanzesca e l'uomo nero (Opera Rara)
• Donizetti: Rosmonda d'Inghilterra (Opera Rara)
• Donizetti: Zoraïda di Granata (Opera Rara)
• Mayr : Medea in Corinto (Opera Rara)
• Mercadante : Emma d'Antiochia (Opera Rara)
• Mercadante: Zaïra - cross section (Opera Rara)
• Meyerbeer : Il crociato in Egitto (Opera Rara)
• Meyerbeer: Margherita d'Anjou (Opera Rara)
• Mozart : Idomeneo (Chandos)
• Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto (Orfeo)
• Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto (Opus Arte, DVD)
• Mozart: Il sogno di Scipione (Naive)
• Pacini : Alessandro nell'Indie (Opera Rara)
• Pacini: Carlo di Borgogna (Opera Rara)
• Rossini: Adelaide di Borgogna (Opera Rara)
• Rossini: Armida (Brilliant)
• Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Chandos)
• Rossini: Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra (Opera Rara)
• Rossini: Ermione (Warner, DVD)
• Rossini: Maometto secondo (Serenissima)
• Rossini: Otello (Opera Rara)
• Rossini: Ricciardo e Zoraide (Opera Rara)
• Rossini: Zelmira (Opera Rara)
• Romantic Heroes - Opera Arias (Opera Rara)
• Great Operatic Arias (Chandos)
• Great Operatic Arias Vol. 2 (Chandos)
• Serious Rossini - Opera arias (Opera Rara)
• Rossini: Three Tenors - Opera Scenes (Opera Rara)
• Viennese Operetta - Operetta arias (Chandos)
• La Serenata - Songs (Opera Rara)
• Ora Divina - Songs (Opera Rara)
• Soirées musicales - songs (Hyperion)

literature

• Kutsch / Riemens: Large song dictionary . Saur publishing house
• Brug: The new singers' voices. Henschel publishing house

Web links

• Bruce Ford at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• Bruce Ford homepage
• Bruce Ford at Operabase (engagements and dates)