Charles Workman (singer)

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As Alviano, Opéra de Lyon 2015

Charles Workman (born 1965 in Arkansas ) is an American opera singer of the vocal range tenor .

Life

Workman graduated from the Juilliard School in New York with a vocal degree .

He made his debut in 1991 as Albert in Britten's Albert Herring with the Canadian Opera Company and then spent three seasons at the Metropolitan Opera in New York . His first role was Count Elemer in Richard Strauss ' Arabella with Kiri Te Kanawa in the title role . There is also a sound recording of this production from 1994, conducted by Christian Thielemann .

In 1995 the singer moved to London and made his debut in quick succession as Ferrando in Così fan tutte (at the English National Opera ), as Agorante in Ricciardo e Zoraide (at the Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro ) and as Renaud in Gluck's Armide (at the Opéra de Nice ). Although his repertoire extends from Monteverdi to the present day , the singer specialized in Mozart , Handel and the French repertoire . Workman has performed at practically all of the major opera stages in Western and Central Europe - in Paris , Lyon , Milano , Napoli , Palermo , Venezia , Trieste , Barcelona , Madrid , Lisboa , Zurich , Genève , Bruxelles , Gent , Antwerp , Praha , Munich , Frankfurt , at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Welsh National Opera and the Royal Opera Covent Garden .

In 1999 Charles Workman made his successful debut at the Salzburg Festival under Sir Simon Rattle in Rameau's Les Boréades and with the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado with Bach's B minor Mass . His important Mozart roles include - in addition to Ferrando - Don Ottavio (in Salzburg, Bruxelles, Paris and Santa Fe ), Tamino (in Lisboa), Idomeneo (in Paris, Praha, Ancona and Berlin), Titus ( in La Coruña, Paris and Genève). Workman sings Rossini's tenor roles in Il viaggio a Reims , Il barbiere di Siviglia , La Cenerentola , Moïse et Pharaon and La donna del lago . His 20th century repertoire includes the Prince in Prokofiev's Love for the Three Oranges (in Paris), Alwa in Berg's Lulu (in Paris), Pfitzner's Palestrina (in Munich), Zemlinsky's The Dwarf (in Paris) and Albert Gregor in Janáček's Věc Makropulos (again in Paris), as well as Flamand in Richard Strauss ' Capriccio . In 2015 he successfully took over the Alviano in Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichen at the Opéra de Lyon .

At the Theater an der Wien he appeared in three Handel productions: in 2010 as Jupiter and Apollo at the side of Cecilia Bartoli in Semele , in 2013 in a concert in Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno and in 2014 in a staged Messiah version by Claus Guth .

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SURNAME Workman, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer with a tenor voice
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Arkansas