Daniel Brenna

Daniel Brenna (born August 20, 1970 in Eau Claire , Wisconsin ) is an American opera singer ( heroic tenor ).

Life

Brenna graduated from Memorial High School in his hometown and then attended the University of Wisconsin . He then studied musicology at Boston University (degree: Master in Music and Opera Diploma).

He began his singing career at the Tanglewood Festival under the conductors Seiji Ozawa and Daniel Harding, where he already qualified for Wagner roles. In 2009 he performed Aron for the first time in Arnold Schönberg's Moses und Aron in the Budapest Philharmonic , and in 2011 he sang this role at the Zurich Opera House under the direction of Achim Freyer (conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi ).

He sang the title role in Wagner's Siegfried for the first time in 2011 at the Longborough Festival . In 2012 he made a guest appearance as Desportes ( The Soldiers ) in the production of Alvis Hermanis (conductor: Ingo Metzmacher (Salzburg Festival)), and in 2013 he made his debut as Siegmund. He has also made guest appearances at the Leipzig Opera , the Komische Oper Berlin , the Aalto-Theater Essen, the Opera in the St. Margarethen Quarry in Austria, the Münster Opera House , the Klagenfurt City Theater , the Wiesbaden State Theater , the Dortmund Opera House , and the Stuttgart Opera House as well as with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks . During these engagements he was in such different roles as the fake Dmitri in Boris Godunow , the Boris in Katja Kabanowa , the Prince Radjami in Emmerich Kálmán's Die Bajadere, the first armored man in the Magic Flute , the Bacchus in Ariadne on Naxos , the Eisenstein in the Fledermaus , Jim Mahoney in the rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny , as drum major in Wozzeck and Aegisth in Elektra as well as in the title role of Tannhäuser .

In 2017 he sang the role of Siegfried in Tatjana Gürbaca's version of the Ring des Nibelungen at the Theater an der Wien .

Awards

• Wagner Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

Web links

• Daniel Brenna at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Daniel Brenna homepage