Eric Halfvarson

Eric Halfvarson (born December 1, 1951 in Aurora , Illinois ) is an American opera singer ( bass ).

Life

Halfvarson is internationally recognized as one of the leading interpreters of the darkest bass parts of Verdi and Wagner . His most important Verdi roles include Philip II and the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlos , the Sparafucile in Rigoletto , the Banco in Macbeth and the Ramphis in Aida , as well as the bass solo in Requiem , one of Daland's most important Wagner roles in the Flying Dutchman , Heinrich der Vogler in Lohengrin , Veit Pogner in the Meistersinger von Nürnberg , Fasolt and Fafner in Rheingold and Siegfried , Hunding in the Walküre and Hagen in the Götterdämmerung , and Klingsor and Gurnemanz in Parsifal . Other central roles of Halfvarson are the Komtur in Mozart's Don Giovanni , as well as Sarastro and speaker in his Magic Flute , the Méphistophélès in Gounod's Faust , the Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau in the Rosenkavalier von Hofmannsthal and Strauss , as well as the prince Juri Vsevolodowitsch in Rimidimski -Korsakows nevazomanije grade Kiteže i deve Fevronii and the John Claggart in Britten's Billy Budd . In total, his repertoire includes 136 roles.

The singer made his debut in 1973 as Basilio in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia as part of the Lake George Opera Tour and was eventually invited to the most important opera houses in the world. He has sung and sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (since 1993), the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (since 1995), the Vienna State Opera (since 1998) and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London (since 2000), and has made guest appearances in Chicago , Dallas, Houston, Washington, Santa Fe, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Barcelona, ​​Berlin, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Palermo, Paris, Tokyo and Venice, at the Proms in London (for the first time in 1988), the Bayreuth Festival (for the first time in 1994) , the Edinburgh Festival (first 1999) and the Salzburg Festival (2013). In 2017 he made his debut at La Scala in Milan as Grand Inquisitor in Verdi's Don Carlo .

Halfvarson sang in concert performances of Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle with the New World Symphony in Miami under Michael Tilson Thomas , he sang oratorios and choral orchestral works with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Boston Symphony Orchestra , the London Philharmonia Orchestra and the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.

Halfvarson has been teaching regularly at American, French, Spanish and Italian training institutes since 2008.

Web links

• Eric Halfvarson in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Eric Halfvarsons appearances at the Vienna State Opera
• Eric Halfvarson , website of the artist (with full list of roles)
• Eric Halfvarson on the pages of the Bayreuth Festival
• Eric Halfvarson at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• Eric Halfvarson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Eric Halfvarson on the website of the Salzburg Festival
• Eric Halfvarson at Operabase (engagements and dates)