Jon Villars

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Jon Villars (born 1963 in Panama City , Florida ) is an American opera singer specializing in hero tenor .

life and work

After graduating from the Juilliard School , Villars won a number of competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions of the Metropolitan Opera in 1995 . Since then he has appeared several times at renowned festivals such as the Helsinki Festival , the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , the Salzburg Festival or the Tanglewood Festival and in major opera houses and concert halls around the world. He has sung under the direction of well-known conductors such as Claudio Abbado , Vladimir Ashkenazy , Pierre Boulez , Sylvain Cambreling , Riccardo Chailly , Bernard Haitink , Kurt Masur , Kent Nagano , Leonard Slatkin and Michael Tilson Thomas .

On the opera stage

Jon Villars received good reviews for his Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos , a role he sang first in Florence under Zubin Mehta and directed by Jonathan Miller , then in Chicago, in Turin (conducted by Jeffrey Tate ), at the Opéra National de Paris and at the Semperoper in Dresden (conducted by Sir Colin Davis ), in concert with the Minnesota Orchestra , finally at the Salzburg Festival in 2001 , at La Scala in Milan (conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli ), at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and in 2005 in New York at the Metropolitan Opera .

At the Salzburg Festival he was already heard as drum major in Wozzeck in 1997 and as Enée in Les Troyens in 2000 . He also sang the latter role staged in Munich under Zubin Mehta and in concerts in Chicago and Florence. In 2003 he was the Florestan in Fidelio at the Salzburg Easter Festival , conducted by Simon Rattle . He also played the title roles in Massenet's Werther and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex .

In the Italian subject, he was successful as Kalaf in Puccini's Turandot - including in Canada, San Francisco, Cincinnati and Lisbon - and as Rodolfo in La Bohème .

In the concert hall

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"Because of his voluminous voice, Villars is predestined for orchestral songs, symphonies and orchestral masses."

Due to its voluminous voice, Villars is predestined for orchestral songs, symphonies and orchestral masses. Among other things, he sang the tenor parts - in concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic , the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , the Minnesota Orchestra , the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and other ensembles - in the following works:

He also appeared several times at the Proms in London and sang in the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bbc.co.uk
  2. ↑ a b c d Beethovenfest Bonn - artist biographies - Jon Villars. Retrieved May 11, 2016 .
  3. ↑ salzburgerfestspiele.at
  4. ↑ salzburgerfestspiele.at
  5. ↑ KJ Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large singer lexicon. Volume 4, 4th expanded edition. KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , p. 4902.
personal data
SURNAME Villars, Jon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (hero tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Panama City , Florida