Jonathan Winell

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Jonathan Winell (born in New York City ) is an American opera singer of the vocal range tenor .

life and work

Winell graduated from the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford , Connecticut. His singing teachers included Doris Jung (from 2002) and Patricia McCaffrey (from 2010). From 2006 to 2008 he studied singing and Italian each summer in Florence and also gave two concerts there. In 2008/09 he was artist in residence at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia.

He made his debut at the Hartt School of Music as Camille in Lehár's Merry Widow , at the Connecticut Concert Opera he sang Nadir in Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles in 2007 , at the Academy of Vocal Arts as Percy in Bellini's Anna Bolena in 2008 and at New York Lyric Opera 2010 the Tamino in Mozart's Magic Flute . In 2011 he was apprentice artist at the Central City Opera House in Colorado, in 2013 at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico. There he embodied Don Curzio in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Giuseppe in Verdi's La traviata . He made his debut at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts under the baton of Eve Queler as Baroncelli in Wagner's Rienzi and was praised by the New York Times .

From August 2013 to June 2015, Jonathan Winell was involved - as a scholarship holder of the Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation - at the International Opera Studio of the State Opera in the Schiller Theater in Berlin. In Berlin he took over the First Priest and First Armored Person in the Magic Flute , the Fatty in the rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny by Brecht and Weill and the Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos from Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss . He also took on a number of small roles in the works of Janáček , Krenek , Puccini , Verdi and Wagner . In the 2015/16 season Winell was a member of the music theater ensemble of the Regensburg Theater , where she sang, for example, Tamino in Mozart's Magic Flute and Rinuccio, Zita's nephew, in Puccini's comedy Gianni Schicchi . In Benatzky's operetta Im Weißen Rößl , Winell played the role of Sigismund Sülzheimer.

At the 2016 Bregenz Festival , he took on the roles of actor, who embodies Re Gonzaga (King Gonzaga), and a herald in the long-forgotten opera Amleto by Franco Faccio . The Vienna Symphony was playing . It was conducted by Paolo Carignani , and it was staged by Olivier Tambosi . His stage partners were Pavel Černoch (as Hamlet) and Iulia Maria Dan (as Ophelia). This production was highly praised and broadcast by the TV broadcaster ORF III with a time delay on the evening of the premiere.

From autumn 2016 Winell will be engaged at the Magdeburg Theater, where he will make his debut as Tamino in the Magic Flute in December . In Magdeburg, however, it is also announced as the helmsman in the new production of Wagner's Fliegendem Holländer , as Fenton in the Lustige Weibern von Windsor by Otto Nicolai , as Edwin in Kálmán's Csárdásfürstin and as Podestà in Mozart's La finta giardiniera .

Winell has sung under the baton of important conductors, including Daniel Barenboim , Leo Hussain , Zubin Mehta , Ingo Metzmacher and Sebastian Weigle . In the concert hall he took over the tenor solo roles in Verdi's Messa da Requiem and in Handel's Messiah .

Awards

Winell won prizes in a number of singing competitions - including the Gerda Lissner Foundation, Giulio Gari Foundation, Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation and Il Comitato Amici del Loggiato in La Spezia , as well as:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anthony Tommasini: An Early Wagner, but With All the Trademark Bells and Whistles , The New York Times , January 31, 2012, accessed August 13, 2016. (Eng.)
  2. ↑ ORF : Bregenz Festival 2016 on ORF: program focus on TV, radio and internet , accessed on August 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Winell, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City