Kevin Tart

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Kevin Tarte (born March 15, 1957 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American opera and operetta singer and musical performer ( lyric tenor / baritone ) who has been working in Germany and Austria since 1988.

Life

Kevin Tarte was raised in Seattle, Washington , the second youngest of five children . At the age of 16 he took on his first musical roles during his high school years, such as Tom Trainor in No, No, Nanette or Tulsa in Gypsy .

Tarte studied at the Jesuit Seattle University theater history , stage design and the humanities and five years classical singing at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester in the US state of New York . To finance his artistic training, he worked in the accounting department of an oil well in Alaska for three years during the winter and sang with the Seattle Opera company in the summer. He also studied at Shoreline Community College, Washington , and at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara , California, with the director of the opera department, the Wagner- baritone Martial Singher (1904–1990). In 1988 he passed his bachelor's degree in music at the Eastman School. His singing teachers included bassist Thomas Paul (* 1934), mezzo-sopranos Jan DeGaetani (1933–1989) and Kristina Gloge , soprano Judith Beckman (* 1935), baritoneist Håkan Hagegård (* 1945) and Joan Dorneman von the Metropolitan Opera .

In 1988 Tarte was engaged at the Heidelberg Castle Festival for the title role of Prince Karl-Franz in the operetta The Student Prince by Sigmund Romberg . For the 25th anniversary of the Festival in the summer of 1999 he took on this role again in a guest engagement and again in the 2000 season. 1989/1990 he received the roles of Old Deuteronomy and Growl Tiger at the Webber -Musical Cats in the Hamburg Operettenhaus. On September 28, 1995 he played Gaston at the premiere of Alan Menkens Die Schöne und das Best in the Raimund Theater, Vienna, and then in the same musical until 1997 at the United Theaters in Vienna. The Stella production pulled the end of 1997 - with Kevin Tarte - the Palladium Theater of the Stuttgart SI-Center has to offer. At first he alternated in the first cast of the main role with Uwe Kröger and from March to December 1999 he took over the first cast alone.

From March 2000 to August 2003 he played Graf von Krolock in Jim Steinman's Dance of the Vampires at the Apollo Theater Stuttgart . From November 2003 to December 2004 he played the lead role of Julian Marsh, a musical producer in 1933 with financial difficulties, in the musical 42nd Street by Harry Warren (1893-1981), which on August 25, 1980 at the Winter Garden Theater premiered on Broadway . From August 12, 2005 to January 22, 2006 Kevin Tarte was seen again as vampire count von Krolock in the Hamburg Neue Flora in the grusical based on Roman Polański 's cult film of the same name from 1967. Since the premiere on November 12, 2006 in Stuttgart, he played the role of the Duke of Buckingham in the musical 3 Musketeers . In the summer of 2007 he was engaged again by the artistic director of the Heidelberg City Theater, Peter Spuhler , for the title role of Prince Karl-Franz in the operetta The Student Prince .

From November 7th, 2008 to January 31st, 2010 he played in Oberhausen in the Metronom Theater next to Jan Ammann the alternating Count von Krolock in the musical Tanz der Vampire . From February 25, 2010 he played the same role in the Palladium Theater Stuttgart until October 2011 and from January 29, 2012 to May 12, 2012 he took on the first occupation of this role in the Theater des Westens in Berlin. From November 17, 2012 to May 24, 2014 he was seen in the title role of the musical Sweeney Todd as the devilish barber at the Magdeburg Theater .

In November 2014 he released his lavishly produced first solo album, Reflection , which includes duets with Pia Douwes and Willemijn Verkaik . In the summer of 2016 he took on the role of the magician Merlin in the German premiere of the musical Artus - Excalibur at the Freilichtspiele Tecklenburg and the role of the shadow man in the new edition of the musical Ludwig² in the Füssen Festival Hall. In the season 2018, the open-air theater Tecklenburg tart was again in a leading role on the stage when he in the musical Les Misérables the antagonists embodied in the play, Inspector Javert. In the summer of 2019 he returned to Tecklenburg and took on a supporting role in the musicals Don Camillo & Peppone and Doktor Schiwago and (Filotti and Alexander Gromeko).

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Discography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Insane Method: Sweeney Todd. In: Kevin Tarte Productions. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Celtic mysticism in musical garb: Arthur - Excalibur. In: Kevin Tarte Productions. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Like marionettes on golden chains: Ludwig². In: Kevin Tarte Productions. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
  4. ^ Ullrich Schellhaas: First large evening production in Tecklenburg: Les Misérables. In: Online edition of the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, June 24, 2018, accessed on August 25, 2018.
  5. ↑ The voice of the people does not die away: Les Misérables. In: Kevin Tarte Productions. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Tart, Kevin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American opera and operetta singer as well as musical performer (lyric tenor / baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle , Washington